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People who know me know that I tend to cry over music. Not because it's sad or anything, just because to me, melodies are an extremely, extremely emotional thing. Actually, I tend to get emotional over tunes that are not sad at all.
Anyway.
One of the first songs that made me cry - and probably will continue to do so for all eternity - is "The last unicorn".
I loved that movie when I was a kid even though some parts scared me to death and I don't think I understood a lot of what it's about.
But I liked the skeleton (I read the English voice was doine by Rene Auberjonois [Odo in DS9] - Woah!) ;) And the music was good.
For the German version, they did at least one strange thing. One or two of the songs are neither dubbed nor subtitled. Instead, they make the German vocie actors speak on top of the English stuff that's being sung. No kidding. Stupid, cheap, ridiculous.
But I think I can make an elaborate guess on why they did that.
Back then, Disney was the only thing in animation that was really big. And The last Unicorn wasn't Disney so it might have had pretty low priority (and budget) when being dubbed. Though, some of the German voice actors were pretty good, and one or two even quite famous. Still, that over-dubbing thing is inexcusable and I've never seen anything like it in any other movie. Rawr.
And now I sit here and wonder why I never bought the thing on DVD. I mean, that movie might be good when dubbed, but I guess watching the original would be even cooler.
BTW, did you know that Christopher Lee voiced King Haggard in the German version as well? Well, that explains the accent XD Good job, though, seeing how German is bloody difficult ;)
And then, what's with Madonna? I never really liked her or her music, in fact, some of the more recent songs made me wonder about whether she's trying to make fun of her fans. And now she put out the second song in a row that I simply adore to death. Something's very wrong here O_O
(Though, someone should've told her that she's completely mispronouncing the "Ich bin traurig" (I'm sad) part in the intro XD)
Anyway.
One of the first songs that made me cry - and probably will continue to do so for all eternity - is "The last unicorn".
I loved that movie when I was a kid even though some parts scared me to death and I don't think I understood a lot of what it's about.
But I liked the skeleton (I read the English voice was doine by Rene Auberjonois [Odo in DS9] - Woah!) ;) And the music was good.
For the German version, they did at least one strange thing. One or two of the songs are neither dubbed nor subtitled. Instead, they make the German vocie actors speak on top of the English stuff that's being sung. No kidding. Stupid, cheap, ridiculous.
But I think I can make an elaborate guess on why they did that.
Back then, Disney was the only thing in animation that was really big. And The last Unicorn wasn't Disney so it might have had pretty low priority (and budget) when being dubbed. Though, some of the German voice actors were pretty good, and one or two even quite famous. Still, that over-dubbing thing is inexcusable and I've never seen anything like it in any other movie. Rawr.
And now I sit here and wonder why I never bought the thing on DVD. I mean, that movie might be good when dubbed, but I guess watching the original would be even cooler.
BTW, did you know that Christopher Lee voiced King Haggard in the German version as well? Well, that explains the accent XD Good job, though, seeing how German is bloody difficult ;)
And then, what's with Madonna? I never really liked her or her music, in fact, some of the more recent songs made me wonder about whether she's trying to make fun of her fans. And now she put out the second song in a row that I simply adore to death. Something's very wrong here O_O
(Though, someone should've told her that she's completely mispronouncing the "Ich bin traurig" (I'm sad) part in the intro XD)
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Useless Trivia that I got off of imdb, it's soundtrack was the best selling album of 1983 in Germany :)
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... and it bloody deserves that!
Actually, when you look at some of the the mainstream stuff that was around back then, music-wise, it's not all that surprising XD
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heee I even have the soundtrack somewhere on my hd right now, though not as good a quality as I would have preferred.
hmm I'm curious to watch the German version now. Had no idea Madonna sang in it, or that Christopher Lee voiced in German o.o
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