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Re: Persona, subtitles and dubbing

Your comments on subtitles and dubbing generates a new thought: why are actors no longer taught speech and dialects? Or rather, why are they taught speech and dialects so poorly today? Twenty or twenty-five years ago, you could not get out of a major acting school without a good grounding in speech formation and projection, both for film and stage, and at least a smattering of dialect formation.

Today, we are asked to accept actors in roles that our ears tell us are all wrong for them!

We used to laugh over line deliveries like "Yondah lies da castle uf muh faddah"! Kevin Costner's "Robin Hood" is just the most stunningly obvious example of this.

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