When you watch an R-rated theater film adapted for network tv viewing, you will no doubt run into dialogue where the profanity has been voiced over with less offending terms. These voice-overs almost never match the actors voice, background noise etc.
Who does them? Is there one Rich Little type person employed at the network who does all the voice-overs? If so they need to replace him/her.
I was once told by a friend that when the movie is filmed, they have the actors do their own voice over fully aware that it will one day be needed for network television. I agree with you in that they suck, so I have a hard time buying this, but hey, it’s a theory.
“If you can’t answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.” - Elbert Hubbard.
From what I’ve heard, it’s the actors themselves. They usually go into the studio for redubbing (a good portion of all movies these days have redubbed dialog), and while they’re there, they add some “clean” swear words for broadcast prints.
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
From what I’ve heard, it’s the actors themselves. They usually go into the studio for redubbing (a good portion of all movies these days have redubbed dialog), and while they’re there, they add some “clean” swear words for broadcast prints.
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
As for the sets I work on, most actors will do a throw-away curse line, or rather the clean version, right there on set. That way the “roomtone” or ambient background sounds are matched later on.
Yes, yes, the Sound Department does record clean “roomtone” at each set, either inside or outside, for use later in the mixing process. It’s STILL better to do lines like that on the actual set. Doing them later is always a bit dicier, and sometimes makes it painfully obvious that “prick” has become “jerk”, etc.
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If you ever doubt this, try watching an Anthony Michael Hall film that has been redubbed after the movie was filmed. His voice had a massive change and even though you can still tell it is him, the voice-over is much deeper.
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Occasionally, the original actors can’t redub their lines for whatever reason, so the studio hires sound-alikes. For a hilarious example of this, watch the TV dub of Die Hard 2 sometime. The guy they hired to do Bruce Willis’s voice basically sounds like he has the world’s worst head cold.
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“Just when you thought you had all the answers, I went and changed the questions!”–Roddy Piper