Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

It's been a while since I last posted here
Miss you guys...

@bimmy-lee wait.....so they haven't been serving beef jerky and slim jim this whole time??

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@bimmy-lee How could they possibly make it WORSE than it has been? I mean they brought a good product to absolute rock bottom. If it were any worse it should just be Elios and be done with it.

Slim Jims are expensive! It's just the usual "random meat processing scraps dyed pink and pepper added, soaked in water" they normally use.

Okay, maybe they just buy the floor sweepings from around the meat mold presses at the Slim Jim and Tijuana Mama Pickled Sausage processing plants.

But that was just my point: never knowing the REAL actor's/actress' voice, which is infinitely weird. Doesn't matter if it's always the same person doing the dub. Like the others said, there's also delivery, tone, emphasis on words and such, which are unique for each and every individual in the world. And in a lot of cases, at least in my experience, the dub doesn't sound anything like the original voice, so they're also not always taking into account a heavy, low, or a high-pitched voice, and all of that has an impact.

Now, as I said before, if you grew up with that, and as such are completely used to it, then of course you'd be completely comfortable with whomever is doing a certain actor's voice, but still. And besides that, you obviously speak perfect English, so I'd imagine you'd have no trouble whatsoever watching any movie in its native English language.

On a side note: now that you mentioned that the Spanish voice of Will Smith also does the singing, I immediately started thinking about the Spanish version of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air' and it's title song.
I'd seriously have to wonder if they were able to stay true to the original text, and kept the rhyming of the words intact. Probably not, so if you would then take the Spanish version and translate that back to English again, there probably wouldn't be much left of the original song.

So, that's another thing why I would prefer the original, even though I'm bilingual as well. I do have to say that I have seen dubs of movies, mostly animation, that have managed to capture the original intent quite well, but in real life/live action movies I always feel a disconnect if I don't see the voices matching up with the words the actors are mouthing, so no lip sync, gone immersion, gone entertainment, hello annoyance...

But of course, that's just me. As mentioned before, if dubs is what you grew up with and are used to, then people are probably nearly always fine with them.

@ThanosReXXX I mean, I dub you as the Swedish Chef in my head sometimes. It doesn’t sound weird to me.

@NintendoByNature Not free, but we did get a pretty significant discount. And I could make it myself too, which meant I could be a bit more generous with the cheese and such.

We did have another manager who did have a good point of giving "mistakes" and "leftovers" that we couldn't sell to the homeless. Whether that was policy or just something she did I don't know. But that manager was pretty cool. She once told a rude customer who threatened to never to come back "Go, we don't want you here!" The customer had been screaming at one of our servers, a poor little 110 pound high school girl who had like, 3 weeks on the job...

Here you go, the fresh prince of bel air, translated from Spanish to English by yours truly:

And this is the story, pay attention
Of how my life got transformed
It changed from up to low, which I never thought of
And I came to be prince of all of bel-air

In Philadelphia I was born and raised
With chewing gum and basket(ball) I was happy
Always easy going, no rush or anything
No such thing as school, installed in laziness

Then the thugs, I ignore why
Came looking for trouble, and I faced them
My momma, scared, very seriously told me:
You’re moving right now with your uncles in bel-air

I cried and pleaded all night and day long
But she made my luggage and sent me with my aunt
Gave me a big kiss and a plane ticket
ANd I said to myself: Will, just give up

What class! In a champagne glass
they gave me my juice
What a joke, if in bel-air they live like this,
I thought about it all... It could be alright.

I called a taxi, and upon looking at it
I noticed it said fresh, and I dunno why
Didn’t think it was important and I boarded it
And I said to myself: you’re almost in bel-air!

And so, I came to a very fancy mansion
And said to my cab driver: put on some deodorant
Gazing upon my kingdom I finally thought:
The prince of all bel-air has arrived!

@HobbitGamer I should probably finger-snap you for that, but you're safe because you like pineapple pizza, and there's only so many of us fans of that particular recipe, so I'll look past it, just this once...

Speaking of my virtual self, I finally got a chance to grab a friend and go and see End Game, only to see my other me get dusted, which was weird. I thought the 'lobbing off the head scene' was a far more fitting demise, both for a villain AND a demi-god, seeing as it was another godlike warrior performing the deed, but apparently, the defeat had to be even more ignominious.

Oh, well... They had some nice setups towards phase 4, what with all the role switching of certain characters, and tons of hidden messages and Easter eggs. All in all, it was a pretty long movie, and at the end, we found ourselves having needlessly sat through all of the credits, to wait for one of those infamous Marvel after-credits scenes, only to find out that there was none, this time...

On a side note: also found out that we should have watched Captain Marvel first. Glad that this was so clearly advertised, NOT. But good that I know that now, so I'll just use the Infinity Stones to go back in time, and buy tickets for that movie instead...

@Morpheel I rest my case. The defense has no further questions, your honor...

Make sure to sing along.

Mind blown by the Spanish dub translation of the Fresh Prince song. I’m going to read that repeatedly. I’m wondering now if there was different musical accompaniment in the Spanish version.

you want front row seats to the beatings...a masochist i see

ill decline the shotgun. you can have all the sushi

Just for fun here’s also the google translate version

And this is history
Bring attention
How my life was transformed
It changed from top to bottom what I never thought
And I became the prince of all Bel-Air.

In Philadelphia I was born and grew up
With chewing gum And basket was happy
Always quiet without hurry or anything
No school Installed in the fiaca.

Then the maliantes
I still do not know why they looked for problems and I confronted them
My mom, very scared, said to me:
You move right now with your aunt and uncle from Bel-Air.

I cried and pleaded night and day
But he packed my bags and sent me with my aunt
He gave me a big kiss and
A plane ticket and I said to myself: willi resignation.
What kind of champagne glass
they gave me my juice that terrible hoax
if in Bel-air that's how you live in everything I thought ... it could be fine.

I called a taxi and when I looked at it I noticed
that said cool I do not know why
I did not give importance to him and I approached him
and I said to myself
You're almost in Bel-Air.

At last I came to a most elegant mansion
and I told the taxi driver to put on deodorant
looking at my kingdom I finally thought
the prince of all Bel-Air has arrived
Aaaaa ......

And here’s the song itself.

It’s not like, a good performance or anything, so don’t get your hopes up. I think it’s mostly meant to be comical.

Interestingly, it was also called “the RAP prince of bel air”. Probably because calling him “fresco” (fresh) would maybe imply he’s gay.

@ogo79 - Beatings always make me hungry.

@Morpheel
What the heck?! 😮
Prince Bel-Air in Spanish dub ?? 🤣
Prince Ali by Will Smith had some Bel-Air vibes if i remembered.

@bimmy-lee
a good beating merits a good meal.

@Morpheel Oh my god. That video is going to give me nightmares for the rest of my life...
Absolutely horrible, nowhere near resembling Will Smith's voice.

I do appreciate you making the effort to do the translation, so thank you for that, but all of it combined only confirmed what I already knew:
source material is superior, and far as I'm concerned, the only way to watch or listen to anything.
I'm glad the Dutch use subtitles, instead of dubbing everything.

Just look at the original, perfectly rhyming lyrics:

Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In West Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'

I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suit case and sent me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my Walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.

First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.
Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?
Hmm this might be alright.

But wait I hear they're prissy, bourgeois, all that
Is this the type of place that they just send this cool cat?
I don't think so
I'll see when I get there
I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air

Well, the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out
I ain't trying to get arrested yet
I just got here
I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought 'Nah, forget it' - 'Yo, homes to Bel Air'

I pulled up to the house about seven or eigth
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air

Completely butchered in the translation. Not a single rhyme left.
EDIT:
And where the hell did they get the chewing gum bit from in the translation?

P.S.

What's up with the weird interrupting of the song by saying all the names of the participating actors out loud?
As if people can't read...

@Heavyarms55 I used to work at Fannie may in high school(candy company). I was the only guy who worked there (which was cool at times for a high school guy 😉) and the perks were unlimited candy , like legit. It never got old either. I stuffed my face every shift.

Also my wife used to work at Hooters and she has horror stories being a server so I get it. I don't get why people are rude to servers and workers. It's so ignorant

@ThanosReXXX I'll share some more musical butchering later, just for you.

They often read the names outloud in old dubs. Probably to get people familiar with the pronunciation of the English names.