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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: MAD MAX dubbing
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 04:37:53 EDT
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> From:	ssc-vax!esco	(Michael Esco)
 
>> Is there really an undubbed version??  Has anyone really seen one or are we
>> just assuming that the original was undubbed?
>> 	thomas r. erbe
>
> I submitted this once before, but since the debate continues, I assume
> nobody saw it.
>
> I saw Mad Max in an 'artsy' theater a few years back. The sound track was
> not Americanized, but was so poor it was almost inaudible. At points, I
> would guess the signal-to-noise ratio was in the low single digits. If
> that's the sound track the distributor got later on, I don't blame him
> one bit for re-recording it.

There's a couple of points that need to be made regarding the over-dubbing
of the MAD MAX soundtrack that may well refute your statement:

(1) The over-dubbing occurs only with voices --- the music is not re-recorded.

(2) Even the voices aren't completely re-recorded. There are certain scenes
	in which, for instance, I can hear Mel Gibson's voice coming from
	Max, rather than a terribly-sounding American voice. And there are
	other characters with traces of Ozian accents and perfect lip-sync
	(the dubbed American voice for Max has terrible lip-sunc).

I find this amusing, since Gibson doesn't have that outrageous an accent,
and indeed is an American by birth.

The original US-distributor of MAD MAX was American International, which is
notorious for the lack of care about the movies it distributes. After THE
ROAD WARRIOR came out, its distributor, Orion, picked up the rights for MAD
MAX, and I hoped that they'd get a fresh original master, but no such luck.
They just bought up the prints from AI and released those. The pre-recorded
videotape, which has "Orion" on the outside, still has the AI logo at the
beginning.

Which brings me to a really obscure trivia question:

	What is Max's last name?

(It was mentioned twice in the first movie. If anyone would like to take a
crack at the answer, MAIL it to me at the address below. I will post the
answer, and the winner, if any, at the end of the month. Note: The name as
spoken is somewhat indistinct, so I will accept close approximations to
what *I* think is said.)

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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