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Subtitles that say what the character is really thinking


I’ve seen in a film a set of subtitles that really what a character is really saying when something different comes out of their mouth…

But I can’t remember the film???

Can anyone think of films where this happens?

Thank you in advance

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Would that be like a thought-bubble?

It could be Zombieland with the main character listing his rules while the movie scene illustrates it.

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Horror Express (1972) was once on Channel 4 in Britain with thought bubbles added to it. Even the dog had them. I was high as a kite at the time and thought it was hilarious. Gotta be over 20 years ago now though.

It was so random 😄

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I seem to remember a Woody Allen movie with a scene where the subtitles revealed what the character was really thinking - not what they were saying. Sorry, that's the best I can do. Hope you find it - I'll be watching this thread too.

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Yeah, that was Annie Hall.

More recently, there was a scene in Wolf of Wall Street, with Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio's character) and Jean Dujardin as a Swiss banker, both being gentlemanly out loud, while thinking "You American idiot...You Swiss jerk..."

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Sergio Leone uses this technique in his Westerns

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Which ones? The only use of subtitles I can remember is at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where the 3 characters are 'named'.

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