Miscellaneous and plot hole - The Dark Crystal (1982) Discussion

[–] iLoVeMuchAdoAboutNothing 13 years ago

Because every movie about life on another planet is made in english so that we can understand it? In Star Wars they speak english even though they're from a galaxy far far away... it would be kind of insane to have to make up a whole new language for a movie just because its supposed to be from another planet.

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[–] crowess_spawn 12 years ago

these comments were posted in 2011. that's 2 years after Avatar. has everyone already forgotten about it? they made up a whole new language. if it wasn't for the scenes that took place in American science labs and such, the whole thing could have been in Na'vi.

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[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 13 years ago

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[–] GrapeApe1969 13 years ago

gibsonrickenbacker-1 is a plot hole... lol

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[–] gribfritz2 11 years ago

Replace "plot" with a different word and you hit the nail on the head.

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[–] pete_michaud 13 years ago

This is the most pointless complaint people make about fantasy/scifi movies.

Seriously, what are you proposing? That Jim Henson waste his time and money developing a new language the audience won't understand? To put in subtitles so everyone will be too busy reading to pay attention to the amazing puppetry (the whole point of the movie, after all)?

I don't understand why a comment so inane crops up with such regularity.

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[–] marcdennis39 13 years ago

What do u want them to speak? Klingon?

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[–] blackferret-1 13 years ago

Henson actually created a language, at least for the Skeksis, and they were going to have them subtitled. There are bits of it on the DVD extra. When played to test audiences, however, they didn't go over well, and plans for using the language were scrapped.

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[–] avia2 12 years ago

So...

- Shakespeare should have written Romeo and Juliet in Italian...

- films about Jesus must be in Aramaic...

- The Jungle Book should be in Hindi...

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[–] zyggums 12 years ago

it wasnt english it was gelfling and also assorted other languages. it just sounds like english. but it was all done in made up alien languages. the movie is actually about flyfishing. and how to make sandcastles. but you wouldnt know it because their language sounds so much like english it can be mistaken for english dialog.

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[–] GrapeApe1969 11 years ago

Ok everybody... Just do like I do and pretend. When they're speaking, they are using their native tongue. Then, and here is the part I pretend, is that we the audience also speak their native tongue so we understand them.

It's kind of like I do when people complain about something in a movie that "that could never happen". I just pretend movies are like an alternate reality where it looks like Earth, but there are small differences.

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[–] nicolehering 11 years ago

Read the trivia. It says Jim had different languages in the movie but a test audience hated it and he was forced to redub it with english to hopefully be better received by audiences. So they did plan on using different languages

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[–] GrandWushu 10 years ago

Perhaps we are actually speaking the language of their planet.

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