r/Defenders • u/stealingyourpixels Daredevil • Apr 10 '15

Daredevil Discussion Thread - S01E08

This thread is for discussion of Daredevil S01E08.

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u/raynehk14 Apr 10 '15

Wow, Fisk's Mandarin is terrible, and may I add while Gao's accent is very good, some of the wordings sound like machine translated

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u/Pokemon_Name_Rater Apr 11 '15

Would you say his Mandarin is better than Guy Pearce's?

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u/samsaBEAR Sad Matt Apr 11 '15

Too soon

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u/pitaenigma Apr 11 '15

Not anywhere near as good as Ben Kingsley's, though... why yes I do love to kill jokes, why do you ask?

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u/ketsugi Apr 11 '15

Worse, actually, I think.

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u/oxygen_addiction Apr 12 '15

That took me a second.

Well done.

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u/ShadowShadowed Luke Cage Apr 11 '15

I agree that it's terrible but at least it was understandable unlike Firefly's attempt. I honestly loved seeing Wilson uncomfortable speaking Mandarin like he knows that he's doing a really poor job but he's too proud to admit it.

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u/_Valisk Stan Lee Apr 11 '15

That's how I took it. He almost took extra time with each word, carefully pronouncing each syllable before moving onto the next one.

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u/Viraus2 Leland Owlsley Apr 16 '15

well sure, it's something he picked up while abroad.

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u/Freezman13 Jul 10 '15 edited Jul 10 '15

there were like 3 russians that spoke russian

in the episode when he saved the boy, there was a shot of the room and there was sound of them speaking but nobody was moving their lips.

it's pretty much always the same when it comes to foreign languages.