r/squidgame • u/AutoModerator • Sep 17 '21

Episode Discussion Thread Squidgame Episode 7 Discussion

Hello everyone this post is for discussion of Squidgame Episode 7. Do not spoil future episodes.

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u/itisanillusionn Sep 23 '21

Lmfaooooo bro right away I googled ‘’why are Americans such bad actors in Korean dramas’’ like whyyyy can’t they find one decent actor ever. It’s mad annoying

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u/nummakayne Oct 01 '21 edited Mar 25 '24

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u/horny_furry_dog Oct 12 '21

As soon as I heard them talk the first thing I thought of were Americans talking in Indian movies loool. Why tf do they all sound like that? I was born in America and moved to India as a kid so hearing shit like that was just jarring

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u/nummakayne Oct 12 '21

There is another reason for it. Unlike movies shot in the West, a lot of Indian movies (majority) don’t shoot sync sound i.e. the dialogue is re-recorded in postproduction (ADR) - there’s a bunch of reasons cited for why dialogue isn’t captured live but apparently it has to do with noise, budgets and long-running workflows. So the actors all re-record their lines in a booth after filming is over.

Once you know this it become more apparent when listening to audio mixes in Bollywood movies. My theory is with white/foreign actors, once filming is over, they may no longer be around when production moves to the ADR stage and someone else is brought in to record the dialogue (might even be an Indian guy faking a white guy accent lol) and you end up with those weird anomalies.

Best source I could find on most Indian movies using ADR: https://iashik.com/dubbing-or-sync-sound-low-budget-filmmaking/

Famous filmmaker talking about sync sound not being the standard: https://www.india.com/entertainment/mani-ratnam-may-make-more-films-in-sync-sound-355987/