<![CDATA[Miscellaneous and plot hole]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Dark Crystal

gibsonrickenbacker-1 — 14 years ago(June 28, 2011 12:09 PM)

if this is set in another planet then why do they speak an earth language called english?

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Perhaps we are actually speaking the language of their planet.

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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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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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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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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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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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What do u want them to speak? Klingon?
Which came first the virus or the anti-virus!

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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.
SM
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-Timothy Leary

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

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gibsonrickenbacker-1 is a plot hole lol

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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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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.
The Truth is Out There.

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