Jodi: Sometimes your facial expressions don’t match the situation. At all.
\nMe: Oh, no, they are always correct expressions. We are just out-of-sync.
\n***
\nSeeing a movie at the Capitol theater a week or so ago. The movie starts. WB logo comes on screen. A woman’s voice says, “LOGO, CENTER SCREEN.” It is a strange choice, I think, esthetically. The voice reads the text appearing on screen. “In space, survival is impossible.”
\nThe voice starts to describe the action on screen. People float in space. One dances to music. One is frustrated. I am pleased the voice will be explaining facial expressions as we go.<\/p>\n
The film stops cold. The blackness of space is replaced with the blackness of nothing. Two completely different blacknesses.
\nSomeone says, “They are fixing the sound. It was playing the soundtrack for the visually impaired headsets.”
\nThe film begins again at the beginning.<\/p>\n
I watch the film regretting what could have been. As the film passed the previous stopping point I am left to wonder what the narrator would say. Probably information to enrich my moviegoing experience. In space narration is possible, but optional and limited.<\/p>\n
***
\nBy the way, I prefer the version of Charles Chaplin’s “Gold Rush” that he re-released after sound came in. Chaplin narrates the silent film all the way through. Critics revile this version. I love it.<\/p>\n
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