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Overcaptioning: On significant vs. superfluous sounds
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Twilight: Captioning the “gaspiest” movie ever
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Some things you were never meant to hear
Consider the much-discussed whisper that occurs at the end of Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola’s critically acclaimed and prized 2003 film about two Americans who develop a friendship during lonely stays at a Tokyo hotel. In the final scene, Bob [Bill Murray] whispers something to Charlotte [Scarlett Johansson]. A handful of resourceful fans, not content to let the whisper remain a mystery, have used “special sound equipment [...] to make the conversation audible” (IMDB). Unfortunately, no attempt at sound editing has resolved the question of what was actually said. [...]
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