Think of Martial Arts -- You will think about Chinese movie...Chinese Martial Arts movie may not be that bad (Is there a pun / no pun in what I say?).
Unless you know chinese (cantonese / mandarin) you might not understand what the character speaks in the movie. Well for these kind of movies, you really do not need to understand the language though.. ;-) You very well understand the movie otherwise..
The concept in these movies are kind of weird... Its flying style kungfu, drunken style kungfu, dancing style kungfu, magical kungfu and what not.??
"Martial arts" have a good place in market. People buy the idea of it.
As an effort to make it more acceptable, it gets dubbed in English to reach worldwide audience. These movies are also dubbed in regional languages like Hindi, Tamil, Marathi,Punjabi etc to attract the local audience... and gets telecasted in couple of the TV channels, as 8PM movie shows...
Its worth noticing that the concept of rigorous exercise, standing upside down, stricter chinese government, shaolin temple etc etc gets sold too ;-) (Ex: Lengend of Red Dragon -- starring Jet Li)
It is also known that actual information subsides / gets lost in translation...
Changing the dialogues to suit the local slang, customising the dialogues to new generation audience, is what the movie distributors do to make it more appealing...
If you actually watch these movies in regional language (and have the patience to continue to watch), you will have a good laugh at it...if nothing else...
L-Cube (Laughter Lengthens Life)
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