Big must've been one of the first Western movies I got to see on VHS, back when smuggling VHS tapes was still a sort of an undercover industry. And you typically had the same male interpreter voice over the entire movie, no matter who was doing the talking in the actual scene. Those were the days!
I don't remember the male voice-over, but I also haven't rewatched Big in a really long time. The VHS dub thing, though: i do have some stories to tell eventually. That's more or less how MMA survived for years in spite of ZERO cable TV presence.
You wouldn't have been exposed to the male voiceover, because it was the voice of an undercover interpreter translating the movie into Russian for us non-English speakers.
For a while, yeah! Satellite-only for a few years while politicians chomped at the bit and cable companies refused to cover the spectacle.
I think we've talked about this a bit too, but even though it really was a spectacle, I really appreciated the scientific test nature - the first few MMA events always felt like lab experiments more than anything else, so I was all in. Not to mention, like every kid during the 80s grew up wondering which martial art was the best.
Good one! I was definitely "keep your mouth shut" kind of guy in high school. My voice was changing for all four years. In fact, I was almost a ghost. I wanted to bigger than most in my cohort. I always have hung out with older people. When I went to work on the dock of a factory (Pillsbury), I had to learn to speak up. I never looked back. When I got laid off, I started my academic career with a vengeance. ;-)
I also learned a lot of things after school that I'm pretty sure my peers learned much earlier, but then again, I think of that as me aging slower... so it continues to be a win! Also, maybe being a kid for a longer period of time isn't all that bad.
I think I was constantly heading in that direction. I had it when I was in elementary school, but then middle school's social rules took it all away for a while. I got my mojo back in stages. These days, I kind of enjoy looking like a dummy.
Big must've been one of the first Western movies I got to see on VHS, back when smuggling VHS tapes was still a sort of an undercover industry. And you typically had the same male interpreter voice over the entire movie, no matter who was doing the talking in the actual scene. Those were the days!
I don't remember the male voice-over, but I also haven't rewatched Big in a really long time. The VHS dub thing, though: i do have some stories to tell eventually. That's more or less how MMA survived for years in spite of ZERO cable TV presence.
You wouldn't have been exposed to the male voiceover, because it was the voice of an undercover interpreter translating the movie into Russian for us non-English speakers.
So MMA was also a VHS industry, eh?
For a while, yeah! Satellite-only for a few years while politicians chomped at the bit and cable companies refused to cover the spectacle.
I think we've talked about this a bit too, but even though it really was a spectacle, I really appreciated the scientific test nature - the first few MMA events always felt like lab experiments more than anything else, so I was all in. Not to mention, like every kid during the 80s grew up wondering which martial art was the best.
Good one! I was definitely "keep your mouth shut" kind of guy in high school. My voice was changing for all four years. In fact, I was almost a ghost. I wanted to bigger than most in my cohort. I always have hung out with older people. When I went to work on the dock of a factory (Pillsbury), I had to learn to speak up. I never looked back. When I got laid off, I started my academic career with a vengeance. ;-)
I also learned a lot of things after school that I'm pretty sure my peers learned much earlier, but then again, I think of that as me aging slower... so it continues to be a win! Also, maybe being a kid for a longer period of time isn't all that bad.
It was Splash for me, not Big and I didn't learn to raise my hand and say what was on my mind until grad school. Was quite the breakthrough
I think I was constantly heading in that direction. I had it when I was in elementary school, but then middle school's social rules took it all away for a while. I got my mojo back in stages. These days, I kind of enjoy looking like a dummy.
I was a frikkin maniac in jr high, then something happened.
Very interesting! I wonder if your high school experience was similar to my own middle school experience, and what that means for our lives today.
Oh, I know exactly what happened
Sounds like something I'm gonna read in 2 or 3 weeks
Too bad I'm driving right now I'd
be loling and all over the damn place.