Norwegian Language

[Morten Lied Johansen]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Hunstad Knut wrote:

> The absolutely most disappointing movie dubbing I have seen so far, was the
> quite recent Asterix movie with Gerard Depardieu. This would be the perfect
> movie for letting the romans talk bokmål and the others "tribes" talk some
> dialect (I think trøndersk would have been perfect for Asterix' village).
> Instead everyone talked the same boring bokmål!

Your idea has been used in "Asterix goes to America", where the Romans
talk norwegian with an italian accent, the Gauls talk "Østfolding"
(Fredrikstad / Sarpsborg) and other dialects are used for other groups
in the movie. And IMHO this works out absolutely beautifully... :)


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