Juliana Surratt -- Reflection Paper on Pan's Labyrinth

  Very good reflection on our CHQ film.  I'm glad we chose something
  that was so personally meaningful for some of our students!  

  Your ideas about subtitles are part of a perennial, ongoing debate 
  about how to handle foreign language films for American audiences.  
  The alternative is to "dub" the dialog with English speaking actors.
  I can really understand film-makers' reluctance to do that, though, because
  unless the dubbing is done really carefully, it's possible to get uninten-
  tionally comic effects either because a voice doesn't really fit the 
  actor's appearance, or because the dubbed dialog does not fit the speech
  portrayed visually on film.  There's no perfect solution, but like you I 
  actually prefer subtitles to dubbing.  That method at least lets you hear 
  the actors' actual voices and the sound of another language, which 
  is almost always interesting in and of itself!

  One very minor comment -- subtitles might be "hurdle" for some film
  viewers, but they cannot be a "hurtle" -- that's a verb meaning
  "to move at great speed" :)

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