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Gossip > Celebrities |
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"Tom Sutpen" |
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05 Feb 2008 06:46:27 PM |
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Re: Steve Reeves' voice |
On Feb 5, 7:30 pm, HiC <brasspl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Just watched the MGM musical "Athena" in which you can hear Steve
"Hercules" Reeves' real voice in a fair number of speaking lines. I
thought maybe he had a weak voice or some other issue but surprise
surprise, he had a vibrant, orator's voice at least as strong as that
of the voice actors used to overdub him in the movies. I guess there
must have been some technical reason they overdubbed him but I wonder
why they didn't have him dub his own lines. I imagine he could have
worked as a voiceover actor himself.
*****
I assume you mean why didn't he dub his own voice in 'Hercules', no?
If I had to guess I'd say it was because Joseph E. Levine, who
distributed the thing over here, may have gotten some out-of work
actor on the skids to do it for three bottles of T-bird, rather than
the pittance he would have had to pay Reeves for the same job.
That's my guess, anyway.
And even though it's been ages since I've seen it, I'm pretty certain
that was Reeves' voice in Edward Wood's Jail Bait' (1954).
Could be wrong, though.
Tom Sutpen
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| User: "Jim Beaver" |
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| Title: Re: Steve Reeves' voice |
05 Feb 2008 08:52:41 PM |
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"Tom Sutpen" <tomsutpen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b4d4ba35-cb74-4b78-8339-c0eb399f59cb@m34g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
On Feb 5, 7:30 pm, HiC <brasspl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Just watched the MGM musical "Athena" in which you can hear Steve
"Hercules" Reeves' real voice in a fair number of speaking lines. I
thought maybe he had a weak voice or some other issue but surprise
surprise, he had a vibrant, orator's voice at least as strong as that
of the voice actors used to overdub him in the movies. I guess there
must have been some technical reason they overdubbed him but I wonder
why they didn't have him dub his own lines. I imagine he could have
worked as a voiceover actor himself.
*****
I assume you mean why didn't he dub his own voice in 'Hercules', no?
If I had to guess I'd say it was because Joseph E. Levine, who
distributed the thing over here, may have gotten some out-of work
actor on the skids to do it for three bottles of T-bird, rather than
the pittance he would have had to pay Reeves for the same job.
That's my guess, anyway.
My guess (and guess it is) is that Reeves made the movie in Italy, it was
dubbed in Italian (his role), and then when Levine bought it for
distribution, he had the movie in the U.S. but not the actor, and rather
than fly an actor from Italy to dub himself, just used a local. Similar to
Tom's guess.
I've been in lots of looping sessions where the director himself will loop
someone rather than fly the actor in from NY or somewhere to dub one line.
On the other hand, now with digital recording, the geography is far less an
issue, as an actor can dub it pretty much wherever he is, if there's
electricity.
Jim Beaver
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