Talk:Alphaville (film)

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Contents 1 It pays to translate things carefully 2 Ok, has Alphaville been Dubbed into German? 3 First Scene 4 Requested move 5 SF noir

[edit] It pays to translate things carefully

>>""the French phrase is 'pays exterieur' which translates to 'outer countries' not implying 'galaxies' in the least.""

Well, they do talk about interstellar travel and galaxies as well as pays extérieurs. Like when, they're in the car, going out of Alphaville they say "roulant toute la nuit dans l'espace intersidéral ...". "Pays extérieurs" is translated by Outlands.

[edit] Ok, has Alphaville been Dubbed into German?

How many other languages has Alphaville been dubbed into? The version I have, has English subtitles but not a word from the characters' lips has actually been dubbed into English. I don't mind the subtitles in English, but it would help if there were other translations available, at least for those of us who don't speak French.

Since Germany, Spain and Italy etc. routinely dub their movies, I don't think Alphaville would be an exception. (I don't understand what the problem is, btw, but I'm Swedish and accustomed to subtitled movies.) 惑乱 分からん 01:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First Scene

Could somebody either remove or reword this section, since the bullet seems deviant to the rest of the article. DrWho42 01:15, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Removed - the bullet was distracting, and the part above the bullet sounded like fanboy fawning. Also, I don't think the info there was very special, not particularly unique to this movie and not enough to justify having a "first scene" section but not a second, third, etc.

Below is the original source if somebody feels it is important and wants to clean it up and re-insert Cat Parade 03:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

== The First Scene ==

Nearly flawless camerawork and editing leads to Lemmy Caution driving a car on a freeway and into the city that he is under orders to visit. The freeways are new, long, and curving, including tunnels and bypasses made of concrete, such that this could have been shot in any major city in the world of the 1960s, but the traffic is light or nearly nonexistent. The camerawork is so flawless that there appear to be no cuts or splices for 8 to 10 minutes of screentime, even as he finds himself at the hotel he is checking into, right up to the room he checks into, where he finds an assassin that must be dealt with.

*This isn't true. There are clear indications of cuts from one camera to another during the first 8 to 10 minutes of the film. There is no pretense of trying to hide these cuts. However, there is a continuous shot that begins with the protagonist entering the hotel lobby and ends with him arriving with a woman at his hotel room door which lasts for nearly two minutes.

[edit] Requested move

[edit] SF noir

Were there many SF noir films before this ? Or can this be seen as a direct ancestor of Blade Runner et al ? -- Beardo 04:12, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know this was the first. Cop 633 14:31, 2 February 2007 (UTC)