Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)

Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by Abekkus on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:59AM (#31354287)

The first planet earth wasn't just given different voiceover for American audiences, it was recut. The brass called the Attenborough cut "excruciatingly slow-paced", so once they decided to re-edit, it was probably easier to recast the narration than to try and edit down Attenborough's own speech.

The Attenborough cut is my personal preference too.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by onion2k on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:09PM (#31356151)

If you watch them side-by-side it's like they took all the long words out of the US narration.

UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onELlblAI0U

US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zt4wmjOpr0

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by Digit-Al on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:25PM (#31358153)

Replacing Attenborough as the narrator on a nature documentary is a crime against humanity, and should be treated as such ;-)

What we need to do is feed all of his narrations from the last 60 years into an AI and get it to process them; then we can use this corpus to have all nature documentaries narrated by him forever more.

I am, of course, joking... but would it really be that bad an idea? ;-)

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by hef19898 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:22PM (#31359029)

Once wr did this it should be part of the UN charter that the Attenborough narration AI is the acceptable use of AI from that point onwarda into eternity.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by throwaway894345 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:19AM (#31354613)

Honestly I’m an avid fan of all of the “Planet” series precisely because of Attenborough.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by ZoomZoomZoom on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:53AM (#31355095)

It's deeply lamentable that in this day and age one has to resort to throwaway accounts to express their fondness of Sir Attenborough.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by mrep on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:56AM (#31355152)

? Are you referring to throwaway894345 who has been here for 4.5 years and has 12483 karma? Don't think that is an actual throwaway at this point.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by kergonath on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:03PM (#31359522)

It might have been a joke...

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by renewiltord on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:14AM (#31355377)

These days, if you say you're English, you'll be arrested and thrown in jail.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by throwaway894345 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:21PM (#31356308)

Is "ZoomZoomZoom" your legal name? :)

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by dylan604 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:06PM (#31356119)

I didn't even know there was a version that wasn't Attenborough. Where is this other version found (not that I'll watch this "other")?

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by gunfighthacksaw on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:54AM (#31355122)

It blows my mind that Attenborough would ever be replaced as a narrator because he is the best of the best vis-à-vis nature documentaries.

Or to provide an Americanized analogy, you wouldn’t replace Morgan Freeman in a situation where you needed the sage reflections of an old man in voiceover form.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by Hayvok on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:41AM (#31354899)

Agree in general that the UK/Attenborough cut is preferable, but the American intro sequence is fantastic and dramatic. Gave me chills the first time I watched it.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by yes_i_can on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:17AM (#31355427)

I kind of hate the dramatization in newer nature documentaries, rife with cuts of sweeping landscape views set to loud, epic music. I'm probably just getting old, but it feels like they're trying too hard to keep my attention. I don't need blaring horns and pounding timpani to keep me watching.

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Re:Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) by Chris2048 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:54AM (#31355936)

The problem is it's a race to the bottom with these kinds of things, comparable to the over-salt-&-sugar-ing of American foods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77ev9pks4I

"..until eventually, they’re shipping hamburger buns with exactly three sesame seeds artfully arranged in a triangle, and nobody buys their hamburgers any more."

-- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/09/11/theres-no-place-li...

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