The spaghetti western Navajo Joe is an unusual entry in this genre. It isn’t because the lead actor is American – there were plenty of spaghetti westerns made with American actors. What’s unusual about it is that it’s one of the few spaghetti westerns that has a Native American character in it. That fact was enough to intrigue me enough to watch it, as well as the fact that Burt Reynolds has called this movie the worst of his career. Worse than the movies he’s made with Albert Pyun and Uwe Boll? Read the review and find out.
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#1 by Read MacGuirtose on August 20th, 2009
I seem to recall you saying things like that in other reviews too, and please don’t take offense at this, but it’s always struck me as a little odd. Vocal inflection is one component of acting, but surely not the only one, and not even necessarily the most important. There’s facial expressions, gestures, body language… I can see how bad voice dubbing (or even good voice dubbing) can color one’s view of a portrayal in general, and make it harder to look objectively at the rest of the performance, but to imply that it’s impossible to say anything about the acting in a role where the voice has been dubbed by another actor seems to me to be overstating the case a bit.
#2 by Greywizard on August 20th, 2009
You make some very good points, Read. I’ll keep all that in mind the next time I review a dubbed movie.
#3 by Blake on August 20th, 2009
Yeah, compare Jackie Chan in “Drunken Master” (original dub) with Yuen Shun-Yi in its sequel, “Dance of the Drunk Mantis” and, even though dubbed, Chan’s charisma easily outdoes Yuen’s.