From: ggonth@uuisis.isis.org (Gilles Gonthier)
Subject: Re: Star Wars in French (Answers)
Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 21:38:08 GMT

                                                                      
In <goudswaa.717574112@sfu.ca> Peter Goudswaard (goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca) 
asks:
                                                                             

> I had been watching a French (Canadian?) version of Star Wars a few weeks
> back, and the names of the 'droids were D2R2 and C3P7.  Anyone have any
> idea why they did this?  A ex says that C3P7 shortens the syllables, and
> R2D2 would simply be a French tongue-twister.  Any other reasonable
> explanations?
 
The dubbing of the Star Wars movies was made in France. I don't know why
they slightly changed the names of the droids. Believe me (French is my
mother tongue) it is as easy to say in French  "C-trois-P-O", as it is
in English to say "C-three-P-O", and in French "R-deux-D-deux" is no more
a tongue-twister than "R-two-D-two" is in English. BTW, I cannot stand
the voice they gave to Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the dubbed version,
but C3P0 is very good in French (which is normal, he - it? - is a multi-
lingual droid after all!)
 
 
In <8OCT199217453181@rosie.uh.edu> Stephen McLeod (st1lv@rosie.uh.edu) asks:
 
> As a person still trying to learn french (with great difficulty 
unfortunately),
> I would be interested in finding out where I could get an american 
standard
> (NTSC?) format french language Star Wars.  Is there a catalog?  A kind 
soul?
> A mail order rental outfit?
                                                    
The three Star Wars movies were shown on American TV this summer, and they
were also shown during this period by the Societe Radio-Canada, the French-
language national TV network. Their titles are: La Guerre des etoiles
(Star Wars), L'Empire contre-attaque (The Empire Strikes Back), Le Retour
du Jedi (The Return of the Jedi).
 
In the Montreal area, there is a company that sells videocassettes by mail.
Although, they have recent American movies like _le Silence des agneaux_
(Silence of the Lambs) [price: canadian$ 29.95], I'm not sure they have
the Star Wars movies, but you should ask them. This company is Periodica,
the most important magazine subscription agency in Canada. They also
sell books (any french books available in Canada, that means a lot of 
books),
videocassettes, and compact disks. BTW, I'm only an occasional customer
of this company, nothing more.
 
                   Periodica
                   C.P. 444
                   Outremont, Quebec
                   CANADA   H2V 4R6
                   Telephone: (514) 274-5468
                   FAX:       (514) 274-0201
 
Good luck!
 
Gilles Gonthier
 
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