Voiceover & narration

Jim Piddock

The character in the hat here, never actually called by name in the movie, this sniggering hat character, began the film, as you'll recall, with a splendid bit of narration, setting the mood for so much of what follows. Well, his speech, as it now stands, over the opening plate shots, not the plate shots, the shots, the opening speech now includes a rather clangorous non sequitur. Having discussed the story's Texas milieu, this character says...

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Jim Piddock

Now in Russia, they've got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else. A very wonderful speech, this opening bit of narration, marred only by that incongruous reference to communist Russia. Naturally, the line feels awkward because that line was never meant to be spoken. The line as originally written and performed was, In Bulgaria, Dad's got it mapped out so everyone pulls for everyone else. In Bulgaria, you see. And a reference to

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Jim Piddock

And so little appreciated. How many of us watching this movie even realized that a flying insect didn't just happen to be there? At any rate, in Bulgaria, dads got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else. This is what the line was meant to be. This was the introduction to our narrator, this man with the fly. Some more sweat here, very artfully applied.

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We had lots of improvisations, too, of you being pushed in the pool and stuff like that. We did voiceover, didn't we? I'm supposed to be the host, guys. Yeah, joke's a joke, but I'm supposed to be the host here. We were waiting the shot so you could get the lights to go off. Do you remember that? That's right. And the guy who had to turn the lights off was called Mr. Knickerbocker. Do you remember? Well, I remember you waiting to get the lights off. Did they go off? Yeah. Okay, when did they go off?

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who was interested in the film left. And a whole new regime came in, none of whom cared a whit, a toss about the music. So it was tough going. Alex, take these people through these, this big character introduction scene. Now that's- Well that, the Vonetta McGee, who from last, seen in a wonderful Spaghetti Western called The Big Silence. Sy Richardson just came in and that line that you said, somebody piss on the floor again, was a voiceover line afterwards that you had wanted to say and so we squeezed it in.

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Tim Lucas

Though the dialogue has Barry Convex telling Max that he wants to put Videodrome on Channel 83, as Max crawls out of the room, a voiceover recorded in post-production tweaks the meaning of the scene to say that Barry and the interests he represents want Channel 83 itself.

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Eleanor Bergstein

And so we put this over as a voiceover line so that then everybody understood the class structure within the staff.

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Dean Cameron did a wonderful job in this. Yes, you tell me now he does a lot of voiceovers. He does a lot of voiceovers. And he lost that beautiful black hair. He's a little thinner on top these days. Larry, how's my ass? Where's Larry? He's nocturnal. Oh, okay. This is really the introduction of all the characters. I know, and very well done by Jeff Franklin, the writer.

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