[Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!

Sat Feb 19 08:34:49 PST 2011

Well, the dubbing of movies into the local language is par for the course everywhere, and the practice is spreading and spreading. Right here in New York City we now have the option of having many movies shown in cable dubbed into (pretty awful) Spanish. HBO has added a whole channel exclusively to show its movies dubbed into Spanish! 
 In Italy, France and Germany there used to be quite a few OV (Original Version) movie houses where the movies were shown in their original language subtitled into the local language.  Well, in all of Vienna there is only one, very small, such movie house left;  and in Rome Milan and Vienna most have disappeared. Needless to say, in Spain they are virtually non-existent. And while the German language sort of fits into the dubbing of movies spoken in English, the Romance languages most definitely do not.
As far as "The Way" is concerned, just think, since Spanish is the home language of Martin Sheen and his family the whole movie could have been filmed in it.
Anyway, reportedly the DVD will be in the original language with several other-languages subtitles option.
Hugs!
Rosina

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim <tim at errecaldia.com>
To: Kathy Gower <kathygower at hotmail.com>; GoCamino <gocamino at oakapple.net>
Sent: Sat, Feb 19, 2011 8:32 am
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!

Down here in St Jean Pied de Port we are a little disappointed.  Many of 
s were extras in the film or met both Martin Sheen and his son Emilio, 
 for instance spent about an hour chatting to both of them and have to 
ay that I have rarely met two more charming genuine people in my life.  
hey were the very antithesis of what one would expect famous Hollywood 
ersonages to be.
Back to our disappointment,  I don't think any of us expected the film 
o be dubbed into French or Spanish, sub titles possibly, but shown as 
O (Version Original) in out local cinema most certainly, most of the 
eople here speak more English than they let on and they would have got 
y.  Instead of that, what a disaster, it doesn't look like we are even 
oing to get a chance to see it at all any time soon, if at all.  This 
s not a criticism of the film makers in any way, as I have said before, 
hey were lovely people and charmed us all but there is something very 
rong, I think, with the system.
Tim

athy Gower wrote:
 The screening event was every bit as wonderful as promised...the plan, as I 
nderstood it, was to be screened in several cities in February, but opening in 
eptember...

 The cut was 2 hours, 8 minutes and packed full of lovely scenery and the gamut 
f emotions...both Martin and Emilio spoke individually with each guest...they 
ndeed did it right!
 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Rosina <blaroli at aol.com>
 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:10:56 
 To: <GOCAMINO at oakapple.net>; <saintjames at yahoogroups.com>
 Cc: <mjeiras at hotmail.com>; <peregrinos at archicompostela.org>; <bantonk at msn.com>
 Subject: [Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!

 Hello you all, 
  Here's a reassuring article:
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  Professor's workshop to open with Hollywood screening
  by Suzanne Seurattan | February 17, 2011

  Hollywood stars Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen are screening their new 
ovie, "The Way," Feb. 18 during a Workshop on Pilgrimage Studies co-hosted by 
he College of William & Mary and Georgetown University's department of Spanish 
nd Portuguese. The ticketed event will open a two-day workshop for scholars of 
he Camino who are organizing a Consortium of American and Canadian universities 
o offer summer seminars in pilgrimage studies on site in Santiago starting in 
012.

  Both Sheen and Estevez will take part in the event to be held on the 
eorgetown campus. The screening is slated to be the largest of the film on the 
ast coast of the United States prior to its national release in April. 

  "The Way" is a fictional account of one man's journey on the Camino de 
antiago or Way of St. James. The movie was filmed entirely in Spain and France 
long the pilgrimage's actual historic route from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, 
rance to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 

  "The picture's exploration of the Camino and its affect on its pilgrims make 
creening this film a natural opening for our Workshop," said William & Mary 
rofessor George Greenia, lead scholar for the Workshop and international 
onsortium.  "We are looking forward to an evening with two great actors of 
panish heritage who knew the Camino intimately before they began writing and 
ilming this movie."

  The story follows the journey of a grieving father's struggle to better 
nderstand his late son. Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to France 
o collect the remains of his adult son killed in a storm in the Pyrenees while 
alking the Camino. To learn more about the son's life, Tom decides to embark on 
he pilgrimage in his son's place. Estevez, the film's director, also plays 
om's son.
  Greenia has a passion for the Camino. He has taken William & Mary students to 
alk the 500-mile Camino francés route across Spain every year since 2005 and 
as, himself, logged more than 4,000 miles on the Camino. In 2007, Greenia 
eceived the Cross of Isabel the Catholic - Spain's highest cultural distinction 
or foreign nationals. He is the first person in the College's history to 
eceive the honor, which is bestowed by the king of Spain and akin to the Order 
f the British Empire or France's Legion of Honor.
  1992.  Pilgrimage studies have been taught in some form at William & Mary by 
since The aculty in modern languages, history, English, religious studies, art 
istory and classical studies Consortium will bring together more than 30 
niversity programs from the U.S. and Canada.

  "As a professor of Spanish, medieval studies, and comparative literature I am 
ery happy to be part of the workshop and excited by the many possibilities 
ilgrimage Studies and the Camino de Santiago open up for future undergraduate 
esearch," says Emily Francomano, director of the comparative literature program 
t Georgetown University and an associate professor in the department of Spanish 
nd Portuguese.

  In addition to William & Mary and Georgetown, co-sponsors of the workshop 
re, to date, the Embassy of Spain; the Autonomous Government of Galicia; The 
laza Institute; Tiempo Latino; the Bank of Georgetown; and American Pilgrims on 
he Camino.  

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  Hugs!
  Rosina

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