@IPA SOLÉ James Hong was in such a wide varieties of films and TV shows for over 40 years, from X-Files-Miami Vice-Rockford Files-The Big Bang Theory-Blade Runner-Big Trouble In Little China for example. Look at his filmography and television career. Those you mentioned are not even close.
20+ years later I realize he lists 8 animal styles including the Beatle. The crane, the stag, the horse, the tiger, the bat, the rat, the monkey, the beatle.
As of July 2024 James Hong is alive aged 95, what a legend. I've seen him in so many films/TV shows. Just read in a comment below he received his star on the Hollywood walk of fame, all I can say is.....zang 😃
At least with anime, the issue is a combo of bad translating and not having the established talent pool of voice actors that Japan does. Sentence structure comes into play. Occasionally mouth movements which show vowel sounds (like Spriggan) also come into play, but that is on the rare side (and really forces the people making the English version to really think about how to translate it). Here with effort & talent dubbing can work for the most part, in principle at least if not in practice. With live action the mouth movements, the difference in syntax and the fact that there is much more body language on display (doing this in anime, or any animation for that matter, adds a fair amount of money to what is needed simply due to there being more animation and this there is noticeably less of it) makes dubbing live action far harder to do in a way that isn't jarring. With exceptions being cases like Das Boot, where _everything_ was a dub regardless of language. As well as the fact that the English dub used most of the main cast as themselves for it. Not to mention the sentence structure being far closer to English than something from east Asia or something like that (leading to the body movement matching the translation better) I love animation. Anime being the biggest chunk of that. Given the choice between original Japanese dub and a crap English one, I will always take subs. But if the dubs are of equal or near equal levels for quality I prefer a language I can understand. Though in the 30 or so years I have been watching anime (which I knew was anime before seeing it) there are a grand total of 2 English dubs I completely approve of. The first Hellsing series and Overlord I, II & III.
0:14 ok here are the two best parts of this entire scene: Jeff's little "heh" as he turns to galavant down the stairs. And if you let it continue to play, his little "lalalalalala" taunt to Wayne.
