An Australian YouTuber spent seven months dubbing South Korean movies Parasite into English for your sister to watch the award-winning movie.
Film, television and animation student Oscar Cousins, who uses his nickname OggyOgga on YouTube, said in a video posted on his channel yesterday (July 1) that he recruited friends, family and an actor to voice the film because his sister was he refused to see her. with subtitles
In the clip, Cousins, 20, explains how he caught his sister watching a Korean television series with “the worst dub I’ve ever heard.” It motivated her to create a full English dubbed version of the Oscar-winning horror film Bong Joon-ho, which hits 132 minutes.
Cousins told NME that he tried to work on the project every day for the past seven months, but that it was limited by the arrival of voice-over presentations. “On some days it was really exhausting, on others it was more fun. I had to cut a lot of the voices of my family and friends to try to get them to fit the lip sync, and that took forever and quickly became boring. ”
He added that the project “became more fun” as it got closer to completion. “Getting a good performance from my family was difficult, I had to do it so lots of shots with them, ”added Cousins. “We laugh and have fun, but yeah, I’m not going to lie, it was exhausting repeating the lines over and over again.”
It also turned out that actor Cousins hired on the online market Fiverr To express one of the characters in the film, he had an American accent despite the fact that all the other characters were Australian. Cousins persisted anyway, and at the end of the project she sat down with her family to see her version, including her sister.
“My sister loved it,” added Cousins. “I was glad to see her end up investing in the great story and images of the film, despite the stupid things I did to her. It was a strange way of watching the movie and it was definitely not the most ideal. I knew it would end badly, but I’m glad it wasn’t so bad that I could still appreciate parts of the movie. “
What follows in the Cousins general video is a fun few minutes to the end where we see his family laugh at the do-it-yourself dubbed movie.
Parasite it won the Academy Awards for Best International Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director for Bong Joon-ho and Best Film in early 2020. It was the first South Korean film to win an Oscar and the first non-English language film. English in taking home the Best Image.
