LOL! Thanks - and what a way to go silver - "an upcoming Norwegian sifter tries a new tactic to get votes from a powerful Eastern Europe demographic group"!

I don't even know what the advertising rules are here in the Netherlands, but it really jumps out at me that the competitor is so explicitly mentioned (in the Dutch commercial Nimoy would drive an undetermined eastern europe car I would guess).
There it is at second 37, the 'CLS 550 Mercedes sucks compared to our Audi'. (I know nothing about cars, but from what I know about commercials I'm going to ahead and assume that that's actually incorrect)

>> ^EMPIRE:

i know it may not seem like it, but there is actually, usually, some distance between trains. More than enough for her not to have been hit.
That being said, I would've shat my pants


Usually yes.. Back 1999 new year, we were on a backbag trip thru eastern europe, filming the whole thing to 8mm and with one of the new award winning Finnish document producer on the camera, he leaned over the window, started doing a slow pan shot and once he got it and started to climb back in, a powerpole swush past his head, it was literally just 1 or 2cm... we check the situation and they were really going only 15cm from the train.. This was in Poland, Warsaw-Bialystok line (i think, could've been in Lithuania too)... No doubt they have increased margins since.. We almost lost a great talent.

Belarus: officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

But if you insist on the russia channel, fine

Well, at least in the old world there are various ways: scandinivian countries to my knowledge only use subtitles, france and germany both have very sophisticated Voice over industries. The example above aside it is very hard to spot if a Movie was voiced over in German because the speakers do an incredible Job of matching their words and pronounciation to the lip movements of actors. You actually can make a Good living as Voice over Artist. Especially the voices of Big stars can go into advertising etc (Bruce willis' Voice Guy does that a Lot). Really funny are Voice overs in eastern Europe countries, you can often find Movies where One Single speaker does all the voices without Even trying to make them Sound different :-)


>> ^dag:

That's really interesting. Would be curious how other languages handled it.>> ^conan:
as you might or might not know: in germany movies don't get subtitles but instead get a voiceover. naturally, this brings along some problems when there's play with languages such as in this case. "Airplane!" is a great example of how translators deal with this.
Have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEkI0cH_rK4
So what they did is they let the two guys speak in a very thick, bavarian accent. bavaria is a region in south-east germany that's pretty much your cliche germany. beer for breakfast, sausages, huge 34oz beer mugs, castles, bretzel, leather shorts etc. it doesn't get more "german" than bavaria. there's certainly a racist touch to it (at least in my eyes because the "joke" depends on the audiences disbelief / surprise of a black person being a "real" bavarian) but i thought it's a good example of voice over strangenesses.
EDIT: link to a better clip

>> ^Mashiki:

>> ^Trout:
Thanks for that translation... even funnier.
I can't believe all the snow - on the street, pushed against the houses. Wonder where this was filmed?

Well somewhere over in europe this year, lot of places in central and eastern europe got hammered with snowfall though not much in cold canada this year, they can have our snow. Though last year it could have been in Ontario. Last winter we had places with 4-6m of snow on the ground in a 1 week period. And I spent more than a few weeks out with friends shoveling off roofs and trying to dig people out.


That somewhere in Europe in this case is Italy :-)

>> ^Trout:

Thanks for that translation... even funnier.
I can't believe all the snow - on the street, pushed against the houses. Wonder where this was filmed?


Well somewhere over in europe this year, lot of places in central and eastern europe got hammered with snowfall though not much in cold canada this year, they can have our snow. Though last year it could have been in Ontario. Last winter we had places with 4-6m of snow on the ground in a 1 week period. And I spent more than a few weeks out with friends shoveling off roofs and trying to dig people out.

>> ^Jerykk:

I don't think the officer's response would be any different if guns were banned. Firstly, he wouldn't have walked up to the window because the suspect wouldn't be inside the car. He'd be standing outside the car, hand in pocket, blatantly ignoring the officer's commands and behaving in a hostile manner. Secondly, as was mentioned in a previous comment, criminals will still have guns regardless of gun laws. That's why they're criminals. They don't follow the law. Statistically, the majority of guns used in crimes were obtained illegally to begin with.

Statistically there are dying more people of gun-related injuries in America than anywhere else. Surely this has nothing to do with the MASSIVE amount of guns in the homes of America.

@hpqp in Eastern Europe on the other hand the cop would have shot him a hole in his tire, punched him in the nose and demanded his belongings, oh and of course the cop would be a bear. In uniform though.

>> ^cybrbeast:

>> ^syncron:
This is probably your typical Western European advert.

Romania is Eastern Europe.

Brainfart. That's totally what I meant to say （−＿−；）

>> ^syncron:

This is probably your typical Western European advert.


Romania is Eastern Europe.

I think everyone in the world has seen at least a couple episodes of this show. It's pretty popular over in eastern Europe.

Not even halfway through and I got lost in this video... Too many names!

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by SlipperyPete.