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Why does he not do ADR on movies he produces and writes?


I understand that he is a jerk and lazy, but I would think if you wrote and produced something that you would be passionate about it and what to make a competent movie.

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whats ADR?

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Automated dialogue replacement. In nearly all film productions an actor loops dialogue for a scene. However, the production usually retains the actor or has them sign a contract that adds it as part of their duty on the film. Reasons being it was not clear enough recording, it was not picked up right by the boom operator, or for a variety of other reasons. These are very common in Seagal and Willis films.

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I've never heard that, but it seems odd. Such a cheap edit technique to avoid.

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I think just sheer laziness. All he wants to do is sit back and watch the dollars come in. He barely gets off his fat ass for any action scenes, he hardly ever records his own voice. I would say he phones it in - but he'd probably get someone else to make the call.

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YOU GUYS THINK YOU’RE ABOVE THE LAW?WELL, YOU AIN’T ABOVE HIS

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Who do you think you are, Gd5150? Kowalski?

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