Esmeralda - The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Discussion

[–] iyeko 16 years ago

The character always annoyed me because of her dubbing.

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Don't think that I'm insulting people with dwarfism, but I think they needed an elegant dancer and just couldn't find a dwarf who fit that role and thus used a child and dubbed the voice with an adults.

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[–] TheSolarSailor 10 years ago

Don't think that I'm insulting people with dwarfism, but I think they needed an elegant dancer and just couldn't find a dwarf who fit that role and thus used a child and dubbed the voice with an adults.

I agree, but at the same time when viewed in this day and age, it comes off as rather creepy. But yes, it was simply a case of Corman not being able to find a female dwarf who fit the role of a small but beautiful ballerina. He as much as says so on the Scream Factory BluRay interview.

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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

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[–] smoovasbutter 15 years ago

This was odd. I thought that the character as well as the actor was a normal sized little girl until she opened her mouth to speak. Only than did I realize that the character she was playing was meant to be a "little person" and her voice was dubbed with a grown women's voice. Wierd. She didn't even look like a dwarf.

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[–] EvasiveApollo03 12 years ago

Being that it was AIP, I doubt they could find a midget with the dance skills or even afford one. The casting doesn't bother me because I know the issues they had, but the dubbing was awful.

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[–] DodgersRule 10 years ago

I also thought the dubbed voice was odd, perhaps a bit too mature? But I too understand why they had the little girl in the part. She was lovely and very graceful -- and had to be attractive (and innocent) enough to make creepy Alfredo lustful.

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[–] TheSolarSailor 10 years ago

I also thought the dubbed voice was odd, perhaps a bit too mature? But I too understand why they had the little girl in the part. She was lovely and very graceful -- and had to be attractive (and innocent) enough to make creepy Alfredo lustful.

Agreed, though the dreadful dubbing only serves to draw attention to the casting of a child, sadly enough.

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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

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[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

I thought she was supposedly a child, but the adult dubbed voice was peculiar.

Its that man again!!

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[–] MidnightThud 9 years ago

It got even creepier once you take into account that Prospero had sex with her.

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[–] max_demian 8 years ago

I assume she was meant to be a pituitary dwarf, with normal (or childlike) proportions. But would such a person have the voice of an adult woman or a squeaky voice? I suppose they had to dub her voice, otherwise she would just have sounded like a child.

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[–] max_demian 8 years ago

I assume she was meant to be a pituitary dwarf, with normal (or childlike) proportions. But would such a person have the voice of an adult woman or a squeaky voice? I suppose they had to dub her voice, otherwise she would just have sounded like a child.

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