lip reading
NO person can lip read with 100% accuracy.
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and "the kidders?"
shareno thats true, but if youve been lipreading for almost 30-40 years then youd probably come very close
shareWell actually to be known people who are locked up learn to read lips very well from what I saw in a documentary on CNBC when they would go into prisons for certain shows and the prison guards had to go to a secure area where the inmates could not read their lips as to what was going on. I just thought that I would mention that.
Actually if you learn you can read lips and it does not matter how slow or fast the person talks. So it might have just been the movie saying you have to speak at a certain speed for Gene Wilders character Dave to understand on what people were saying.
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'Who are you?'
'Very well thank you.'
I loved that line.
Uh, YEH. That's the reason for half the jokes in the movie.
shareI thought my lip reading was pretty good but Wilders is almost 100%. Its not that realistic but the film is still hilarious.
sharethat "Who are you" "Very well, thank you" part is a takeoff on a Marx Brothers movie. I believe it was Horse Feathers.
shareit was horse feathers...the groucho/chico exchange when he's trying to get into the speakeasy. love that movie. all of them, actually.
"He must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"
Wilder actually studied lip reading for this role and in some scenes put stuff in his ears to block the sound so he couldnt hear other actors lines. Im not implying he could read lip with 100% accuracy but an interesting bit of info nonetheless!
shareApparently a lady who could lip read noticed that Charlie Chaplin was saying some very colourfull things in his solent movies
shareMy brother-in-law is deaf and does it very well.
sharePlus he gradually went deaf and likely started learning to read lips while he could still hear, so its feasible he'd be more accurate than someone born deaf or rendered deaf suddenly who had to learn all at once.
sharePlus he gradually went deaf and likely started learning to read lips while he could still hear, so its feasible he'd be more accurate than someone born deaf or rendered deaf suddenly who had to learn all at once.
You make a good point. I have a cousin who was born deaf. She went to school for the deaf and graduated highschool. She's married with her first child. She learned lip reading and if you look at her straight on she often gets what you are saying. Rarely messes up. But, if you are turned sideways she is more likely to misunderstand what you are saying. She can speak, she learned at the school but it's still hard to understand her. She rather use sign language because most of her friends are deaf and use sign. I've learned from hanging around her and her friends that each deaf person handles it differently. Not every deaf person gets the hang of lip reading or speaking. Not everyone can get the cochlear implant either.
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