On Tuesday we had an outing with two of our students. Twilight Eclipse FINALLY came to Japan after releasing in the rest of the world 6 months ago!! So the big fans from our English Club were dying to see it. The picture below represents the love each as for the opposing boys.
Because the enthusiasum was high, we bought our tickets early at a discount. So we bought the tickets without realizing that the only theater showing the movie in the area was dubbing it in Japanese! We were in quite a pickle, should we watch a movie we will hardly understand??? Or, just let those two go alone to enjoy it?? We finally decided that we would go. Even if we couldn't understand it at least we could hang out with our students...
...but then...an idea...what if we download the audio for the movie and put it on our mp3 player...yes that would work, we thought. But instead of just the audio we ended up with the entire movie (oops! we will buy the real one--promise!). So yes indeed, while at the theater, we watched the screen and listened to the mp3 player, which was playing the movie at the same time--in English!! A double dub!!! and it mostly worked! At times it felt we could really hear the words come from the screen but other times we would know what would be said before they actually said it...or catch it a little late...all in all, it worked and we were satisfied!
