--- Forwarded Message from "Shoaf,Judith P" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Shoaf,Judith P" <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:01:28 -0400 >Subject: Gospel films in LCTLs >Thread-Topic: Gospel films in LCTLs >Thread-Index: ActU5t/j1/1XZNA3RKW4wHuVzZ5d9g== >Accept-Language: en-US >acceptlanguage: en-US My husband was talking to a former student of his, who is involved in the Campus Crusade for Christ. This came up because he was off to Benin to work on recording the audio for the Fon-gbe version of a film on the life of Jesus Christ from the point of view of Mary Magdalene. This is part of something called the Jesus Film Project, the woman's-point-of-view film joining a straight retelling of St. Luke's gospel called the Jesus Film and a version for kids. The thing about these films is that they have been dubbed into a very large number of languages (1098 for the original film), including for example 6 dialects of Fufulde and a couple of Fiji languages. The completed films (2 hours for the Jesus film, 1 hour for the children's) are posted online. http://www.jesusfilm.org/film-and-media/watch-the-film The purpose, of course, is to proselytize, providing a gospel for each prospective convert's own language. The visuals were devised so that there is a minimum of visible mouth movement (voice-overs, persons turned away, etc.) to make dubbing easier and less obtrusive. But the scope of the international project is fascinating, and it strikes me that this provides examples of some endangered languages that are not taught at all (Will, the young man headed for Benin, said that in a few cases the translator has simply made an audiorecording of the script for the voice actors, since there is no written form in common use). I watched a bit of the films and they seem to be an intelligent retelling, closely following Luke's gospel. I am not a fan of movies on this subject; the only one I've ever watched was Pasolini's, and I thought this was comparable in its simplicity and directness. Most of the actors are, I gather, Israelis, though the main one is a Brit and looks it (I do understand that Jesus would have had perfect teeth, a theological point I learned in Catholic school). Just thought I would give a heads-up as this is a pretty interesting resource. Judith P. Shoaf Director, Language Learning Center University of Florida PO 117300 Gainesville, Florida 32611 352-392-2112 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************