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I suspect the reference regarding the mechanical speech box is wrong. I believe the voice of alpha 60 is performed by someone employing esophageal speech. Does anyone have a better reference?
>>""the French phrase is 'pays exterieur' which translates to 'outer countries' not implying 'galaxies' in the least.""
Well, they do talk about interstellar travel and galaxies as well as pays extérieurs. Like when, they're in the car, going out of Alphaville they say "roulant toute la nuit dans l'espace intersidéral ...". "Pays extérieurs" is translated by Outlands.
How many other languages has Alphaville been dubbed into? The version I have, has English subtitles but not a word from the characters' lips has actually been dubbed into English. I don't mind the subtitles in English, but it would help if there were other translations available, at least for those of us who don't speak French.
Could somebody either remove or reword this section, since the bullet seems deviant to the rest of the article. DrWho42 01:15, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- == The First Scene ==
- Nearly flawless camerawork and editing leads to Lemmy Caution driving a car on a freeway and into the city that he is under orders to visit. The freeways are new, long, and curving, including tunnels and bypasses made of concrete, such that this could have been shot in any major city in the world of the 1960s, but the traffic is light or nearly nonexistent. The camerawork is so flawless that there appear to be no cuts or splices for 8 to 10 minutes of screentime, even as he finds himself at the hotel he is checking into, right up to the room he checks into, where he finds an assassin that must be dealt with.
- *This isn't true. There are clear indications of cuts from one camera to another during the first 8 to 10 minutes of the film. There is no pretense of trying to hide these cuts. However, there is a continuous shot that begins with the protagonist entering the hotel lobby and ends with him arriving with a woman at his hotel room door which lasts for nearly two minutes.
The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED per discussion below. - GTBacchus( talk) 01:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
The title is currently Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution. However, it should be Alphaville (film), because:
If I'm wrong about any of this, let me know. Cop 633 15:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Were there many SF noir films before this ? Or can this be seen as a direct ancestor of Blade Runner et al ? -- Beardo 04:12, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 02:13, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
The article claims it's set on another planet, it's been a while since I saw it but I don't recall that being explicit in the film, and I assumed this was just a city on Earth in the future, was there something I missed? Number36 03:36, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
The old Criterion DVD of Alphaville had subtitles that indicated Alphaville was a planet, but I have not seen that set of subtitles duplicated anywhere else. Maybe someone can chime in on the translations? 2605:6000:EC83:EC00:A850:31F5:DA9A:AA6 ( talk) 18:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
I just assumed that, what with the whole deal about words being regularly changed and omitted and Lemmy talking about having to get used to the dialect, actually all of the terms that implied that Alphaville was a planet were just the result of Alpha 60 changing the meaning of the words. 50.47.83.249 ( talk) 02:03, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Reference is made in the film to an "Institute of General Semantics", possibly a reference to a real institute of the same name? Anyone know? -- Andyf ( talk) 23:02, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
The article states that Lemmy Caution enters Alphaville in his Ford Mustang. It's been a while since I've seen the film, so I stand to be corrected, but I am pretty sure the vehicle was not a mustang. I think it was a Ford Falcon, though not as certain about that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.141.177.29 ( talk) 17:54, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
No section on this. How was it received at the time and how do critics view it now? Did it influence any subsequent movies? -- 71.174.170.66 ( talk) 16:18, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Hertz1888, I know this is pretty trivial, but you reverted my deletion of 'cheap' when describing the camera. You mentioned a linked article but don't say which one. Can you be more specific? I'm not denying that Instamatics were cheap in 1960s France, but this is in the Plot section and there doesn't seem to be any indication in the movie that it is cheap in the world of Alphaville. For all we know Instamatics are the height of technology in the Outlands. The tech is decidely mixed in the movie, with futuristic looking buildings and computers, but low-tech stuff like tarnished keys on hooks, etc. The plot section suffers in general from a lot of interpretation being mixed in and lots of details on production, both of which belong in a different section. Ashmoo ( talk) 11:55, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
I agree with this... why is there mention of the camera brand in the plot section at all? Same goes for pointing out that the "Galaxie" is played by a Mustang... that is not plot. 2605:6000:EC83:EC00:A850:31F5:DA9A:AA6 ( talk) 18:37, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
Is the German band Alphaville also named after this movie? -- 62.16.186.44 ( talk) 13:12, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
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