You totally do need to see Gangs. Everybody does, at least once.;)
Ah yes, the dubbing references Rossellini et al! I should have realized. All part of the "make it simultaneously artificial and neo-realist, to plunge you head-first into a different world" vibe...
As for "how did they deal with X"?, with my students, the answer was usually "they didn't". These are people who told me they hadn't seen Silence of the Lambs because "it was really old"...the idea of having to see anything that was in black and white or had back-projection, let alone stuff made before synch-sound, was one that the bulk of them found simply staggering.
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Ah yes, the dubbing references Rossellini et al! I should have realized. All part of the "make it simultaneously artificial and neo-realist, to plunge you head-first into a different world" vibe...
As for "how did they deal with X"?, with my students, the answer was usually "they didn't". These are people who told me they hadn't seen Silence of the Lambs because "it was really old"...the idea of having to see anything that was in black and white or had back-projection, let alone stuff made before synch-sound, was one that the bulk of them found simply staggering.