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| 'Star Wars' finds a Navajo voice Posted: 03 May 2013 08:49 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: Members of the Navajo tribe in the southwestern United States are hoping the force will be with them as they dub "Star Wars" into their native Dine language. Two days of auditions began Friday at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona for Navajo wishing to lend their voices to Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Han Solo, C-3PO, Obi Wan Kenobi and Grand Moff Tarkin. "Qualifications are fluency in Navajo and good acting skills," the museum said. "You give us your best Oscar-winning audition ever!" Directed by George Lucas and released in 1977, "Star Wars" is a Hollywood science fiction classic and winner of six Academy Awards including best picture. It's been dubbed into nearly 40 languages from Arabic to Vietnamese, and now stands to become the first major Hollywood motion picture ever to be translated into a Native American tongue. Museum director Manuelito Wheeler told AFP the Navajo project, three years in the making, is aimed at promoting the use of Dine, which is spoken by only half of the 300,000 Navajo who live mainly in Arizona and New Mexico. "We need a new and innovative way to engage the public to learn Navajo," he said. "Navajo is a descriptive language," Wheeler added, when asked about the challenges of translating the script. "Conceptually, the Navajo language is able to plug into the concept of 'the force'." More than 90 people registered for the auditions, and the final product is to be premiere at a Fourth of July festival in Window Rock before going on to screenings in California, Oklahoma and perhaps New York and Washington. Lucasfilms, the production studio founded by Lucas and now owned by Disney, is collaborating on the project. The Navajo are the biggest Native American tribe. They're fiercely proud of the Navajo "code talkers" in World War II whose battlefield radio messages for the US military in the Pacific could never be cracked by Japanese forces. Monument Valley, on Navajo land, and its majestic sandstone buttes have meanwhile been a popular location for many movie shoots, from John Wayne westerns to "Thelma and Louise" and this year's "The Lone Ranger" starring Johnny Depp. - AFP |
| Hollywood star Will Smith eyes comedy with son Posted: 03 May 2013 08:46 PM PDT TAIPEI: Hollywood star Will Smith said Friday that he will probably shoot a comedy with his son Jaden when they team up for the third time in film-making. Smith, who arrived in Taiwan on Thursday on a promotional tour, said it was "fantastic" to work with the 15-year-old in their second movie together, the sci-fi flick "After Earth", set to hit cinemas in June. "Entertainment is our family business, so I am sure that if something comes up we'll do it again," Smith said at a red carpet fan meeting near the landmark Taipei 101 building, which was lit up with the movie's name. "He (Jaden) is looking forward to a comedy, he's been having to do lots of drama for his career. Drama has kind of been his signature and he's been asking to find a comedy," Smith said. The father and son duo first collaborated in the drama "The Pursuit of Happyness", in which Smith played the role of father to his then eight-year-old son. "After Earth" tells the story of how Smith and Jaden fight to survive after they crash land on Earth, some 1,000 years after humans are forced to leave an uninhabitable Earth to live on another planet. Jaden, who was also on site to greet hundreds of cheering Taiwanese fans, advised people to cut down on plastics, use solar panels and take shorter showers to help protect the earth. - AFP |
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