This is great. You know the scene in the Marx Brothers' A Night At the Opera where Groucho pretends to speak a foreign language to his brothers (and Allan Jones, in the Zeppo role)? It's often been explained that the sound people took English dialogue and played it backwards to make it sound like an obscure foreign language. But Mark Evanier asked his readers to reverse the reversed dialogue so we could hear what was actually being said. And they did it. There are no hidden messages or obscenities of any kind, alas, but still it's fun to hear.
So here is the original scene as it plays in the movie.
And here's the version that gives us the actual English dialogue:
Friday, July 27, 2007
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2 comments:
Now that is awesome. As a confirmed marxist I've always wondered about that scene! Thanks for the reveal!
While this is my "reversed" version of the scene here, we really have Mark Evanier to thank for initiating the idea. Yes, it's too bad Groucho and Co. didn't have the forethought to utter something obscene for us to discover seventy years later!
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