Tavia said:
I've seen a lot of European films which are incredibly visual and fairly low on dialogue. (I watched some 70s Kieslowski shorts once where the simultaneous translations that the cinema had set up didn't work, but the films' messages were remarkably clear in the absence of any clue from the dialogue [which was in Polish, I guess].)
The expectation that audiences in other countries will speak your language is more realistic if your language is English than if it is Polish. But consideration of non-English-speaking markets is one reason behind the emergence of action films, which are low on dialogue.
I don't think it's just the thought, but also the intrinsic capabilities
of
the actors chosen -- though I suppose it's strange that the initial
casting
didn't try to take the action aspects into account. Few of the actors move well, especially out of doors -- PD, of course, but it's also apparent for GT and JC (eg the beach scenes in 'Orac', or the outside bits in
'Bounty'). It could be a subtle portrayal of the discomfort of dome dwellers and accidental heroes, but actually I think it's because the leading contenders for the roles tended to come from the Klutz tribe. They all do a lot more talking than anything else, so it wasn't completely senseless to cast with that in mind.
-(Y)