When Korben Dallas asks Leeloo her "short" name, and he says "Not Leeloo yakety yakety… short." there's a really brief moment when the picture cuts to a weird angle and Korben's voice sounds like it's captured by a wrong mic. It's always bothered me. What was that about? I don't think i've come across such method ever before.
Scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax6vcY2P_OQ&t=18s
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Link to the scene?
Likely just a dialogue pickup recorded after filming that didn’t match the lines spoken on set. Filmmakers will often change some dialogue in post to better fit a scene. Sometimes the editors need to adapt to that by cutting in a different shot where you can’t really tell the line wasn’t spoken on set
Yeah. It’s just from a different mic. Who knows why it was done.
pretty sure that’s just a jump cut with a mismatched audio take. they probably used a different angle from another take and the sound didn’t line up clean, so it feels off for a second. not really a special technique, just editing being a bit messy there
I watched it the first time last night, it’s not good. Creepy, and the you find out the director is a pedo and it all makes sense.
I think they used the audio from the take where the mic was focused on Mila.
So, for whatever reason, the side of the scene where they were filming Bruce and had him mic’d, wasn’t usable. This meant that they had to insert a cut to the back of his head as the lips and sound didn’t match, and the quality isn’t great because he wasn’t the one they were trying to get the clear audio from.
That over-the-shoulder shot where Leeloo has her gun pointed at Corbin likely just had the microphone trained on Milla. From the “distant” sound of Bruce’s voice, it’s likely that since he wasn’t actually needed in the shot (as the portion of “his” head, seen from behind, was completely out of focus) they likely just used a stand-in so Bruce could sit and rest near the camera. However, I’d guess he was feeding Milla “his” lines as an intro for her dialogue –and that particular line (which has acoustics which suggest he’s speaking from “off set,” which seems to be the case as Milla appears to look over at him off screen) had a bit of improvised gibberish from Bruce that the director ended up really liking –and rather than trying to recreate it as ADR, which might not capture the spur-of-the-moment feeling quite as well, Luc settled for using a slightly bad bit of audio quality instead so he could keep Bruce’s line.
The SCENE under discussion is LINKED HERE, at 4:40:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHm9HzMpTK8
It’s called a Multi-pass.
The way Leeloo’s eyes move to Korbin’s words might be a way to show how’s she’s hearing him speak. She’s adjusting to her form and probably fine tuning her heightened senses as a supreme being.
That’s strange, I just rewatched this movie yesterday.
Almost nothing in a movie is unintentional. Unless it’s an accident that they choose to keep, like in Django when Leo breaks the glass and cuts his hand, you don’t spend millions of dollars on a movie and not fix a mic issue.