Are classic movies (40s, 50s) difficult to understand?

[rezafo]

Hi all,
Am I the only one who finds classic movies (40s, 50s) difficult to understand?

[dimah2005]

Hi all,
Am I the only one who finds classic movies (40s, 50s) difficult to understand?

what do mean?

I like classic movies , and I don't have any problem with them !

[rezafo]

what is your mean?

I like classic movies , and i have'nt any problem with them !

Hi dimah, thanks for your feedback.

My mean is clear; hard to understand their English.

AS an example, do you want me to send you 15 seconds [ of course only an audio file] of the parts which i find tough to get, so that you transcript it for me ?

[rezafo]

Hi again,

Dimah,

Upon your comment and my request when I got home and searched my home PC, I found that I'd deleted that old movie. I'd recorded it from PTV classics channel. I'll keep an eye on this channel and record another part of another classic movie I'm talking about, then, I would select some 15 or 20 seconds of the dialogues spoken in it.

Till then, I'll be glad to have more feedback from you.

[dimah2005]

Hi reza

Tanks for your answer

I thought, you can’t understand whole of films.

Because, the most classic movies which I have seen were double, but if you point the specially movie, if you can say that?

I remember the last classic (it’s western; I don’t know it s classic or no) some scenes were very difficult, and some scenes were very simple.

This topic forces me to see classical movies in these days. I will answer in these days.

[rezafo]

Hi Dimah,

I even guessed that you might have referred to the dubbed movies. Anyway, even modern movies have parts that are tough to understand [ literally, the words] not the story of the scenes in the movie.

But I am insisting, and when I found the chance to record another one I will definitely cut out 20 seconds of the movie and will put it here. Then I would ask everybody to transcript it. it can spark off a new practice and activity, huh? What dose everybody think of this?

By the way, are you a movie buff? I'm asking this because I'm a dilettante movie watcher, and I may ask your help to single out worth watching movies.

Stick around

[dimah2005]

By the way, are you a movie buff? I'm asking this because I'm a dilettante movie watcher, and I may ask your help to single out worth watching movies.

Stick around

What is buff?
If you mean, am I a movie watcher?
The answer is yes.
If I have time, I see movie every day.
Anyway, I checked Double Indemnity.
I think, it hasn’t any problem.
I have one question
What is your problem?
1. You can listen, but you can’t understand
Or
2.You can’t understand what they say.

Anyway
In the 21 century, I can point the English movie that you can’t understand what they say.

[rezafo]

Dear Dimah,

1- One of the meanings of buff is: A person who is very interested in a particular subject or activity and knows a lot about it.

2- Yes, my problem is understanding some parts of the dialogues (the words spoken by the people in the movie).

3- Yes, you are right, even current movies can be difficult to understand. The range of the difficulty differs from one another.

[dimah2005]

Tanks for new word, yes it’s true,
And I study English for movies,
2&3. Me too, I have this problem, I have seen the carnival (its serial), it has very difficult language (words, sentences, phrase)
Because, this film is about 30s, 40s (I don’t remember exactly)