Dub over I Am You
23 lines 2 characters 1:32 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of I Am You and see how close you can get.
The scene
The end of Yuji Itadori and Mahito. Mahito is out of transfigured humans and Yuji has stopped arguing with him; instead he accepts the thing Mahito has been telling him all along — I am you — and then explains, calmly, that this changes nothing. Yuji has fourteen of the twenty-three lines and speaks almost all of them to a curse who is backing away.
It's ninety seconds of a promise being made. Change your name, change your appearance, be reborn as something new, and Yuji will kill you again; he doesn't need a meaning or a reason any more, and he suspects any meaning will show up centuries after he's dead. Mahito's half is nine lines and most of them aren't words — a retch, a startled 'huh', and then the sound of running.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
(Puke)
My stock of Transfigured Humans is also out!
I'll accept it, Mahito.
There are 20 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
Yuji's speech is quiet. The mistake is anime-shouting it, when the whole point is a boy who has run out of feeling about it — say the cog-in-the-wheel line like a fact you've checked. The one place to let it up is 'I'll kill you then too', which should be gentle and worse for it. Mahito is a sound part: the 'huh' is real confusion, the fear noises come late, and the four running lines at the end are just breath, so back off the mic and let them shrink.
The dialogue is muted and everything else stays — the score, the room, the picture. You record each line over the silence and the scene plays back with you in the cast. How a dub is made · what the score measures.