Dub over Could You Pay Me in Advance?
15 lines 4 characters 0:42 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of Could You Pay Me in Advance? and see how close you can get.
The scene
J.K. Simmons at full throttle. Peter Parker turns up late at the Daily Bugle with no photographs of a mad scientist going berserk, and J. Jonah Jameson fires him, unfires him, and hands him a society job in the space of forty seconds. Jameson takes ten of the fifteen lines and never once slows down; Ms. Brant, Robbie Robertson and Peter get five between them, mostly to be talked over.
The engine of it is that Jameson's mind changes faster than his mouth. 'You're fired' becomes 'you're unfired, I need you, come here' the instant the planetarium party is mentioned, and Peter never gets to finish a sentence. Then Peter asks whether he could be paid in advance and Jameson laughs at him — genuinely delighted — before naming the time, the place, and the door.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
Chief! I found Parker.
Mad scientist goes berserk and we don't have pictures!
I heard Spider-Man was there.
There are 12 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
Jameson is a rhythm part, not a volume part. Everything is on the front foot and nothing lands where you expect a comma; the trick is to keep barrelling through the ends of your own sentences. The unfired line should turn on a dime with no apology in it at all. Peter has two lines and both are the straight man — 'Oh! Uh, well, I-' is meant to be trampled, so start it like you have something to say. The laugh before 'you serious' is a real laugh, not a sneer, which is what makes the refusal funny.
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.