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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
This is the major problem I have with watching a subtitled film.
You are looking at the text while the actor is giving a performance. Mehrabian's studies on human communication and his 7-38-55% rule states that a huge portion of communication is tone and body language. He found that only 7 percent of communication comes from spoken words, 38 percent is from the tone of the voice, and 55 percent comes from body language. How can you focus on the body language when you are reading the text? How can you understand the tone when you don't understand the words they are placed on? I find it extremely detrimental to the performance.
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I suppose this would apply if you are a very, very slow reader. I don't think you lose much at all reading subtitles; some of the best films I've seen in the last 5 years or so have been subtitled.