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The movie dialogue too fast for subtitles

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Director Howard Hawks instructed his actors to aggressively step all over each other's lines, which is brilliant for comedic pacing but absolute torture for global localization teams. The legendary screwball comedy averages an insane 240 words per minute, creating overlapping dialogue so dense that international distributors physically couldn't fit the translations on the screen without covering the actors' faces.

The movie dialogue too fast for subtitles
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