Star Wars Return of del Jedi
was watching Star Wars Return of the Jedi on HBO-L, the Spanish language HBO channel that Comcast thoughtfully provides for the 6.2% Massachusetts population that speak Spanish at home, ages 5 and over.
Surprisingly they have Darth Vader with the same low baritone James Earl Jones voice that is in the English version. It's even a slow paced speech pattern, not the rapid fire language that most Latin-based, Latino, conversations sound like and has that menacing heavy breathing that is signature Vader.
While Luke Skywalker doesn't sound like Mark Hamill, the other characters are fine.
They even made that short garbage can robot who speaks in a digital voice add a Mexican sounding accent to its garbled nonsense.
Jaba the Hut is no different than the English version although he does seem more SEHHHXY. TOOO SEHHHXY. The odd thing about Jaba is that when he is speaking in a made up language, the subtitles are in English, not Spanish. So unless those 6.2% speak Jaba, or read English, they will have no idea that he is saying "this bounty hunter is my kind of scumb".
Some of the trivial creatures that appear throughout the movie keep their sinister voices but in Spanish.
I just love hearing "El Capitan Solo blah blah blah" since the only Spanish I speak is how to order a hamburger with cheese to go please and como se dice, one beer please.
I think I might watch El Juego de la Verdad on next, whatever that might be.