Saturday, 16 January 2016

The Languages of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

The Languages of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

How the makers of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” crafted alien dialogue for the film’s interplanetary ensemble. We hear Chewbacca speak in Wookiee growls, and R2-D2 and BB-8 use the bleeps and bloops of droidspeak. For one scene, however, J. J. Abrams relied on an unusual source to generate alien-speak: a young Finnish YouTube star named Sara Maria Forsberg. By Ben Zimmer.

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