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[truepenny]

All trivia is contained on the internets.

Except the script for The Yellow Submarine, for I have looked.

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[reannon.livejournal.com]

Voila! I think. (http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/y/yellow-submarine-script-transcript-beatles.html)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Emendation: an accurate script of The Yellow Submarine. A very quick look, based on my own knowledge of the movie, tells me that transcript is very badly flawed.

The exchange I've been racking my brains over since mirrorthaw introduced me to TYS in college isn't even there.

So an excellent effort, but my theorem is not disproved.

[davidlevine]

I have it on laser disc (disk?), so if there's a specific quote you'd like me to track down I'm willing to try.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Woops! I never actually saw it, so I had nothing to compare it to. I suppose eventually I should rent it...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

RINGO: Hey, that's my car, lad.
GEORGE: How do you know it's your car, lad?
RINGO: I'd know it anywhere.
GEORGE: What's in the [fry pan?] ?
RINGO: [?]
GEORGE: What color is it?
RINGO: It's red with yellow wheels. . . . I mean blue with orange wheels . . .
GEORGE: It's all in the mind.

It's that bit in the middle, between "I'd know it anywhere" and "what color is it?" Neither mirrorthaw nor I have ever been able to get any sense out of it.

[davidlevine]

This is fairly near the beginning, in Liverpool, yes?

I'll check it out as soon as I can. Maybe later today, if I get my thousand words in before a reasonable bedtime.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes. Fred has found Ringo, and Ringo and Fred have found John.

(Thank you, btw.)

[davidlevine]

I found a better transcript via the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20030407102048/www.angelfire.com/band/marasmess/ysbwno.html

According to that transcript, which matches what I hear on the laserdisc, the dialog is as follows:

R: Hey, wait a minute, that's my car, luv!

G: How do you know it's your car, luv?

R: I'd know it anywhere!

G: What's it look like then?

R: Well, it's red with yellow wheels.

(George drives back in the frame, and the car is...)

R: I mean blue with orange wheels.

(He drives out and in, and the car is yellow with purple wheels.)

G: It's all in the mind.

Hope this helps!

(I also used to own the Signet paperback of the movie, but I can't find it. Might be at my parents' place.)

[ndgmtlcd.livejournal.com]

The entire movie is available in nine parts on YouTube. What you seek is exactly here at the beginning of part 3:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=kWrygecZXz0&feature=related

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I own the movie. It's not that I don't have it, it's that at certain critical point the sheer Liverpudlianness of the dialogue defeats me.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I am suspicious that my mind has fabricated something.

Hmmm.

The Bronx is up and the Battery's down...

[tazlet.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Script City (no joke) for all your scripting needs?

[ndgmtlcd.livejournal.com]

Sorry! To me the dialogue seems clear. What I hear is exactly what David Levine wrote out above. There must be a natural phonetic affinity between francophones and Liverpudlians, or at least voice actors who pretend they're Liverpudlians.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I find the Liverpool accent fairly challenging. (Watching Revengers Tragedy, it was a good thing I already knew the plot and was familiar with the play, because if it had been just me and Christopher Eccleston, I would have been lost lost lost.) In this case, though, I'm beginning to suspect my mind has fabricated something that wasn't there. It's very odd.