Shipwrecked - in England

[karlsen]

I do not know if this is known by now but the movie Håkon Håkonsen (Shipwrecked) will be released in England as well as Germany.

I noticed that only the German version was listed on this website.

It can be bought from www.play.com for only £7.99

My only problem with this release is that it looks to be lacking the original Norwegian voice track and only the English.

[Chernabog]

Good news indeed!

Did you have a whole norwegian language track when the film was shown in Norway?
Or did you just mentioned the few norwegian lines spoken here and there occationally in the film?
Because they are still in the film featured in other countries as well, I think!

[karlsen]

In Norway the Norwegian talked in Norwegian and the English actors talked in English. But it was natural because if Håkon was talking to Norwegians he talked Norwegian and English when talken to in English (I think, its a long time since I saw it).

But I remember that all those scenes was taped twice, once in Norwegian and one in English so it could be released as an all English movie abroad.

[Chernabog]

Yes Karlsen!
The DVD from UK is the english only version of the film.
Thank God I didn´t get rid of my video-cassette of the original version which was shown here in Sweden in the cinemas.

Not a single Norwegian word as far as I spotted, going quickly through the film to locate the places where they spoke Norwegian in the other version.
There is also a completly other opening to this version than what I have seen before. (But I prefer the Haakon Haakonsen title on the book which opens up to the old worldmap, instead of the waves that begin the english-only version of the film, together with the english title Shipwrecked).

But it´s fun to finally have the possibility to see this version also (and in Widescreen again - I have not seen this film in that format since the time I saw it at the cinema - more then ten years ago!).

[Disney Guru]

Danke Danke Shaen!

Das Makest Me So Dast Happy!

[karlsen]

I have found out that the movie is coming on DVD here in Norway this year as well, and that would most deffenatly be the original Norwegian version and not the international version that was remade for Disney. (I know they came at the same time, but I have always looked upon the Norwegian version as a little more original).

[Chernabog]

Good, then it will be a double feature-buy for me with this title! - to have both the versions on DVD

[Chernabog]

After I studied the two versions a little closer this weekend, I must say that they are slightly different, not only in language but also in footage and scenes.

The beginnings are different from eachother.

The laguage spoken is different (the original norwegian/english version= international version, is MUCH better in this case - and MUCH more natural and realistic.)

The international version are missing out on all the scenes where Haakon learns english or refer to that he is not good at english. (Naturally, because how could scenes like that be in a film where he from the start speaks english in his NORWEGIAN home )

The ending goes on longer before the credits begins to roll.
(Which fits better to the End Title music by Patrick Doyle - in the international version the music stops before the credits are finished!)

So in fact the international version (shown in England, USA and surely the rest of the world except Scandinavia, IS NOT COMPLETE - they only got a CUT or MODIFIED version shown to them. What a pity!

The original norwegian/english version is much more preferable and this is the version that everyone should own - because it´s much better!

[Escapay]

Hate to bump up an old topic, but I was just wondering: does the Norwegian DVD for Håkon Håkonsen include any special features? Or is it barebones like all the other releases?

albert

[Chernabog]

Hate to bump up an old topic, but I was just wondering: does the Norwegian DVD for Håkon Håkonsen include any special features? Or is it barebones like all the other releases?

albert

The norweigan DVD include a behind the scenes featurette about how they made the movie + the Trailer

That´s all, but not barebones at least.

[Escapay]

Thanks, Chernabog.

I've seen the trailer on imdb, though I'm not sure if it was the actual trailer or some VHS promo, so I'm glad to hear a trailer is retained on one of the DVDs. Regarding the featurette, is it a vintage EPK piece from 1990 or something that was newly recorded for the DVD release?

Think you could host both somewhere online so I could download and view them?

albert