Positions filled: Cantonese voice-overs for Fast & Furious (2009)

Yesterday was a fairly inspiring day.

My flight was originally scheduled at 3pm, re-timed to 5.25pm due to bad weather, then 5.45pm and I finally got to board the plane at 6pm. The funny thing was that I had initially accidentally booked the 5pm flight. Then after realizing that both of my cousins were on the earlier flight, I paid additional RM50 to change the flight.

Smart move.

And hence, I watched the passengers boarding the flight that I was supposed to board but somehow didn’t at 5pm sharp. One-by-one. All in all, 3 other planes which were, in the beginning, scheduled behind us actually arrived at LCC Terminal before ours.

When we finally arrived at 7pm, I managed to hop into a cab. Coincidentally, there was a massive jam due to the Formula 1 at Sepang. The thing was that I was supposed to meet my friends for a movie at 9pm but amazingly, I managed to get there on time.

So, it wasn’t such a bad evening after all, right?

Wrong.

I was fortunate enough to be seated next to this couple who somehow can’t keep their bl**dy f**king traps shut throughout the first 20 minutes of the show. I had hinted my annoyance but somehow they just didn’t manage to get the message.

Finally, I politely and quietly said “Excuse me, but can you both stop talking?” I have done this in the past and most of the time, the addressees would be intelligent enough to shut their pie-holes but somehow, this Ah Beng decided that I actually had no right asking him to be silent. And so a 2 1/2-minute voice-over between Dom and Letty began:

Ah Beng: What’s your problem? How come you didn’t ask the people who are laughing around us to be quiet also?

Ms Righteous-ness: You have been talking since the beginning of the movie. Do you see them laughing from the start also? Since you enjoy talking so much, why don’t you just buy a DVD and watch it at home?

Ah Beng: You talk so much, why don’t you just go outside and lodge a complaint against me?

Ms Righteous-ness: I wonder who was the one who started talking a lot in the first place.

And then there was silence for about 5 seconds.

My adrenalin was pumping and I somehow had a feeling that if I was a guy, I would’ve bashed this skinny Ah Beng up right there and then.

He continued talking to his girlfriend continuously throughout the whole movie and she responded in a very timid tone.

I feel sorry for her and hope that she doesn’t end up marrying this man.

Maybe all he needs to do is quit pretending to be cultured and just stick to watching those DVDs that he sells for a living at the night market.

Perhaps only then, the world will somewhat be a better place.

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” – Plato, Ancient Greek philosopher

Do the right thing,