跟讀練習: Invincible's Voice Actor Problem - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Invincible has a huge problem, and it has to do with the voice actors.

About two weeks ago, I kept hearing about how the animation was getting worse, and how the show was getting sloppy.

Even though I was really enjoying season 3, I thought I might as well see if that's true.

It was an excuse to rewatch the last two seasons and introduce my buddy to an- I know, I'm a real hero.

So as we're watching the Flaxen invasion scene, he says he has to go pee, and I pause the show.

But as I pause right at the bottom where Prime shows the cast, I see the voice actor for the Flaxons Jimon Honsu.

Wait, the guy from Blood Diamond?

Gladiator?

Guardians of the Galaxy? That guy?

Isn't he a kind of famous movie actor?

Why is he voicing the space aliens who literally say gibberish with a voice filter and have one word of dialogue?

It seemed like an odd choice, and so now every time we pause I take a quick glance at the cast.

It didn't take me long to realize that Invincible has a lot of celebrities doing the voice acting.

Most of the main characters are voiced by pretty famous TV and movie actors, including side characters that have barely any lines or impact on the story.

People like Jimon Honsu, which I mentioned earlier, Jon Hamm who voices Steve, who?

He's the guy at the very beginning, who talks for two minutes before the Molo twins show up.

I am Steve.

Ella Purnell as the daughter of that one guy who died to Cahor, Justin Roiland as DA Sinclair's first victim, Tim Robinson as Philip Schaaf,

the comic book guy, and 19 Steven Yeuns.

What's next?

Are they gonna get The Rock to voice Galatia Peanut Freeman in a cameo?

Please don't do that.

Look, I'm not against famous movie and television actors voicing people in shows.

Steven Yeun, Sterling K.

Brown, that guy from The Red One, Aaron Pohl, they're all phenomenal.

But when you're hiring such popular actors for almost everyone, including the side characters that have two sentences of dialogue and never show up again,

is that really necessary?

For example, getting Ella Purnell to play as Jane

while she's working on other big TV series like Arkane and Fallout couldn't have been cheap, and you can't get her to do other characters unless you

want to add it to the shopping list of expensive cast members.

The only way to get some bang out of your buck

is to get it to do a few more lines for side characters that rarely show up.

You've already paid to bring it to the studio, so it would make sense to keep them there for more than 20 minutes.

Get it to play multiple non-reoccurring bums or background nobodies like how Fred Tat- Tatis-Squo-R does.

Although, Fred is actually a professional voice actor, so it still wouldn't make sense.

Because you're hiring an expensive actor like her to do what cheaper, more experienced people can do with the same impact.

Respectfully, it's not like Pernell was needed to play Jane, so I guess it's an interesting cameo?

But it's not like you get to see her face, and it's completely overshadowed by the Angstrom fight that happened 10 minutes ago.

I didn't even know it was Ella Pernell until I was doing research for this video, and the same goes for the many other celebrities in Invincible.

Frankly, it seems like a waste of money.

A waste that'll only grow over time as new characters are introduced and given more screen time.

Now, the reason I keep bringing up money is because executive producer, Marge Dean, said that Invincible's budget is only a quarter of what the shows like The Boys have,

which is about $11.2 million per episode, meaning that Invincible only has $2.8 million per episode.

That is not a lot considering how they're animating such a large action-heavy IP.

I definitely could be wrong, but I'd bet that a quarter, possibly more, of Invincible's $22.4 million budget is spent on the voice actors,

which leaves only $17.8 million for composers,

directors, writers, storyboard artists, music collabs, and finally the animators to produce six hours of animation in a year.

I want to frame just how unfair this is.

Prime, one of the largest streaming platforms, releases Invincible Season 1 after three to four years of development.

People are eating it up.

And it quickly becomes a huge sensation on the internet.

So Prime says to the animators, Hey, we've been hearing about your latest success, so we'll give you the go-ahead on another season.

So, two and a half years later, they release Season 2.

And once again, they've hit gold.

But wait a second, there's a four month break.

So Prime says to the animators, Hey, so it turns out the fans really dislike the four month break.

Uh, what's that about?

Well, we've been working hard to get this out to a standard we want.

But you know how it is.

Animation is time consuming and we don't exactly have the money to bring on more animators.

That anime special took a lot of manpower.

Yeah, we really needed that four months.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

I hear you brother.

We were actually meaning to ask.

I know this sounds crazy, but do you think by any chance we could add

that four months to the deadline instead of putting it in between episodes?

Look man, I hear you, I hear you.

How does this sound?

February 6th.

Like, February 6th, 2027?

No, no, no, no. February 6th, 2025. Are you serious?

That's less than a year, that's nine months.

You're giving me nine months to animate the- So they get to working, and after just 10 months, Season 3 is released.

And this time, fans aren't happy.

Fans are criticizing the animation for being a lot less fluid, having more static shots where the PNG just kind of moves across the screen, and being somewhat lackluster at times.

And that's incredibly unfortunate, because the animators did the best with what little time and resources they had, and to be honest, they received way too much hate.

While it is admittedly not as well animated as the prior seasons, Season 3 isn't just good, it's amazing.

You're telling me they made the Invincible War in nine months?

Who knows what more they could have done if they had the money for more staff.

I want to close by saying, Prime, you're not Dreamworks.

It's not Mega Mind.

You can't just blow so much money on celebrities and expect a development time of one year.

Maybe if you had $130 million, you could, but not with $22 million and 100 overworked employees.

That's all I wanted to say.

I've been putting off to watching the finale until I finish this video, so I'll pin my comment letting you know what I thought of the episode.

I might think it's terrible, who knows.

I'm also currently editing my big Marvel Rivals video.

I'm trying to get it out ASAP, so stay tuned.

Anyway, like, comment, subscribe, love you, bye.

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本節課你將練習什麼？

通過分析這段關於《無敵少俠》配音演員的影片，你能練習聽懂英語口語中的日常討論、觀點表達和細節描述。內容涉及影視行業的話題，適合提升雅思口語練習和日常英語口語練習的能力。同時，你還能學習如何用英語清晰地闡述自己的看法，非常實用。

核心詞彙與短語

voice actor：配音演員
cameo：客串（角色）
budget：預算
side character：配角
animation：動畫
phenomenal：出色的，非凡的
overshadowed：被掩蓋的

影子跟讀練習技巧

看YouTube學英語，影子跟讀（shadow speech）是個好方法！這段影片的語速中等，語氣帶有討論和分析的特點，適合練習。以下是具體建議：

先完整聽一遍影片，熟悉內容和節奏。注意說話人在表達觀點時的重音，比如“這真的有必要嗎？”中的“真的”會被強調。
逐句跟讀，模仿語氣的起伏。當提到“預算緊張”時，說話人的語氣會略帶擔憂，跟讀時要注意這種細微變化。
重點練習較長的句子，比如“我敢打賭，《無敵少俠》2240萬美元預算的四分之一，甚至更多都花在了配音演員身上”，注意斷句和連讀，提升口語流暢度。
反覆練習3-5遍，直到能跟上節奏，同時理解每個詞的意思。這樣既能提升聽力，又能鍛鍊口語表達。

堅持練習，你會發現自己的英語口語和聽力都有明顯進步！

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	we've been hearing · we've been working · I've been putting
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	are voiced · was needed · are introduced
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	You've already paid · they've hit

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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本節課你將練習什麼？

核心詞彙與短語

影子跟讀練習技巧

影片中的語法

什麼是跟讀法？