User:Skakkle/language fidelity (draft)

When a film or TV show has high language fidelity, this means that the language that every character speaks is natural, or at least plausible. That is, given a story set in any real-world setting, assuming the characters are natives of that place, the characters will speak the common native language of that place. Many such stories center around one such native language, but it's possible to use two or perhaps three.

Some stories are set in various countries. The more often such scenes feature characters speaking the true native language of those settings, the higher the language fidelity is for that piece of media.

the language capacities of normal native speakers in that place are portrayed accurately.

Another way to say it, is that the translation convention is not employed by the filmmakers. (The language convention is where the storytellers ask the audience to passively imagine that everything is being translated for them).

example The film Kickboxer is set in Thailand. It's main characters speak English. The first scene in which a conversation between two Thai natives implausibly occurs in English is 40 minutes into the film. Until that point, all other characters conversations whether in depth or brief and plausible. When the English-speaker protagonist begins meeting more Thai characters, they are competent in English. While this may strain credulity somewhat, the audience does not believe that a "magic blanket"