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However, the "Hokkien mystery" went even further. The original actor chosen for [[Fu Peng]] was fired by [[Director (crew)|director]] [[Timothy Combe]] after [[location filming]] but before these studio scenes. For the original actor, the Hokkien made some sense, but not for his replacement, who, according to Pik-Sen, spoke [[Cantonese]]. So neither [[Kristopher Kum]] nor Jon Pertwee spoke a language they actually knew. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') The even deeper irony was that the firing meant that the two ethnically Chinese actors ended up having to learn lines in ''each other{{'}}s'' native dialect — presumably because switching between Hokkien and Cantonese would have confused Pertwee a bit too much at that late stage. | However, the "Hokkien mystery" went even further. The original actor chosen for [[Fu Peng]] was fired by [[Director (crew)|director]] [[Timothy Combe]] after [[location filming]] but before these studio scenes. For the original actor, the Hokkien made some sense, but not for his replacement, who, according to Pik-Sen, spoke [[Cantonese]]. So neither [[Kristopher Kum]] nor Jon Pertwee spoke a language they actually knew. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') The even deeper irony was that the firing meant that the two ethnically Chinese actors ended up having to learn lines in ''each other{{'}}s'' native dialect — presumably because switching between Hokkien and Cantonese would have confused Pertwee a bit too much at that late stage. | ||
Oddly, the Doctor seems to imply that he spoke Hokkien with [[Mao Tse-Tung]], which may suggest a difference between the [[DWU|''Doctor Who'' universe]] and the real world. In the real world, Chairman Mao was in no way a Hokkien speaker, but instead had a pronounced and quite obvious {{w|Xiang Chinese|Xiang}} accent, since he came from rural {{w|Hunan Province}}. | Oddly, the Doctor seems to imply that he spoke Hokkien with [[Mao Tse-Tung]], which may suggest a difference between the [[DWU|''Doctor Who'' universe]] and the real world. In the real world, Chairman Mao was in no way a Hokkien speaker, but instead had a pronounced and quite obvious {{w|Xiang Chinese|Xiang}} accent, since he came from rural {{w|Hunan Province}}. | ||
Hokkien is one of the few real world languages to be subtitled in televised ''[[Doctor Who]]'', since it is generally assumed that [[the TARDIS]] [[translation circuit]]s are naturally giving everyone in any given scene mutual intelligibility. | Hokkien is one of the few real world languages to be subtitled in televised ''[[Doctor Who]]'', since it is generally assumed that [[the TARDIS]] [[translation circuit]]s are naturally giving everyone in any given scene mutual intelligibility. | ||
[[Category:Chinese dialects]] | [[Category:Chinese dialects]] |