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In the 1994 Film Speed was the bus speed recorded differently for countries that use KPH?
I was just talking to a friend in Australia today about the 1994 film Speed with Keanu Reeves.
It just suddenly occurred to me that in Australia (and most of the EU) they have speeds set in KPH rather than MPH.
In the film there is a point where they have to rescue people on a bus that can t go slower than 50mph or else it ll blow up.
I notice that like us in the UK the US also use MPH for speed - but I m wondering do foreign translations (or Australian/Canadian versions) of that film have the speed as being 80kph (or make it a nice round 100kph) or did they leave it as mph throughout all the various versions?
I'm asking this because I know in the past some films have altered things for regional variations (for example Harry Potter in the UK is the Philosophers Stone and the US it's Sorcerers Stone and Zootropolis is Zootopia in the US, etc, so I would assume they do the same thing with speeds in films?)
3 Answers
- Anonymous5 years agoFavorite Answer
Lol, no, funny thing is where Americans are oblivious to metrics, most people in metric-areas know perfectly well how Miles, Inches, and Feet work.
Occasionally a TV-translator used the 80 kph, but most viewers find the conversion-translation silly.
- SatanLv 75 years ago
No, they're pretty cool with using 50mph - they understand and dont look at the film and think "What the hell is a mile?"
