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Originally posted by: Jedi Master DJR If you mean through the Expanded Universe, that is simply because Bossk has been around longer, that's all. As for character development in the movies, I think lines I can understand are more developed then a growl not translated.
I have to disagree a little bit here. It's not so much that Bossk has been around longer and has been developed in EU stories since TESB. I think Bossk is a fully realised character and I've never read or seen anything to do with him outside of the five seconds of screentime he gets in that film.
It has more to do with the effectiveness and context of the screentime be it a few frames or a few thousand frames.
Ric Olie's 'Irving The Explainer' type dialogue, where he just tells you what you're looking at, comes across not so much as character development but as bad exposition. He's like an in-movie audio commentary for the blind.
Whereas an untranslated growl, in the right director's hands, can give so much depth to a character and so much emotion to a scene if played right. Think Chewie when the Hoth doors are closing in TESB.
"GnUuu-aaAarrrR!" means a Hell of a lot more to me than "Coruscant! The whole planet is one big city!"
Yeeaahh Ric, we can SEE that.
The difference is Brackett/Kasdan/Kirshner vs Lucas/Lucas/Lucas. It's a major quality gap.