Subtitles

Red Dwarf - episode: Meltdown

Watch the episode first, please. :-)








I would like you to translate and prepare subtitles for the passage marked in yellow:

PLEASE REMEMBER ABOUT THE RULES: NUMBER OF LINES OF TEXT, NUMBER OF CHARACTERS PER LINE, SIMPLIFICATION, ELIMINATION OF SOME PRONOUNS/REDUNDANCIES etc.

See previous note for details.
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11 Int. Prison Cell.

LISTER and CAT are in a prison cell with bars on the window, one bed and
a large metal cabinet in the corner.

CAT: What do you think these guys are gonna do to us?
LISTER: What ever it takes to find out about the paddle.
CAT: Hey, if you mean torture, then say the word torture -- I can take
it!
LISTER: OK, then, they'll torture us.
CAT: Waaaaah! Torture us! Waaaaaah!
LISTER: Probably won't, man. They're probably not even interested in the
paddle. They'll probably just take us outside and execute us.
CAT: You're just saying that to make me feel better. It's just those
guys are fiends. They instantly know your weak spots. As soon as they
see me they only have to force me into platform shoes and flared
trousers and I'll sing like Tweety Pie.
LISTER: Dunno what the smeg went wrong. Kryten never said anything about
the paddle taking us back in time. Just supposed to transport us to
the nearest planet with a breathable atmosphere. How the smeg did we
wind up in the middle of the Third Reich?
CAT: What are those guys doing out there?.
LISTER: Building something.
CAT: What?
LISTER: Oh nothing, nothing. Just a sculpture, you know, a modern art
job. The kind you get in shopping malls.
CAT: What's it made of?
LISTER: Wood. It's a sort of inverted L shape in wood.
CAT: Does it have a kind of rope motif?.
LISTER: There's a sort of noose theme to it, yeah.
CAT: Its gallows, right? Look, if it's gallows, say it's gallows -- I
can take it.
LISTER: OK, it's gallows.
CAT: Waaaaah! They're building a gallows! They're hanging us! Waaaaah!
LISTER: Look man, don't panic. We're gonna escape.
CAT: How?
LISTER: Just... hijack the guards when they come in, nick their uniforms
and stroll out.
CAT: Are you insane? Do you seriously expect me to wear grey out of
season? I'd rather hang.
LISTER: Hang on, hang on. Something's happening. Some kind of parade or
drill but...
CAT: But what?
LISTER: Hang on. These guys aren't Nazis -- they're all wearing
different period costumes. There's one looks like Al Capone, there's
another like Mussolini, Richard III, Napoleon. Smeg, it's like all the
worst people in history have been brought together in one place. Oh my
God, there's James Last! I recognize him from Rimmer's record
collection.
CAT: What are they doing?.
LISTER: Well, just lining up in ... in some kind of firing squad. Woah
Woah! Hang on, hang on. Someone's being brought out, they're tying
him to a stake. It's Winnie the Pooh.
CAT: What?
LISTER: Winnie the Pooh, I swear! He's refusing the blindfold.
CAT: They're tying Winnie the Pooh to a stake?

Sound fx of gun shots.

LISTER: That's something no one should ever have to see.

Door opens and LINCOLN is thrown in the room.

LINCOLN: My God, sirs, you may break our bones but you will never break
our spirits! Good day, good sirs, the name's Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln.
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LINK TO FULL SCRIPT

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Translating dialogue - part one: subtitles

Some reading for you.

First off is the text we had in class:

O tłumaczeniu filmów


Here you'll find different types of mistakes present in film translation.

And finally a few words about cultural context and problems it may pose.

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TROPES...

... or how to waste good number of hours reading this WEBSITE ;-)

Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. Tropes, on the other hand, are fun.

Tropes are the easiest to spot in action films. Look for them in both plot and dialogue.

TOP 5 ACTION MOVIE DIALOGUE TROPES

Always present in US films - Rousing Speech




B movies: What real-life scientists do every day. Exactly like this. Exactly.



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Funny reading for Wednesday

Change of plans - tomorrow we were supposed to be talking about translating dialogue lists but it's too large a topic to begin just before Easter break. So instead we'll be looking at MOVIE TROPES.

In the meantime here is an amusing tutorial on making your characters speak with distinct voices.

Funny reading for Tuesday

Came across this article today. Have a read :-)

What If Your Characters Don’t Want Anything?