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A badly translated film.

Postby Joseph Duchesne » 03 Oct 2007, 15:24

A badly translated film. By you, dubbed by you. With subtitles?

See http://youtube.com/watch?v=SP72ePXhAbI& ... ed&search= for more details.

This idea needs more elaboration. A plot? A short with obvious dialogue overdubbed with other dialogue that changes the meaning completely? Another in the out of sync series? Who knows :P
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Postby tak197 » 03 Oct 2007, 18:38

OR...

Each person in the video, with the exception of the "director" gets confused because they were given the script in a random language, and they decided to improvise by translating it into a language they know.

Example:

Character A speaks in Russian.
Character B speaks in Spanish.
Character C speaks in Klingon.
etc...
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Postby Evil Jim » 07 Oct 2007, 00:19

I like the concept. How about this variant:

Take a short untranslated foreign film & distribute it to select cast members. Each member writes their own dialog script & selects a different character in the film to play. Then bring everyone together to record a new "translated" audio track for the actual film, each person from their own script.

Yes, it's likely to be incoherent, but there is also the potential to tell several stories at once.
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Postby Alja-Markir » 07 Oct 2007, 04:44

I am reminded of Whose Line Is It Anyway, where one of the events is two guys act out something and the other two speak the dialogue based on the action.

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Postby Spindizzy » 01 Dec 2007, 21:11

I like Evil Jim's suggestion. Complex, but funny.

Or take a short clip, and do everyone's takes on it.

One of my favourite LRR moments of all time was the Edited for Television: Edited for language.

You've already shown you have great choice of word replacement, you <stupid> <onion farmers>.
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Postby Simmemann » 03 Dec 2007, 13:40

Take the script through babelfish or some other online translator a few times.
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Postby Spindizzy » 05 Dec 2007, 08:41

Opening of Twelfth Night, on a slow boat to France, Portugal, and Japan.

If music the food of love, continue; Give me super undeserved him, that, surfeiting, becomes the appetite sickness, it is possible to die. I force still! That passed falling which dies: Or, o ' you obtained that and - stole the odor, you breathe my ear like soft sound you came at the bank of the violation which is given,! Sufficient; What other things: Tis in this way ' as that, first there was soft maintenance. O Spirit or love! Which rank rapidity and the art whose thou is new, in spite even in capacity thy Receiveth that, whether you like the sea, when propriety is low with reduction and with minimum in price, soe of step ' you obtain and -, that you go down, but non value enters uniform there: It is splendid sufficiently the figure entirely independently therefore to be, operates.

Original here : http://shakespeare.mit.edu/twelfth_nigh ... t.1.1.html

Japanese REALLY destroys it.
Amidst the mists and fiercest frosts,

With barest wrists and stoutest boasts,

I thrust my fists against the posts,

And still insist I see the ghosts.

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