My favourite is when the show did have translation but its overruled by the optional subtitles.
I like it when the subtitles out a character yer not supposed to see or know about yet:
DAVE: [Breathing heavily] 🤣
Or when it spoils a joke or jump scare a few seconds early
“You’re not going to shoot me, you don’t have the…”
The audience is not supposed to know what’s being said.
I’ve definitely seen movies where common Spanish words or phrases that an anglophone audience would be expected to understand are transcribed as simply “[speaking Spanish]”
e.g. “that hombre is loco” becomes “that [speaking Spanish] is [speaking Spanish]”
I really wish the subtitles said [ intentionally not translated]. I never know if the subtitles are just broken, if I’m actually using half-assed closed captioning, or if it’s the director’s intent.
Then it shouldn’t be said.
Least they could do is to add the Japanese words to the subtitles for those who can understand Japanese but are hard of hearing.
That is done for other types of subtitle track, but for the main or forced subtitles, the intent of the programme maker is paramount.
I don’t see how representing foreign dialogue with foreign text subverts the author’s intent. sure, they may not intend for their general audience to understand, but they still won’t. and they must have known, and maybe even intended, that a certain part of the audience would understand, and if the foreign text were shown, they could
I hate this so much but i guess they do it because the director doesn’t want you to know what is being said?
This would be a good use of AI, a universal real time close captioning regardless of language. Although if you had the movie at home maybe you could create a tool to create the CC before hand? My random thoughts…
Why go through all those resources for this when scripts for the movie probably exist or it can be done by fans?
ARISU
Wait, they are making a third season? I thought it ended at season 2.
Already released :)
Netflix is supposedly releasing the 2nd season of “All of Us Are Dead,” later this year, or the next.
