THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released) — Page 15

Nothing new yet but I'll do some more soon (took me hours just to do 30 minutes of the film, listen, rewind, listen again, translate, rewind to find the point again... worse of all when they all speak fast together. A nightmare the trial part, some minor stuff had to be cut for brevity as it happens with every dvd subtitle, no loss of meaning though).

I did keep that post of yours in mind when translating. Thank you again for finding it!

SilverWook in case you haven't understood yet we want a pirate camcorder copy of the extended scene projected from your film. LOL can you imagine the quality?!

I'm at 1h07min into the film.

Now it would be the right moment to get me that extended scene written down SilverWook ;-)

Ok job done. THX is entirely subtitled in Englsh now. In the next few days I'll watch it again to check that everything is ok then I'll send it to... msycamore?

Of course! I thought you had it already msycamore. I'll upload it tomorrow with the subtitles so you can check it out, however keep in mind the job is not finished, I want to watch it again just to make sure, probably correct the timing on a few lines and check again the translation "afresh". I leave the job of correct formatting to you. I tried to keep in mind to finish sentences with a full stop and put italics on off-screen voices but I surely missed a lot of stuff.

SilverWook you already have the film in Italian therefore I can just send you the subtitles so you can enjoy robots declaring that personnel will be destroyed because outdated or that the other car was being driven by THX by thought transference, or again that THX on the loose is a biohazard that risks to infect the whole humanity with his germs of thought! Urgh!

Obviously now I know the film by heart in Italian. D'oh!

Guys, would you say "vehicle driven in thought transference" or "vehicle driven by thought transference"? Or else?

Also, do you say "Roger" when you aknowledge a radio message/order?

msycamore said:

I hope this isn't an Italian video exclusive dub, if so, there's a risk the Italian audio will sound a little weird if you convert it to NTSC. But this dub was probably made for the Italian theatrical release, so I guess it won't be any problem.

Mmmh I'm no expert on this matter.

That's what I used, thanks Leo. If you would like to check some parts with me I can use a little counselling. While I successifully decoded the inaudible speeches (at last!), I've still got a couple of lines that are really obscure in their meaning and how to render them in English I can only guess (I've translated them temporarily but it's not the definitive version).

These few lines are parts of radio speeches, totally different from the English script so it's even hard to guess what the dubbers had in mind when they translated those words.

I give you one example. In a couple of scenes they say "fonorivelatore" which is, as far as I know, translated with "pick-up" but pick-up could be a confusing word especially in such short phrases so I decided to go for a more generic "sensors". I could use "transducer" but I leave the decision to Americans. Obviously in English it didn't even say anything like that. I give you the example

(Original version) "Your radiation level is 5 --"

(Italian version) "Fonorivelatore a 5 e --"

How would you translate it? Should I say "Transducer reads 5. --"? Would it make any sense? If it doesn't don't worry, neither does in Italian really. Why would they still use transducers for gramophone records in the 25th century??

Sorry guys for this "private" conversation with Leonardo.

Yeah it sounds like they had in mind a future based on half-century old technology. They don't even have the justification of having to lip-sync because most of that stuff is just off-screen voice.

"Transducer reading 5." etc sounds good enough (backwards localization is something I've never thought I would be doing one day).

If moderators don't mind I'll post here more doubtful stuff like this, I know it takes space from the thread but at least we can have more people eyeing up what we say, in case they want to suggest something too.

Fantozzi 2 is not finished yet, I'm really not dedicating too much time to it but it's a lot of fun. I can quote you one single line that identify the film "In my opinion... Battleship Kotionkin... is one big bullshit!" ;-)

If you've got a suggestion on how to translate the title "Il Secondo Tragico Fantozzi" you're very welcome. It seems easy but I can't make up my mind on which choice is best, none make sense. I don't think that The Second Tragical Fantozzi makes too much sense in English. For now it has a working title "Fantozzi 2"

Ok sorry for the off topic

It's good to have Leonardo around, a second (and fresher mind) is really handy. After hours of translation one might get sloppy.

I don't particularly like that cover but your skills will come handy when the time comes Rogue-theX!

Thanks for your input.