I have no idea. My friend's in Italy right now but I may try and get over to his family's sometime and pick it up, otherwise we'll try and get the last couple scenes off when he gets back. If we can't, maybe other people on this could fill in the blanks. This is this site for Star Wars fan edits, after all.
Has there been any progress on this? I was thinking it might be cool to have the Google translate be narrated with the Darth Vader voice with the original playing. Can anyone do a good Darth Vader voice? (I don't think I can.)
Wow. Since it's the dubbed version, we could have a narrator say all that while the original is playing.
You're talking about the yellow words that go into space, right?
I'm checking out the subtitled version now...
You'd need to be able have that blue skinny font for the "Long time ago in the faraway galaxy" part (note the lack of ellipses.)
Then you just need to remove the "S" from "WARS" in "STAR WARS."
Then change "Episode III" to "The third gathers" and change "Revenge of the Sith" to "The backstroke of the west" (note the lack of capitalization.)
Then, "The war came! The republic encountered" etc.
I wouldn't have the first clue how to do this, but I'm sure there are many experts here who would. Go for it! :)
Yeah, I guess it's a little more than one scene.
@None: Yes, I've seen the original Episode 3 now and one thing that struck me was how the one or two "humorous" moments seemed pretty forced (no pun intended.) It's a movie that takes itself pretty seriously, and having it turned into this absurdity is probably more funny, especially since lines like... what was it Obiwan said to the trooper before he goes to that planet? I don't remember. I wonder if an original funny movie would be as funny.
Also, it's cool how it's this totally alien universe with some familiar elements, and the dialog in BOTW is also familiar yet alien. In a way, this is more of a pure sci-fi experience than the original.
Yes indeed! Thanks, and I see that people have been checking them out.
Apparently there's some of the same audio/visual problems with these ones, just like last time, along with one where the edges of the video were cropped out. So some of the clips will have to be re-uploaded.
So we finally got a chance to take another crack at this now that school's over. Sorry about not doing this on spring break. Great news, we got all of it off except for one scene at the end. He'll be sending me the clips sometime in the next few days, and also see if we can't get that last scene before he goes to Italy for the summer. Sorry it took this long, but I guess law school is time consuming, who knew?
Hey all, Merry New Year.
My friend has some time off from law school and so sent me the 2 clips he was meaning to match up better. I can't tell the difference, but there they are. Unfortunately there's still that one minute blackness at the begining of the movie. About that: I was checking out the one with the subtitles and it's hillarious how they've got the words right there scrolling by but they STILL have subtitles.
@Zion- you filled the room?? Wow, that's awesome. When do you want to show this? If my friend can't take another crack at it before break ends then spring break is a possibility. If we can get it all we'll send it to anyone who wants it. But keep in mind he already did try to do this, and not everything worked, so.... if nothing else can be obtained from the disc, you could jump between the dubbed and subtitled versions if you know how to do that. That might work at the beginning too, to start out with the subtitles. It'd be like the Wizard of Oz.
@Salsa- I'm not sure what is meant by "fake" when you're talking about something like this. What do you mean?
I was just saying that the one with the subtitles is equally baffling, for example at the beggining the words are right there but Stars Wars becomes Star War and so on. The one with the subtitles was brought over by this guy Wintersson and he said they made it before it came out in theatres, so I don't know if it's such a stretch for people with those kind of recources. I mean, how do people still a huge Hollywood movie in the first place?
Hey- so, my friend saw the clips and said there's an audio lag whatever that means so he sent me new clips which he hopes are matched up better sound and picture-wise. He'll be able to tell whether they are. It apparently had something to do with uploading it to You Tube.
I don't know about Yoda being an old woman... maybe the Chinese see Yoda as being an old woman? LOL I don't know.
I should watch the original again some time.
Who do you think are the best voices?
That might be a good idea sometime. I see that track 1 is missing the video for the first minute or so. You guys could probably connect it to like a BluRay version or something.
It's kind of in the hands of my friend right now. He knows more about this stuff. He said he had to add what he could of the picture using a different DVD but it worked fine though it might not be exactly lined up.
It was really difficult getting that thing play, so I'm watching most of this stuff on You Tube for like the first or second time like everyone else.
It's pretty hilarious, though. Who made this and what were they thinking?
Hello Star Wars People,
I’m probably not the right place but a person named SilverWook told me to post on this site about this DVD of Backstroke of the West my friend brought back with her from China.
It’s a version where they’ve dubbed the voices instead of the subtitles.
I was able to burn some of the chapters off but have since given it to my friend who was able to burn a lot more. I also talked with Magnoliafan78 about this.
The You Tube page is here-