Apr. 6th, 2010

beccatoria: (tarkin sees)
Okay, so since I'm on a bit of a Star Wars roll, I have something I have to show you.

Once upon a time, some Chinese bootleggers got hold of a pirate workprint of Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. They added some Chinese subtitles, then decided, for a truly classy production, to add English subtitles to their bootleg DVD too! The way they did this was by somehow running the Chinese subtitled through, I don't know, like an autotranslator or something? The result was, well, among other things, apparently the original source of the "DO NOT WANT" meme. And also just generally mindbreakingly insane/hilarious/both. AND I NOW HAVE A COPY.

I give you, screencaps from "Star War: The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West".

ExpandAccidental English Translations Are Not Safe For Work... )

Other highlights of mistranslation:

The Jedi Council = Presbyterian Church.
Anakin = Allah gold.
Obi Wan = ratio tile.
Jedi = hopeless situation.

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