Chinese Bootleggers Love Star Wars Too!
Apr. 6th, 2010 12:34 pmOkay, 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".
( Accidental 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.
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".
Other highlights of mistranslation:
The Jedi Council = Presbyterian Church.
Anakin = Allah gold.
Obi Wan = ratio tile.
Jedi = hopeless situation.