SUBTITLES we have KNOWN and LOVED

[DaveCinzano]

Watching Jesse V Johnson's turgid straight-to-streaming ‘espionage thriller’ Chief Of Station. Great it is not.

There's a bit where our ageing renegade spook-under-pressure Aaron Eckhart calls his Mr Exposition - CIA tech Desmond Jackson (Jonathan Ajayi) - for no real reason, expecting him to be at Agency headquarters in Langley. But no! He is unexpectedly (and with no impact on the plot) in the UK. How do we know this? Well...

 

[Orang Utan]

Is it not in the actual dialogue?

 

[JimW]

Inspiring confidence in their accuracy from the get-go:

 

[DaveCinzano]

Is it not in the actual dialogue?

He is filmed in the same room as an earlier Virginia-set scene, but this time shot at a slightly different angle, blinds drawn, photo of Piccadilly Circus and Union Jack tourist flag on the wall, BECAUSE LONDON

 

[DaveCinzano]

Inspiring confidence in their accuracy from the get-go:
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I don't see what the problem is, it's basically within spitting distance of the standard +/-1.5% parameters

 

[Orang Utan]

He is filmed in the same room as an earlier Virginia-set scene, but this time shot at a slightly different angle, blinds drawn, photo of Piccadilly Circus and Union Jack tourist flag on the wall, BECAUSE LONDON

Is that a yes or a no? Sorry, I’m confused by this thread

 

[DaveCinzano]

'Subtitle' is the name we give to a caption displayed at the bottom of a cinema or television screen that translates or transcribes the dialogue or narrative.

 

[Orang Utan]

'Subtitle' is the name we give to a caption displayed at the bottom of a cinema or television screen that translates or transcribes the dialogue or narrative.

I get that!
But is that subtitle different from what’s spoken? Otherwise, I’m struggling to grasp the thrust of this thread.

 

[skyscraper101]

Kanye West at Glastonbury

 

[May Kasahara]

Only the other day I deleted a pic off my phone of some random show or other with WET SQUELCHING showing on screen.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I get that!
But is that subtitle different from what’s spoken? Otherwise, I’m struggling to grasp the thrust of this thread.

You're not the only one.

But I'm willing to go with it.

Apparently the English subtitles for Ghost in the Machine are a deliberately incorrect translation, 'cause "relying on technology can lead you astray" or something.

Dropout's subtitles are genuinely, joyfully descriptive. For example...

 

[tonysingh]

Only the other day I deleted a pic off my phone of some random show or other with WET SQUELCHING showing on screen.

Naughty.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Kanye West at Glastonbury

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Inaccurate.

 

[Orang Utan]

I thought this was amusing when I spotted it. It’s from a wonderfully terrible 1993 tech-thriller called Ghost In The Machine and what tickled me was how unneccessary it seemed to me, given the visual clues.

 

[skyscraper101]

Nice

 

[Orang Utan]

Apparently the English subtitles for Ghost in the Machine are a deliberately incorrect translation, 'cause "relying on technology can lead you astray" or something.

Whoah, are you talking about a different Ghost In The Machine? You must be as the one I saw is in English. Mad co-incidence either way!

 

[Lord Camomile]

Whoah, are you talking about a different Ghost In The Machine? You must be as the one I saw is in English. Mad co-incidence either way!

Aha, no, just googled to grab an image, and I'm talking about Ghost in the Shell

Still a pretty big coincidence, all the same

 

[Orang Utan]

Aha, no, just googled to grab an image, and I'm talking about Ghost in the Shell

Still a pretty big coincidence, all the same

I suspected as much!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Lots of excellent subtitles in Finnish war movie Tuntematon Sotilas (the 1955 original, not the 1985 or 2017 remakes, you philistines):

 

[DaveCinzano]

...not the 1985 or 2017 remakes, you philistines...

Actually, there's some good stuff in the most recent one too:

 

[DaveCinzano]

71: Into The Fire



Not a comedy, repeat, NOT a comedy

 

[DaveCinzano]

Scandi detectives smashing clichés in the TV show based on Arne Dahl's Intercrime novels:

 

[DaveCinzano]

From French-Canadian cop drama 19-2:





She probably should; and this is true.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Former Shin Bet director Avraham Shalom in 2012's The Gatekeepers - making a point, but not one I'm sure I'm getting right now

 

[Indeliblelink]

Operation Kamikaze

 

[DaveCinzano]

Operation Kamikaze

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I mean, he's not wrong

 

[Throbbing Angel]

 

[Throbbing Angel]

 

[Throbbing Angel]

 

[DaveCinzano]

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Is that BBC Scotland's version of Question Time?