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Post by 3cats-in-a-coat » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:23 AM UTC

stevage wrote: post #255

jgauth wrote: post #123

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"The Hunt for Red October" had an interesting way of handling this with the Russian speakers. The movie starts with them speaking Russian with English subtitles, does a slow zoom into the Russian-speaker's lips, and switches to English mid-sentence.

I found that incredibly clunky when I saw it. Also, it's a little bit extra jarring that Sean Connery goes from speaking Russian to speaking English with a Scottish accent.

Post by jkingsman » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 7:32 PM UTC

nwallin wrote: post #194

jkingsman wrote: post #158

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With some elegance, too; iirc they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" as he reads from the bible, the Latin word for a location near Jerusalem, but having a non-English/non-Russian word be when they switch made it a lot less jarring. Plus, having it be during a read-out-loud-from-book portion allowed for more measured cadence that smoothed the switch but probably would have felt jarring if the audience were parsi…

> they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" "Armageddon" actually. Poignant because it's a movie about a nuclear ballistic submarine. But not a particularly non-English word.