Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Criterion Collection: Fire your subtitlers!!!!!

Criterion Collection, fire your subtitling staff. In Drunken Angel, '40s Japanese gangsters don't say "bro." In Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, '50s French gangsters don't go to their "cribs." In The Hidden Fortress, 16th century Japanese buffoons don't talk about "heaven." Stick to the original text!!!!! You don't have to "gangsta-ize" movies in a failed attempt to make them appeal to people who won't watch them anyway! Trying to "update" or otherwise make truly great cinema like that "accessible" to today's slack-jawed youth is akin to making a new translation of Crime and Punishment where Raskolnikov says "F***, yeah!"

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