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Who did the subtitles, Yoda?


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we've just viewed this in our russian history/literature class TONIGHT and i thought the exact same thing, too bad i can't impersonate yoda or i would have been reading the subtitles aloud in his voice.

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The subtitles are indeed super weird. But can anyone answer this: Is the text just badly translated, or was it spoken in "old" Russian and someone was trying to make the English sound old too?

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Yea the russian is old but not 13th century old, I think.

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The subtitles were a huge distraction in my opinion. Still a magnificent film though.

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Seen much worse. The most terrible example would probably be the subtitling for Kurosawa´s debut Sanshiro Sugata which was frequently downright incomprehensible. It somehow even managed to translate "judo" as "karate".



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Haha! I assumed the Russian dialogue itself was written in an 'antiquated' style to evoke the timeless homilies Ivan dispensed, or else the translators opted to render it so.

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