One night at film school, a classmate confessed to me that they didn’t like foreign films because they hated reading subtitles. When I suggested they should seek out the English dub versions, they were incensed since they felt using other actors’ voices was cinematic blasphemy. “That’s not what the director intended!” they declared. I backed … Read more
Localization already isn’t going well for Avengers: Doomsday! The film’s title change is disappointing fans before the movie can even hit theaters! Localization isn’t simply slapping a title and script into Google Translate. It’s, truly, an art form. How a localization team changes something and what words they use to
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