I remember really loving the opening song in this one... though I thought the rest of the film never quite matched it.
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Admin
2023-03-24 22:17:08
I remember really loving the opening song in this one... though I thought the rest of the film never quite matched it.
I remember really loving the opening song in this one... though I thought the rest of the film never quite matched it.
Comment on Leopold the Cat's TV (1981)
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Admin
2023-03-24 22:08:26
It always bugged me how the mice constantly change size relative to Leopold in this. Especially at 6:20 when they suddenly become really huge!
It always bugged me how the mice constantly change size relative to Leopold in this. Especially at 6:20 when they suddenly become really huge!
Comment on Banquet (1986)
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Cynir
2023-03-23 15:54:59
This movie, after some consideration, I decided not to translate. Those are just rambunctious discussions at the dinner table, so it is fine to leave them in Russian or English.
This movie, after some consideration, I decided not to translate. Those are just rambunctious discussions at the dinner table, so it is fine to leave them in Russian or English.
Comment on The Secret of the Third Planet (1981)
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Cynir
2023-03-23 15:46:48 (edited 2023-03-23 15:52:43)
In my opinion, that is fine to leave most of it as is, just footnotes. However, fortunately characters "Veselchak U" and "chatterbird" have equivalent words in classical Vietnamese language : Tễu (笑 / "laugh" ; who has a cute body and funny personality), Liến Thoắng (連通 / "continuous communication").
https://tve-4u.org/threads/alisa-phieu-luu-ki-kir-bulychyov.36569/
In my opinion, that is fine to leave most of it as is, just footnotes. However, fortunately characters "Veselchak U" and "chatterbird" have equivalent words in classical Vietnamese language : Tễu (笑 / "laugh" ; who has a cute body and funny personality), Liến Thoắng (連通 / "continuous communication").
https://tve-4u.org/threads/alisa-phieu-luu-ki-kir-bulychyov.36569/
Comment on The Secret of the Third Planet (1981)
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Admin
2023-03-23 00:48:42 (edited 2023-03-23 00:50:05)
Nice book! Thanks for that link.
Yes, I found it hard to translate as well. But if you're trying to do it, I think you should use the latest English subtitles that are here, rather than the older ones elsewhere online (a lot of which have mistakes).
By the way, regarding the names of the characters:
(Professor) Selezniov = slug
(Captain) Zelyony = green
Gromozeka = the root is "grom" (thunder), probably because of how boisterous he is
Veselchak = happy person (he's often smiling and eager to please in the film)
(Professor) Verhovtsev = higher
Ptitsa Govorun = talkative bird (I was fortunate that English already has the word "chatterbox", which I could easily modify into "chatterbird")
Glot = possibly from "glotka" (throat)
Most of these I kept as is, but I did translate "Green" because that's a common English surname too.
Nice book! Thanks for that link.
Yes, I found it hard to translate as well. But if you're trying to do it, I think you should use the latest English subtitles that are here, rather than the older ones elsewhere online (a lot of which have mistakes).
By the way, regarding the names of the characters:
(Professor) Selezniov = slug
(Captain) Zelyony = green
Gromozeka = the root is "grom" (thunder), probably because of how boisterous he is
Veselchak = happy person (he's often smiling and eager to please in the film)
(Professor) Verhovtsev = higher
Ptitsa Govorun = talkative bird (I was fortunate that English already has the word "chatterbox", which I could easily modify into "chatterbird")
Glot = possibly from "glotka" (throat)
Most of these I kept as is, but I did translate "Green" because that's a common English surname too.
Comment on The Secret of the Third Planet (1981)
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Cynir
2023-03-22 21:11:03 (edited 2023-03-22 21:11:28)
I have watched this movie on Vietnam Central Television (VTV1, "The Little Flowers" program) since I was very young, of course only on black-white TV. This is a very challenging movie about translation. Here is the film story (фильм-сказка) : http://www.barius.ru/biblioteka/book/852
I have watched this movie on Vietnam Central Television (VTV1, "The Little Flowers" program) since I was very young, of course only on black-white TV. This is a very challenging movie about translation. Here is the film story (фильм-сказка) : http://www.barius.ru/biblioteka/book/852
Comment on The Castle of Liars (1983)
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Cynir
2023-03-19 05:34:50
I have watched this movie on Vietnam Central Television since I was very young, although I did not know the name of the movie at that time and only watched it on black-white TV. However, the child's brain remembers the fanciful scene in the circus for a long time, so it will surprise you when you watch it again later. That, I think, is the psychological success of the filmmakers.
I have watched this movie on Vietnam Central Television since I was very young, although I did not know the name of the movie at that time and only watched it on black-white TV. However, the child's brain remembers the fanciful scene in the circus for a long time, so it will surprise you when you watch it again later. That, I think, is the psychological success of the filmmakers.
Comment on The Castle of Liars (1983)
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Admin
2023-03-18 20:04:13
I feel like the tricksters in this film (or someone much like them) appeared again a year later in Nataliya Golovanova's excellent "Sweet Porridge". Which is odd, as the two films share no crew except for two animators (Aleksandr Dorogov & Violetta Kolesnikova) and the script editor Tatyana Paporova.
Sometimes there were "borrowings" like that in Soyuzmultfilm at the time.
I feel like the tricksters in this film (or someone much like them) appeared again a year later in Nataliya Golovanova's excellent "Sweet Porridge". Which is odd, as the two films share no crew except for two animators (Aleksandr Dorogov & Violetta Kolesnikova) and the script editor Tatyana Paporova.
Sometimes there were "borrowings" like that in Soyuzmultfilm at the time.
Comment on The Masters of Geona (1992)
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Admin
2023-03-17 15:13:22 (edited 2023-03-17 15:13:50)
The fact that they leave the planet so readily at the end suggests to me that the cutthroat capitalist mindset had not yet penetrated very deeply into Russia. Which makes a lot of sense, as the story was written in 1977. The faces are American, but they sure don't act very American!
The fact that they leave the planet so readily at the end suggests to me that the cutthroat capitalist mindset had not yet penetrated very deeply into Russia. Which makes a lot of sense, as the story was written in 1977. The faces are American, but they sure don't act very American!
Comment on Kursha Became Proud (1984)
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Cynir
2023-03-08 04:05:04
Before the 2000s, most Vietnamese animators had to study in the Soviet Union and Russia in the form of aid. I heard that, when Vietnam had a civil war (as you know, in the 1960s-70s Canada sent military medical experts to South Vietnam), some East German and Soviet film experts also followed the secret route to Tây-Ninh war zone (Vietnam - Cambodge border) to help Vietcong learn filmmaking techniques, because these people are all very young and have low education. After reunification, these people combined with Southern film experts (most of whom were influenced by French animation, some even went to Hollywood to study professionally), so it's strange, in the 1980s our animation flourished. However, in the 1990s, there was a serious recession because of the "invasion" of Japanese animation. To be honest, young Vietnamese people don't know much about French, American, Russian and European-American animation in general.
So Đặng-Nhân-Lập is not a famous filmmaker ; here, I tried translating the film into English subs. So far it is still a classic one in Vietnam : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTpFz8DxL30
Before the 2000s, most Vietnamese animators had to study in the Soviet Union and Russia in the form of aid. I heard that, when Vietnam had a civil war (as you know, in the 1960s-70s Canada sent military medical experts to South Vietnam), some East German and Soviet film experts also followed the secret route to Tây-Ninh war zone (Vietnam - Cambodge border) to help Vietcong learn filmmaking techniques, because these people are all very young and have low education. After reunification, these people combined with Southern film experts (most of whom were influenced by French animation, some even went to Hollywood to study professionally), so it's strange, in the 1980s our animation flourished. However, in the 1990s, there was a serious recession because of the "invasion" of Japanese animation. To be honest, young Vietnamese people don't know much about French, American, Russian and European-American animation in general.
So Đặng-Nhân-Lập is not a famous filmmaker ; here, I tried translating the film into English subs. So far it is still a classic one in Vietnam : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTpFz8DxL30
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