Re: The Movie

From: Maciej Katafiasz (mnews2_at_wp.pl)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:33:19 +0100

On day Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:26:42 +0000 looked the Lord upon his prophet,
and the prophet was numbered among those called Shez. And thus spake the
prophet:

> In the faraway land of sci.lang.japan, jim_breen@hotmail.com said:
>>Before I put it in, can I have some confirmation of this, er,
>>oddity?
>
> There are certainly a few cinema film spinoffs of TV series whose
> official title translates literally as "theatre edition <name>".
> Here are three examples:
> http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=966
> http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=258
> http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1837
>
> My own inclination is to translate this as "theatrical edition" or
> "theatrical release", which I'm sure I've heard used in English for
> cinema releases of things. However as you can see from the above
> examples, the official releases seem to translate it as "...the movie"
> or just "movie". But then ironically "Kaze no Tani no Naushika" was
> originally translated as "Warriors of the Wind" so we have to ask
> ourselves whether translations done by marketing departments really
> count as translations.

IMO, what matters here is the meaning, and not what some more or less
educated title translator would choose when releasing in US[1]. So, the
meaning is "the movie", or "the motion picture", since that's what you'd
commonly call version meant to be shown in theatre based on previous
original work, be it book or manga or anime TV show. And that it is used
in this meaning can be clearly seen from links you have conveniently
included above :)

Cheers,
Maciej

[1] With my roots in anime fansubbing community, I often find quality of
work that would pass for translation in official US DVD edition, umm,
stunning, and it's not in the positive way... Let me just say that I'd be
ashamed to ever sign anything like that with my name. It seems you
really need to be paid for to do some kinds of shitty work... 

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