“Star Wars, Episode III: Backstroke of the West” (Part 2)

I trust your body has managed to recuperate from the heaving convulsions of laughter you experienced last Sunday with the first installment of this series. For those who didn’t catch it or don’t remember, a kindly young blogger named Jeremy wrote:

a couple of years ago when i was living in shanghai i bought a revenge of the sith dvd off the street. it came with hilariously mangled subtitles that ranged from somewhat close to what the actors were saying to far, far away….

i’ve been meaning to update the blog post I wrote ages ago to add in more scenes and upgrade the quality of the photos (they were digital camera pics and in some pics you can see my old tv) but of course you know how it goes- one never has the time.

so now that it’s chinese new year and i have a few days off work, i finally present to you as a new year’s present…

star war (just one).

yup.

And now, Part 2 of “Star Wars, Episode III: Backstroke of the West”

…and here anakin says, “destroyers!” (meaning destroyer droids). after watching the movie again i figured out that a chinese pirate had originally tried to listen to the movie in english and wrote in chinese what he thought he heard- this was then translated back by machine into english. so in this case mr. pirate heard ‘destroy’ and thought anakin was talking about destroying the droids…

…and the best part of it all is that some stuff is completely made up, like in this case the droids in the elevator are just mumbling but mr. pirate decided to make something up about not pushing (which is extra-funny if you’ve ever lived in china!). so a random pirate in china decided on the fly that not only could he translate but he could improve on lucas’s script. brilliant stuff, and this explains a lot of the seemingly random things.

anyway, back to the movie.

obi-wan grows impatient with r2.

the chancellor warns obi-wan and anakin that count dooku is… big.

obi-wan explains that it’s no problem.

count dooku doesn’t like anakin.

count dooku really doesn’t like anakin.

chancellor palpatine explains something to anakin about obi-wan.

general grievous receives some bad news.

the general considers how he should punish his troops.

Once again we salute Jeremy who took the time to post a ton of badly mangled subtitles for our amusement. For more, go here.

Next week, more from “Star Wars, Episode III: Backstroke of the West”!

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