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- Etaoin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+52This is pretty funny. But, to be fair, it was also pretty funny when it first came out. Which was about a year and a half ago: http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html
- TheHappyRobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23"DO NOT WANT!!"
- thejuicer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21"I was just made by the Presbyterian Church"
hilarious - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17All Your Coruscant are belong to us.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Somebody set up us the thermal detonator!
- imtigger2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"R2, Do you is *****"
Good stuff there... :) - micro506, on 10/28/2007, -0/+12Do not want
- qber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Mace Windu channels Gollum: troopseses!
- hobbers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"He is in my behind."
http://img319.imageshack.us.nyud.net:8090/img319/5392/sw053ab.jpg
Supposedly the translation is from an anonymous doomed fighter pilot saying "They're all over me." - Thuktun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12And here I thought "Do Not Want" had already entered mainstream online geek culture. Waiting for someone to digg the "All Your Base" phenomenon now.
- mwitlo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@themarq
ever hear of deaf people? no pun intended - Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Move X-Wing.
Take off every X-Wing.
For great justice. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10That's only slightly worse than the original dialog...
- jkdrum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11What you say?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Revenge of the Sith translated as "The backstroke of the West"? Interesting.
- RUFiO006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Dude, you got all pissed off and killed Padme"
"Do not want" - fastfood15, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10this is why we have war.
- bilco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Image of comment:
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/9099/sw12ty8.jpg - Xyleene, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Is it just me or does everyone talk like yoda in china?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5this is funny, but they missed the funniest one from the original, a shot of a x-wing (or whatever the craft is called in Ep3) pilot looking back, with the caption 'He is in my behind', someone plz post it.
- Ystig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Just google for "Backstroke of the West" (the title of the pirated version in question) if you can't access this site's copy of the screen caps in question. There are dozens of others.
The full version (of this particular, notoriously bad pirated copy) of the movie is available on various torent sites and P2P networks, usually identified as Backstroke of the West.
Some samples from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jLxFbU1rVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76bQ1hcqkXs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQCuR3PI918
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY8M4SZTDkM - Ystig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, I recall that's what the original site alleged. An originally Chinese pirate of a screener, acquired in Thailand, with Chinese subtitles retranslated into English.
While it may seem nonsensical, imagine you're a pirate street vendor with no functional knowledge of English, trying to throw together a DVD with the necessary subtitling, with only Chinese subtitles and English dialogue to go on. You can't simply transcribe the dialogue, any more than an American English speaker with no knowledge of Arabic could transcribe Arabic subtitles for an Al-Jazeera broadcast. But you can machine-translate the Chinese subtitles into English text with no work at all. There, done. Terrible, but done. - cheech_sp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am pretty sure this came from doing a English -> Chinese -> English translation. I once translated a technical manual from English to Spanish and back again, it was hilarious.
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Took me about 2 weeks of searching P2P networks until I could download a copy.
Totally worth it. - gommle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I haven't laughed that much in a month! Great!
- 3dom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"You are not authorized to view this resource.
You need to login."
Hmm, wtf. Anyone else having this problem? - markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://img220.imageshack.us.nyud.net:8090/img220/8661/swc235qk.jpg
http://img77.imageshack.us.nyud.net:8090/img77/7367/swb251lt.jpg
:D - Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone else find it ironic that "Sith" gets re-translated as "West?" Someone likes us over there...
- BradC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- tateswayz91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ 3dom
Yeah I got the same page but the google cache worked fine for me. - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For some laughs, go to http://babelfish.altavista.com and paste a block of text into the box. Translate it from English to whatever, then back to English. Then translate what comes out into another language, and back into English. Repeat.
"The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain"
turns to
"piovere above all between stays of the Spain in that it is of level"
in 10 easy steps! - wylddog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lmao thats hilarious
http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html works fine - lgc90, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've had the dvd from China since summer of '05.
- 5xSTUN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty funny, the weird translations, but the funniest poke at Ep3 that I've seen (heard, actually) was the GeeksOn one, known as "Episode 3, the Abridged Script."
- cbbspike, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Google cache:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:mwyancpTqJ4J:antibody.za.net/backstrokeofwest/+http://antibody.za.net/new/&hl=en&gl=br&ct=clnk&cd=1
Edit:crap, even Google cache has missing pictures. - cJw314, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You're all a bunch of racists. -.-
Thanks, OP - I hadn't seen it yet. : ) - thefoxtrot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1do not want explanation:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Do+not+want! - aprigliano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It is an improvement over what Lucas came up with.
- kourge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Talk like Yoda they don't, racist you are. Just kidding I am.
We should all blame Babelfish for this... - speedy11309, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i downloaded this last year...i must say it was amazing. the best quote in the entire movie was this:
"R2 do the *****!" - slothlovechunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Oh my god, it actually makes that crappy movie entertaining.
- baronvonrolo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is the best thing I've ever seen on Digg I reckons.
- tdawson2012, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it made the movie make more sense than the original. Maybe substitute some Chinese actors in as well and it will be a half decent movie.
- dreadsword, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Err - does anyone have a cache that actually works?
- 3dom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hmm, thats weird. I posted the above comment to another page but hit back before I submitted properly
- Welshman001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not related to Episode 3 but I found this clip at www.yourkindatv.com
http://www.yourkindatv.com/show/148/father-having-it-away-with-daughter
Just to prove there is no hiding from "the dark side" - Dainsleif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The reason for all the "*****" is that the chinese phrase for "to do" actually means *****. So "what are you doing" becomes "what are you *****".
- Avantime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Padme - "I am more more than any hero's geologic change's strong and big"
Anakin - "Lier!!!" - Stopher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2We need US subtitles to take out all the bad dialog and plotlines.
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