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Nightwatch
Nightwatch

This is from a very high quality bootleg that I bougt from Hong Kong (on Ebay). The description of the film is actually fine, though poorly punctuated. But the credits are from the movie "Pillow Book" and the fine print is for Photoshop!

What I especially love about this DVD is the subtitles, which must have been translated back into English from Chinese. Here are two of my favorite examples. (Note that the original text onscreen is really out of sync with when the characters are saying the lines, and there's very little punctuation and NO SPACES between the words, except when there's a line break, which often happens in the middle of a word. I've tried to split it up into what I think are the actual words that were intended, so that it's more readable).

This conversation between James Brolin and Ewan McGregor
James: Ok, you have a choice of seeing two movies. One, 90 action-packed minutes of two heroes spending time together, having these incredible adventures through the summer. The other movie has 45 minutes of one hero having incredible adventures and the other 45 minutes is a guy sitting at his desk, um, reading a book, ok? Which one do you go see?
Ewan: Well, who's playing the guy reading the book?

was translated as follows
You can select among them one in two films. Two girls brilliant momente the summer different one told a heroic story preceding 45. ls more over that about one man sits to read on the table to. in 45 minutes?

And here's a phone conversation, in which Ewan's character, Martin, is trying to make a threatening-sounding phone call to the duty doctor, who he believes is trying to frame him for a violent murder, with the help of a prostitue named Joyce
Ewan: Yeah, I'd like to speak to the duty doctor.
Operator: One moment
Doctor: Hello?
Ewan: Yeah, hello. This is Martin Bells. You know, the "screwed up kid" from forensics. Joyce asked me to say hello.
Dr: Who?
Ewan: Joyce. Your playmate.
Dr: Listen, I have personally asked for your removal. Go home.
Ewan: But... well, I thought you'd want me to stay.
Dr: Go and see a psychiatrist.
Ewan: Do you think I'm a psychopath?
Dr: Well, you wouldn't be the first nightwatchman who was.
(then he hangs up)

which was translated as
Dr: How are you!
Ewan: How are you! My that the person who make so of let me send one's regards to for her to you.
Dr: Who?
Ewan: Jones, your plays companion!
Dr: l in private in make you move away, and return home!
Ewan: I thinks you lets l leaves.
Dr: Go to see spirit branch of academic or vocational study
Ewan: Do you think that I have the mental disease?
Dr: You are not I have cried sees more first!

I especially love they way they translate "psychiatrist." The subtitlles on this movie are probably more entertaining than the movie itself.

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Taken on: November 20, 2005
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