She 39;s The Man Subtitles
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Because of so many differences that exist beyond alphabetical or grammatical structure, so many things can be lost in translation, especially those deeper meanings that can make or break a moment or a scene.
very interesting post. It shows that nuances are hard to translate whatever the language. But I guess in a movie this is all about the feeling and emotions, as long as subtitles translate the main meaning, the viewer can still get the atmosphere and the meaning of the movie.
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Even with the better English subtitles, there were still many key Korean elements that went amiss or completely disappeared. How will people outside our heritage learn and become familiar with Korean culture if the go-to action is to remove the very elements that make it Korean? For Koreans like me, the watering-down feels like erasure. For English speakers, especially Americans, it prevents meaningful exploration and understanding of Korean culture. No one benefits in the long run from easier-to-digest but incorrect translations.
SHARMEEN OBAID, Reporter: [voice-over] Spring has come to Pakistan. And for the moment, a gate long closed has been opened. This is the only train allowed to cross the border from India into Pakistan, bitter enemies for over 50 years.
I've begun this journey at news that India and my home country of Pakistan were cautiously moving towards peace. I study at university in the United States now, but I wanted to see for myself what this new hope for peace means to people here.
That evening, we arrived at our destination of Lahore, in central Pakistan. This is the meaning of reconciliation. And it's become possible because of this historic handshake between Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, and India's prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Their agreement to set aside differences had happened just a few weeks before I came.
I had come to Lahore for the festival of Basant. Basant, originally a Hindu holiday, heralds the coming of spring. But it has long been embraced by Pakistan's Muslims. It's a celebration of what spring means everywhere- a time of rebirth and renewal.
SHARMEEN OBAID: [voice-over] Pakistan is a country of secrets and paradoxes, still emerging from its recent past - before 9/11 - when it was the Taliban's main supporter. It's also a country determined to be a part of the modern world. I'd arrived here at a time of change and hope, but beneath the bustling surface, I know Pakistan is at a dangerous crossroads.
JUGNU MOHSIN, Publisher, "The Friday Times": I think that there was an inevitability about what's happening in Pakistan now. And I may be being very unconventional here, but I'll say to you that 9/11 has been very good for Pakistan. It's been good for Pakistan because, suddenly, we had to choose which way we wanted to go. The state decided to dump the Taliban- not a moment too soon, I can tell you as a woman. Not a moment too soon. But it's worked out well for Pakistan. We've seen our economy picking up. We've seen real estate prices, stock exchange prices, generally, confidence returning to Pakistan.
JUGNU MOHSIN: I think peace is more of a possibility now than it's ever been. And the groundswell of the common people and the hope of the common people is that- you know, we want a better life. We don't want to fight a thousand-year war with India, not least because both countries are armed with nuclear weapons.
SHARMEEN OBAID: [voice-over] This monument commemorates the mountain where Pakistan's first nuclear bomb was tested. There are monuments like it all over the country, markers of Pakistan's pride in being the only Muslim country to have nuclear weapons. And our nuclear program was all over the newspapers the week I'd arrived. The world was horrified to learn that Dr. A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's bomb, had been accused of proliferating nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. President Musharraf said Khan and his team had done it for personal gain. And that night-
SHARMEEN OBAID: Some believed that Dr. Khan was taking the fall for others, that it was a conspiracy. Others were uncomfortable even talking about the nuclear issue in public. And it was unusual to hear these two young men openly criticize Dr. Khan.
2nd MAN AT CAFE: [subtitles] Nuclear leaks are wrong. Dr. Qadeer Khan is a great scientist, but what he did was wrong. He's a very good scientist, but he shouldn't have committed this act. He's a national treasure. He commands our respect and is our hero.
SHARMEEN OBAID: People from all across the political spectrum turned out to show their support for Dr. Khan. The public believed their hero had been sold out by his own government and by President Musharraf. Musharraf called a press conference to respond to criticism in the newspapers.
AHMED RASHID, Journalist: It's impossible, even if you think about it in the most naive way, that one man or three or four people could have carried out such acts of proliferation over 27 years involving weapons, technology, missiles, everything under the sun.
AHMED RASHID: I mean, you know, the simple fact is when we're talking about a barter deal with North Korea - nuclear materials from Pakistan, nuclear technology from Pakistan, in exchange for missile technology- now, Qadeer Khan has no use for missiles. I mean, the army needs the missiles. So when we're talking about a barter deal with North Korea, I think it's fairly obvious who gets to benefit from it. The military had to be involved. And General Beg I'm sure was involved.
SHARMEEN OBAID: General Aslam Beg was army chief in the late '80s, the man in charge of the military in the midst of Khan's proliferation activities. I was surprised to land an interview with the former general at his home in the city of Rawalpindi. He'd been facing a barrage of questions and was under a lot of pressure.
Gen. ASLAM BEG: Just to disappoint you. And many, my American friends and their stooges here in Pakistan, they still want to see me behind bars for sins which I have not committed. And I am very confident that nobody can harm me because I have committed no crime. If my government was not aware, how could I be aware? The Americans had been monitoring our program for the last 15 years. They should have told us. They are also a party to the crime. It's part of the conspiracy to destabilize Pakistan.
SHARMEEN OBAID: [voice-over] His conspiratorial accusations against the Americans raised important questions. Why had America's response been so muted? And why was India so quiet about it, as well? It seemed to many as if Musharraf was being protected from both.
SHARMEEN OBAID: [voice-over] But I hadn't bargained for the conspiracy he would lay out. General Hameed Gul was our spymaster, the head of Pakistan's Intelligence agency, the ISI before 9/11, when Pakistan was openly the Taliban's biggest supporter. When the nuclear program was going strong, Gul had been one of the most powerful men in Pakistan.
Gen. HAMEED GUL, Fmr. Intelligence Chief: No, no, no. That's not- this is incorrect. This is fibbing. This is speculation. And I think this is the Western interests which are spreading these rumors. No, Pakistan army could not have because it was never our policy to proliferate.
Gen. HAMEED GUL: [subtitles] Oh, yes. They have. Israel have. They have because they have been trained to act in a certain way and the Jewish lobbies control them, and since Israel will simply not see Pakistan a powerful nuclear country, or any Muslim country, for that matter. Islam is the target. Islam is the new enemy. Islam is the challenge. So they need Pakistan at this moment. They need President Musharraf. But that doesn't mean that they are going to abdicate the objective of de-nuclearizing Pakistan.
SHARMEEN OBAID: [voice-over] What's important about General Gul is that his deep anti-Americanism and all its paranoia is so widespread, especially in the military and intelligence services. These are the forces that Musharraf has to keep contained. More and more, the nuclear scandal felt like a Pandora's box. Who knows what would happen to Pakistan if it were ever opened?
I set out for the Northwest Frontier of Pakistan to find out what one of President Musharraf's unlikely allies had to say. He's also one of his strongest critics. Sami ul Haq is a senator and a founding member of Pakistan's most powerful fundamentalist political movement. Among his old friends is Osama bin Laden.
SAMI UL HAQ: [subtitles] Osama has got such a good character. All his enemies have made him look like a beast. I have not met him for some time now. It's not possible to meet him under these circumstances.
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