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I can't find it anywhere, and I'd love to have it maybe as the banner.

I think it was an insert in one of the books.

I watch a lot of foreign language films, and read a lot of translated literature and I always try to imagine what I'm missing out on by not reading or taking in media in it's original language.

In film, are there some significant mistranslations that has led non-native speakers of the language to interpret something different from the movie?

Thanks!

I'm listening to blank check, and while they mention that 1) there's a prophecy about bringing balance to the force which dovetails neatly into the answer of their main question 2) what is the phantom menace about?

1. what I'm used to hearing about the prophecy from the movies is that everyone assumes somebody will help the light side beat the dark side, But I always assumed the actual interpretation of bringing balance to the force was equalizing the power dynamic between the light side and the dark side, even though I don't think I ever heard that mentioned.

You have a Jedi council, in a position of power, ostensibly with the most powerful Jedi around, who are depicted as sitting around and endlessly debating about things until decisions made outside of the council that take matters out of their hands. The force is not in balance because the light side is so much more powerful than the dark side (there are countless light side Jedis and it seems like far fewer dark side sith) that they just sit around squabbling all day, and when Anakin turns to the dark side, He balances the force by killing the next generation of Jedis and leading the revolt that leads to so many Jedi deaths, which actually does bring balance to the force, if the force is composed of the light side in the dark side.

2. this dovetails into the main question of the first dozen episodes of blank check, where they're trying to answer what the phanto menace is about. They take it for granted that palpatine is the phantom menace, which never fit into place as I understood a phantom menace.

I feel like the answer they stumbled onto and dismissed the conclusion that the phantom menace is about the inefficacy and danger of stagnant yet intact power structures. Tgat the naboo Royal structure and galactic Senate and Jedi council are all stagnant seats of power that cannot solve problems or progress because they have become figureheads stuck in endless debate.

The "phantom menace" is the breaking down of the potency of democratic republics and their subsequent vulnerability because of their complacency after establishing dominance.

That just makes a lot more sense as a phantom menace to me then a physical guy plotting in the background.

Any thoughts?

I'm listening to blank check and they are harping on the racist aspects of the voice acting of nute gunray, watto and jarjar, but I unknowingly happened upon a long interview with the voice actor for jar jar a couple years ago, including the lead up to him getting the part and the character and voice development, and now it just seems ridiculous when I hear people complain that he, a black man, is being racist against black people specifically.

The idea that he used black face minstrel shows to come up with this voice is so readily accepted and repeated by everybody talking about jarjar,1 but does not make any sense on its face, and makes less sense when you listen to the actor talk about his development and understanding of the character.

I watched shorter videos by the voice actors for watto and nute who also go into how they developed the voices and their characters and how they talk about the development of their characters makes it obvious to me that fans and content creators are making a bigger deal out of these voices than the voices warrant.

Ahmed understood jarjar as a goofy orange frog, so gave him a bouncy, goofy voice. Secomb thought watto seemed like a shady Italian mobster living in filth which gave him lung problems, so you have watto. And silas Carson says the voice is nasal because nemoydians literally have no nose and he thought of slimy, conniving Peter Laurie characters and used Laurie's stilted, conniving mannerisms.

Lazy editing and production choices could be argued. But racist "caricatures" or accusing the actors of using racist stereotypes, implying that any perceptible slight latched onto and cultivated by fans was intentional, makes no sense except as an ignorant, bullying dogpile.

It was very fun to stare slack-jawed at a screen for 45 minutes trying to understand what was happening, and I did manage to largely follow the plot, but seeing as how I'm a new audience to this insanity, can anyone just throw in some production context? Like why or how was this made, was it based on a manga, who made it and do they produce similar things or was this an example of how far you could stretch a dollar to make a crazy story?

100% worth watching, to anyone wondering.

Happy Halloween, podcasting community that has very little to do with halloween specifically. It's a joy to obliquely talk about these podcasts with you.

I remember watching this movie so many times after I bought it on DVD at GameStop. When Jason beats the campers with each other, bodily, is when I first realized that genres could cross over, and you weren't required to only have horror or only comedy in a movie.

Although Becky was popular at the live show, I think this song will grab the attention of a first time listener better.

Just saw them live and it was invigorating, pumped me up. Fun and exciting

All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.

Never want to watch it again, watched it at 2x and it was still 30 minutes too long. It's about this super bigoted dog that a puddle orders to fall in love so he can turn back? into a man. The intermittent complete silence between scenes is weird. The dog hates women and gay people, but turns into a person with a different personality who loves a woman he constantly insults and believes and calls an idiot and pizza-faced cinder block while he's a dog.

The main woman is very weird to watch, gives me weird vibes, her friend gets really angry when she intuits that her 35? year old friend is not a virgin, this is a hot, steamy mess with no coherent messages or story. Or background noise.

And yet ...the audio quality still beats birdemic 1 & 2(I don't know what I was thinking watching the sequel).

Not worth watching, insane that it was made, a true HDTGM catastrophe.

The podcast about it is hilarious, of course.

This was a great movie for a lot of reasons.

As hokey and illogical is a lot of the decisions were, the utter helplessness of humans as they slowly realize they have actually succeeded in creating something smarter, more capable and more relentless then they could ever be is captivating.

The ending is also amazing

Okay, what I originally made this post for though was to ask anyone who's seen it if they have also read the novel and exactly how close the two are?

I want to read the sequels but I do not want to read the original if it closely follows the novel since I am not interested in a novelization of a movie I just watched that the few web pages I found have said is a a largely faithful retelling of the novel.

So if anyone has coincidentally watched and read both colossi media, should I go through the novel or should I just go on to the sequels?

Thank you, and if you have no idea what I'm talking about, the movie is worth checking out, particularly for its stark and focused, unapologetic creative manifestation.