lost in translation

Vaguely Racist ‘Hancock’ Subtitles Prompt Fledgling Fan Revolt

5:50AM STV | The Dark Knight may have its curse, Transformers 2 may have its star’s busted hand and Terminator 4 may face the opprobrium of its own franchise anchor. But another summer blockbuster faces an unfortunate — if totally foreseeable — development of its own. Those viewers who remember Hancock’s introductory action sequence may have been too rattled/busy/overwhelmed to have been paying attention to the subtitled conversation of its Asian bad guys, but nothing got past an eagle-eyed blogger who caught the slightly insensitive translation pictured here. Follow the jump for an enlarged image and a summary of one man’s! total! outrage! More »

Amy Winehouse Round-Up: She’s A Big Kid Now

9:12AM Clem Bastow | There was a veritable smorgasbord of Amy Winehouse material to work with today – from confused university students asked to write essays comparing Shakespeare to Winegums, to Amy’s hot new skin condition – but I think there’s one clear winner: is Amy wearing nappies? Germany’s Bild raised the alarm, and in a doubly grand story opportunity, we get to make the laughs with the internet’s favourite translation device, Babelfish. Here’s what the Deutsch say about Winegums’ latest scandal: That Amy Winehouse dresses unusual, are we used – however do them have to carry now also still for diapers? When the singer wanted to visit its husband Blake falling the civil in the prison on Monday, she granted strange views under her flower dress. To the appearance came something, which looked suspicious like a diaper. A cloth, an opened Body, which hangs there only for a Stofffetzen between Amys legs…? Is safe: Amy Winehouse was refused the admission to the prison. Accordingly frustrated the pop star returned home – and became palpable. As the British newspaper reports „telegraph “, Winehouse is to have taken the camera from a photographer away and push it. Ts ts ts… Then ging’s fast home – probably to diapers change… Putting aside the obvious hilarity here (”the ging”, “an opened body”, “strange views under her flower dress”…), the photos are fairly worrying. If it isn’t a nappy, then it’s the world’s largest pad with wings. Apparently the whole ‘ultra thin’ thing hasn’t translated to the UK feminine products industry yet. More »

Bill Murray’s ‘Stupid Country Bumpkin’ Look Doesn’t Impress Greta Scacchi

8:10AM Molly Friedman | We’ve had a thing for Bill Murray since the first time we saw clips of his pity-me-but-look-at-me skits on SNL right up until his sad lonely guy role in Lost In Translation, when his grey hair and inability to smile deflated our crush ever so slightly. But unlike actress Greta Scacchi, who blabbed to a London paper about the night he innocently asked for her number and was harshly rejected by her and the too-cool group of Eurotrashy friends she rolls with, we’d never resort to the level of cattiness the Italian quasi-star did today: More »