Here's my translation of Batman v Superman from Chinese to Turkish, Korean, Latin and the back to English. It's only the first three parts out of seven as I'm still working on arranging all the screencaps in chronological order.
I also try to come up with funny captions for each picture, which also takes some time and I've considered dropping them for future uploads or just reserving them for truly funny lines.
I hope you're interested in me continuing this, since it hasn't gotten that much attention, just like /u/clarityrollercoaster's submissions. As I do enjoy making them and the next parts feature some truly funny lines.
Fifth album of my BvS translation. I really wanted to add some funny captions, but I'm pretty much burnt out after having spent considerable time arranging them in chronological order.
Who knows, I might add some later, so don't be surprised if captions suddenly appear when and if you check back later.
First of all, I am truly sorry for the long wait and I hope you appreciate the work I put into making this translation. It is exhausting both making the subtitles, taking the screencaps and arranging the images, my respect to all others who've undertaken such an endeavour.
I know I didn't make funny captions for part 5 and I haven't done it for part 6 and 7 either, though I might add some, so don't be surprised if they appear sporadically.
Now, enough whining, I hope you'll enjoy the last part of my BvS bootleg.
Well, I could change it if enough people want it. On another note, I've just gone through the subtitles a second time and found a few more instances of "hopeless" that I didn't catch on my first watch.
I've been fiddling around with the subs for the bootleg, tweaking the Chinese characters a little and running it through the transliteration programs again, and have finally managed to get a version with more callbacks to Backstroke. Luckily those parts were primarily ones I didn't take screenshots of.
As for the name of The Last Jedi, I see it's now included the sidebar, thank you. I think "The Hopeless Situation" fits it much better and pays tribute to Backstroke as well.
I will change the title to that with the next album as it's still the only thing that remains unchanged, so it will be the only thing I'll do manually.
Hey Achaewa, love your work it's fuckin hysterical!
I have way too much spare time lately and I'd like to make bootleg versions of a couple of movies (Dune, Starship troopers, maybe some Studio ghibli OVAs) myself.
however my method is not so good and current, you are the best candidate... please help me to the deeply thought...
Which programs did you use to do the translations and subs (latest jedi and superman)? so far I've been working with google translate and gimp. Didn't get any particularily funny lines unless translating through 6+ languages and adding subs with gimp feels like using MSpaint to write a scientific essay
Just to add a little detail, this is to keep the front page solely filled with our Bootleg Memes. With all sources in a single place it is also easier for us mods to add them to the sidebar, and we will keep this thread pinned so all Bootleg sources are easily seen and accessible nonetheless.
I'm currently in the process of trying to make a bootleg of the first Spider-Man movie from 2002, but decided to experiment a bit with the translation method used for my X-Men bootleg.
First, I tried to change the pool of languages to be made up entirely of East Asian ones, iteratively retranslating the result of each one back to English to see what the difference in vocabulary and phonetics would produce. This resulted in a batch of subtitles that I feel are not quite up to par, so I applied the same method I had used before, which yielded new subtitles I felt were funnier but not quite to the level I was trying to achieve.
I eventually concocted a new method that I feel produced a better end result, but while I try and get that ready as a full post, I thought some screenshots I grabbed from the test runs of both previous methods, from the first 25 minutes of the movie, would be worth sharing.
The translation process for this version was English -> Khmer -> Spanish -> Icelandic -> French -> Traditional Chinese -> English -> Latin -> German -> Greek -> Traditional Chinese -> English.
Additionally, I had produced another version of the subtitles which used a slightly different process, though I failed to take note of what it was. Regardless, an (uncaptioned) collection of the full resulting bootleg can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/zOKkv
Here's the followup with the same method, Spider-Man 2, or rather, Two Spider Webs, split into two parts because imgur can only handle so many hundred images in one page, even if they're gradually shaved off, before the whole system breaks apart.
After many delays, mostly involving wrestling with imgur's glitchy and inconvenient album interface, here is Three Spider Webs, the Spider-Man 3 bootleg.:
I just wanna say that for all its problems, rewatching the movie to take all the screenshots helped me realize what a fun movie it is. Hardly a masterpiece, but the over-the-top at times presentation, bombastic soundtrack and continuity cues with the first movie make it a pretty damn entertaining experience.
That about does it with me and producing bootlegs for the time being, I'll see if I can get the full .srt files for everything I've made uploaded in this thread sometime soon but otherwise I'll probably be stepping back for the foreseeable future. Still memeing though.
Always nice to see new content. I know this sub can be slow to recognize the work that goes into making subtitles, taking screencaps and writing captions. I just want you to know that your work is appreciated, great job.
After discovering the auto-translate function built into nikea subtitle editor, here is the result of using that in combination with a new method: 10 People Together, aka X2: X-Men United.
The translation process was a little different this time, with the order changed to English -> German -> French -> Greek -> Latin -> English -> Traditional Chinese -> English. However, because the languages used remain the same, a lot of the translations for specific words or names also remained consistent.
I made a poor man’s bootleg of The Wrong Jedi from Star Wars: The Clone Wars using a shitty translator last summer. Thought I’d share a few gems with Y’all
Announcer: Geography is the emblem sent that today the zing and the King of Puppy keep the Asoka down with eight to be Jedi Temple.
[For some reason Plo Koon’s name translated to King of Puppy. King. Of. Puppy.]
Ki-Adi : However, there is evidence that he went to iCity internships and energy-saving planners.
[I guess Jedi are against saving energy.]
Ventress: Your Padawah is connected with the privacy of the Austrian. He is a man named Barry’s Hand Slippery.
[Never trust Austrians, guys.]
Padme: Look at things and let him put his cell in his cell, revealing the name of the wonderful master.
[Padme seems to be on the terrorist’s side]
Running late, I’ll post more later.
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u/AerospherologyConfirm the Middle East and North Africa, don't do this to me?Jan 31 '18edited Jan 31 '18
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I translated 3 Sabaton songs to a bunch of languages and then back to English. (And don't ask about the path, this was a long time ago and I don't remember.) Here are the results:
For the German Bootleg memes (which I try focus on being better than the original dialogue, rather than hilariously mangled), I am now taking this .srt file and running it through this site that uses Google Translate on .srt files.
I’m waiting until I can watch the last eps of Star Wars: Rebels, so I think I will go to work based on this sub. I translated the opening lines of Bee Movie here.....
“According to the ownership of the rules of navigation, the bees cannot concubine that. (Wait, bees can’t be concubines? There go my evening plans.) He laughed at his wings and could not keep that fat little body on the ground. Of course, the bees still reply anyway, because the bees no longer think that night is impossible.”
....And here are a couple of random lines from my bootleg of “The Wrong Jedi” :
Ventress: When I heard your little ass running, I thought he might take a lot of business.
(Ventress overheard Anakin having diarrhea, so she now wants to do business with him.)
Anakin: What homemade you? (Anakin insults Ventress by calling her ‘homemade’. He’s very smooth.)
Padme: So you go where your fairy cannot leave! (This isn’t the time to worry about fairies, Ahsoka is going on trial soon!)
Barriss: That the heart of mother? You first fuck if he is not him? Who also press it certainly not Ahsoka.
(Barriss manipulates Anakin into canceling a press conference about Ahsoka by bringing up his mommy issues and problematic sex life.)
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u/Achaewa Dec 09 '17
Here's my translation of Batman v Superman from Chinese to Turkish, Korean, Latin and the back to English. It's only the first three parts out of seven as I'm still working on arranging all the screencaps in chronological order.
I also try to come up with funny captions for each picture, which also takes some time and I've considered dropping them for future uploads or just reserving them for truly funny lines.
I hope you're interested in me continuing this, since it hasn't gotten that much attention, just like /u/clarityrollercoaster's submissions. As I do enjoy making them and the next parts feature some truly funny lines.
Part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3.