Movie for deaf has huge subtitle errors

Published: Feb. 26, 2008 at 6:45 PM
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RYDE, Australia, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A special screening of the 2006 movie "The Queen" aimed at the deaf in Ryde, Australia, confused many on hand with occasionally nonsensical subtitles.

The free screening, organized by the local government and staged by Outdoor Movies Australia, left many baffled by the subtitles for the film -- which revolves around the aftermath of the death of Britain's Princess Diana, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Tuesday.

Mistaken lines included dialogue about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's having been "educated at Fettes" being translated at the bottom of the screen as "educated the fattest." Additionally, "Did you vote?" became "Dead in a boat?" and "every newspaper proprietor has blood on his hands today" was printed as "every newspaper proprietor has blown in his hands today."

Ryde Council promotions officials would not say where the delinquent DVD came from, only that it was swapped at the last minute when a previous DVD was also found to have problems with its captioning.


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