The recent hit "Wolf Warrior 2" has set off a wave of families going to the cinema to receive patriotic education. As of the deadline of this article on August 9, the box office of Wolf Warrior 2 has reached 3.8 billion, ranking first in the box office of Chinese movies. There are many distinct Chinese elements in the film, and one of the lines made the Chinese people’s blood boil and inspired a strong sense of national pride. Some people say that this sentence made the box office more than 1 billion yuan. This dialogue took place in the last face-to-face hand-to-hand battle between Wu Jing and the villain boss. The villain speaks English, Wu Jing speaks Chinese, and the two bicker while fighting. It is not only the climax of the film's plot, but also the film's idea to the highest level. However, after our patriotism in the movie theater has been greatly released, and when we look back at the original text of the dialogue, we can see that the translation of this dialogue is extremely controversial.
Villain: Look at them. You're gonna die for these people. Wu Jing: I was born for them. (I was born for them.) Villain: People like you will always be inferior to people like me. Get used to it. Get fucking used to it. .You have to get used to it, you have to get used to it.) Wu Jing: That was the fucking past. (That's fucking history.) Many people feel that this dialogue in the middle of a fierce fight is both abrupt and deliberate. In fact, if you just read English, this conversation is smooth. The mixed dialogue between Chinese and English gave the subtitle translators room to play word games, carry private goods, and manipulate the emotions of the audience. Under the circumstances in the movie, did the original words of the villain express discrimination against the Chinese nation or racial discrimination against the yellow race? Not too possible. If you want to express "race", you should use the word race, and if you want to express "inferior people", you should use nation or more accurately ethnic, not the ambiguous people used in the film. The villain mentioned people twice in total. The first time was after the camera swept over the heroine and the little black girl beside her, so his sentence "You'" re gonna die for these people is a real point, referring to those people Wu Jing wants to save, including both yellow and black people. The second time the villain mentioned people, People like you will always be inferior to people like me, which literally translates as "people like you will always be inferior to people like me", and the subtitle is "this world has only The strong and the weak, your inferior nation will always belong to the weak." Obviously, this translation is very problematic. Even if people like you are raised to a higher level, at most it means Wu Jing and all the unarmed weaklings, which means a little bit of the strong prey on the weak. It is very reluctant to misinterpret people like you as "an inferior race like you", and if you want to say that the villain is to single out the yellow race or the Chinese nation to belittle it, expressing the meaning of racial/ethnic discrimination against "an inferior race like you" , which is even more impossible under the circumstances. Some people may say: "Inferior ethnic groups can also include the Chinese nation, African blacks, and other ethnic groups/races that have been weak in history." If this statement is true, then Wu Jing retaliates to the villain's "That's fucking history" This sentence doesn't make sense, because the black children in the film kept calling Wu Jing "Godfather", and the trapped black people had to rely on Wu Jing to rescue them. I think when Wu Jing declared "the Chinese people stand up", he did not express "The people of Africa have also stood up". Therefore, to an English-speaking audience who doesn't understand Chinese, the original words of the villain can be read as "It doesn't make sense for you to die for the weak. You could have been strong, but you did everything to protect the weak in front of you, yourself. It has become a weak person, and will only be crushed by a strong person like me." And Wu Jing stabbed the villain with a bullet and said, "That's the fuck it was in the past (That's)WeChat personal account
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