"It wasn't until a few years later, when I looked back and watched the film, that I realized that this film was just like the English title "About Time"."
2013's "Time and Space Love Traveler" is about love, family and life. The sentimental British romantic comedy currently has problems such as inaccurate translation of the title, ugly posters, and inflated ratings.
Starring Hermione Granger's eldest uncle, the film tells the story of a single British young man who has just turned 21 and becomes a winner in life after being told his life secrets by his seemingly unassuming father.
The translation of foreign film titles has long been a commonplace. At the beginning of the film, everyone can see the English name of the film "About Time", but the Taiwanese translation of the film is called "True Love Every Day", and the Hong Kong translation is called "About Time". "Back to My Favorite Day", since it was not released in the mainland, no one can tell what happened to this "Time and Space Love Traveler".
The film runs through the main line of a little sci-fi element, but it presents the most real life insights in the comedy atmosphere throughout, which not only makes ordinary audiences silly because of the funny plots, but also makes female audiences intoxicated by love scenes, and more importantly, The film will show the life experience throughout life through the superpowers of the male protagonist, making the audience feel the same.
As said in the film: "Every day of our life, we travel in time. All we can do is to cherish this wonderful journey as much as we can."
So the two "time and space" and "traveler" The words contain both the theme of the film and the elements of science fiction. In this way, the word "love" in the middle of the Chinese translation is more abrupt, and it is easy to cause ambiguity. For example, when I first saw the title of such a movie, and then saw the poster of the hero and heroine laughing in the rain, whether it was a pop song or a Chinese or foreign movie, I grabbed a lot of them with love as the main focus.
Besides, youth movies in our country have already played new tricks such as hospitals, going abroad, and deafness outside the theme of love. In the future, they may integrate biochemistry, zombies, and interracial...
"I work hard to live every day, as if I have traveled back. Same. I try to enjoy each day like it's the last day of my ordinary and extraordinary life."
After a few years, I looked back and watched the film, only to find that this film, as the English name "About Time" said, is not a "love traveler", but just a "traveler", because we are all in Traveling in your own time is a unique traveler in your own life.
In addition, when it comes to this film, I have to mention the father in the film who is slightly out of shape, but loves reading, Bill Nighy. Born in England in 1949, Bill Nighy earned degrees in English and British classics during his school days, with a particular fondness for Hemingway. Bill Nighy, known for his stage and TV shows, has won numerous awards, big and small. From the box office hit "Underworld" series to the popular "Zombie Shaun" and "Blood Detective", from the sweeping "Pirates of the Caribbean" series of movies to the unique "Pirate Radio", from the famous "Galaxy Odyssey" Guide to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bill Nighy has been featured in all types of films, from fantasy to sci-fi romance.
So it seems that this film is better to be called "Dad teaches to be a man" instead of being translated as "Time and Space Love Traveler".
One might wonder if Bill Nighy was never seen in Pirates of the Caribbean, when he actually played the cursed David Jones, the octopus man.
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