The Man in the High Castle

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  1. Aurora

    Aurora Vincerò!

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    New Amazon show. Not bad. Mystery type thingy where nazi Germany invaded the US-East, Japan invaded the US-West and there's a 'Free Zone' in the middle. Well done overall.

    What I truly despise, however (and not only here) are those tiny mistakes that tear you right out of the fiction. Like... nazi Germany did NOT call itself nazi Germany. Or Größeres Deutsches Reich (word-for-word translation of Greater Germany). Would be Großdeutsches Reich. But both mistakes are there, in writing and mentioned multiple times. Why can't they just find some German exchange student or something for god damned nazi movies who reads over stuff? Then something like 'Flughaven' wouldn't happen, because it's Flughafen. I'm nitpicking, I know.

    I can't say if anything is wrong with all the Japanese in the show. Probably even more :lol:

    I hope the show gets the green light, though. Seems interesting if they don't try to stretch it out over 500 episodes.
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  2. Tuckerfan

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    There's already a thread about it, I think, and the plan is for this to be a mini-series.
  3. We Are Borg

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    You should probably offer your services to Amazon. I'm sure you're quite familiar with the material, given that you're Austrian. :?:

    ;)
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    As I said in the other thread: I was bothered by those mistakes at first as well. But then I realised that they only got it wrong where the people supposedly writing those texts weren't Germans themselves. In our own reality, there's lots of bad English throughout the American hegemony. It makes sense that that would be true vice versa as well. Or compare it with the atrocious German used in the few and short-lived colonies Germany ever had!
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    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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    If you think your German gets butchered in a TV show, you should see how English gets butchered by Japanese engineers that make production tools for large scale manufacture of semiconductor devices.

    My co-workers and I actually have a secret language constructed solely from the garbage English that gets displayed in error messages on machines.

    "It is under execution of a reset sequence. Is it very well? Then hit OK"

    Seriously.
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    The editing system at my job uses Engrish.

    "Be sure exit?" when trying to log off.

    "No need render!" when you click the render button and nothing in the project needs rendering. :jayzus:
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    I'm re-reading the book (well, listening to it), and I'm curious as to how they'll handle the whole thing. They've taken some rather large liberties with the source material, but have retained much of the spirit of the book (just as was done with Blade Runner). I can see how they can wrap the thing up, but given that things have appeared in the pilot episode which were never revealed until near the end of the book, I'm wondering how they can give the whole thing the same kind of "punch" that the original had.
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  8. Aurora

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    Machine translated Japanese instruction manuals are classic!

    However, in movies I do expect some level of care. This stuff costs millions to make and hundreds of people are involved. Is it really too much to ask?
  9. Sean the Puritan

    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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    These aren't machine translated.

    These were people translated.
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    Without further comment...I give you the "Zero Wing" Intro movie.

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    Okay, I finished the book and all I have to say is....:wtf:

    It ended differently than I remembered, but still incomprehensibly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get what Dick was trying to say with the book, but the ending of the thing just feels like Dick ran out of meth, so he called it quits. All of which really makes me wonder what they're going to do with the series. Since they've streamlined some of the elements from the book, added new elements, and changed others, I can't quite get a handle on what they're planning on doing. They could still have Dick's mindfuck of an ending, but IIRC, this is to be a six part series, and we'll have to wait who knows how long before we see the rest of it, which is problematic. The viewer is going to have a much larger investment in the series than they would have in the book, so if it just "ends," as the book does, they're going to be pissed off.

    However, I will admit that after finishing the book, and rewatching the pilot, I think I know how they could get a fairly long running series out of it.

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    I bought a dashcam from eBay last year. It's made in South Korea.

    When I turn on the car's ignition it says, "recording will begin."

    When I turn off the car's ignition it says, "recording will be end."

    :wtf:
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    Now, see, that's the kind of thing that would be absolutely adorable if my coworker's 3-year-old said it.

    It's less confidence-inspiring in this context, though...
  14. Aurora

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    There are a few examples lately where books were made into successful series without slavishly following the book's plotline. UNDER THE DOME comes to mind, THE WALKING DEAD or even GAME OF THRONES :shrug:
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    For the 2.5 wordforge posters who can appreciate it, I'll post this untranslatable untranslated gem, my favorite:

    Um die Luke zu verriegeln, knuffen Sie die Auf-und-davon-Taste.
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  16. K.

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    Precisely my thoughts.

    I didn't know they were only going for six parts, though. In that case, I guess they could more or else stick to the original and just go through with the original mindfuck as well.

    Otherwise, I could see several other seasons set in several other alternative histories.
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    Well, the TV critics all seem to love this, while hating the other new pilots from Amazon, so I think there's a good chance this will get picked up. Amazon's also going to spending something like $1 billion on streaming content this year, so I don't think the tab for the series will be much of a worry.
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    I'll have to try and drag this up, I read the book years back, and I could do with going though a lot of Philip K Dick's stuff again, I was a teenage when I last read his stuff.

    This really ought to generate a spoof homoerotic thread called the Man in the John Castle though, especially as the authors name was Dick.
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    FTFY
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    Sounds quite nice. Probably would've been fewer Christian nutters. :diacanu::ramen:
    "Tiny" mistakes? That's just plain insulting.
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    Well... actually it kind of did. Sometimes. Not heraldically, of course, but still.

    I stand to be corrected on this, but so far, every mistake I thought I found made a lot of deep sense upon closer examination.
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    I've also read the book some years ago but apart from the basic outline, have forgotten the details. Might skim through it again some time.
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    The Dead Zone

    And 12 Monkeys is starting out well.

    I'm sure there's a lot more failures than successes but we might be surprised how long the latter list would get.
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    Good, found the pilot to be uneven but very promising.
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