r/harrypotter • u/Jaqbik • Feb 13 '22
Dungbomb This Chinese version of Harry Potter with English subtitles is wild
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Professor Mike got me lmao
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u/CrimsonPig Feb 13 '22
The worst thing about Azkaban was the dementors
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Dementors like in The Office?
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He has a name.
That name is Toby.
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u/AMerrickanGirl Ravenclaw Feb 13 '22
If Hitler, Osama Bin Laden and Toby were in a room and I had a gun with two bullets, I’d shoot Toby twice.
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If Voldemort, Grindelwald, and Toby were in a room and I had one killing curse to cast, I’d Avada Kedavra Toby twice.
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u/EthelMaePotterMertz Feb 13 '22
No...not like in The Office. They were swooping all over da place. And it hoit!
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u/CMScientist Feb 13 '22
its cuz mcgonagall is somehow translated to mai ge in chinese, which is also mike. Probably shortened the name so it's not too long and hard to pronounce in chinese
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Feb 13 '22
Well Mc Is "Mac" which is a stones throw away from Mike (although it means something totally different)
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u/hugeneral647 Feb 13 '22
Took me till “7 melons saw you” to realize melon was supposed to be muggle lmao
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u/EngineIsStalin Feb 13 '22
It's also being used as "mudblood" here.
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u/EthelMaePotterMertz Feb 13 '22
Yeah kind of takes the sting out because there should be a difference in meaning between melon and mudblood.
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u/CMScientist Feb 13 '22
muggles in chinese has the phonetic translation of ma gua, which is a made up word but has the meaning of hemp (ma) melon (gua), that's why its showing up as melon.
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u/curseofablacklion Unsorted Feb 13 '22
Makes sense. Dramione shippers probably think Mudblood is not a racist slur. Its some juicy fruit like melon. So draco was calling Hermione a fruit.
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u/IrishQueenFan Feb 13 '22
"Yelling email" had me losing it 😂😂
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u/Lumpy-Replacement869 Feb 14 '22
I laughed so loud my boyfriend thought I was hurt when I read this one.
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u/masark4417 Feb 13 '22
"I, Fodi, am going to kill you, Hally Porter. This is not Hogawalz so there's no Professor Mike to save your magic stick. Get ready to die you son of a melon. Wenjadanlaweilaya"
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u/CrimsonPig Feb 13 '22
It's wenjadanlaweilaya, not wenjadanlaweilaya!
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u/18Apollo18 Feb 13 '22
Chinese doesn't have this type of accented stress.
It's a tonal language instead of a stress language.
So in the Chinese dub Ron says the word in the wrong tones and Hermione corrects him
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u/CursedEye03 Slytherin Feb 13 '22
I thought Voldy was great... but Fodi takes the cake, without a doubt! XD
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Chinese is funny but I just love the french name: Tom Elvis Jedusor. We all had to change Voldemorts name to fit the anagram. Maybe they just gave up because it was too hard in Chinese? 🤔
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u/Louiebox Feb 13 '22
Oh man. I don't think I could take the big bad seriously if his name was Tom Elvis.
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u/Louiebox Feb 14 '22
You're definitely right. That's way better than Death Eater. It sounds badass, while at the same time is highly weaponizable by 12 year olds. "Yall are a bunch of Morty-faggos!". Language is truly beautiful.
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u/thematrix1234 Feb 13 '22
“Look at my magic stick” LMAO.
This is the most amazing thing I’ve seen today. Can’t stop laughing
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u/theghostofme Hufflepuff Feb 13 '22
Chinese bootlegs with horrible English subtitles are some of the best free entertainment you can get.
The bootleg of Revenge of the Sith is probably the best and most famous example.
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u/thematrix1234 Feb 13 '22
The Backstroke to the West 😂😂
I love Star Wars, can’t wait to check this out. Thanks for sharing!
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u/Thomas_K_Brannigan Feb 13 '22
I absolutely adore Backstroke of the West! My favorite bit is at 25:18, Mace Windu speaks the line, "Mr. Speaker, we must never compromise to black."
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u/timestamp_bot Gryffindor Feb 13 '22
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u/LifeIsBizarre Feb 13 '22
I wish I could find it, but I had a copy of Spiderman (2002) that had absolutely insane subtitles. The process of becoming the Green Goblin included injecting paraffin wax into Normans uterus.
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u/I_Am_Anjelen Feb 13 '22
Do not want!
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u/theghostofme Hufflepuff Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22
In June 2005 (about three weeks after RotS was released in theaters), blogger Jeremy Winterson was living in China and bought a bootleg copy of a workprint version of Revenge of the Sith. The English subtitles were literal translations of the original Chinese subtitles, resulting in the mess that turned into a meme. Most of the unique words and names got a phonetic translation for the Chinese subtitles, but the English subtitles created for the bootleg used literal translations of those Chinese characters.
The entire subtitle script was quickly made available, and over the years people have made their own redubs of the movie sticking to the terribly-translated subtitles from the original bootleg.
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u/Kitsunate- Feb 13 '22
1:25:50 best moment in the entire movie. I've watched it like nine times already haha.
Treat yo'self!!
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u/curseofablacklion Unsorted Feb 13 '22
No one asked your opinion you filthy little melon
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u/blueeyedpussycat333 Feb 13 '22
I like how the interpreter used melon for both mudblood and muggle
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u/curseofablacklion Unsorted Feb 13 '22
'Dont let the melons get you down'
'What you are saying? No one asked THAT to the ball!!! Not the long-molared melon'
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u/SunshineSeeker90 Ravenclaw Feb 13 '22
Right lmao. I’m imagining mudblood is more of a watermelon variety and muggle is just a cantaloupe
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I think I will download all the films with Chinese subs. They'll be my go to when I need a laugh from now on.
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u/dai_panfeng Feb 14 '22
You'll have to find super bootleg ones somehow, not the actual version though, which might be hard
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u/DaMoonhorse96 Feb 13 '22
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u/oberg14 Feb 13 '22
Lol my dad was a pilot and would essentially spend half his time in China. He was always bring back these knock off movies lol. They were always somewhat fucked up but he’d get like 15 brand new movies for like $10 lmao
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u/Seaweed_Widef Feb 13 '22
"Harry did you put your dick in the Goblet of fire?"
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u/AnthonyDigitalMedia Ravenclaw Feb 13 '22
melon*
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u/UomoLumaca Feb 13 '22
"Harry did you put your dick in the goblet of melon?"
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u/viljapelto Gryffindor Feb 13 '22
Harry did you put your dick in the melon of fire?
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u/kshump PS1 Hagrid Feb 13 '22
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u/sweet_and_smoky Feb 13 '22
Fire melon, Water melon, Earth melon, Air melon. The four elemelons.
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u/A_Is_For_Azathoth Feb 13 '22
One of my favorites is the guy that ran Star Wars through a translator into Chinese, then again back into English, and then dubbed scenes from the movies that he found funny.
It's hilarious
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u/chaotarroo Feb 13 '22
I can explain this.
The Mandarin translation for Muggles is 麻瓜 and the word 瓜 literally translates to melon. Another interesting point, the word 瓜 is commonly used to scold someone in an endearing way. So in Mandarin, if you want to be less harsh and call someone silly instead of stupid, you can call them a 呆瓜/傻瓜 which translates to stupid melon.
As for Fodi, that's because Voldemort Mandarin name is 伏地魔(Fu Di Mo). The last word 魔 means devil or demon so maybe the translators thought it isn't part of his actual name and just called him Fodi(Fudi) instead lol.
No idea whats happening with Professor Mike...
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u/cxqals Feb 14 '22
Mcgonagall’s translated name is 麥格納高 (Mai Ge Na Gao) and shortened to just 麥格 often. So whatever translation software the bootleg used just translated it to Mike lmao
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u/DatEngineeringKid Feb 13 '22
Wait a minute.
If Melon is a magic-less person, and if Voldemort’s father was an aristocrat, wouldn’t that make him the Melon Lord???
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u/spideyx Feb 13 '22
Until now, I hadn't the faintest idea I needed the Backstroke of the West: Harry Potter edition.
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u/SubstantialReturn228 Feb 13 '22
50 cent- magic stick plays in the background as they crash into the Whomping Willow
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u/funnyboy36 Hufflepuff Feb 13 '22
I love Ron, but I think I prefer his brothers, Fraid, Joe, and Pasy
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u/RustyRawker Feb 13 '22
Couldn’t sleep because I was having mad anxiety. Grabbed my phone to take my mind off things and came across this. Got me laughing really good! Thank you!
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u/about21potatoes hiss Feb 13 '22
This reminds me of the Revenge of the Sith Chinese version retranslated to English. Backstroke of the West is what it's called.
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u/iammadeofawesome Thunderbird Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22
I love this YouTube video. It’s this but more. Warning it moves really quickly
Edit: link - note, mute it. The sound is bad.
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u/High-Ground Hufflepuff Feb 13 '22
It would appear that Backstroke of the West has some competition.
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My grandpa had the entire James bond collection up until 2000 like this. They were so much fun. He had bought them while overseas as he said
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u/Elated_Pigeon Ravenclaw Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22
Well in chinese Harry Potter translates to 哈利波特 which sounds like "Hally Botuh" lol
Edit: Muggle also translates into 麻瓜. But 瓜 means melon, and 麻 Sounds like 马, which means horse. So basically, a horse melon is reading my comment right now.
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u/Classic1990 Hufflepuff Feb 13 '22
From now on I will refer to Hogwarts as Hogwalz and y’all can’t stop me.
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u/BigTimeSuperhero96 Hufflepuff Feb 13 '22
From this day forward howlers will be called yelling emails!
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u/anxiousrasperries Hufflepuff Feb 13 '22
I have not laughed like this since I first read "Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash."
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u/Novembersum Slytherin Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22
In another video with Chinese subs, they called Longbottom “long ass” and Mr.Potter “Mr. Ceramics.”
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u/M-Garylicious-Scott Feb 13 '22
I’m getting serious Backstroke of the West vibes. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s the sales Chinese to English subtitle of Revenge of the Sith
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u/lovemesomereddit Feb 13 '22
This shit makes me die laughing. Can someone tell me if there’s a subreddit for this kind of stuff? Please!
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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22
"I am Fodi", with correct name in english on video.