Last weekend I saw the new Captain America
movie! It was really great. I love movies and although I don’t go to the movie
theaters very often here in Japan, I was glad that I got to see this one. During
the movie, I noticed that my American friend and I were laughing a lot more
than the other people in the audience and I wondered why that was so. After
talking about it with each other, we realized that some of the jokes probably
didn’t translate well into Japanese. I feel like this could be true for most
movies, that even though the dialogue can be translated, there is still an
element of nuance and personality that gets left out when it’s not seen in its
original language. I encountered a similar situation when I went to Disney Sea
and my friends who don’t speak Japanese did not understand the jokes of some of
the shows. Overall, I enjoyed going to the movies and hopefully next time I’ll get
to watch a Japanese movie.
-
Yaya Campbell
