I think the lack of lyrical translation has allot to do with language. A
friend was enjoying a Spanish song on the radio recently and he couldn't
translate it for me, the meaning that is. A lyric like `I like fish with
salt' didn't strike me as particularly romantic, while in its own context it
was a beautiful sentiment. Also, the screen might not have enough room for
all this translation. I'm thinking of a felini movie where the wife is
throwing the bum men out of the kitchen, the translation said `get out you
bums' while Ana Magnani(sp) clearly said much more than that and very
passionately too.
Theres also the Bugs Bunny sketch where these guys wash up on a desert
island, Bugs greets them as a native and says a giant speech in whatever
language, the translation on screen was simply: Welcome. Then Bugs utters
one syllable and the translation fills the entire screen...
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