My Oscar Night
Posted by John on March 7th, 2006
The Oscar night was broadcast one hour later here, to allow translators to dub all speeches. But also to censor them. More about this later. Since their translation is very bad (ex: Jake Gyllenhal said kissing a man was not the same, but the translation said it IS the same), and their dub job is terrible (when Nicole Kidman won her Oscar in 2002 she was very emotional and cried a lot. The translator “dubbed” her crying too, yes she translated and faked crying…) I opted to wait for their re-run, which would have subtitles only.
I waited the whole day, avoiding any news online or from people (Becky had a hard time containing herself, bless her). Then they start the re-run early, so I miss out all the beginning monologue, AND it is a super condensed 90 mins version. So all speeches were cut in half or skipped altogether.
I am glad that Ang Lee won, he certainly deserved it. But obviously his speech was censored. He mentioned the people in TW, HK and CH, but they cut the first two countries…
Go to my IBCfilm blog for more comments later today.