The mid-1990s movie speech nostalgia party continues.
Today the objet of our adulation is that space-themed romantic comedy romp, Crimson Tide, starring Denzel Washington and Aragorn.
Gene Hackman’s Captain Ramsey gives that speech early on in the film before they board the U-boat. It’s one of my favorites, so I went ahead and transcribed it. Don’t ever say I never did nothing for the peoples! 😀
Anyway, enjoy, and here’s the text of the original speech. Also, here’s a link to the Japanese audio for the little speech.
『全員整列致しました！
家鴨共よ！
露西亜でトラブルだ！
それで呼ばれた。
だから我々は行く（ﾕｸ）！
但し、最も凶悪な殺しのマシーンに乗って、だ。その気に成れば、
戦争の歴史を塗り替える程の、強力な兵器を発射出来るのだ。
目的は唯一つ！祖国を護る為だ！
我々は国防の最前線に就き、
同時に最後の防衛線と成る。諸君に望む事は、
最善の努力だ。
それが出来ない者は、空軍に入って貰いたい！
最高司令官は大統領であるが、
これは私の艦(ﾌﾈ)だ。
それに乗る以上は、私に従って貰いたい。
それが出来ない者は、ケツの辺りに刺激的な感覚を覚えるであろう。
私の蹴りが入るからだ！+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ミスター＝コッブ！
はい、艦長！
この艦(ﾌﾈ)の名前を知っておるか？
よく知って居ります！
それは誇り高い名前であるか？
誇り高い名前であります！
乗組員は優秀であるか？
極めて優秀であります！
偉大なる国に住む者か？
偉大なる国の者であります！
其処は世界に冠たる国であるか？
世界に冠たる国であります！
この艦(ﾌﾈ)の名は何だ？
「アラバマ」であります！
気合を入れろ！
行け(ｺﾞｰ) 「バマ」！行け(ｺﾞｰ) 「バマ」！
艇長！ 乗組員解散！
乗組員 解散！了解しました！
乗組員！これより解散して、銘々の部署に就く！
解散！』
As much as it pains me to admit fallibility, there are two words there’s a bit at the very end that I just couldn’t make out clearly. I think #1 is 「以上」 and #2 is…#2 I just have no freaking idea: it sounds like 「命令」, but that doesn’t seem like it would make much sense.
Anyone with a clearer idea…feel free to share 🙂 .
[Big thanks to KREVA for totally wiping up my mess! I mean covering me! I mean…yes!]. By way of more late-breaking news — it turns out there at least two other people online who’ve already transcribed this, so check them out here, and here.I think maybe I’ll do the “you can’t handle the truth” exchange from A Few Good Men next…if I feel like it 😉 . Not feeling like it yet…
Hey Khatz, thanks for the mini-script. I can already spot some useful words to mine.
My shot at the ones you couldn’t make out would be:
1) 艇長
2) 銘々
Correct me if I am wrong. 🙂
ありがとうKatzu! 私もこの映画が大好きです。
Nice, this is pure gold for anyone doing sentence mining who knows the movie =P
Bwah~ Thank you so much! I love this xD <3
I could be wrong here, but I think who ever translated the movie screwed up a bit on one part of the speech. When the Captain is talking about the ship with Mr. Cob and he says, “It represents fine people,” the movie dubs this as, “乗組員は優秀であるか？”
乗組員 would refer to the crew, but I believe Captain Ramsey is referring to the people of Alabama state. The dub probably should have said something like, “人民は優秀であるか？”
Or instead of “人民” perhaps “州民”
I found a typo: 空軍には入って貰いたい should read 空軍に入って貰いたい.
As for the translation of “It represents fine people,” I think this is due to the typical flow of thought in English, i.e., “It represents fine people who live in a fine, outstanding state in the greatest country in the entire world.” is usually worded in a reverse way in Japanese: 地上でもっとも偉大な国にある、素晴らしい州に住む人民を表している。Since Ramsey split the sentence into clauses that work as pseudo-sentences, the translator couldn’t do sentence-by-sentence translation. So probably s/he came up with the alternative dialogue to make it flow well in Japanese. Anyway, if I were the translator, I’d translate the sentences like this:
コッブ君、この艦の名前を知っているな。
(You’re aware of the name of this ship, aren’t you, Mr. Cob?)
もちろんであります！
(Very aware, sir!)
誇り高き名前だとは思わんか。
(It bears a proud name, doesn’t it, Mr. Cob?)
誇り高き名前であります！
(Very proud, sir!)
立派な人々をあらわしている。
(It represents fine people.)
もちろんであります！
(Very fine people, sir!)
とても素晴らしい州に住んでいる、
(Who live in a fine, outstanding state.)
素晴らしい州であります！
(Outstanding, sir!)
地上で最も偉大な国の人民だ。
(In the greatest country in the entire world.)
最も偉大な国の人民であります！
(In the entire world, sir!)
This way the Japanese lines carry pretty much the same meaning and follow the same flow. It might mess up the lip-sync though.
Yes, I like your translation better magamo. The way the movie is translated, I don’t think a Japanese person would understand what the ship name is about. Since the point of that final speech is to pep up the crew before shipping out, perhaps like you said, the translator changed it so it would essentially accomplish the same thing, though the meaning is a bit different. (or perhaps they really didn’t get it and screwed up)
It’s interesting to think about how much freedom translators have when doing the dubbing. For the most part I think they do a good job, a million times better than the subs, but I’ve come across instances where it seems for no good reason, they will add/delete something from a scene, changing the meaning ever so slightly. Or perhaps I’m riding their case because I would kill to have their job!
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