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Author Topic: Movie - "Taken" advertises English sub-titles Louis Belloisy Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: morris, ct usa Registered: Jun 2006 posted 01-30-2009 09:40 AM                        Our print of Taken is marked as having English sub-titles. I, being a bit confused, called the studio for an explanation, thinking we had a foreign dialog on the film. The young lass that I spoke with said that it was for security purposes, in fact there were no sub-titles on the film. Asked her how this would prevent piracy, she did not know, neither do I. Maybe one of you guru's would explain louis  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-30-2009 10:18 AM                     It seems more likely that the person you spoke with was confused and this was a lab error (at least, that'd be my guess). What's the exact marking on the print? (I'm also curious, who did you call? DFS/ETS? Your Fox booker? Fox in-theatre marketing?) Taken is weird since it was released internationally first. But I'm sure it was printed domestically for the 3,000 theatres showing it (~3,500 prints?). --jhawk edit: print count changed from 5k to 3.5k. [ 01-30-2009, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: John Hawkinson ]  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 01-30-2009 11:20 AM                     The film is in English, with the foreign language (mostly Albanian) dialog in English Subtitles. I suspect that the French version would have the Albanian portions with French subtitles.  |  IP: Logged Louis Belloisy Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: morris, ct usa Registered: Jun 2006 posted 01-30-2009 12:41 PM                        Hi John, I called the Fox marketing. The exact wording on the film lead,is for example on tail #5: ENGLISH T-5 T A K E N ENGLISH SUBTITLES..................SUBTITLED ENGLISH TITLED ENGLISH TITLED Louis  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-30-2009 01:06 PM                        This threw me as well. I wondered if I had an open caption print. But after watching it last night, I can safely say it just means the subtitles are in English when someone is speaking something other than English.  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 01-30-2009 09:01 PM                     Isn't that what I said? Are my posts invisible?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-31-2009 06:46 AM                     Anyone notice how Blaine never posts anymore? Odd...  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 01-31-2009 11:46 AM                     I've always liked you, John.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-31-2009 01:28 PM                     ..Latter towards the movie, there are subtitles - found this out the hard way. The previous operator had the framing down too low and cutting off some of the wording, and where this one theatre have wrong size focal prime lenses installed (too short) the aperture plate is almost an undercut aperture where there is a lot of frame knob roll before the frameline itself can be visible. The whole place is like this - too short of prime lens on the anamorphics. Thus, I have to leave a note to "frame high" so the subtitles aren't cut off. -Monte  |  IP: Logged

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