You’ve probably heard the old trope that uncultured people don’t like watching films with subtitles. Or that only seasoned film aficionados can truly enjoy celebrated foreign films like the 1960s Italian classic La Dolce Vita or Japan’s 1954 epic Seven Samurai. It’s no secret that films made in American English culturally dominate the global film industry, with over [...]
When a movie title or a celebrity’s name crosses a language border, it faces a challenge: how to stay recognizable while being pronounceable in another alphabet. This is where transliteration steps in. By adapting sounds across scripts, it allows global audiences to connect with stars and stories they already know. This process is not simply cosmetic. Names in pop [...]
Movies and television are fairly new inventions in the breadth of humanity’s artistic endeavors. Since the first commercially aired film on December 28th, 1895, storytelling in film has rapidly evolved with visual effects progressively becoming more impressive. This has allowed filmmakers to design vivid depictions of multiple universes. These worlds usually come fully loaded with populations of either aliens, fairies [...]
