Lost in Translation?

Aprub na Translasyon: This never failed to put a smile in my face every time I get to recall.

 

Watching a Harrison Ford movie with the “tropa” at SM, I felt the anticipation regarding the movie was quite high, within me and inside the movie house.

The title of the movie was “Regarding Henry” and anticipation was built around the promotion of the film being the first to be shown in the Philippines with a Tagalog subtitle for the duration of the film.

So the movie started.

 

Images came flashing in the screen….

Then the movie title “Regarding Henry” was flashed with some images in the background…….

At the lower portion of the screen was the subtitle, “Tungkol Kay Henry”.

Instantly the room was filled with muffled sound kinda mixes of ahhhhh…ohhhhh…wow…..and  some polite giggles.

 

It was a good movie but I can’t recall any movie with a Tagalog subtitle shown in the Pinas next to this one.

Or maybe the time came that the cost of the movie ticket made me made excuses to the “tropa” that they go ahead watch a movie without me.

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Alost Translation: Halloweeen

­Catholics celebrate their saints on their own "saints day,"  the anniversary of their saint's  death. With thousands of canonized saints, only a small percentage are recognized regularly. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV officially established All Saints' Day in order to honor all the saints at one time. Prior to this declaration, they are observing All Saints' Day on May 13. But in the eighth century, Pope Gregory III moved it to November 1. Many historians believe the Church really moved the observance to correspond with Samhain and other pagan fall festivals.

It has been noted that the Catholic Church had a long-standing policy of incorporating  traditions into its holidays in order to bring people into the Catholic faith. Many historians believe, for example, that the church set Christmas on December 25 so that it would correspond with pagan winter solstice festivals.

When All Saints' Day moved to November 1, the church did begin to incorporate Samhain traditions into the holy day's activities. This helped bring descendants of the ancient Celts into Christianity, but it posed some problems for the church. Much of the Samhain traditions centered on the supernatural and spirit world, ideas that don't have much of a place in Christianity. Recognizing saints, who were by definition deceased, covered a lot of the same ground, but the converts were still fascinated by the idea of their familiar dead returning to the world of the living.

Despite some unease in the church, many supernatural ideas persisted in All Saints' Day Eve celebrations, making the occasion a remarkable combination of Christian and pagan beliefs. At the end of the 10th century, the church tried to give these traditions a little more direction by establishing All Souls' Day, an occasion to recognize all Christian dead.

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