“Hello.” For some reason, he finds himself adding: “Um, if she’s pissed, that’s probably my fault.”
“Okay. I’ll know who to blame,” she says drily, turns away from him and rummages through her pockets, then curses. “Shit. You wouldn’t happen to have a lighter, right?”
He’s just about to say no when he recognises the object in his pocket.
What’s fascinating about Cassian is that he embodies that type of storytelling element of being an intelligence agent, who often has to make those really hard calls. I mean, that’s what spies do. Spies are on their own, in the field, without support, and occasionally they’ll be pushed into that corner where they have to make those grim choices.
will is always like “im so fucked up and twisted” you’re not evil dude you’re a closeted 34 y/o with untreated brain damage just take your anti-inflammatories and suck some dick. NOT THAT DICK jesus christ
So I’m Korean, and there’s this very rebelcaptain-y stuff ‘bout Rogue One Korean subtitles/dubs and I don’t think I’ve written about this on tumblr, so here goes:
“Welcome home” is kinda tricky to translate into Korean because there’s no distinction (not really anyway) between a HOME and a HOUSE. So getting the sentiment across by directly translating the sentence is kinda difficult. You could ~sort of~ pull it off, but the sentence would probably run longer, and you’d have to specify some stuff, so the end product would be something like “welcome to your (new) house”. The sheer length of it all on screen wouldn’t look so pretty (when matched to the short line of “welcome home”) and the specifications (possession markers like “your”) would look weird. And since we’re still keeping the word “house,” some might find the line out of place. (*home translates to 집 in korean, and the most basic meaning of the word -as in, the #1 definition listed on dictionary- is HOUSE.)
So what the super-duper people working with Disney Korea decided to do was to have Cassian say “I’M DIFFERENT [from the people who ran from Jyn obviously].”
Seriously, “I’M DIFFERENT.”
Not even a “WE’re different.”
It’s such a blatant self-appeal on Cassian’s part that I always go “OOH ARE WE ATTEMPTING AT A FULL ON ROMANCE NOW? (blush)(blush)”
Methinks somebody’s a shipper.
AWESOMEEEEEE. The (traditional) Chinese translation is different as well, simply because “welcome home”, when translated literally, is a bit of a weird response to what Jyn said. It just sounds awkward in Chinese, can’t really explain why. So what the subtitles did is:
Jyn: “I’m not used to people not leaving me and not giving me up when terrible circumstances arrive upon me.”
Cassian: “This is what family does.”
So…there you go. It’s a VERY literal translation, so Jyn’s part is a bit weird. But yeah, THIS IS WHAT FAMILY DOES. Bye.
Since we’re on the topic of Rogue One in East Asian languages, I got curious to see what the Japanese dub had done for the “Welcome Home” scene, and hot damn I’m actually feeling pretty warm and fuzzy on the inside.
When Cassian approaches Jyn with his mates to offer himself up, the conversation goes as such:
Cassian: No one believes you. Jyn: Well, thanks for that. Cassian: I’m different from them. I believe you.
He then goes on to the spiel about spies and assassins, stressing at the end not so much a “I couldn’t face myself,” but more of a “There’s absolutely no point in any of this if I just quit now.”
So then, in the dub, Jyn tells Cassian, “I’m usually on my own when things go bad, so this feels weird/different”.
Instead of “welcome home”, Cassian says, “You’ll get used to [the feeling] soon,” implying that he fully intends to stick around and be by her side whenever shit hits the fan.
Pretty sure the Japanese are on board the rebelcaptain hype train, just a bit.
And then we have French, in which Jyn says basically (if my high school french serves) “it’s rare for people to show solidarity/stick together when things go wrong”
to which Cassian replies “Bienvenue au club.” (Welcome to the club.)
which you could maybe/probably read more as “welcome to the family” if you are so inclined but it’s also so funny to imagine him just being like YEAH GET IN LINE
