Sea Wolves
They told stories in the news that the third pirates of the carribean movie raked in some grand sum of money only after the couple of days it hit the big screen, so me and my cousins figured out that this must be something great to watch altogether at the break of the week.
Me and my cousins had gone watching some other movie the week before and one of my newly-wed cousin took her husband to join us for the movies, but the problem with this new in-law is that he is taiwanese and every english word doesn’t make any sense to him except hello and paul which is the western name he adopted. So when we went watching a movie with him the week before, all he did inside the theater was eat popcorn and probably wonder what the hell was going on the movie. We did ask him to join us again this week for another movie but he declined saying that the movies here didn’t have any chinese subtitles, like how english movies are probably shown in his country for them gooks to understand. Somebody could have told him why we don’t have chinese subtitles in this country is because there aren’t much monolingual gooks coming to theaters here.
Yet still he joined us again since it was probably more entertaining for him to watch a movie in gibberish and help him learn an english line or two than stay put at his in-laws home that night. I came to him and I wanted to tell him that we were going to see a movie about pirates but I didn’t know how to say pirates in mandarin. Piracy could have been easier because that is what happens when DVDs come in very cheap in the black market that will always have chinese subtitles in it. Anyway I only know 水手 in mandarin which meant sailor, so I told paul that “we’re going to watch a movie about bad sailors who steals from other sailors”, it was chinese rhetoric at its best. My brother then gave me a hint to try saying sea wolves in mandarin to paul hoping it would ring a bell to him but the only thing that made his head rang was the movie poster outside the ticket booth, paul told he has seen the other two earlier movies, yet he's going to watch this one without understanding any goddam thing from the big screen.
The movie went on for about three long hours and most of those three hours were spent on long dialogues, and it wasn’t just the long progressing dialogues that you had to keep up with the story, there was so much twists in the dialogue that screwed up the the whole plot every so often that you couldn’t help but ask what the hell is going on, I could even feel those same barnacles growing at the side of my ears from listening too much. I glanced at paul across the seats and I can see himself more at peace from the whole confusion because there is no chinese subtitles.
The only scene me, paul and every body else found funny in the movie that needed not translation or neither was toilet humor was during this sequence when they had pirates from all around the world to have a get together for the sake of their existence in one table. One pirate who was obviously from the indian ocean because of his sikh fashioned beard held back his speech until keith richards of the rolling stones came out also dressed in a pirate suit when the indian pirate talked and screeched in his funny voice that sounded like a frog was caught in his throat. That was the only goddam thing funny in the movie and a good break from the long dull dialogues next to keith richard in a costume.
Me and my cousins had gone watching some other movie the week before and one of my newly-wed cousin took her husband to join us for the movies, but the problem with this new in-law is that he is taiwanese and every english word doesn’t make any sense to him except hello and paul which is the western name he adopted. So when we went watching a movie with him the week before, all he did inside the theater was eat popcorn and probably wonder what the hell was going on the movie. We did ask him to join us again this week for another movie but he declined saying that the movies here didn’t have any chinese subtitles, like how english movies are probably shown in his country for them gooks to understand. Somebody could have told him why we don’t have chinese subtitles in this country is because there aren’t much monolingual gooks coming to theaters here.
Yet still he joined us again since it was probably more entertaining for him to watch a movie in gibberish and help him learn an english line or two than stay put at his in-laws home that night. I came to him and I wanted to tell him that we were going to see a movie about pirates but I didn’t know how to say pirates in mandarin. Piracy could have been easier because that is what happens when DVDs come in very cheap in the black market that will always have chinese subtitles in it. Anyway I only know 水手 in mandarin which meant sailor, so I told paul that “we’re going to watch a movie about bad sailors who steals from other sailors”, it was chinese rhetoric at its best. My brother then gave me a hint to try saying sea wolves in mandarin to paul hoping it would ring a bell to him but the only thing that made his head rang was the movie poster outside the ticket booth, paul told he has seen the other two earlier movies, yet he's going to watch this one without understanding any goddam thing from the big screen.
The movie went on for about three long hours and most of those three hours were spent on long dialogues, and it wasn’t just the long progressing dialogues that you had to keep up with the story, there was so much twists in the dialogue that screwed up the the whole plot every so often that you couldn’t help but ask what the hell is going on, I could even feel those same barnacles growing at the side of my ears from listening too much. I glanced at paul across the seats and I can see himself more at peace from the whole confusion because there is no chinese subtitles.
The only scene me, paul and every body else found funny in the movie that needed not translation or neither was toilet humor was during this sequence when they had pirates from all around the world to have a get together for the sake of their existence in one table. One pirate who was obviously from the indian ocean because of his sikh fashioned beard held back his speech until keith richards of the rolling stones came out also dressed in a pirate suit when the indian pirate talked and screeched in his funny voice that sounded like a frog was caught in his throat. That was the only goddam thing funny in the movie and a good break from the long dull dialogues next to keith richard in a costume.
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