I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese; subtitled] For ridiculing you earlier, I apologize. The Bride: [in Japanese; subtitled] Accepted.
It's interesting because Swedes subtitle everything, so they're so used to it. When my wife watches a show with subtitles, she has a skill to be able to watch and read. Whereas I'm more of a read or watch.
Charlene Fleming: That's the movie you wanted to see? There wasn't even any good sex in it. Had to read the whole fuckin' movie. Fuckin' subtitled. Some guy from a road crew recommended it to you, a fuckin' subtitled movie?
General Alfred Jodl: [German military personnel are frantically burning papers in a disordered headquarters as they prepare to retreat] [Subtitle] General Alfred Jodl: Hurry, Steiger. I want everything destroyed. Papers, maps, everything! Capt. Oskar...
[Talking in code on a tapped phone] Nicky Santoro: Listen, I gotta meet Clean Face right away, what about the Chez Paris? Nicky Santoro: [subtitles] I gotta meet Charlie the Banker right away at your house, OK? Ace Rothstein: No, you can't, you gotta...
People don't want to read subtitles.
[subtitled version] Michael: Don't diss my family, get it?
Rosalita: [in Spanish; subtitled] My God, I'm in a crazy house!
The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.... And there's that famously elegant...
[subtitled version] Christian Klingenfeldt: Here's to the man who killed my sister... to a murderer.
[subtitled version] Georg: Why are you doing this to us? Paul: Why not?
[first lines] [subtitled version] Anna: Björling... Suliotis? Georg: Almost. Björling is easy.
[first lines] Ahmed Al Haznawi: [subtitled Arabic] Ziad. It's time.
[from trailer] Subtitle: Have you ever killed your best friend?
[subtitled version] Paul: We're not up to feature film length yet.
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
[first lines] Guard: [subtitled version] Stand still. Eyes to the floor. [pause] Guard: Walk on.
