Little things you noticed in Serenity

POSTED BY: christhecynic
UPDATED: Monday, January 23, 2006 22:41
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25MYTURN25

Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:46 AM

Wow I didn't hear that I will be sure to check it out when I watch the movie next, which knowing me will probably be soon!!! hahahaha

Mal: He'll kill you, kill every last one of them if it comes to that and he he'll sleep well that night.
Nandi: Rance Burgess is just a man, and I wont let any man take what's mine. I doubt you'de do differently in my position.
Mal well lady. . .You're my kind of stupid

25MYTURN25

Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:47 AM

Wow I didn't hear that I will be sure to check it out when I watch the movie next, which knowing me will probably be soon!!! hahahaha

Mal: He'll kill you, kill every last one of them if it comes to that and he he'll sleep well that night.
Nandi: Rance Burgess is just a man, and I wont let any man take what's mine. I doubt you'de do differently in my position.
Mal: well lady. . .You're my kind of stupid

UNSARDONIC

Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by KthScherer:
right after saying "please get up" she seems to start talking in Chinese but actually says "oh, Sean Maher" when Simon touches her back (1:16:49) and then moves on to Chinese (or at least I think it's Chinese).

Well, "yeah... y'know what(?)," to quote Nicole Sullivan's 'Vancome Lady' from "Mad-TV" ... it WOULD be subtle, but it is, in fact, Chinese, specifically, as transliterated by Ying's Pinyinary's "Serenity" page ( http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/movie1.html),
"WUOshang mayer, maysheen, BYEN shr-to"

I mean, that certainly seems as if she would be saying, "Sean Maher," if you look at the transliteration's section, "WUOshang mayer..." Ying translates all of that particular phrase as meaning, "I will close my ears and my heart and I will be a stone," which is pretty much, what River utters immediately after, translating the Chinese to English in the same speech.

Sorry to bubbleburst

HOHOHO

DONCOAT

Saturday, January 14, 2006 2:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
... it WOULD be subtle, but it is, in fact, Chinese, specifically, as transliterated by Ying's Pinyinary's "Serenity" page ( http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/movie1.html),
"WUOshang mayer, maysheen, BYEN shr-to"

... which is identical to the transliteration in the Visual Companion. I would imagine that Josh wrote the line in English and had it translated. I wonder if anyone noticed the similarity in sound to Sean's name?

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KTHSCHERER

Saturday, January 14, 2006 3:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
Quote:
Originally posted by KthScherer:
right after saying "please get up" she seems to start talking in Chinese but actually says "oh, Sean Maher" when Simon touches her back (1:16:49) and then moves on to Chinese (or at least I think it's Chinese).

Well, "yeah... y'know what(?)," to quote Nicole Sullivan's 'Vancome Lady' from "Mad-TV" ... it WOULD be subtle, but it is, in fact, Chinese, specifically, as transliterated by Ying's Pinyinary's "Serenity" page ( http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/movie1.html),
"WUOshang mayer, maysheen, BYEN shr-to"

I mean, that certainly seems as if she would be saying, "Sean Maher," if you look at the transliteration's section, "WUOshang mayer..." Ying translates all of that particular phrase as meaning, "I will close my ears and my heart and I will be a stone," which is pretty much, what River utters immediately after, translating the Chinese to English in the same speech.

Sorry to bubbleburst

HOHOHO

Sigh. Bubble burst duly noted.

So much for my first post.

(And thanks. I figured if I posted I'd find out if I was right or not. Didn't think I'd find out so quickly, though!)

So it may not be subtle or non-subtle or anything at all really, but I still find it fun!

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:14 PM

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Originally posted by KthScherer:
So much for my first post.

How did I miss it (who am I kidding? I miss it all the time.)

People should say something on their first posst so people know they're new here. Every new person deserves a welcome, I've got the first four words perfected:

Welcome here, we're weird.

After that comes the hazy bit, first thing I need to tell you is spread the word about Serenity and Firefly because it is the only way we can hope to get more.

After that all I have to say is this is a great place, everyone is happy to have a new person and no one will look down on you for being new. Please post any time you have a thought you'd like to share, the people here are great, and smart too. Some of the most rewarding debates I've had in my life were here and there is always something new to read.

This is really like a home and even though you'll (probably) never meet anyone here in the real world you will make real friends.

DONCOAT

Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by christhecynic:
This is really like a home and even though you'll (probably) never meet anyone here in the real world you will make real friends.

Emphasis on "probably". However, if you go to a fan convention at some point, I guarantee you'll see something new -- or at least, some of your fellow FFF browncoats.

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I don't disagree on any particular point.

GRIMLOCK

Sunday, January 15, 2006 1:53 AM

Quote:
Jayro wrote:
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 03:49
In one of River's flashbacks, we see the teacher telling the children to lie down, and the class obeying without fuss. Is this her subconscious brain interpreting or 'acting out' what it knows about the Miranda population?

Also, River is the only one who rebels againt the teacher's command - she has an 'aggressor' response, just like the tenth of a percent who turned into Reavers. Is this a metaphor, or is it suggesting that River, had she been raised on Miranda, would have become a Reaver herself?

Well... I noticed something when I mispelled River's name in a fic comment earlier to today.

River
Reaver
Foreshadow much?

CHRISTHECYNIC

Sunday, January 15, 2006 1:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by DonCoat:
Emphasis on "probably". However, if you go to a fan convention at some point, I guarantee you'll see something new -- or at least, some of your fellow FFF browncoats.

Can you believe I've never been to one? Probably, can. I've never heard of one in Maine, and I don't have a car, or indeed a license.

UNSARDONIC

Monday, January 16, 2006 1:24 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by KthScherer:
Sigh. Bubble burst duly noted. So much for my first post.

(And thanks. I figured if I posted I'd find out if I was right or not. Didn't think I'd find out so quickly, though!)

So it may not be subtle or non-subtle or anything at all really, but I still find it fun!

Yeah... sorry for the

- I mean, obviously you were looking out for the cool poop on the disc and, of course, you found something fun

so, I'm still

for the bubble-bursting.

Anyway, I can't recommend the Pinyinary enough to help you fill in a lot of story blanks (which is why I included the link) and, as Doncoat (& others) suggested, the Visual Companion.

Now, you DID fall victim to an entertaining Anglo-habit which is, listening to some sort of (usually) Asian language and hearing English in it. When I lived in Japan that would sometimes be what we did for entertainment: watch Japanese TV and faux-translate into the nearest ridiculous-English, whatever showed up on the screen. One of the best was a commercial wherein, the lovely young housewife is home at the stove in the perfect suburban kitchen when, her handsome young businessman comes home from the office. She turns to him and, with the most radiant, angelic smile ever says, just as clearly as possible what, for all the world sounds exactly like, "I stayed home to pee!" I watched this countless times & each time her statement was very clearly the same... we were laughing so hard, we had no idea what was being sold or ever found out what was said.

Stay home to pee(!) "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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