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With some elegance, too; iirc they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" as he reads from the bible, the Latin word for a location near Jerusalem, but having a
by jkingsman 1y ago
With some elegance, too; iirc they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" as he reads from the bible, the Latin word for a location near Jerusalem, but having a non-English/non-Russian word be when they switch made it a lot less jarring. Plus, having it be during a read-out-loud-from-book portion allowed for more measured cadence that smoothed the switch but probably would have felt jarring if the audience were parsing multi-character dialogue when it happened.
- nwallin 1y ago> they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" "Armageddon" actually. Poignant because it's a movie about a nuclear ballistic submarine. But not a particularly non-English word.
- jkingsman 1y agoahhh I misremembered — an even better choice!
- 1718627440 1y ago> "Golgotha", the latin word Isn't it Hebrew? (for example see John 19,17)
- defrost 1y agoFrom what I have to hand .. It appeared in the Latin Vulgate (an early predominately Latin version of the Bible), the Oxford English Dictionary has it as an Aramaic form of the Hebrew "gulgōleþ" (copied from the dictionary) or skull like hill.