at this point in his career, I think directors just give Ryan Reynolds the plot to a movie and he just makes up the dialogue as he goes bc there is no way any of the shit he says in his movies is planned and not just him saying whatever he thinks would make the movie go on
I’m sorry, but THIS. This is what great translation is. Simple, yet genius.
Shield — щит (pronounced as ‘sheet’; masc., sing.)
So yeah, in the Russian version of Free Guy, Chris Evans said both ‘what the shield’ and ‘what the shit’.
The translators could have just put ‘Что за чёрт?’ in there (which is a standard way of translating ‘What the hell/shit/etc?’ in Russian), but they used this beautiful combination of circumstances to their advantage.
As someone who’s majoring in translation, I just can’t get over how good this bit is. This joke got a lot of laughs in the movie theater I went to.
