Thursday, April 15, 2010

More women?

I'm watching Kavanagh, Q.C. on DVD - John Thaw (from Morse) as (duh) a barrister. The first season is from 1995, long enough ago that, I suppose, you could realistically have a misogynistic jerk as a senior member of chambers. At any rate, they do (along with the just slightly dim head of chambers and the feisty woman...) and when they were discussing having a young female barrister join them, the only woman already a member made a remark about people who were against women as barristers.

"I hope that wasn't aimed at me. I want to see more of women in court," says Jeremy the jerk, to which Julia replies, "You want to see more of women period."

I had put the subtitles on earlier, as I was having a bit of a problem with one character's accent, and they were still on. I'd noticed the subtitler had been leaving out a word or two here and there, trying to cope with rapid dialog. There were some left out of this, too, but this time I think it missed the point. The exchange read like this:

"I hope that wasn't aimed at me. I want to see more women in court." "You want to see more women period."

The line as spoken has a clear implication that the written version does not.

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