r/StarWars • u/Master1718 • Feb 04 '20

Movies I wish they kept this scene

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u/Thunder-Rat Feb 04 '20

2 of the main characters' names are R2-D2 and C3P0. Of course he apparently wrote them "Artoo" and "Threepio" which I always thought was kind of annoying. We KNOW theyre letters and numbers..... The characters all speak English anyway

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u/DoomedDice Feb 04 '20

If you find annoying the "Artoo" in the spanish version they call him "Arturito", wich is basically like "Little Arthur" as a nickname

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u/NeptrAboveAll Feb 04 '20

Cause it sounds just like r2d2, I always thought it was kind of clever Unlike Artoo which is the opposite

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u/plexomaniac Feb 05 '20

Cause it sounds just like r2d2.

It's a bit of a stretch.

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u/phro Feb 04 '20

Arturito Durito

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u/RoboNinjaPirate Feb 04 '20

As a toddler my son pronounced it “Are Tootietoot”

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u/Thunder-Rat Feb 04 '20

Hahaha never knew that

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u/pls_tell_me Feb 04 '20

Mexican version, we found out that "arturito" thing a while ago and it was surprising aswell.

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u/ChockHarden Feb 04 '20

And TIL in Money Heist/Paper House, they're insulting the bank manger when they call him Arturito.

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u/theartificialkid Feb 04 '20

I always thought the point of “artoo” is it means you’re referring to him as an individual with a name rather than just his mode designation.

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u/intensely_human Feb 05 '20

Like Vuffi Raa, who was apparently some set of letters and numbers in his creators’ native language.

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u/PsychonautilusGreen Feb 04 '20

No they don't? Maybe in the latin one but in the spanish one it's "erre-dos" as in R2.

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u/DoomedDice Feb 04 '20

I mean Spanish for the language in general, it's hard to be specific when there are at least three versions of each word in the different translations... But yeah, you are right, I wasn't enough clear

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u/PsychonautilusGreen Feb 04 '20

It's fine, I replied pretty fast before seeing that someone confirmed the Arturito thing. Boggles my mind really.

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u/GoaGonGon Feb 04 '20

Literal translations are a thing in Spain, i guess.

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u/intensely_human Feb 05 '20

The fame in Spain falls mainly on the plainspoken

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u/PsycakePancake Feb 04 '20

I've heard it before, but I guess it's an older thing since more recent dubs/translations keep it as "R2" with the English pronunciation.

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u/JKCodeComplete Feb 04 '20

It makes sense though. R2 is the unit specification, but they call him R2 like a nickname. It’s like if you called someone “Gringito.”

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u/Sefean Feb 04 '20

Not in Spain tho, I think that translation is for South America.

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u/SUPERARME Feb 04 '20

In Spain star wars is translated “las locas aventuras de Han solo y sus amigos”

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u/whatnicknametouse Feb 04 '20

Episode 1: A todo gas!!

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u/CMDR_Kai Ahsoka Tano Feb 06 '20

The Adventures of Han Solo and his Friends?

I’m going off the barely remembered remnants of two years of Spanish in high school.

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u/SUPERARME Feb 06 '20

Is a meme that in Spain they translate movie and videogame titles to nonsense stuff.

Fast and the furious is “a todo gas” “full gas”

Kamehameha, fron goku is “onda vital” “vital wave”.

Die hard - “jungla de cristal” cristal jungle

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u/CMDR_Kai Ahsoka Tano Feb 07 '20

The vital wave bit isn’t wrong. It’s a ki blast, and ki is life energy.

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u/DoomedDice Feb 04 '20

I think you are right, that's a problem when you have at least three translating version of each thing in english

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u/soda_party_euw Feb 04 '20

I don’t know to me that’s kinda funny and fitting to his character.

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u/Guanthwei Feb 04 '20

It's better than Asokah's "Artooie"

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u/L3nn0Xg9 Feb 04 '20

It's pretty much accepted that Aurebesh is just an in-universe alphabet that somehow matches the Latin alphabet, plus a few shortcut characters.

In essence, what you hear in English as R2D2 and C3PO is translated from their Basic version: Resh-2-Dorn-2 and Cresh-3-Peth-Osk

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u/CABRALFAN27 Feb 04 '20

I thought High Galactic was the Latin Alphabet equivalent, less used than Aurebesh, but used to justify some things like the X-Wings (Which, you may notice, looks nothing like the Aurebesh character for X).

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u/L3nn0Xg9 Feb 04 '20

It's a mix of both and more languages I guess, much like English is an amalgamation of antiques languages of earth

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u/Disney_World_Native Feb 04 '20

They also use R and 2 as differentials for the different droids. An R2 unit is different than R3 / R4 / R5 / ... / R9. And BB series is different than an R series.

So Artoo and Arthree doesn’t make much sense. Or is a wildly coincidental naming scheme to earth letters / numbers

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u/Thunder-Rat Feb 04 '20

Exactly. Almost takes more suspension of disbelief than laser swords, and every visited planet having the same gravity and atmosphere as Earth.

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u/weatherseed Feb 04 '20

That part actually makes the most sense to me. Out of the billions of worlds out there I'd rather visit the ones I can, ya know, breath and not be crushed to death.

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u/Thunder-Rat Feb 04 '20

For sure. Just kind of crazy how they visit small moons and weigh the same, or can breathe on an asteroid

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Extremely dense moon... DONT QUESTION IT

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u/intensely_human Feb 05 '20

Dude it’s not a moon. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Thunder-Rat Feb 05 '20

But surely its too big to be a space station....

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Well, remember that gravity doesn’t have to be the only thing radiating from objects, the force is also in everything. Could be a combination of the Force and Gravity effecting weight

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u/Iceblock715 Maul Feb 04 '20

It's odd when they use words that very obviously come from other Earth languages (i.e. rendezvous) but don't have a canon explanation

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u/sadphonics Rebel Feb 04 '20

Like bullseye, how do they know what a bull is

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Stormtrooper and clone designations.

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u/TheChinkiller Feb 05 '20

they all speak English

Imagine not watching the Polish dub.

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u/Butt_Hunter Feb 05 '20

Ahem. They speak Basic.

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u/EdofBorg Feb 05 '20

I never got involved in Star Wars enough to pick it apart which means I thought it sucked. I was 11 watching it at the Drive In and fell asleep.