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Subtitles for A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1989)

English
October 03 2023 05:35:28
Created by Eus, Gregory Rabassa, Niffiwan, Chapaev₂
Ochen staryy chelovek s ogromnymi krylyami.1989.en.1.25fps.1696311328.srt ⭳
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Subtitles originally made in June 2019 by Eus (who translated) and Chapaev (who transcribed the original text and made notes). Revised in Oct 2023 by Niffiwan, partly using the translation of Gregory Rabassa.

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1 00:00:03,180 --> 00:00:05,880 The rain fell for a third day, 2 00:00:06,020 --> 00:00:10,820 and they barely had time to deal with the crabs crawling into the house; 3 00:00:10,820 --> 00:00:14,600 together they beat them with sticks, and then Pelayo 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,600 dragged them through a flooded yard and threw them into the sea. 5 00:00:20,620 --> 00:00:26,620 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 6 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:32,680 Together they beat them with sticks, 7 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:38,860 and then Pelayo dragged them through a flooded yard and threw them into the sea. 8 00:00:41,860 --> 00:00:47,680 Based on the eponymous short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:21,940 Belarusfilm NPO "tsentr" (Studio AFTS) 1989 10 00:01:45,620 --> 00:01:48,900 Since Tuesday, it had been the same dismal picture: 11 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,680 sea ​​and sky had come together in some kind of ash-gray mass; 12 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:58,180 the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, 13 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:03,600 had become a stew of mud and rotting shellfish. 14 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,040 Pelayo ran to get his wife Elisenda, 15 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:38,140 who was putting compresses on a sick child. 16 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,220 Together they gazed in a mute stupor... 17 00:04:43,660 --> 00:04:49,760 Together they gazed in a mute stupor at the creature lying in the mud. 18 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,060 He was dressed like a ragpicker. 19 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,320 Several strands of faded hair stuck to his bald skull, 20 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,580 his mouth had almost no teeth, 21 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,800 and there was no grandeur at all in his form. 22 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:56,420 Soon everyone knew that Pelayo was holding captive a flesh-and-blood angel. 23 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:59,800 No one raised a hand to kill him, 24 00:05:59,820 --> 00:06:04,540 although an all-knowing neighbor woman claimed that modern angels 25 00:06:04,540 --> 00:06:09,140 were none other than surviving fugitives from heaven 26 00:06:09,140 --> 00:06:13,260 and members of an ancient conspiracy against God. 27 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,340 [PROTOCOL] 28 00:07:51,780 --> 00:07:54,960 The parish priest became suspicious 29 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,400 when he saw that this thing does not understand the language of God 30 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,440 or know how to greet His ministers. 31 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:08,640 Looking closer, he found that he was much too human, 32 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,640 this alleged angel: 33 00:08:10,740 --> 00:08:14,700 he had an unbearable smell of the outdoors, 34 00:08:14,820 --> 00:08:17,080 his wings were strewn with parasites, 35 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,840 his large feathers had been worn out by terrestrial winds, 36 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:24,160 and nothing at all in his beggarly appearance 37 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,400 measured up to the proud dignity of angels. 38 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:19,220 Father Gonzaga reminded them of the dangers posed by credulity. 39 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,780 He reminded them that the devil had the bad habit of resorting to carnival tricks 40 00:09:24,780 --> 00:09:27,100 to confuse the unwary. 41 00:09:27,180 --> 00:09:33,640 Finally, the Padre judiciously argued that if wings were not an essential element 42 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:38,260 in determining the difference between a hawk and an airplane, 43 00:09:38,340 --> 00:09:44,420 they were even less so for the recognition of this thing as an angel. 44 00:09:44,780 --> 00:09:48,840 Nevertheless, he promised to write a letter... 45 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:53,180 write a letter to his bishop so that the latter would write his primate 46 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,160 and he in turn to the Pope 47 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,660 so that the final verdict would thus come down 48 00:09:59,660 --> 00:10:02,820 from the very highest tribunal. 49 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,540 Finally he managed to gain altitude 50 00:13:33,540 --> 00:13:37,300 and Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, 51 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:41,740 when she watched him fly over the last houses of the village, 52 00:13:41,740 --> 00:13:43,880 almost touching the roofs, 53 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:49,040 and wildly flapping his wings, like those of some senile hawk. 54 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:53,220 Elisenda watched him until she was through cutting the onions, 55 00:13:53,220 --> 00:13:57,420 until he was no longer visible at all, 56 00:13:57,420 --> 00:14:00,800 and was no longer an annoyance 57 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:10,660 in her life, but just an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea. 58 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,760 THE END (1989) subs - Chapaev, Eus, Niffiwan 2019/2023, partly using Gregory Rabassa's translation