Elijah and Viggo!

[sophinisba]

Hello everyone, this is my translation of a recent blog entry. My translation may well have some mistakes in it, but probably less than Babelfish's. :) The original is here:
http://blasfemandoenelvrticedeluniverso.blogspot.com/2007/02/despues-de-vietnam-al-vietnamita.html

There was a plan to go get dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant, and Elijah was planning to go, and he said he would bring along Vigo [hee!] Mortensen, who's in town doing a film with Cronenberg, as addicts of this blog are already aware. It seemed like a good plan, really, but I came back to my "The Shining" apartment and I've been abducted. The damn twins are holding me here with their psychic powers. Some other day we'll make plans and go wherever you want, but as Campanilla, one of the readers of the blog, says, I'm not that young anymore. So I'm staying here and writing, and I hope they have a great time at the Vietnamese place. Although, to tell you the truth, it sounds like the typical kind of plan where in the end it's just Paco the wardrobe guy and me at the Vietnamese place, which is what always happens. Man, if Cronenberg were coming, I'd make an effort, but I don't think he will. He's probably exhausted at his apartment.

Today we only had one scene with Elijah. Pamela, his girlfriend, is back from Moscow. What a joy to see her around the set, with her smile. A true delight. And Mr. Hurt was splendid. I recorded his voiceovers. We also finished up with Alex Cox, filming the sequences from the psych hospital. Thank you, Mr. Cox. This weekend I'll put up some mythical photos...

The other day some paparazzis came and took pictures on the set... They're probably those pictures that come out on realnews. Tomorrow we change locations, go to Bushey... God, I feel like I'm slowly running out of batteries. It seems that my organism administrates my energy and it generates a kind of extra motor for filming, and when it runs out, it stops, and I feel like the bunnies that don't have Duracell.

Comments

[aprilkat.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is much better than babelfish!

[sophinisba]

Woohoo, my master's degree finally pays off in fandom!

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

Pamela, his girlfriend, went back to Moscow.

Hmmm, some other translations I read said Pamela had come back from Moscow. According to the tour info, GB doesn't have any more appearances in Russia. And she and Elijah love Thai food, so that would explain the Vietnamese restaurant choice since the food is very similar to Thai.

Thanks for the translation. I wish now I'd studied Spanish instead of French. ;>)

[sophinisba]

Pamela had come back from Moscow.

Yes, you're right! A very careless mistake, and I've gone back and fixed it. Thank you.

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Infinitely better than babelfish! And I'm pleased to see that I (more or less) interpreted the bit about Vig(g)o correctly. :)

[sophinisba]

I'm glad I could help! It really is lovely thinking about the two of them hanging out.

[suzy-74.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's great work. Thank you. :D

[sophinisba]

You're welcome! It was a lovely entry and fun to do.

[maddeningpadme.livejournal.com]

thanks so much! translating can be tedious I know. you rock! can I just say how FUCKING PSYCHED I am taht Lij is hanging with VIGGO OMG! *dies of happiness* I can't tell you how happy it makes me when any of the boys hang out w/each other, esp. the ones that don't usually hang out so often together anymore (besides event type stuff), ie when Orli visited Billy befoe baby Jack was born. it just makes me so many kinds of happy :D thank God for this director otherwise we may not have known about this reunion. this sounds bad cuz I don't like them to get stalked but I kinda hope some pix turn up of lij/vig together. had no clue vig was working w/David again but it's not surprising.

I'm glad that lij seems to possibly be taking in more Asian culture. or maybe he always liked Vietnamese food. anyone know how much Thai pamela has in her? half-Thai? I've always wondered. she looks much more Asian with the short do I've noticed. I like the short do on her actually. anyone know what other ethnicity(s) she is of? for the longest time I had absolutely no clue she was anything but white. hope that's neutral enough to ask, bunnie :)

I am still so behind on all this, but this is the Oxford Murders director Alex's blog correct? I find it so odd & funny that he mentions pamela as often as he does. omg, has anyone from here posted on the blog? do you have to be a member? I wanna post something! LOL. my espanol SUCKS pretty bad now though. how inconvenient! I used to LOVE taking Spanish.

[sophinisba]

Some kinds of translating can be tedious, but Alex has a really interesting way with words and this particular entry was interesting but not especially difficult (not a lot of slang or cultural references that I felt like I was missing) so I enjoyed doing it. Plus Elijah and Viggo hanging out in London is a matter of CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE so I figured it was my responsibility to keep everybody informed. :)

I'm pretty sure you don't need an account on that system to leave a comment. The comments are fun to read too. A lot of Spaniards and Argentines, it looks like, a lot of strangers but everybody is very affectionate and supportive of Alex as he talks about his difficulties and little triumphs of filming each day. And there's lots of love for Elijah all around.

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Well I know that Racine is a French name but I can't tell you anything more than that. I believe she is Thai-American so maybe the French name comes from her American side. How far back her Thai heritage goes I have no idea. Although I would hazard a guess that she has either one parent of full-Thai blood or perhaps a grandparent. Having said that I think some people expect Thai people to look the same as Chinese people which isn't always the case. I read on LJ just recently someone saying they thought Elizabeth Sun looked more "Asian" than Pamela which made me giggle a bit. I think what the person was thinking was that Elizabeth looked more Chinese. Here in Australia I am used to seeing all sorts of natioalities from Asia as the city I live in has a huge Asian population. Not all Asian people look Chinese. Japanese look different again, so do Indonesians, Malaysians, Phillipinos, Vietnamese as well as Thai people. I think you can generally note overall differences in bone structure and skin tone depending on the gene pool one is from and how far north or south you are.

I like the short do too. But then I love short hair on women generally. I think it always looks very chic and flattering, unless of course its cut too boyishly. I think too many women persist in wearing their hair long but in my opinon you really have to have damm good cheek-bones to carry it off.

[earsy.livejournal.com]

I love reading these blogs. My friend lives in Bushey! I shall tell her to go down there and get us some news! I don't think she will though.

[sophinisba]

Make her give a full report!

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for this, sophinisba!

Woohoo, my master's degree finally pays off in fandom!

;-D

Babelfish can be such a laugh though -- like the other day when it translated Donald Duck as "The Duck Donald" ;-)

I can't help agreeing with maddeningpadme -- it's so good to know that Elijah & Viggo are still hanging out together, and wouldn't it be fantastic to think that Dom or Billy (or both!) might have been able to join them! :-)

I find it so odd & funny that he mentions pamela as often as he does.

I have to agree, and have sometimes wondered if there's some kind of agenda behind that ... I mean, if Alex were mentioning the other cast members' partners too, then it maybe wouldn't seem quite so odd.

Bushey is in Herts, isn't it? Wonder why they're going there? And Barking too! They must be barking ... ;-)

I wonder if the Vietnamese restaurant was one of these:

http://www.london-eating.co.uk/cuisines/vietnamese.asp

I love the name "Good Morning Vietnam"! Reminds me of the US troops' radio stations & all that fantastic sixties music!

~Lyra

[sophinisba]

Babelfish can be such a laugh though

It really is. Reminds me a little of that other Alex's voice in Everything Is Illuminated (not to mention the compositions my students used to hand in when I taught ESL). I remember listening to a radio interview (I think it might have been posted by Bunnie) where Eugene Hutz was saying how much fun it was to mangle English in that role, and lamenting the fact that in real life his English has improved enough so that he doesn't do that anymore. He was talking about trying to learn Spanish so that he'd have another language he could mangle.

Yay for LotR cast reunions!!

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the translation! :)

[sophinisba]

You're very welcome!

[elanorgardner.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I love that he is blogging and letting us all enjoy the process from afar!

[sophinisba]

Not to mention reminding us constantly what a delightful person Elijah is! :D

[juicy-11.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that!

Eeeee Viggo working with director Cronenberg!!!!! *is a cinema geek*

[sophinisba]

Awesome. I was hoping that bit would be more meaningful and exciting to others than it was to me.

[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation! It makes it come alive - and the director's 'voice' is delightful!

[sophinisba]

His entries really are great fun to read, even when he doesn't mention our boy.

[chicoriumeyes.livejournal.com]

Oh, than you for posting this! I was trying to figure out what was going on with Viggo last night, but my Spanish is non existent.

[sophinisba]

I don't suppose it's very realistic to hope Alex will report today on whether they got together, but it sure would be nice.