Nosotros de corazón a ti, capitán Walker

Question

Upon reflection, I do not understand this. Why "a ti" and not "de ti"?

Nosotros de corazón a ti, capitán Walker

We are of your heart, cpt. Walker.

PS this movie seems to have a great dub overall - jeezzle, Oct 13, 2011

Answer 1

This is not fair, Jeezle, and will never work.

You got that from a very bad translation of the already weird English of Mad Max, Beyond the Thunderdome.

The original script goes something like:

. . .and Captain Walker hollered, "Wait, one of us will come. " "Wait, one of us will come. "
And somebody did come.

                Walker!

                We's heartful to you, Captain Walker.

                We's ready now. Take us home.

                We kept it straight! Everything marked,

everything 'membered!

There's no way "We's heartful to you" can be translated literally into Spanish. "Somos de corazón a ti", strikes me as a particularly clumsy and inaccurate attempt.

I'd translate that as "te agradecemos de corazón"; or, being very daring, "te damos el corazón", so some such.

Regardless, IF the translation, or the sentence, were correct, it still would have to be "a ti", because they clearly mean "to you". We're thankful to you, not of you.

So impressed, I stand in absolute awe of you, Gekkosan!! - territurtle, Oct 13, 2011

Answer 2

Well, most of the movie is dubbed really well except for that one converstion by the weird girl, Savanna. But in Spanish she makes much more sense than in English. So you are saying that she makes no sense in that part. If you look at most of it, it makes sense to me so I didn't know.

I assume that "me estás captando" makes sense because I have been using it all day. Are you receiving me? ¿Me oyes? ¿Hay alguien allí?

SAVANNA – No hay relato de solo uno, es relato de todos nosotros. Lo recibimos de boca a boca, así que tienes que oír y no olvidar, porque lo que oyes hoy, tienes que contar a los nacidos mañana. Yo miro muy atrás a través del marcar del tiempo, a lo largo del camino de la historia y más allá. Yo veo el final que fuera el comienzo, es Apoqueclipse lleno de dolor, y de él nacidos ceniza crujiente y tiempo de terror, fuera el invierno pleno y señor muertos persiguiendo a todos, pero uno no pudo coger, ese fuera el capitán Walker. Él junta un grupo, se lanza por los aires y vuela hacia el cielo, atrás dejan sus casas, dicen: “Adiós, adiós” a los rascadores del cielo y toda sabiduría restante dejaron atrás. Unos dicen: “El viento de pronto paró” otros creen fue un grupo llamado “turbulencia,” y después del choque, algunos ya atacados por señor muertos, pero otros tenían suerte y aquí les trae. Una mirada y ya es alucinación, le llamaron “planetierra” y ellos dice: “No necesitamos sabiduría, podemos vivir aquí.” El tiempo cuenta y sigue contando, empiezan echando de menos lo que tenían, sienten añoranza sin rascadores del cielo y sin vivivideo y ellos hacen imágenes para recordar toda sabiduría perdida.

CHICO - ¿Recordamos esto?

NIÑOS - ¡¡¡El río de luces!!!

CHICO - ¿Recordamos esto?

NIÑOS - ¡¡¡Lancha del cielo!!!

CHICO - ¿Recordamos esto?

NIÑOS - ¡¡¡Capitán Walker!!!

CHICO - ¿¡Recordamos esto!?

NIÑOS - ¡¡¡Señora Walker!!!

SAVANNA – Entonces capitán Walker, cogió a ellos de una edad, capaces de largo camino, contaban veinte y ellos eran todo “La gran partida.”

NIÑOS – Patrulla de salvamento, salid al amanecer al mando del capitán Walker, Dios se apiade de nosotros.

SAVANNA – Dijeron “Adiós, adiós” a los que dieron a nacer y desde la nada, miraron hacia atrás y el capitán Walker chilló: “¡Esperad, uno de nosotros regresará!

NIÑOS - ¡¡¡Uno de nosotros regresará!!!

SAVANNA – Y alguien regresó.

NIÑOS - ¡Walker! ¡Walker! ¡Walker! ¡Walker! ¡Walker! ¡Walker!

SAVANNA – Nosotros de corazón a ti, capitán Walker.

CHICO – Nosotros preparados, llévanos a casa.

I know this is the script where you got the quote from. I am also reading the original script. I think the translation is awful; unfortunately I don't really have time to go into a side-by-side comparison and corrective translation. - Gekkosan, Oct 13, 2011

Just trust me, as much as the original text is weird, and difficult to translate, any competent translator could have done a far better job. "Nosotros de corazón a ti" is not even remotely an adequate translation for "We's heartful to you". - Gekkosan, Oct 13, 2011

That looks like text that was produced largely using some sort of automated translator, perhaps. - Gekkosan, Oct 13, 2011

The thing is, Savanna's English is strange and highly ungrammatical, but cleverly used so that it makes sense. This attempt at a Spanish translator does not make sense. Just looks like gibberish. - Gekkosan, Oct 13, 2011

Well you're taking the wind out of my sails bro. I've been spending effort transcribing this, that part is just something I found online but the rest is by ear, and most of the movie makes perfect logical sense even if it is different. - jeezzle, Oct 13, 2011

Granted, NOT Savanna, she just doesn't make sense, the kids don't. But Aunty Entitiy, Master Blaster (El maestro y el golpeador) they make perfect sense in Spanish and the movie makes perfect sense. - jeezzle, Oct 13, 2011

Nosotros de corazon a ti is a direct quote. I was using that to help people understand though there are some obvious errors in it, it largely makes sense....... have I wasted 6 hours transcribing this so far? I don't think so. - jeezzle, Oct 13, 2011

Do you really suspect that the voice actors are just spouting nonsense? Surely they know what makes sense, I think just thjis "Savanna" part doesn't make sense....... it is clear they are natives by the way they speak. - jeezzle, Oct 13, 2011

I honestly don't know, Jeezle. I haven't seen the dubbed movie, but the transcript of Savanna's speech that I found, and seems to match what you wrote, is very poorly translated. - Gekkosan, Oct 13, 2011

While I'm not impressed by the translation, I hardly think your time is wasted. All practice is good, and if you can faithfully transcribe the nonsense , it says much for your listening skills. - Gekkosan, Oct 13, 2011

Gracias. I am trying to find all my favorites in Spanish too, it's hard but I find they do exist. But some have dubs that even I can tell are terrible. But I HOPE this one is not too bad for the most part because it sounds pretty good for the most part - jeezzle, Oct 13, 2011