The Passion of the Shinji

Merm · Post by **Merm** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:10 am

Not a music video per se, but an interesting idea.

I received this idea from a friend who wanted to remake the entire Evangelion series with the characters speaking Latin. I just might try this but I would be perfectly willing to recieve some help if people are interested. Not the whole series, maybe just an episode.

Yok/0 · Post by **Yok/0** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:59 pm

what are u trying to get at? A fan-dub perhaps? or are u gonna make the passion of the christ trailer?

twistedHALO · Post by **twistedHALO** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:00 pm

latin O_o"

if i knew latin, and japanese, i wuold help you lol.

but its an interesting idea, where the eva world speaks only latin o.o

Yok/0 · Post by **Yok/0** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:02 pm

but why do u want to speak latin and whats the whole motive?

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:17 pm

Yokou Seishirou wrote:but why do u want to speak latin and whats the whole motive?

x2.

The reason that Gibson filmed 'The Passion' in Aramaic and Latin is that those were the actual languages spoken at the time, which makes it historically/contextually relevant and thus interesting. Dubbing an Evangelion episode into Latin makes about as much sense as... I don't know, dubbing an episode of Trigun into Hebrew, or dubbing an episode of Red vs. Blue into Japanese*. Sure, it'd be a good exercise in translation, but that's all.

However, if you're going to re-edit the anime and significantly change the story to justify using a dead language, <i>then</i> it might be interesting.

*A friend of mine actually did this as a project for his Oral Intensive class, believe it or not

Yok/0 · Post by **Yok/0** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:26 pm

but not that i'm not saying the project sux in face he could go for it for all i care but i would see it but i still don't see why he needs to put it in Latin, other than seeing the show in Latin, what will i get back from seeing an episode thats been dubbed in Latin, then what i don't get from seeing the dubbed english ver. of Evangelion

Merm · Post by **Merm** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:32 am

It was just that the entire series have a lot of biblical terms and playing it in an appropriate language (with possible changes) would be an interesting long term project.

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:43 am

The religios themes are their to add more mistery and "OMG my mind is gona blow up" than anything els. They dont have any real religios/philosophical meaning untill end of eva. And even then its more philosophies on life/death adn the existance of god, than anything religios.

silmeluin · Post by **silmeluin** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:01 am

dubbing an episode of Red vs. Blue into Japanese*.A friend of mine actually did this as a project for his Oral Intensive class, believe it or not

AHAHAHAAA!!!!!! wow, i would've loved to see that.

as for the latin- well if you're a latin freak (I have a friend who is) it might be fun- but otherwise I don't know if it would really enhance eva. but good luck to ya!