Posted on Jun 20th, 2008 by Gabe 8 Comments

There’s a website called jaman.com (via PopWatch) that lets you create your own subtitles for a curated selection of clips from foreign films. It’s pretty much more useful than Google. Looks like we’re going to break the record for the cost in productivity to businesses by non-work-related web use in Q2. Here is my first attempt:

I’m basically the best at dialogue. Hollywood stopped asking me to write all the screenplays because my characters were TOO three-dimensional. At a certain point people just want to see a movie, you know, and not have a mirror held up to their lives.

Create your own here.

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Comments (8)
  1. ryanspacey  |   Posted on Jun 20th, 2008

    That’s awesome. I’m going to be sending out a bunch of these to my friends. I’ve already sent a link of my first try, but hopefully I’ll get better. http://www.jaman.com/a/download/?f=sub_player_share&clip=08zXTFnmijzw

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  3. Amy D  |   Posted on Jun 21st, 2008

    Gabe, that was a really fun one. Good job.

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  4. Josh Rosen  |   Posted on Jun 21st, 2008

    A thing of beauty is a joy forever…

    (I do hope that guy left the cabdriver a nice tip.)

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  5. milar  |   Posted on Jun 21st, 2008

    By “tip” I assume you mean “jar of urine.”

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