It’s not the creators intent, is the closed captioner. The director does not play a role in what guess into the closed captions generally.
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ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoThey do. That’s another type of subtitle track.
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
They can refer to the continuity script, which will make this clear.
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t see how representing foreign dialogue with foreign text subverts the author’s intent. sure, they may not intend for their general audience to understand, but they still won’t. and they must have known, and maybe even intended, that a certain part of the audience would understand, and if the foreign text were shown, they could