Movie captions should never reveal information prematurely. In this example, the captions give away a key plot detail before the narrative is ready to do so.
Source: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, 2006. DVD. Featured captions: (speaks cannibals’ language), (cannibals’ language), (cannibals murmur), (cannibals’ language), and (cannibals’ language).
Published by Sean Zdenek
Dr. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture (UChicago, 2015).
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Thanks – I appreciate learning the fine points of captioning like this, that would not normally occurto me.
Thanks – I appreciate learning the fine points of captioning like this, that would not normally occurto me.