MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of “Happy Together 春光乍洩 Script: Cantonese Transcription with English Translation,” by Sabrina Yu, Nicholas Kaldis, Kin Wing Kevin Chan, and Cecilia Liao. A teaser appears below. Click here for the full transcription/translation. My thanks to Nicholas Kaldis for sharing this work with the MCLC community. Thomas Moran offered important editorial suggestions.
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Kirk Denton, MCLC
Cantonese Transcription with English Translation
Directed by Wong Kar-wai 王家衛
Translated by: Sabrina Yu, Nicholas Kaldis, Kin Wing Kevin Chan, and Cecilia Liao
With assistance from: Ashley Yingxue Liu, Ana Ros Matturo, Gerardo Pignatiello[1]
MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright February 2024)
Lai Yiu-fai Passport.
Ho Po-wing stares at Iguazú Falls lamp.
Ho Po Wing: Lai Yiu Fai, let’s start over.
何寶榮: 黎耀輝, 不如我哋由頭再嚟過。
Lai and Ho making love.
Lai Yiu Fai: “Let’s start over,” this phrase is Ho Po Wing’s mantra. I admit that these lines are very lethal. We’ve been together a long time, with the occasional break up, but I don’t know why, whenever that phrase is uttered it’s always brought us back together. Because we wanted to start over, we left Hong Kong. Two people with no destination ended up in Argentina.
黎耀輝: “不如由頭嚟過，” 呢句說話係何寶榮嘅口頭禪。我𠄘認呢句說話對我來講好有殺傷力。我哋喺埋一齊已經好耐。中間亦都有分開過，但係唔知點解次次講呢句說話我都同佢喺返埋一齊。因為想由頭嚟過，離開香港。兩個人行下行下咁就嚟到阿根廷。
Lai Yiu Fai: Where is Iguazú?
黎耀輝：Dónde es Iguazú?
Lai Yiu Fai: You said you knew how to read maps, we went in the wrong direction!
黎耀輝: 你又話識睇地圖，行錯路呀！[READ THE FULL TEXT HERE]