Day 141: Stop-Motion Made in Guadalajara
Leaving a movie theater in Guadalajara after a stop-motion film partly made in a local studio, Pablo (A) tells his close friend Marco (B), an animation fan, what he thought of it.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Spanish word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Spanish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.
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A
Te lo digo con cariño, pero me quedé dormido a media película. Bonitos los muñecos, pero qué ritmo tan lento.
I say this with love, but I fell asleep halfway through the movie. Beautiful puppets, but what a slow pace.
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B
No creo que hayas entendido lo que viste: cada gesto de esos muñecos lo animó alguien a mano, cuadro por cuadro.
I don't think you understood what you saw: someone animated every gesture of those puppets by hand, frame by frame.
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A
Ya sé, pero el esfuerzo no garantiza nada. ¿A poco un guion flojo se salva con horas de chamba?
I know, but effort doesn't guarantee anything. Are you telling me a weak script is saved by hours of hard work?
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B
Pausado no es lo mismo que flojo. Yo visité el estudio, cuyos animadores tardaron casi un mes en la escena del mercado.
Unhurried isn't the same as weak. I visited the studio, whose animators spent almost a month on the market scene.
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A
¿Un mes para una escena de un minuto? Eso suena más a mala organización que a arte.
A month for a one-minute scene? That sounds more like bad organization than art.
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B
Haz cuentas: veinticuatro cuadros por segundo, y en cada uno mueves tantito los dedos, los párpados, la ropa. Un animador, con suerte, saca unos segundos al día.
Do the math: twenty-four frames a second, and in each one you move the fingers, the eyelids, the clothes, a tiny bit. An animator gets a few seconds done a day, with luck.
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A
Bueno, me alegra que la hayan hecho aquí, lo cual no quita que me haya aburrido como ostra.
Well, I'm glad they made it here, which doesn't change the fact that I was bored stiff.
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B
Te propongo algo: la volvemos a ver el domingo y, si las manos de la abuela no te impresionan, invito los tacos.
Here's an idea: we watch it again on Sunday and, if the grandmother's hands don't impress you, the tacos are on me.
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A
Va, pero si me vuelvo a dormir, no me despiertes para contarme cuántos cuadros lleva cada parpadeo.
You're on, but if I fall asleep again, don't wake me up to tell me how many frames each blink takes.
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