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Subtitling the Unknowable: How Textual Representation Shapes the Viewer's Fear of the "Other" 1. Introduction

: Research from platforms like Stack Exchange notes that the 2011 prequel's English subtitles for Danish and Norwegian lines were often criticized for being inaccurate or poorly localized. The Thing subtitles English

: Discuss the famous opening scene where a Norwegian pilot yells at the American crew. For most English-speaking audiences, this is just "yelling," but for Norwegian speakers, he literally screams, "Get the hell away! That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing!" . this is just "yelling