The worldwide subtitling and dubbing of 8 Mile, a film that documents EminemвЂ™s early breakthrough as a rap artist (United International Pictures 2002, director: Curtis Hanson, featuring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy and Mekhi Phifer), was an especially well-supervised procedure. According to this study, the severe policy of some local UIP offices may have hindered the quality of subtitling in some countries. The translators were given a lot of material support (e.g., a detailed вЂdialogue listвЂ™) but their work was also strictly controlled and limited. The worldwide subtitling and dubbing of 8 Mile was an especially well-supervised procedure. The rap sections of the film present many вЂtext-specific translation problemsвЂ™ (Nord), which become even more troublesome in the context of subtitling, as the translator has space for less text. The findings are based on a stylistic comparison of the Finnish, French and Russian subtitled versions of 8 Mile, a film that tells about EminemвЂ™s early breakthrough as a rap artist (UIP, 2002). This article argues that when striving for quality in subtitling, special attention should be paid to the requirements of competence not only when recruiting translators, but also when recruiting local managers and subtitling co-ordinators.

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