Translating the title of Chinese psychological movies

Abstract

Foreign film industry including Chinese movies has occupied a special place in the heart of Vietnamese viewers and this draws people’s attention to the movie translation. During the process of movie translation, the translated titles must reflect closely the titles in the source language and must also appeal to the viewers. An analysis of the current movie translation shows that title, after translated, is somewhat irrelevant to the source language and is far from related to the message of movie. In this article, some methods and techniques such as survey, statistics, analysis, compare-contrast, and the translated titles collected from contemporary Chinese psychological movies, are used to point out the advantages and disadvantages of movie title translation, and to make some suggestions with the purpose of enhancing the quality of translating Chinese psychological movies in general and translating movie titles in particular in Vietnam.