Stramash23 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 2:12 pm The subtitles. Like seriously, wtf? They seriously screwed these up with parts where English was spoken but not matching the subtitles, and lots of the Khmer to subtitles being wrong too (according to my better half). Then you have Tharoth Sam who cannot speak English in the first half of the film, suddenly managing to find time to learn some half way through!

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:53 am

yeah the subtitles were questionable at times,

tbh i think the only time Tharoth spoke English was in the French/Khmer guys vision of him kissing him and her saying "i was very worried about you" , he doesnt speak Khmer and its his dream so thats why, the rest of the time she only speaks Khmer,
there was one time though where they messed up, he doesnt understand Khmer as hes supposedly from France, and there is one scene where Tharoth said something to him in Khmer and he magically understood and responded in English

SuperStabwound wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:33 pm Looks interesting and full of action... Ill try to find it with spanish subs

Artful Dodger wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 5:20 am

SuperStabwound wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:33 pm Looks interesting and full of action... Ill try to find it with spanish subs

Spanish subtitle file here -
http://subtitlecat.com/subtitles/Jailbr ... (1)-es.srt

Stramash23 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:41 pm

Artful Dodger wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 5:20 am

SuperStabwound wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:33 pm Looks interesting and full of action... Ill try to find it with spanish subs

Spanish subtitle file here -
http://subtitlecat.com/subtitles/Jailbr ... (1)-es.srt

Be interesting to know how bad the Spanish subs are when the English ones are so awful

This is the set of the Italian Jimmy Henderson’s new film The Prey – capitalising on the success of his 2017 Cambodian action debut Jailbreak, by all accounts the first action feature film in the country and one of the first local productions to be made available on Netflix. Henderson and his team have their sights set even higher for their new production. An all-star international cast – Chinese national boxing champion Gu Sheng Wei plays the lead role as an undercover policeman, internationally known Thai actor Vithaya Pansringarm plays a prison warden and Jailbreak’s Cambodian actors Dara Our and Dy Sonita return for a second time – making the film trilingual. Henderson explained how, unlike Jailbreak, they are directly targeting foreign markets, the first local production to do so.

“This allows the industry to grow,” he said. “People start paying more attention. You have more investors coming in to make films here, and then you create more employment, [and] with more employment you create more knowledge. If you’re stuck just doing the very low-budget [films], the industry will stay where it is. The mission is to prove [ourselves] to the outside – we have the technical skills to do this, and then everything else will grow.”

The goal is to make a film that will appeal to Thai and especially Chinese sentiments, said Henderson. China’s film market is the second biggest in the world, after Hollywood. “We hope big,” he said. “[It] would be the first Cambodian film ever to show theatrically in China.”

For the Prey team, the marketing of the film will be just as big a beast as the production side of things. Working within an industry that for years has been restricted to formulaic horror or comedy films – proven successes among Cambodian audiences – very deliberate marketing choices ensured that Jailbreak would still have some commercial appeal.

“This is our approach,” said Henderson. “We thought about how we [could] break into the market with an action movie. So we started adding more comedy and we started thinking about gathering stars, local comedians that the people know… The idea really was to make something different, to push the industry in a different direction.”

For filmmakers in Cambodia, it becomes necessary to build trust between not only filmmaker and investor – to prove that their product is commercially viable – but filmmaker and cinemagoer, to encourage them to accept something new and different. This is a marketing point that other local productions, especially those that have tried but failed to emulate Jailbreak’s formula and success, are yet to come to grips with, said Loy Te, producer of both The Prey and its predecessor.