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Bruno Dies
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It seems to me like the English-language internet has not yet been turned on to the fact that the screenplay for the Bolsonaro biopic (starring Jim Caviezel) has been leaked to the press. It is... a fascinating document, let's say.

Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

"She is thrown by the penetration of this" is a conundrum to me. I can't fathom how that emerges from either human hands or an LLM. It reads like a writer with only intermediate English translating an idea from another language, but the credited writers on this draft are American.

Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

This is the greatest thing I've ever seen in a screenplay—an instruction for the editor to draw the rest of the owl.

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Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

I think this is a redraft, by two American hacks, of an earlier revision of the screenplay by Brazilian not-even-a-hack Mário Frias, but many of the points of nonfunctional English don't even read like they make sense as direct calques from Portuguese. It really is remarkably illiterate.

Lino
@lino.io

Are the translators illiterate? I know why it's like that, but no one who has read a single english book would ever...