Entertainment/ Cinema & Television / Spanish
Warner Bros. & MartéTV

The first 10 episodes of several novellas were translated and subtitled by the Language Department

Sirena
Piel,
La Traidora
Divina Obsesión,
La Loba Herida

among others.

The purpose: selling Venezuelan soap operas to Eastern European countries.

Produced: RomanSound Intl.
Translated by: Evangeline Thompson, Paul Elwood, David Oldak

ENGLISH EXCERPT ENGLISH EXCERPT

"SIRENA" FROM MARTE TV
VENEZUELA

CHAPTER 2
Subtitled version
(Numbers indicate in/out points)

The town's playboy turns down the opportunity to manage his inheritance.

Your parents
2910\2911
These portraits reflect the only
things I know about them
2914\2917
You were less than 1 year old
when they died
2918\2921
First, your mother, Eucaris.
2922\2924
Shortly afterward,
the accident,
2924\2926
that killed your father and
his second wife at sea
2926\2928
The sea...
2930\2931
Must be why I'm attracted to it,
and in port, only to women
2933\2939
You have a house, a fortune. You
could stay, call something home. Marry
2941\2947
This house has nothing
to do with me,
2951\2954
and as for marriage...I'm not fit
for marriage, kids, getting fat,
2956\3001
sharing my life with only 1 woman?
No, no, no
3002\3005
The world is full of hot,
beautiful babes...
3005\3008
So, it's not in my plans
to marry
3008\3012
Here's the document wherein you're
named executor of your inheritance
3015\3020
You can do with it
what you will
3022\3024
I always knew you'd return
for your money one day
3024\3027
I've no interest in managing
the fortune either
3039\3042
You've done it until now
3042\3044
The annual reports and rent money
you send satisfy me
3044\3048
By the way, I'm going to ask for
a cost of living increase
3048\3053
But not enough to disable the system
of investments and earnings
3053\3059
I don't understand...I thought
you were returning to...
3100\3103
Returning to...have fun
in this port city,
3103\3107
to ensure that you're well,
that business prospers
3108\3112
to rejoice in this city
of beautiful women
3113\3117


"SIRENA" FROM MARTE TV
VENEZUELA

CHAPTER 3
Subtitled version

Juan describes his love for Sirena, the soap's protagonist, to Tita.

Sirena is the prettiest girl
I've known in my life, Tita
0424\0427
She's like a beach at night,
starlit and bathed by a full moon
0427\0433
her aroma grows stronger when
one sits in the sand to dream
0434\0438
-You're sure in love with Sirena.
-Yes, but love takes two
0439\0444
Wasn't it you who sent her
that note?
0445\0448
No, please! I'm incapable
of hurting Sirena
0448\0451
I don't understand why...why she
looked at you that way,
0451\0454
and still you defended her against
my brother at the restaurant...
0454\0456
...If she doesn't love you,
why did you do it?
0456\0459
Look...
0459\0500
I would've done the same for you,
if necessary
0500\0503
Really?
0506\0507
Sure! Besides, Sirena and I
were raised together
0507\0511
But what I feel for her isn't
the most important thing
0511\0515
The important thing is that
she's common folk like me
0515\0518
I like what you say,
it's so beautiful
0518\0521
I wish I'd have someone
to fight for like you
0521\0523
Sirena tells me that you love
your brother
0524\0527
Yes, but more like a father figure
0535\0537
He makes mistakes, too, Tita
0542\0544
Seeing him treat Sirena so poorly,
is too painful, it's as if someone…
0544\0548
poured acid deep inside me
0548\0551
My brother isn't mean
0551\0553
He might not be mean but
he's wrong about Sirena
0553\0557
She… would never betray him
0557\0559
I'd like to believe you
0601\0603
Sirena is kind, Tita, noble
0605\0608
I could never fall in love with
another woman; she's my life
0609\0615