Re rewriting

[Gary Leach]

Frank:

> If a careful publisher wants to publish a good story and receives a  
> poor translation of it, the correct solution is not to reinvent  
> some random new dialogue for it (particularly if written by someone  
> who can't even read and appreciate the original story) but to  
> commission a better *translation*.

This, however, is precisely what is restricted by the constraints on  
time, budget and staff of a small publishing house. And quite a lot  
of scripts we get, particularly these days, are not translations, but  
English scripts by the writers themselves, so there's nothing from  
which to get anything "better".

We don't just "Americanize" scripts of non-American writers, either.  
Even American writers have to strive for a degree of idiomatic  
neutrality when writing for Egmont and Disney Italy, and this can  
result in as flat a dialogue script as anything from a non-American.  
While these rarely call for a full-scale rewrite (in fact, I don't  
recall any that required it), the editing that has to be done on some  
of them can come fairly close.

Gary
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