#minceposting

[stephdelacour]

Gay Willie Watkins jacket (so that no one mistakes me for a Republican)

[clover-clever-clove]

Gerianne... stay calm... just listen to me. Do not look behind you. Run away as fast as you can.

Just run. Run away as fast and as far as you can.

[faefox9s-incorrect-quotes]

[iseeblueprints]

being an autistic language learning enjoyer is wild because i gain a new interest and the first sign that i'm obsessed is that i start doing random translating. like it's 2am why am i attempting to translate operation mincemeat song lyrics into korean. i'm nowhere near fluent, this is definitely a thing that someone who's actually a native speaker should be doing, not me. but i'm obsessive and autistic enough that i don't care. what am i doing. what is my brain.

[regardevouslebearpolar]

i put this on my tiktok a few weeks ago when talking about just for tonight but i haven't been able to stop thinking about it (also please ignore the spelling error)

as i said, the whole show is the story of charlie through monty's eyes, but imo this song shows that the best. it's the clearest representation of montagu's entire mentality like;

the focal point of the song is not the submariners setting out on the life threatening journey across the sea, and eventually coming to realise they are in severe, actual danger, but is instead the drinking, the partying, the dancing; the fun distractions from the deadly reality below.

the submarine is, in general, considerably more important. it is currently the mission after all, the namesake of the entire musical, but that is not what gets the limelight. the bar crawl does instead. montagu convincing charles to stop worrying about the submariners, and to instead enjoy himself a little. have a break. live it up, and all that.

but, despite montagu's best efforts to sideline it, it is still there. it persists. lingers. the thoughts of his own mortality and how everything is very much on the line. and it is so very jarring. that's why he doesn't stop talking about it. every other line or so, he mentions how everything could go wrong and they could very well die tomorrow. because he just can't stop thinking about it.

under all those layers of liquor, cigarette smoke and bravado, he is absolutely terrified of what will happen if it does go wrong.

the scene just before the song begins is the first display of montagu unintentionally bringing his "walls of repression" down, so to speak, and finally being a little more vulnerable with charles. the montagu he wanted to present to the team - and in turn, the rest of mi5 - would never have said something like "the world is a mess, charlie. small flashes of joy are all any of us can hope for..."

and so, if this is the first instance of tenderness, and the alcohol is clearly starting to loosen his lips a little and bring his impenetrable guard down, it only makes sense a song in a show through his eyes would mirror that rapid decline?

the song begins with a neat, clean, jazzy rhythm, and montagu clearly taking the lead. it's a very steady pace; not too slow, but no faster than andante. montagu is still managing to hold himself together, present himself as higher, better, wiser than charles, and the only way you'd notice his fear is if you were to peer inside his head.

then, as it goes on - notably, after the first submariner interlude - it starts to unravel. it speeds up in places, odd rhythms unknown to the style are thrown in, sounds unlike the brass of the first few verses begin to make an appearance, and montagu brings up the idea of losing tomorrow once again. charles is also more present in this segment. he has more lines, takes more charge; partakes in the chorus beyond the occasional interjection expressing his discomfort. the facade is starting to slip, montagu is starting to lose control.

come the small verse between the second and third submariner interlude, montagu and charles sing together, with equal parts, and upon reaching the finale - a melting pot of wild techno, blaring horns, and jewell's sea shanty; any kind of specific genre thrown to the wayside as the inebriation prevents any kind of coherence, and the world starts to spin - charles is belting out ewen's motif above the aforementioned shanty, and above montagu + the waiters' backing vocals.

charles has begun to think the way montagu does, and montagu has given up pretending he doesn't think like charles does.

[champagnegalore]

happy tony day to jak malone and the mince folk whom I dearly hope will win something :')

[stephdelacour]

I'm gay and it's her fault 💛

[iseeblueprints]

Inspired by @saveugoodmadam I'm posting one of my attempts at an Operation Mincemeat song translation! Here's my attempt to translate Sail On Boys into Korean. If any native Korean speakers see this, please let me know of any mistakes that need to be corrected!

Operation Mincemeat 에 나오는 노래 Sail On Boys 한국어로 번역해 보려고 했어요. 실수한 부분이 있으면 알려주세요!

lyrics & translation under the cut :)

(also sorry for my singing and pronunciation, I am neither a singer or a native Korean speaker lol)

가사:

"여자 만나, 가족 꾸려라"

아버지 말해줬어

바다의 바람이 나를

끊임없이 불렀어

내게 안 맞는 농촌 생활

내게 안 맞는 평안함

예쁜 농장 소녀보다

내 맘은 파도를 향해

아래 가도 함께 가라

위로 가도 함께 가

폭풍 뚫고 항해하라

여행 곧 끝날 거야

마음을 지평선에 던져

두려움은 해변에 두어

한 번뿐인 인생을 살아

더는 바라지 않아

아래 가도 함께 가라

위로 가도 함께 가

폭풍 뚫고 항해하라

여행 곧 끝날 거야

English Translation:

"Meet a woman, start a family"

My father told me

The sea winds call me endlessly

A rural life that doesn't suit me

Comfort that doesn't suit me

Instead of the pretty farm girl

My heart is headed towards the waves

If we go down, go together

If we go up, go together

Sail on through the storm

The journey will soon be over

Cast your heart to the horizon

Leave your fear on the coast

Live your one and only life

We don't wish for anything more

If we go down, go together

If we go up, go together

Sail on through the storm

The journey will soon be over

(edit to the retranslation: for some reason I put 마음을 지평선에 던져 as "throw your heart to the horizon" - a better translation back to english for 던져 in this context would probably be "cast". i might have written out the english translation at like 2am and forgot to edit before posting lol.)