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Discover the intriguing realm of Gen Z's Harry Potter translations and uncover the ridiculous movie mistakes you didn't notice before.
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00:00Here's a quick test to see if you're cringe.
00:03You used to have a Tamagotchi.
00:05You say things such as adulting.
00:09You read all the Harry Potter books in the original form.
00:13You think your Harry Potter house is an important personality trait.
00:18If you said yes to any of these questions, you're probably a millennial.
00:23But wait a minute.
00:24Did anyone notice I said reading Harry Potter in its original form?
00:28Is there any other?
00:30Yes, my friends, there is.
00:32The Harry Potter books find themselves in the middle of a heated generational debate.
00:36While millennials grew up with the books and their characters,
00:40Gen Z doesn't seem to get what all the buzz is about.
00:43Until some Gen Z-er decided to translate the Harry Potter series into their own language.
00:48And by language, I mean their slang.
00:50The way youngsters communicate, or better yet, text each other nowadays.
00:55Let's take a look at what I mean by that.
00:58The first chapter of the very first Harry Potter book is originally called The Boy Who Lived.
01:04But after it's been twisted and tweaked into Gen Z vocabulary, the chapter is called The Boy Who Wasn't Unalived.
01:11The translation goes on to describe that the Dursley family are very basic, thank you.
01:17It also says things like sus and all facts, no printer.
01:20To save you the trouble of googling what these terms mean, sus is short for suspicious.
01:25And all facts, no printer is slang for that's the truth.
01:30Dumbledore's first appearance is pretty funny, especially if you consider how serious this character is in the original storyline.
01:37The translator described him as being tall, thin, and very old with a boss beard long enough to tuck into
01:43his belt.
01:44And ends the description by saying,
01:48The whole thing is pretty comedic, and a lot of users commented, saying they desperately searched for where they could
01:54buy their own copy.
01:56Unfortunately for many, you can't buy the translation, as only bits of it were translated into the Gen Z dialect.
02:02But, you can have fun reading a bit of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Ratios, and Harry Potter and
02:09the Chug Jug of Fire.
02:11And yep, they're as bizarre as they sound.
02:14You see, a lot of the Gen Z dialect was developed as a way to escape being detected by algorithms.
02:20You gotta hand it to them, they're good at surfing the web.
02:23The thing is, if you're not a Gen Zer, you'll probably need a dictionary to understand what they mean though.
02:29Well, maybe it's time for millennials to face the harsh truth behind all of this.
02:33They are not digital natives.
02:36Sure, the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by a fancy CERN scientist known as Tim Berners Lee.
02:42And technically, you're considered a millennial if you were born from 1981 to 1996.
02:48But the internet only became a part of millennials' daily lives around 1991.
02:54This meant that millennials had to learn how to navigate this entirely new world around their late teens.
03:01Most millennials had computer classes in schools where they learned how to type on a keyboard and how to write
03:06an email.
03:07They had to be alphabetized in this new language.
03:10Things most Gen Zers will find totally cringe.
03:14After all, they were born knowing how to operate smartphones and tablets like the back of their hands.
03:20But what does Harry Potter have to do with all of this?
03:24To understand that, we need some context.
03:27The Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series, came out in 1997.
03:33Both teen and kid millennials got extremely caught up in the whole wizardry world fantasy.
03:39Up until J.K. Rowling's last Harry Potter book, which came out in 2007.
03:44I mean, that's a decade of millennials' lives, you guys.
03:47So even if they didn't have the internet at full speed, they had potions and spells and mystery to fill
03:53in their afternoons.
03:55Plus, when the internet first became a thing, people were instructed not to trust it too much.
04:01Millennials were taught not to share their personal information online, not to reveal their true identities.
04:07I mean, who knew what this new cyber thing was?
04:10The fear of what could be lurking in the shadows of the internet was an incentive for people to create
04:15online personalities.
04:17They could be whoever they wanted to be out there on the World Wide Web.
04:21Slowly but surely, in 2003, millennials' first widespread social media appeared.
04:27It was called MySpace, and it was like a proto-Facebook.
04:31MySpace reached a million active monthly users.
04:34That seems like nothing compared to the 1.1 billion TikTok users worldwide, but it was a lot for the
04:41early 2000s.
04:43It had a space for you to briefly describe yourself, a mini-bio where most people would put a quote
04:48from their favorite 90s rock band.
04:50People had to be creative in order to describe themselves without revealing too much personal information.
04:56So that's when they started saying they were a Hufflepuff, or a Gryffindor.
05:00This way, everyone would understand and automatically identify you as part of a certain group.
05:06There were two ways of finding out which Harry Potter house you belonged to.
05:10The first one was someone's personal identification with a Harry Potter book character.
05:16Maybe you were a rebellious teenager with a tendency to identify with antagonist characters, such as Draco Malfoy.
05:24Plus, you didn't like Harry all that much, so your natural house would be Slytherin.
05:30The other way was taking a BuzzFeed quiz, something millennials would say was the most accurate of diagnostics.
05:37Sure, you would probably cheat your way to getting to wear the Gryffindor emblem.
05:40In the end, all that mattered was that it meant you were bold, honorable, and brave.
05:46You see, at the start of the internet, millennials were encouraged to seek anonymity.
05:51So it also made sense if their lives weren't 100% online.
05:56Today, Gen Zers want visibility.
05:58They want to show their faces, their dancing skills, their comedic traits, and have their videos shared by millions of
06:04people on TikTok.
06:06They want to showcase every aspect of their lives on the web like they're themselves the main characters of their
06:12own reality shows.
06:13This difference is often called a generational gap.
06:17You know, specifically in the ways each generation deals with the online world.
06:22Today, Gen Zers seem to have the time of their life making fun of millennials.
06:27They don't get why millennials love the TV show Friends so much, and why they feel the constant need to
06:33say how much they love coffee and pizza.
06:37Apparently, millennials make exaggerated use of emojis, up to the point that it gets cringy.
06:42If you're a millennial, you're also an avid Pinterest user.
06:46You've probably decorated your house with the help of this social media and your pins are responsible for your aesthetic.
06:52But as far as youngsters say, Pinterest made millennials love rose gold and marble way more than they should.
06:59Oh, and then there's something Gen Zers call millennial humor.
07:03A hot TikTok trend of the moment is Gen Zers making fun of their predecessors' cringe humor.
07:10Several users have gone viral for mocking millennials and their love for musical parodies.
07:15The insane amount of avocado they put on toasts and the posting pictures with the caption, I did a thing.
07:21In Gen Zers' defense, some musical parodies produced by millennial users do make you want to cringe.
07:27Does coffee shop bop ring any bells?
07:30Another generational gap trend is what the younger generations are calling the millennial pause.
07:36And if you're a millennial, this one might even sound a bit hurtful.
07:40According to youngsters, a lot of millennial influencers begin their videos with a short pause that shows they're unsure whether
07:46the video has already started recording or not.
07:49Even Taylor Swift has been accused of this generational trait.
07:53Some millennials are trying to stand up for themselves and are saying that what is being called a millennial humor
07:59is only a small fraction of millennial content on social media.
08:04Some are saying that the content Gen Zers are making fun of belongs to specific social groups and is not
08:10representative of all millennials.
08:12Sure, unless it's about Harry Potter.
08:15Maybe that's the topic that evens out all those born until 96.
08:20You know, movies and TV series cost tens and hundreds of millions of dollars.
08:25Teams of thousands of people work hard to show exciting stories to the audience.
08:29It's not surprising that at such a scale, film crews sometimes make mistakes during the process.
08:36Oh, really?
08:37Perhaps one of the most famous fails occurred during a dinner in Westeros after a battle with frozen zombies.
08:44The medieval atmosphere at the party was spoiled by a modern cup of coffee.
08:49But don't blame the creators.
08:51It was one of the hardest shooting periods in the whole Game of Thrones series.
08:55The team was exhausted by the long filming.
08:58Fans' expectations weighed heavily on the crew.
09:01No wonder nobody noticed the coffee.
09:03But viewers saw it right away and spread it all over the internet.
09:08The end of the first century of our era, the Roman Empire.
09:12Marcus Aurelius.
09:14Gladiatorial fights in the Colosseum.
09:16Horses and chariots.
09:17Swords, spears, and shields.
09:19A canister of gasoline.
09:20Wait, what?
09:22Even a multi-million dollar historical blockbuster can make a mistake.
09:26But you can't hide it from the audience.
09:28However, this piece of modern civilization didn't spoil the excellent Gladiator movie at all.
09:34But now we know how the directors made chariots go so fast.
09:39Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope, gave us the perfect cosmic sci-fi world.
09:45There are laser sword battles, starship races, blasters, and civilizations from other planets.
09:50And sometimes, random funny incidents on the set that got into the final cut.
09:55Pay attention to this stormtrooper.
09:57His day definitely didn't work out.
10:00Do you think the director left this scene in on purpose or just didn't notice it?
10:04The stormtrooper did it unnoticed in the background.
10:07Unlike Gandalf.
10:09In the first part of The Lord of the Rings, the famous wizard crashed into the ledge in such a
10:13funny way
10:14that director Peter Jackson decided to leave this scene.
10:18Actor Ian McKellen really hit his head because he didn't notice this protrusion.
10:23This fall, from the movie The Martian, got into the final cut intentionally.
10:28It's impossible to miss this.
10:30Actor Donald Grover accidentally slipped on the floor.
10:33This is the case where a random detail adds more personality to the character.
10:38Now this one doesn't look like a mistake at all.
10:40Everything is done within the framework of the comedy genre.
10:44But all the same, this is a real failure.
10:46Star-Lord, played by Chris Pratt in the first Guardians of the Galaxy, really dropped the sphere.
10:52But he reacted perfectly, pretending that it was intentional.
10:57Remember the movie The Usual Suspects?
11:00It shocked the audience so much with an unexpected twist in the finale that almost no one noticed this epic
11:06mistake.
11:06While some film crews forget to remove cups of coffee or tanks of gasoline, the team of this movie chose
11:13to get rid of two turbines of a giant airplane.
11:16Take a closer look.
11:17Now it has four engines, and in a couple of seconds, there are just two.
11:22How do you think this could happen?
11:24Write your answers in the comments.
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11:29Now, a fail doesn't always mean someone falling or the director not noticing some detail on the screen.
11:35A fail can happen during an actor's speech.
11:38Remember that tender scene from Titanic?
11:41Leonardo DiCaprio was very nervous there and said,
11:44Over on the bed, the couch.
11:46This phrase wasn't in the script.
11:48He had to say, over the couch.
11:50But he misspoke and pronounced the bed first.
11:53And it sounded much better this way.
11:55Here, a mistake emphasized his shyness.
12:00Speaking of Titanic, when the ship begins to sink, Rose goes to help Jack.
12:05To save him, she breaks the glass and pulls out an emergency axe.
12:10Take a look at this moment again.
12:12Do you notice anything strange?
12:14The scene is so expertly edited that it's difficult to see the glass reappearing on the box.
12:19This is the real magic of cinema.
12:21Meanwhile, Al Pacino, in the drama Scent of a Woman, got so used to the role of the blind colonel
12:27that he really crashed into a garbage can.
12:30It wasn't in the script.
12:31It seems that the actor deliberately closed his eyes so as to not see anything and feel his character better.
12:37It was so natural for the role that the director left the scene in the final cut.
12:43Queen Marie Antoinette of France ruled in the 18th century.
12:46In 2005, director Sofia Coppola made a movie about this historic figure.
12:51The picture shows us the glamorous life of Versailles, the carefree youth of the heiress to the royal throne.
12:57Fancy outfits, chic interiors, aristocratic aesthetics, and converse shoes.
13:03Of course, this looks like a serious fail for the filmmakers who tried to recreate France of the 18th century.
13:09But just look at how these modern shoes fit the picture's aesthetics.
13:13The filmmakers admitted they had included this scene in the editing on purpose, just for fun.
13:18Now, some fails immediately catch your eye, and some are so inconspicuous that even the filmmakers don't see them.
13:26Only viewers sometimes notice these mistakes.
13:29One of them happened in the teen vampire drama Twilight.
13:32Most people couldn't take their eyes off the main characters.
13:35But someone discovered this almost invisible fail.
13:38Look at the car window, and you'll see the microphone of the sound engineer in the reflection.
13:44A small fail was spotted in Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man.
13:48Remember how Peter Parker had fun with the web in a small room?
13:52He smashed a table lamp.
13:53But then, after a few seconds, the lamp reappeared in the same place, safe and sound.
13:59Or is it another lamp?
14:01But if so, why would Parker need two identical lamps?
14:05Now, the movie Pretty Woman also has a small failure.
14:08Take a look at these shots, and try to guess what's wrong here.
14:12Julia Roberts is eating a croissant.
14:15But a few seconds later, she's holding a pancake.
14:18Perhaps she finished the first treat and immediately took the second.
14:21But it seems to be too fast, even for a very hungry person.
14:26Clint Eastwood's drama American Sniper shows us a scene where Bradley Cooper's character picks up a baby.
14:32The viewer can immediately notice that it's a doll.
14:34However, the moment becomes even stranger when Cooper begins to move the doll's hand with his finger to show that
14:41the baby is alive.
14:42Despite all the drama of the movement, this fail makes the scene quite funny.
14:47Now, do you remember this duel between Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
14:54The action scene was so dynamic and intense that the audience probably didn't notice an extra character in the frame.
15:01When Severus Snape was helping Draco to get up, a guy with blonde hair was watching them from the left
15:07side of the screen.
15:08The guy was a film operator, and he seems to be holding a large camera in his hands.
15:13Do you remember the very first The Fast and the Furious?
15:16The one that didn't break the laws of physics and didn't have any cars in space?
15:21But still, the audience noticed a pretty strange fail.
15:24During a race in the desert, one of the drivers was wearing a black shirt.
15:28All the buttons were buttoned up.
15:30But then, a couple of shots later, he was already wearing a black t-shirt.
15:34It's unlikely that he took his clothes off while driving.
15:37The race was quite intense, and he wouldn't want to get distracted.
15:41Now, we all know that Batman is a dangerous superhero that thieves and robbers are afraid of.
15:47But come on!
15:48He's not powerful enough to knock a big guy down with air.
15:51Look closely at this man on the left in The Dark Knight Rises.
15:55He doesn't even think of fighting.
15:57Nevertheless, he just falls to the ground while his friends are catching punches from Batman.
16:02It is possible that he realized that he would lose in this fight, so he decided to give up as
16:07soon as possible.
16:08But, of course, this fail was missed by the director and the editor.
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