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电影是一门艺术，吸引雅俗和大众娱乐的一种形式。电影片名是一种特殊的文本，作为一般浓度的内容和题材的影片。更重要的是，一部电影的标题应该传达丰富的文化内涵，在不同层次的目标语言。
The movie is an art appealing to both refined and popular taste and a form of mass entertainment. The movie title is also a special kind of text which acts as the general concentration on the content and theme of the movie. What’s more, the film titles should convey rich cultural connotations at different levels of the target language. The impact is beneficial to achieving not only the artistic value of the film title, which mainly plays the role of cultural transmission, but also the commercial value. He Ying classifies the functions of movie title into four types, including informative, expressive, aesthetic and vocative function. Gone with the Wind and Farewell to My Concubine exemplify the successful film titles which make lots of exotic audience love it at the first sight and be curious to watch these two films eagerly. The forth Chinese Translation published in 1997 inserted an article called “The Problems and Strategies of in the current Translation of Western Film Titles”, which is written by He Yuemin. There He Yuemin pointed out the current translation of film titles leads to confusion regrettably and gives an analysis of the reason of this situation. It also offers some practical strategies. Fortunately, her analysis is complete with some proper available strategies. https://www.51lunwen.org/zglxslw/
一件事，有一些熟语的电影的标题像酒吧的名字，所以它应该是反映中央简短而新颖的措辞电影的理想选择。它也应该吸引住了观众的眼球，第一眼看到的，体现了一定的启蒙意义。另一件事，标题是电影的商标，要求承担的宣传和推广的责任。
　 For one thing, there are some sayings that the title of the movie is like a bar, so it should reflect the central ideal of the film with brief and novel wording. It also should embody a certain enlightened significance to grip the attention of the audience at the first sight. For another thing, the title is also the trademark of the film, which asks for the undertaking of the responsibility of publicity and promotion.
　 Mao Xianhui has proposed “three methods for translating movie titles, namely literal translation, liberal translation and the combination of the two respectively.” A question may be asked that when and why literal method, liberal method or combination is supposed to be employed. And to our disappointment, they can hardly get our satisfied answer. In 2000, The Foreign Language Education by He Ying is a expressive article, in which He Ying proposed to “approach the translation of movie titles in the light of functional equivalence theory.” In 2004, Zhou Suwen and Mao Zhongming in their article claimed that the translation of movie titles is kind of treason from the perspective of functional translation theory which is advocated by German translation theories. Whatever perspective scholars take, all of their studies share only one point, that is, their orientation to discuss and solve the problem from a single perspective. Because of the common features of the movie titles, we should approach the titles from a single perspective. The suggestion that translation theorists should abandon a pure scientism attitude toward translation is proposed by Snell-Hornby. And Gentzler proposed that culture should be considered as translation units rather than the text and accordingly culture studies should be included into translation studies . So we need to practice the movie titles translation under some systematical theories on the skill of the movie titles translation. As is obviously shown, some theories can provide a new perspecti