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bviously, the translator applies adaptations and hopes to use succinct words to outline the complicated story, because foreign audience cannot fully understand the meaning of the opera name. However, he does not develop his dynamic initiative to the full nor makes some adaptations on the basis of the content of the film. The English title Farewell My Concubine has nothing to do with the content of the film. Whereas, a good translation of film title entails a thorough understanding of the story. The translated name cannot bear the dignified culture content of the film, in foreign audience’s view it is only a common film about entanglement among family members. In the E-C film title translation, another lively example is American black comedy American Beauty, which owned Oscar in 1999.American people consider American Beauty as one of the best films of 1999. Its freshness and innovation of using the cinema's most powerful tool, namely the usage of visual images, make it a unique and truly wonderful film going experience. American Beauty is a meticulously written tapestry of the lives of two families living side by side in a suburban neighborhood in anywhere, USA. The story refers to the serious society phenomenon-middle age crisis in the States .But translator applies literal translation to render the title into 《美国美人》 in China mainland .Handled in this way, audience would be at loss to what is going on in this film and consider it as a female film. 《美国美人》 will mislead the Chinese audience and distort the original because Chinese lack the living background in the U.S. In fact, American Beauty is the name of a common red rose in the States. The color of that flower is scarlet which symbolizes human desire in the bottom of heart. For this, American audience can understand quickly. In contrast, Chinese audiences cannot catch the idea of idioms, popular words and slang when they come into contact with those words in film title. Therefore, 《美国美人》 can’t reflect any information about leading character from the visual angle of Chinese audience. From my point of view ,another version《美国心玫瑰情》in Taiwan province is much better. Actually the second version carries more profound thematic meaning than the first one. As mentioned above, the contextual adaptation is necessary in the process of translating film title. The translators, as reception subjects, they can apply the theory to avoid the error in translation. Film title functions as the direct channel to call upon the audience to see the film. If the significance of an art form cannot be fully realized with the presence of its receptors, the translated name is unsuccessful. [7] How are the translation skills and contextual adaptation combined? First of all, translator should fully understand the film content, because the title irrelevant to the story of film is pointless. To be faithful, the film itself is curtail to translate film title. Further more, translator should refer to the original name and analyze the possibility of it, striving for the unity between title and content. The last but not least, translator needs to analyze the cultural background of target audience as to apply appropriate translation skills. Undoubtedly, the realization of culture value lies in full understanding and transmitting the cultural information and emotion carried by the original titles, avoiding misunderstandings and misinterpretations. After getting these three points of translation, translator can handle t