I watch a lot of partial movies on AMC while I am working out. Depending on the elliptical machine, I often have closed captioning automatically turned on for the film.
It turns out that the captioning can be quite amusing, particularly when it comes to captioning the sounds in a movie.
How a deaf person is supposed to interpret the description of a sound that he or she has never heard before is beyond my understanding, but the descriptions are still fun and often provide an additional level of entertainment to the film.
While watching a western this week, I saw the following captions:
Sonorous beer fizzing (used just prior to a gunfight)
Frisking about (used to describe the unseen activity taking place in the saloon below the protagonist’s bedroom)
How drinking, gambling, shouting and piano playing became frisking about is also beyond my comprehension.
Ominous hammer cock (used to describe the thumbing back of the hammer on a pistol prior to firing, though the description certainly allows for a variety of interpretations)
