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A subtitling stalemate


 
 The Dark Horse (2014) is a highly successful New Zealand film that exemplifies a strong
 multilingual and multicultural landscape where the Māori language and cultural concepts, as well as specific examples of New
 Zealand English co-exist within the one film. This linguistic and cultural complexity is a key part to the film, therefore
 retaining this in a translation becomes a challenging responsibility for the subtitler. This article first introduces the
 restrictions and intricacies of subtitling in general, and then analyses specific scenes from the commercial Italian subtitled
 version of The Dark Horse, highlighting the translation choices made by the subtitler when confronted with
 challenges pertaining to scenes involving multilingualism (in the form of English and Māori), culturally specific terminology (the
 use of New Zealand English idioms), as well as the representation of register for children from low socio-economic backgrounds.
 Alternative subtitles are proposed that seek to better represent the richness of the source text’s language and cultural
 references.