Study on Subtitle Translation of Legend of Deification from the Perspective of Skopos Theory

Subtitle, as an important element of the film, is a window to help viewers deepen their understanding of film works. Subtitle translation wields an essential impact on intercultural communication. The purpose of this study is to analyze the English translation of the subtitles of the Chinese fantasy animated film Legend of Deification from Skopos theory. The results show that in view of the large number of allusions, ancient poems, proverbs, idioms, dialects and other culturally loaded words involved in the film. Hence, the translators should appropriately adopt literal translation, liberal translation, foreignization, domestication, addition and omission translation strategies and other translation methods to correctly convey information to the target audience. Finally, this study will provide some suggestions and possible measures for subtitle translation, and also appeal to domestic scholars to put premium on the subtitle translation of films containing traditional Chinese culture, and hope that the research results can be conducive to the existing domestic film subtitle translation industry and the development of traditional Chinese culture.