Title: Blast
Director: Albert Pyun
Screenwriter: Hannah Blue
Subject: Based on one of the potential terrorist attacks thwarted
by the FBI at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Year: 1997
Cast: Linden Ashby, Andrew Divoff, Kimberly Warren, Rutger Hauer,
Sonya Eddy, Thom Mathews, Norbert Weisser, Tim Thomerson, Yuji
Okumoto
Duration: 99’
Production Company: Filmwerks, Cruel Stories Inc.
Production Country: United States
Plot: Jack Bryant, ex-Tae Kwon Do champion, is working as a
janitor at the Olympic Village in Atlanta when the U.S. women’s
swim team is taken hostage by the terrorist Omodo. Only Jack, with
the guide of the former-terrorist fighter Leo, can stop him.
Main Source Language: English
Target Dubbed Language: Italian
Target Title: Blast
Dubbing Director:.
Dubbing Actors:.
Language Varieties in ST: RP (Omodo Alal occasionally speaks with
a British accent), Foreign accent (In most scenes, Omodo has an
unplaceable accent. According to the Interpol database, his
nationality is unknown and he speaks many different languages and
dialects), GA (Jack Bryant, Leo, Diane Colton, Bill, Swimming

Team, Mayor, FBI Agent, Police Commissioner, Commando Rescuer),
African-American accent (Bena, Security Guards).

“I think Ashby is a great lead here, but we all know a good action
hero needs a good villain, so Andrew Divoff steps into that role
with a hunger for the script. He devours every line he is given
here, with a strange accent and a dialed up, over the top villain
performance that adds a lot of fun and b movie thrills to Blast”.
https://marcfusion.com/2018/08/15/blast-1997/

“Terrorists lead by Andrew Divoff, sporting an accent that I
absolutely cannot place, storm the Atlanta Aquatic Center
(actually a building in LA that was also the jail in Pyun’s MEAN
GUNS) and kidnap the US swim team.”
https://letterboxd.com/film/blast-1997/reviews/by/activity/

Function of Language Varieties in ST: Time and Place, British as
Villain.
Dubbed Language Rendition: Standard Italian
Instance Description: Diane tries to distract the terrorists to
save one of the athletes. The girl runs away but Omodo shoots her.
Instance Start Time: 1 09’ 50”
Instance Duration: 0’50’’
Instance Web Link: .

ST Instance Transcription:
Diane Colton: It’s okay. It’s okay.
Omodo Alal: Faster my dear, you’re almost there.
TT Instance Transcription:
Diane Colton: Stai tranquilla .Tranquilla.
Omodo Alal: Più veloce ragazza, ce l’hai quasi fatta.