On the Translation of Culture-loaded Terms in Subtitles from the Perspective of Cultural Adaptation-A Case Study of the Overseas Promotional Film of Creation of The God: Kingdom of Storms

Nowadays, with the rapid development of the Internet, cultural TV shows and movies from various countries spread quickly online as soon as they are released. Therefore, the cultural and national image conveyed through subtitle translations of films and television becomes crucial, a point that translators should contemplate. Eco-translatology is a translation theory that originated in China. It incorporates ecological concepts to construct translation to form a new research paradigm. This paradigm emphasizes selecting translated texts based on their inherent translatability. During the translation process, efforts are made to maintain the ecological balance of the original text in the target language. This approach aims to ensure that the translation and the original text achieve a comparable ecological equilibrium. This paper analyzes the English subtitles in the overseas propaganda film of Creation of The God: Kingdom of Storms from the perspective of cultural adaptation and selection in the theory of eco-translatology. This theory is then utilized to illustrate how to handle English translations of culturally loaded words in subtitle translation.