As the title says, what were the words that the people in the prison chanted when anyone attempted to climb out of it? What language was it in?
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The prisoners we chanting "Deshi Basara", which is Arabic for "He Rises".ref |
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As you can hear around 1:04 in the trailer, the chant is:
The film-makers used UJAM to solicit hundreds of tracks from fans to make what you hear in the movie. The phonetic transliteration they put there was:
It is reportedly Moroccan Arabic, and it's translated as "he rises" or "rise up" (cite) -- although tvtropes.com says it literally means "come quickly". Here's a bit from an interview with Hans Zimmer about the chant. |
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on wikipedia, it says the phrase they used in arabic was 'teejee b'sur3a', so they came a long way to end up with 'deshi basara'. yes, it does mean 'come quickly', which is a bit silly really. it isn't necessarily moroccan arabic, anyone would understand that phrase, except the chant used in the movie sounds nothing like it |
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It can mean many different things in many different languages but the most obvious one are the arabic words "Desi Basara" which translate to He Rises. I am not arabic but I have put a great deal of linguistic research into my conclusion |
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