The Life
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The Halo 3 Live Action Trailer is a live-action short made exclusively for the launch of Halo 3: ODST. The trailer along with the upcoming short film is directed by Rupert Sanders, who also worked on the Halo 3: Believe campaign.[1].
This short showcases the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, an elite organization of UNSC Marines, focusing on the 19th Shock Troops Battalion during their operations in the Human-Covenant War.
Overview
The film starts with a military funeral held for SSGT K. Stark, with a young Tarkov watching, and then shows his recruitment and basic training to enlist as a Marine. Later, the video skips to a combat drop as Tarkov, now an ODST in an insertion pod, dropping towards a Covenant-held battlefield on an unknown planet, where he quickly encounters a Brute and is nearly killed, acquiring wounds to his face. The Brute closes in for the kill as Tarkov fires his pistol, but is killed by a crashing Banshee, saving Tarkov's life. The scene skips ahead to Tarkov again, now several years older, the wounds on his face having become scars. He and a number of other ODST's hold a small service for a fallen comrade killed during combat, and hear a distant explosion and plasma fire in the distance. Forced to abandon the service, the ODST's put their helmets back on and move out.
Trivia
- The Marines speak a form of Russian, a language not commonly seen or used previously in the Halo universe. This is possibly due to translations software translating it based on the language of the user. That way, ODSTs can spend more time training than learning different languages.
- Russians are famous for having ridiculously painful and hard training, such as punching each other so they get used to pain. That's also how you can tell the people in the video are from Russia.
Translation of the dialogue
The language in the trailer is a form of Russian. Tarkov in Russian means demon Here is what is said:
Trainer: Present arms!
Trainer: FIRE!
Trainer when hair is shaved "We are ODST's!"
Trainer when yelling during obstacle course: "Do you want to die! Do you! Faster! Go go go!"
The song roughly translates to: "And my army of brothers went over the hilltops, drenched in blood we may be.... but fighting is all left to me....together with my army of brothers...down we fall....darkness in all..through hell!"
