The mysterious art of translating from English to... very bad English.
Translating film titles is something of an arcane art. With the exception of 2006's Snakes on a Plane, a lot of thought goes into choosing a name for a movie that succinctly sums up its premise but also sounds good, captures the attention of potential viewers and sells the film.
for some *ridiculous* reason the french love to translate movie titles from english to... englishhere's a thread with my all-time favorites, starting with"the hangover"...i mean VERY BAD TRIP pic.twitter.com/YoPzIb0pq1A designer on Twitter has pointed out that such English-to-English translation is big in France, where many Hollywood films are given titles that read like very blunt plot summaries... a little like Snakes on a Plane.
In his posters for French movie titles, Titanic becomes 'Very Bad Ship', Batman is renamed 'Sexy Bat', The 40-year-old virgin is simply 'No Sex Man'... and Twilight? 'Sexy Vampire', obviously.
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