And my personal favorite (although I have to confess that I wouldn't pay any amount of money to see this film):
By contrast, the titles of Inception, Night and Day, Salt, Twelve, and Toy Story 3 are exactly the same in France as in the original.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
Time for another round of curious translations of American movie titles into French. Interestingly, some of these movies are being released contemporaneously; others were released in the U.S. back in January and are only now showing in France.
And my personal favorite (although I have to confess that I wouldn't pay any amount of money to see this film):
By contrast, the titles of Inception, Night and Day, Salt, Twelve, and Toy Story 3 are exactly the same in France as in the original.
And my personal favorite (although I have to confess that I wouldn't pay any amount of money to see this film):
By contrast, the titles of Inception, Night and Day, Salt, Twelve, and Toy Story 3 are exactly the same in France as in the original.
I'm guessing they went with "Be Bad" because of the success of "Very Bad Trip" (i.e. "The Hangover" in VO). It looks like the pick of the litter, if you ask me!
ReplyDeletesexy dance...that's funny....en 3D...a bad movie is a bad movie ..doesn't matter the title
ReplyDeletehave a good weekend.
ooooooo dear.
ReplyDeletei have to go with sexy dance as my pick for the worst translation.
i wonder how they go about choosing the translation (especially english to english).
And remember Sister Act, starring Whoopi Goldberg? In France, it became Rock'n Nonne !!
ReplyDeleteNot in France, no. It was Sister Act. Rock'n Nonne was the title for Québec.
ReplyDeleteHere are some teen movies titles that were changed for France :
- Cruel Intentions -> Sexe Intentions (but "Cruelles Intentions "when it aired on TF1 ages ago)
- Euro Trip -> Sex Trip
- Not Another Teen Movie -> Sex Academy (I see a theme there...)
- Bring it on -> American Girls
- Mean Girls -> Lolita malgré moi