If a virtual private party is more your thing, go here for details. How movie titles get lost in translation atlas obscura. Here are some of the funniest and most surreal examples. Guess the 50 movie names from emoticons and smileys. Movies with the word dirty in the title list challenges. Some of the most famous films in hollywood history started out with original movie titles entirely different from what they have now. Hidden inside a smartphone, the bustling city of textopolis is home to all emojis. A similar trend happened with the word ace and its all jim carreys fault. All the films in this quiz were in the imdb top 250 as of january 3, 2011.
Full of attitude, bad puns, icky imagery, and sheer lunacy, a goodbad horror title is a work of art and is often better than the actual movie. French are not so good with english, so they like to. Old movie titles collection unique photoshop addons. A teenagers faith is tested when she becomes pregnant by her gay boyfriend. You can go for a literal wordforword translation, try to describe. Every wonder why american movies have such odd titles in france. There seem to be several strategies when translating the name of a film into another language, and none of them work perfectly. O movie titles beginning with o alphabetical index. Hollywood movie titles in france are often given easier english substitutes to make them more accessible to french audiences, instead of simply being translated into french. At the same time, these titles have a variety of structures to ensure that you can find the most suitable title. Hilarious french translations of hollywood movie titles feelguide. As the author of the study writes, it would have been more logical to use the french book title le liseur but the team in charge of choosing the movie title feared that it might sound too intellectual and would not convey the dramatic tension. This list has movies that have only one word, one single solitary word, in its title.
In english, the first word of a proper title and all subsequent words, except short articles, conjunctions and prepositions, are capitalized. The film or miniseries must be concerned with world war ii or the war of ethiopia and the sinojapanese war and include events which feature as. Movie titles ag also see my ebay listings hr and sz these are preowned dvds in very good condition. Some horror movie titles are ridiculous the incredibly strange creatures who stopped living and became mixedup zombies, and others are awesome the texas chainsaw massacre, but a select few are ridiculously awesome. Thats not a photoshop, by the way the french name for that movie is seriously a different english name but with the word sex in it. Fifty movie names were written using only messaging icons. Using the options below you can combine a variety of the types of information we catalog to create extremely specific searches. Imdbs advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Not only does it feature in the title of almost every jim carey movie. Movies two word title movies movies tagged as two word title by the listal community sort by. Sometimes, english ones are replaced with other english titles. Regarding the two movie titles, they are not typos, alas. Tag popularity top rated top rated popular want to watch release date recently wanted date added.
What are some movies with the word movie in the title. The rules are more complicated in french, and the table below examines three schools of thought regarding french capitalization of titles and names. This is a list of fictional feature films or miniseries which feature events of world war ii in the narrative. Study famous movies french titles flashcards from ike wilsons yale university class. Psycho of alfred hitchcock, never fear of ida lupino and other icons are have inspired us to create this professional addons collection and imbue it with the suspense of a genuine retro drama. Most popular six word title movies and tv shows imdb. Can you name the movie titles from their french titles.
Mla titles how to format and capitalize source titles. French are not so good with english, so they like to translate movie titles. We have collected more than 100,000 titles, including all kinds of book names, whether it is fantasy or crime, or mystery, scifi, or romance, you can find very suitable names. There is a separate list of world war ii tv series. A little list of movies that have the word dirty in their title. Hollywood movie titles in france are often given easier english substitutes to make them more accessible to french audiences, instead of. I never took french either, and scored 17, but some of them were pretty obvious what other movie titles contain the words oz, orange, or pi. I can t fault this one, you cant put two idioms together and hope they. Culture shock in france very bad american movie titles. Many sarcastic french bloggers have been listing translated titles that appear to be. Recall that the french word beaupere means fatherinlaw. Pet detective, the chinese title used the characters wangpai, which literally mean king card. Why did they have to change eurotrip to sex trip i think french people understand the word euro.
The french understand the word friends and the word sex. No strings attached posters from quebec, france and united states you may not know this but in france and in quebec, not all movie titles are translated. At other times a title is left in english but modified because of a tricky expression or word harsh times bad times, step up sexy dance, or a. Test your knowledge on this movies quiz to see how you do and compare your score to others. I only copiedpasted the localized imdb display title. Want canadian horror movies of the 1970s that at least 100 imdb users have given an average rating above a 6. Activity working out the titles of familiar films in french and matching them with the english title. Unraveling the mystery of capitalizing french titles. Emoticons and emojis have become a language all its own. Play sporcle s virtual live trivia to have fun, connect with people, and get your trivia on. Thats technically correct, but its asking for a 1946 film. The only reason i got star wars is because my mothers middle name was etoile and i knew it meant star.
Each emoji has only one facial expression, except for gene, an exuberant emoji with multiple expressions. Complete a puzzle in 4 minutes or less 30 times this week. Can you translate the movie names written in this new language. A testing organization showed a poster to 500 people with the title the reader and another one. This book title generator can generate book titles. Im a little obsessed with bad translations of movie titles so much so i named my book after one of them. The greatest list of 100 completely random movie titles. Join a live hosted trivia game for your favorite pub trivia experience done virtually. When film titles get translated into other languages, the results can get downright weird. This is a list of films produced in the french cinema, ordered by year and decade of release on separate pages. Sometimes the title is long and sometimes the title is short. For an alphabetical list of french films see category. The french revolution oversimplified part 2 youtube.