{"id":402,"date":"2008-03-28T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=402"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:57:31","slug":"wacky-german-movie-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/28\/wacky-german-movie-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky German Movie Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Would you go see a movie called <strong>The Incredible Journey In A Crazy Airplane<\/strong>? How about <strong>Floppy Coppers Don&#8217;t Bite<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>These are just two examples of bizarre title translations offered up by the folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madmind.de\/2007\/11\/20\/stupid-german-movie-titles\/\">Madmind<\/a> in an article about some of the truly odd titles German marketers have given to American movies. Click over to see how the above titles became attached to the comedy classic <strong>Airplane<\/strong> and to the Dan Aykroyd-Tom Hanks vehicle <strong>Dragnet<\/strong>. Wait until you see what they did to <strong>Soylent Green<\/strong> and <strong>Animal House<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I\u2019d be interested in seeing an entire article devoted to the translation of <strong>Airplane<\/strong> itself. So much of the comedy depends on word play (&#8220;Surely you don\u2019t mean it.&#8221; &#8220;I do. And don\u2019t call me Shirley.&#8221;) that I can\u2019t see a literal translation making any kind of sense to German speaking audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemaretro.com\/index.php?\/archives\/1715-STUPID-GERMAN-TRANSLATIONS-OF-HOLLYWOOD-MOVIE-TITLES.html\">CinemaRetro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Would you go see a movie called The Incredible Journey In A Crazy Airplane? How about Floppy Coppers Don&#8217;t Bite? These are just two examples of bizarre title translations offered up by the folks over <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/28\/wacky-german-movie-titles\/\" title=\"Wacky German Movie Titles\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7860],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-trivia"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}