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15 Movies That Have Surprisingly Odd Foreign Titles

Translating movie titles is the very opposite of a straightforward job.

15 Movies That Have Surprisingly Odd Foreign Titles

January 19, 2021

A movie translator’s job is nuanced and demanding: you need to convey the exact meaning, subtleties and all, in a language completely different than the creator’s. Well, in some cases, nuance goes out the window and pure randomness comes waltzing in. Here are 15 examples of that happening:

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Knocked Up

The Chinese title for Knocked Up was One Night . Big Belly. Amazingly, they found a way to take bluntness to a whole new level compared to the origina — Source: 9 Famous Movies That Have Cooler Titles in Foreign Countries

14

Argentina's name for Grease was Vaselina. MEJUin LO UASELIVA PELICUL DE LA ORIGINAL MUSICA They couldn't translate it literally, because the Spanish w — Source: 9 Famous Movies That Have Cooler Titles in Foreign Countries

13

Love in the Skies was Israel's title for Top Gun. MOLE S IML The romance subplot wasn't in the sky at any point, so it's kind of anyone's guess what t — Source: 9 Famous Movies That Have Cooler Titles in Foreign Countries

12

Guardians of the Galaxy

Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team was Taiwan's name for Guardians of the Galaxy. MAPEL EAEIET (Uonam X ALSA 2014.07.31(09) 68 B It wasn't made c — Source: 9 Famous Movies That Have Cooler Titles in Foreign Countries

11

The Hong Kong title for As Good As It Gets was Mr. Cat POop. Cat poop roughly translates to mao fen in Hong Kong, and that kind of sounds like Mel — Source: 9 Famous Movies That Have Cooler Titles in Foreign Countries

10

In Denmark, Die Hard With a Vengeance was Die Hard: Mega Hard. DIE HARD DIE HARD MEGA HARD And Bruce Willis probably kicked himself for not thinking o — Source: 9 Famous Movies That Have Cooler Titles in Foreign Countries

9

Germany's title for Forgetting Sarah Marshall is pretty direct. NIE WIEDER SEX MIT DER EX ABSERVIERT... NA WND? It's Nie wieder Sex mit der Ex, or No — Source: IMDB, Google Translate

8

Breaking Bad

Bulgaria translated Breaking Bad as In Satan's Shoes. Somehow, Prada didn't use that as a marketing tagline first. — Source: IMDB, Google Translate

7

Leon: The Professional

Turkey's name for Leon: The Professional is Power of Love. Which is kind of confusing for a movie about a mafia hitman. — Source: IMDB, Google Translate

6

Blade Runner is known as Winged Bounty Hunter in Hungary. RYAN GOBLING HARRISON FORD SZARNYAS FEVADASZ 2OS Bounty Hunter makes perfect sense, but th — Source: IMDB, Google Translate

5

The German title for Airplane! was The Incredible Journey In A Crazy Plane. ue ungakliche Reise in einem verPuckten Fuugzeug Which is exactly as speci — Source: IMDB, Google Translate

4

In France, Home Alone 2 became Mum, I Missed the Plane Again and This Time I Am Lost in New York. PAR ION HUCHES UN FILM DE CHRIS COLURBUS MAMAN, J'AT — Source: The Guardian

3

China translated Free Willy as A Very Powerful Whale Runs to Heaven. Which simultaneously left very little, and quite a lot, to the imagination. CRACK — Source: Digital Spy

2

In Israel, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is known as It's Raining Falafel. PREPARE TO ET SERVED cOUDy aun'oz P'nx UTo7 uNN wIth a chance MEAT BALI — Source: Times of Israel

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The Shawshank Redemption

In Taiwan, The Shawshank Redemption was called 1995: Fantastic. 1995 Presumably, that was a way of telling people that this was one of the best movies — Source: 9 Famous Movies That Have Cooler Titles in Foreign Countries

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