French movie posters for Puss in Boots, Arthur Christmas, Breaking Dawn, In Time, The Rum Diary
I always enjoy seeing how movie titles translate into other languages, so of course I snapped some photos of movie posters when I was in France last month:
Puss in Boots becomes Le Chat Potté... which makes no sense as far as my limited French takes me. Le Chat Botté would be “the booted cat.” Potte is French slang for “friend,” so does this read as “the friended cat”?
Arthur Christmas becomes Mission: Noël, which is a great title, actually -- probably better than the English one.
Now this is fascinating. The title of In Time has been changed, but it’s still in English! Does Time Out mean something to French audiences that In Time doesn’t?
Twilight stays the same, but Breaking Dawn becomes Révélation. What revelation? Whose revelation?
The Rum Diary is now Rhum Express. Here we have a mixture of French and English... which sorta doesn’t make sense with regards to the content of the movie. There’s nothing at all trainlike or even fast-moving about the movie, not even in a metaphoric way. Weird. Disqus commentsblog comments powered by Disqus |
posted:
Sun Dec 18 11, 11:25PM categories: movie buzz permalink Disqus comments tip jarshare
read morerelated· The Rum Diary (review) · The Rum Diary (trailer) · female gazing at: Antonio Banderas · Puss in Boots (review) · Tower Heist (review) · In Time (review) · Puss in Boots (trailer) · In Time (trailer) · question of the day: What piece of clothing from a movie (or TV show) would you actually purchase and wear? · question of the day: After ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Twilight,’ will we see more movies broken up into multiple installments? bloggyprevious post: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (retro trailer) next post: London photo of the day: love Christmas or else |













