Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "15 Weird "German" Versions of English Movie Titles | Feli from Germany" video.

  1. Closest word I had seen so far, would be saucer. Apprentice in the saucer would be Will Wheaton in Star Trek.
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  2. But in the age they started that, almost nobody spoke English. Let's say the time of Hitchcock or the first James Bonds. And it's almost never translated. High Noon (1952) is translated.
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  3.  @Trifler500  Yes, I just tell you, finding a german title, does not mean to "translate" it. It's an creative act of art to find a new appropriate title. That's also done with peaces of Shakespeare, so it's not the movie industrie starting it. And what sense does it make to put a title nobody can read ? It's like they give you the title of a chinese book in chinese characters, you cannot read it out loud. That's the same with english, except of beeing unable to read it, you definitly read it wrong, since all vowels and many consonants do mean something different in German and English. THere is this f, v, w mixup , or s, c, z, k the e is pronounced like i, the i like ei, the a like ä, double oo becomes u etc. Or english is not very strict, and the a in garden is pronounced differently then the a in Alabama. Or take the crazy c in Ocean, sounds like oshn. and before WWI hardly anybody knew that. You cannot read English just from seeing the letters.
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  4.  @Trifler500  No, with the german title, there is no trouble in pronunciation. Not really conclusive what you say. And people today get along with English pretty well. Accents are no mispronunciations.
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  5.  @Trifler500  If you say, Germans would have trouble to pronounce German titles (as you said either way), it does not made any sense to me either.
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  6. congeniality has a meaning in german, but it's "genious and his co-genious" a very well fitting pairing of something ingenious. This would have lead to missunderstandings.
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  7. We have to remember, all the marvel comics are not very popular in Germany, comics in general are kind of special interest, not pop culture. So the movie is the first contact with the characters. The importance they can only evaluate by the number of references to it, like Aqua Man or Green Lantern refereed by The Big Bang Theory tells us this must be a commonly known movie.
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  8. On the wikipedia-page of each movie, they always give the original title. On the english page, you sometimes can click to the other language, to get the local title.
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