What film title, when translated from its Spanish version, is known as An Expert in Fun? It’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! Now take a crack at decoding these two: Love without Stopovers and Very Important Perros. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Translated Movie Titles”
I spent one family holiday in a tiny town in the interior of Argentina, and the town was so tiny that there really wasn’t anything to do at night except walk down into the valley to the little video store.
But of course, that was thrilling for me because I got to look at all the titles in Spanish of all the movies and see how they translated into English.
And it was really interesting, Grant, because so many of the titles, at least when I translated them, seemed oddly flat.
For example, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the title just translated to An Expert in Fun.
And Up in the Air, you know, with George Clooney, was Amor Sin Escalas, Love Without Stopovers.
And here’s another one.
This one was, it just translated as Terror on Board.
Is that the Keanu Reeves bus movie?
That’s a good guess.
No, it’s snakes on a plane.
Yes, how did you know?
Yeah, I mean, there’s so many terror on board movies.
Why would you use something so generic?
I don’t know why that happened.
I don’t know.
Maybe Samuel Jackson doesn’t translate well into Spanish.
Maybe they just don’t get the badassery of this man, you know?
It’s kind of tied up in that title, right?
I guess.
Maybe snakes are confusing.
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I was in Spain in 1979 and “Grease!” was playing at a movie theater, except the marquee said “Vaselino!”