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wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

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K. Waste posted:

This is absolutely appropriate. Cracked had a pretty good introductory write up on title changes in different cultures: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-insane-ways-movie-titles-are-translated-around-world/

It's really interesting to think about all of the 'implied franchises' that end up getting created this way.

I think my favorite has to be the Italians changing all giant monster movies to King Kong, even though they know he's not in there (because they changed the poster to add him).

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lizardman posted:

You just sort of jump right into this story while I'm still trying to process that they made a Japanese version of an international version of a Japanese movie... :psyduck:

They did that twice for Final Fantasy games, although I think that was at least in part a "we got this content ready in time for the EU release but not the Japanese one" thing.

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