From Hong Kong Yahoo movie.
Homonym still rules. Every movie kind of becomes a comedy which is not bad actually.
精求有情人 (The Switch)
湊仔戀咁嚟 (Life As We Know it)
午夜來嚇 (Paranormal Activity 2)
Showing posts with label Homonym. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homonym. Show all posts
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
How to Name A Movie in Hong Kong
Or how to give a sucky movie an even suckier name? A clever homonym of course. Homonym rules in the Hong Kong movie naming industry. Because every single movie is named using homonym. Very Clever.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
How to Name a Movie in Hong Kong
One word: homonym. "Let Me In" becomes "吸血兒凶," a word play between "murder suspect" and "a child who kills" or "an ominous child." By the way, a stern warning: if you are a bona fide movie snob, don't watch this American re-make because anything American is just shallow, let alone an American re-make, that would be too crass for your refined European taste. Watch the original, without English subtitles. And better still read the original novel in Swedish.
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