Culture & entertainment
Why movie titles get weird abroad
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Clever, nuanced English wordplay does absolutely nothing for an international box office desperate for ticket sales. Marketing departments routinely authorize comically literal or entirely unrelated translated titles for foreign markets. You think you're watching a tense thriller, but the international poster literally translates to 'The Big Explosive Gun Man Returns for Revenge'.
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