“It’s all Greek to me” Sunday
on Jan 06 in Uncategorized by DanAt the risk of accidently turning this site into a pop-culture blog, I have decided to complement the sporadic and unpopular Saturday Review with a no doubt equally sporadic and unpopular new feature: It’s all Greek to me Sunday.
The premiss is simple. I shall take a short film synopsis from the listings page of a TV guide and feed it into Bable Fish, an online translating service. I will then translate the synopsis from English into Greek, and then from Greek back into English. The resulting gobbledygook will be posted on the blog and your task is to try and identify what movie the passage refers to.
I’ve done things like this in the past and have always been surprised how quickly people have got the right answer.
So, today’s film review is from the Christmas edition of the Radio Times:
This adventure POW from the director [director] is one from all cinemas of chronicle of big war. the [actor], [actor], and [actor] they link such British stalwarts as [actor] and the [actor] in a total of threads of escapes of collapsing tunnels, headlights of examination and his courages despite the ostensibly insuperable probabilities. (US 1963, 165min)
No prize for this one as I’m planning on doing this regularly and there are only so many parcels I feel comfortable in putting off posting*. However the first person to get the correct answer will get a marvelous jpg badge with which to decorate their blog if they so wish. And there is always the satisfaction in knowing you have beaten the opposition into the dust of course. So get to it.
*I got banned from ebay for my slackness once, so all you previous winners can at least gain some satisfaction in the fact that you haven’t actually paid me anything. I was selling my comic collection at the time and everyone got their purchases eventually (I even refunded the payments on the really late stuff so the buyers got them free). But I have now realized I am not cut out for a career in ebay entrepreneurship.
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call me a nerd….”The great escape” is my answer.
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Carla – Correct! Marvelous! You are now the current world champion in It’s all Greek to me Sunday. There is not a single person in existance that has ever got as high a score as you.
You must be very proud.
I wouldn’t have guessed that in a million years.
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Carla’s a big show off poopy head.
Jeff’s last blog post..It’s left for me
Oh wow, I really thought it was Spice World.
I don’t know any movies before 1980.
Avitable’s last blog post..Folly of the gods
And now I have the tune in my head…
Bec’s last blog post..Amazing.
Its the Great Escape! Only a week late. This is a cool idea. Or am I saying that because I knew the answer.
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