If you don’t know by now, here’s how it works. I’ve take a short film synopsis from the listings page of a TV guide and fed it into Bable Fish, an online translating service. I then translated the synopsis from English into Greek, and then from Greek back into English. The resulting gobbledygook is posted below and your task is to try and identify what movie the passage refers to.
I didn’t get chance to pick up a actual guide this week so today’s review is from the Guardian newspaper website. No cheating and going over there.
The role that [actor] was given birth it plays: his fencer of 17 century has the heart of lion, the soul of poet and a big nose that, in case [actor], requires only the secondary additive increase. The [director] directs tragic [author] for the unselfish love [character] for his beautiful cousin [character] in the epic scale, with the enormous battles and a thin eye for the placements and the suit. (1990)
The winner last time was Phil from A Family Runs Through It. Phil has been waxing philosophical on the finite nature of childhood and the importance of crafting memories with his children. His kids meanwhile are oblivious to their dad’s ponderings and are busy building snowforts in the garden. To them their childhood seems endless, but there future selves are lucky they have a father as thoughtful as Phil
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