The 30 day Movie Challenge - Day 6

[aragarna]

Day 6 - Your favorite comedy movie

I'll go with OSS 117, both movies. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, and OSS 117: Lost in Rio. They're French movies, spy flick spoofs, starring Jean Dujardin as a very French spy and directed by Michel Hazanavicius... and they're brilliant. I've been watching them with American and Chilian friends, and they enjoyed it, so I guess that French humor translates well.

Though it's a close call with Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. Another French comedy, and one of the finest France offers in term of comedy. Given all the references and easter eggs, I don't know how well it translates in English, and man it must have been a nightmare to translate...

Comments

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. In French her name is Itineris, which was a mobile phone brand back then (doesn't exist anymore).

They managed to do similar things with OSS 117. Really good work on the translation.

[nieseryjna.livejournal.com]

Most hilarious thing is it just entered the everyday language :)

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

LOL! Actually it became a saying for a while in France too.