musterios murder in snowy cream

> From Mr. Showbiz:
> Nicholson Is . . . Mr. Cat Poop? 
> To borrow from Cool Hand Luke, "What we have here is a failure to
> communicate." It's not news that American films are sometimes renamed to
> make them more appealing overseas, but Hong Kong's movie distributors are
> in a class by themselves when it comes to retitling Hollywood fare for
> Chinese audiences. "Major studios think up titles that are flat, boring,
> and don't tell audiences what movies are about," Doinel Wu, a man who
> spent the last decade renaming movies, tells the Wall Street Journal. "We
> create titles that are more straightforward." He's not kidding. Oliver
> Stone's Nixon was rechristened The Big Liar, while Boogie Nights, starring
> Mark Wahlberg and his superhuman, er, sword, was redubbed His Powerful
> Device Makes Him Famous. 
> Other examples include the Coen brothers' disturbing pic Fargo, which
> became Mysterious Murder in Snowy Cream. Why "snowy cream"? Because in
> Cantonese, that phrase is pronounced "fah go." For The Professional, about
> an assassin who befriends an orphaned girl, Wu concocted This Hit Man Is
> Not As Cold As He Thought. And the men who strip in The Full Monty may
> want to file a grievance. The title, which simply didn't translate, was
> given a Cantonese colloquialism meaning Six Stripped Warriors, but is
> interpreted in Mandarin as Six Naked Pigs. And the literal translation for
> The English Patient-The Sick Englishman-seemed too much of a downer, so Wu
> decided on the mysterious Don't Ask Me Who I Am. 
> Of course, there are some titles that are beyond us. Our favorite? As Good
> As It Gets, which earned Jack Nicholson an Oscar for his role as a
> misanthropic, obsessive-compulsive novelist, was given the new title of
> Mr. Cat Poop. 
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