Changing of titles in translation

sistermagpie sistermagpie at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 3 13:32:42 UTC 2009


> Magpie:
> > And the movie of "The Midwich Cuckoos" was "Village of the Damned." A little more dramatic. 
> > 
> > I only recently read the Wyndham book and actually like a lot of the changes they made in the movies. That is, they really become two different stories because they have very different focuses, but I like them both. And VotD is one of my favorite movies.:-)
> 
> Geoff:
> I'd forgotten the title change in the film.
> 
> I would recommend "The Kraken Wakes" to you. It's marvellously 
> creepy in places for its time.

Magpie:
I'll keep an eye out for it! I came across The Midwich Cuckoos at a used book store where they have really cheap books out front.

-m





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