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TIL the word for "speed" in Norwegian

While the word "speed" indeed is "fart" in Norwegian, the movie "Speed" was released as "Speed" in Norway.

The poster is photoshoped, as one easily can tell by the premiere date in the bottom of the poster. The date "June 10" would've been written as "10. juni" in Norway.

Today, most movies not primarily marketed for children are released with their English titles in Norway. And back when the movies were translated to Norwegian, the titles were often not direct translations. In fact, the Norwegian Wikipedia-article for Speed makes an interesting claim about the the 1975 Japanese movie Speed was based on. While known in Japan as "Shinkansen daibakuha", and as "The Bullet Train" in English speaking countries, the article claims that the Norwegian title was "Expressen er lastet med...... dynamitt!", directly translated as "The Express is loaded with... dynamite!". I can't find any sources to support this claim, but it does follow the norm of translated titles of the time.

Other translated Norwegian film titles include "Airplane!" as "Hjelp, vi flyr!" (Help, we are flying!), "Die Hard" as "Aksjon skyskraper" (Operation Skyscraper), and "Deliverance" as "Piknik med døden" (Picnic with Death).

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Lost in art

I would be shocked if simple door knockers weren't common side-by-side with the ornate door knockers throughout history. But being simpler and of a lower quality, they would neither be as notable nor endure until today.

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I suspect you're thinking of a scene from Man of Steel. This is from the recently released Superman. And in this movie ::: spoiler spoiler he is put in a concentration camp, while being told that he isn't entitled to due process. Escaping is a lot harder than in Man of Steel. :::

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Guillermo del Toro Says 'Frankenstein' Is the End Of An Era For Him

This movie closes the cycle. If you look at the lineage, from “Cronos” to “The Devil’s Backbone,” to “Pan’s Labyrinth” to “Crimson Peak” to this, this is an evolution of a certain type of aesthetic, and a certain type of rhythm, and a certain type of empathy. I feel like I need a change […] You never know, the day after tomorrow, I may want to do Jekyll & Hyde, or whatever. But right now, my desire is to try and do something very different.

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What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid

On the entry for Adolf Hitler, the führer’s leadership and “rapid economic” achievements are noted before the Holocaust; the “Islam” page questions the religion’s “inherent compatibility with liberal democracy.” The Grokipedia entry for Musk himself notes a “reported 20-pound weight loss” and propensity for “weightlifting and strength training,” while omitting any direct reference to Musk’s maternal grandfather—a man who thoroughly documented his own vociferous racism and antidemocratic beliefs and supported South Africa’s apartheid regime.