Sujet : Re: Alfred Hitchcock died (29-4-1980)
De : kehoea (at) *nospam* parhasard.net (Aidan Kehoe)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 29. Apr 2024, 13:29:59
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Ar an naoú lá is fiche de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark:
> First Hitchcock film I ever saw: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). James
> Stewart and Doris Day.
Great director and a film I haven’t seen, must correct that.
> In the Moroccan Embassy in London, Doris sings "Que Sera Sera". She looks
> very serious in the picture; her son is being held hostage somewhere in the
> embassy, and she is trying to use the song to make contact with him. It was
> a brand new song at the time, first performance in this film. OK, here's a
> bit of language trivia: What is the origin of the phrase and what language
> is it supposed to be? Read more here:
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Que_Sera,_Sera_(Whatever_Will_Be,_Will_Be)
A bad translation with very strong cultural currency; I can’t off the top of my
head think of any other examples of this, though I’m sure they are some.
-- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’(C. Moore)