Sigh

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If we continue to act like idiots, people will continue to think americans are idiots.

The new Aardman film has a different title over here.

The actual move is called: The Pirates! - In An Adventure With Scientists

I saw this advertised on buses in Edinburgh and got really excited.  New Aardman!  woo hoo!

Here, the movie has been released as: The Pirates! - Band of Misfits

I am reminded of the fact that the first HP title was changed because they thought kids wouldn't read a book with Philosopher in the title - my spin is they thought we wouldn't know what a philosopher was.

Now we (or our kids since I realize a lot of adults don't idolize Aardman as I do) don't enjoy scientists, don't want to adventure with them, and are no longer interested in searching the jungle for; Dr. Livingstone, I presume? - or alternately we wouldn't recognize a scientist if he came up and bit one of us...

And, honestly, we've given up on exploring outer space, so how can I blame anyone for thinking this?  I want to tout all the good sciencey television we watch - Nova and Mythbusters, and I'd even add Fringe - our niece currently wants to be an Ornithologist when she grows up - but I am terribly afraid that we and those like us are only exceptions which prove the rule.

Quick!  Someone replace all those: Pirates! With British Accents! with something those americans will be able to understand when they hit the theaters!  You wouldn't want to have to add subtitles!

Comments

[f-m-r-l.livejournal.com]

I can recognize quite a few scientists. The list of those whom I'll allow to bite me is somewhat shorter, though not a null set.

On the other hand, 'The Pirates! - In An Adventure With Scientists' sounds like one of those doomed educational Nickelodeon series. Johnny Pirate will drop one cannonball and one coconut of the same size from the top of the rigging, and we'll see which hits the deck first (with comic relief provided by the coconut going through the flimsy deck or the cannonball landing in someone's grog, etc.), making sure to retain a painfully and repetitively pedantic focus. I'm not saying we're all afraid of learning something. But some of us are justifiably afraid of the dreadfully awful attempts at pedantry that the entertainment industry has been known to dish out to children.

(Hmm... a pirate science show that kids would like. It would have to focus on tropical and nutritional diseases, wound care, ballistics, and so forth. But with the right kind of gruesome imagery, it could take off up until the point where someone's parents saw an episode.)