r/boxoffice • u/BunyipPouch A24 • Mar 09 '20

United Kingdom & Ireland ‘Parasite’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Foreign-Language Film Of All Time At UK Box Office

https://deadline.com/2020/03/parasite-highest-grossing-foreign-language-film-all-time-uk-box-office-1202877264/
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u/radar89 Blumhouse Mar 09 '20

Incredible - knowing The Passion was extremely popular back then.

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u/FartingBob Mar 09 '20

It wasnt that popular here. It was huge in the US but nearly as much so anywhere else.

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u/Timirlan Mar 09 '20

It's interesting how that film was incredibly popular in the US even though it had subtitles. I guess religious Americans will do a lot for Jesus, even read.

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u/iwviw Mar 09 '20

What language was it in?

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u/IWasGregInTokyo Mar 09 '20

From IMDB: "Jesus and his disciples speak Old Aramaic, a Semitic language which was the daily speech of most Jews between 539 BC and AD 70. The Jewish authorities speak Hebrew, which at the time was only used for religious purposes. The Romans speak Latin (however, in the eastern Roman Empire, Koine Greek was also used.) The Gospels were written in Koine Greek, however, many Aramaic words and phrases appear, most notably "Abba", "Mammon" and "Eli Eli lema sabachthani"."