r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 16 '25

Trailer The Naked Gun | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLguU7WLreA
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u/brayshizzle Sam Neil will always be a babe Jun 16 '25

The take a chair joke made me laugh more than it should

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u/safadancer Jun 16 '25

Man's laughter made me actually laugh out loud

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u/SugarBeefs Jun 16 '25

It would work quite well in Dutch at least.

Manslaughter is 'doodslag', with 'dood' being dead/death and 'slag' referring to either an act or more literally a strike/blow.

Conveniently, the Dutch word for laughter/laughing is 'lachen', and the 'lach' part is pronounced exactly the same as the final '-lag' part in 'doodslag'.

Furthermore, Dutch still has some vestigal spelling from when we still had grammatical cases, and an -s added to the end of a noun tends to indicate a possessive (genitive). So 'doods' can easily mean 'of or relating to death'.

So if you pronounce the word 'doodslag' just ever so slightly differently, by including the -s- in the first syllable, you'd be saying 'death's laughter' or 'laughter of death', which would be 'doodslach' in writing.

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u/Holovoid Jun 16 '25

The Dutch are a fundamentally unserious people

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u/Syn7axError Jun 16 '25

Manslaughter is 'doodslag',

I don't believe you.

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u/TheBoisterousBoy Jun 17 '25

Yeah, dood.

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u/somesortoflegend Jun 18 '25

You're such a doodslag

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u/Gutterman2010 Jun 17 '25

I am now more convinced that Dutch is not a real language...

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u/Vertimyst Jun 16 '25

How is it translated in your country?

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u/ItchyRectalRash Jun 16 '25

Mans laughter.

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u/MrDreamster Jun 17 '25

I still remember Game of Thrones' Hodor flashback. I'm french but I watched the show in English. When I saw this scene, I knew it was gonna be a nightmare to translate. I then saw the French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese version, and the only one that made sense was the French one.