] "The Thief in the City", the failure of the Chinese name translation

Ora 2022-01-25 08:03:52


Perhaps it is for the pursuit of attendance, so that the audience thinks it is another thrilling police and robber shootout! The Chinese translation takes the idiotic name "The Thief in the City"! The original English name is "The Town". Why is it called? After watching the video, I guess everyone should understand it!
A group of children who grew up in Charles City, Boston, they are very simple and believe that their destiny is closely related to this city. Without those parents, they might become hockey world stars, excellent circuit engineers, hardworking workers and so on! But the fate of the fathers (maybe several generations before) is passed on to them! Be a thief! Underworld life! Helpless and unable to! Some people have no choice but to admit their fate, some people think it is a kind of enjoyment! No one thinks they should leave the city! But after all, some people will realize and decide to fight against fate! Ben Afflett made it! Love made him sober, helped him escape this city, and escaped from this life, out of the shackles of fate! Thinking of Zhang Jiahui’s "Mong Kok Prison", he would never get out of Mong Kok for the rest of his life.
Look at the title again, everyone may be the same as I thought! What a shit! Also a robber! That's right, it's a story about a besieged city! The American version of "Siege"!

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Extended Reading
  • Jackie 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Not bad, I wrote, directed and acted myself, but my acting skills were a bit poor. Although two and a half hours is a bit long, I don't feel bored, and the characters are well-drawn, not a simple and unnutritious Hollywood crime movie. But I don't know if I haven't slept well, and the climax part seems to be a little under-heated. Maybe 2.5 hours is not long enough for the director

  • Theodore 2022-04-23 07:01:21

    I'm not familiar with the director, so I don't need to take his face. A thief fell in love with his victim and wanted to leave the chaotic town that he couldn't live without. After seeing two-thirds of it, he basically guessed the end of his death.

The Town quotes

  • Claire Keesey: So what do you do for work?

    Doug MacRay: Boston Sanding Gravel, I break rocks. Punch the ticket at the end of the day, slide down the back of a brontosaurus like Fred Flintstone, call it a night.

  • [Frawley is describing to Claire how he knows where the bank robbers who kidnapped her probably came from]

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: With guys like this - hardcore guys - 90% of them eminate from a one square mile neighborhood called Charlestown. Familiar with it?

    [Claire looks at a map and realizes that it's the neighborhood she lives in]

    Claire Keesey: You must be kidding me!

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Dino, what's the first thing BPD does whenever there's an armored car robbery in the city?

    Dino Ciampa: Close the Charlestown Bridge.

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: He's from Charlestown.

    Dino Ciampa: They make it over, they use each other's houses. They're like rats.