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Topic: "War es die grosse Liebe?"--translation please!
JEC
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This is on the CD and insert tray of THE STORY OF THREE LOVES on Tickertape. Anyone know German well enough to tell me what it means?
posted 01-23-2001 05:59 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Knowing no German, and not having bothered to put it through a translation machine, I nonetheless have concluded it can only mean "What's Up With That Vile Raisin?" The "vile raisin" motif runs through an alarming number of German films, and I've noticed that nearly all my German-issued scores include the SAME cue title, or one just similar to it. It may be a throwback to the postwar years in which West Germany was unable to properly cultivate its raisin trees, or a cross-reference to East Germany's entire ban on raisins. Not having seen this particular film, I couldn't say for sure.
posted 01-23-2001 06:09 PM PT (US) Kris Koon
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babel.altavista.com translates it as "It was the large love".
posted 01-23-2001 06:12 PM PT (US) JEC
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"Who wants a fat lip?" maybe?
posted 01-23-2001 06:18 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Knowing no German, and not having fed it through the translation machine, I nonetheless obstreperously stand by my own version.(I might possibly be mistaking "raisin" for "gerbil." Languages are difficult mistresses.)
posted 01-23-2001 06:18 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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ROFLMAO!(Kris' version is, of course, correct)
NP: Canto General (Mikis Theodorakis; version for soloists, choir and orchestra) - thx Timmer
posted 01-23-2001 06:25 PM PT (US) Nicolai P. Zwar
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"Was it the great love?" is technically the correct translation.
posted 01-24-2001 07:21 AM PT (US) Nicolai P. Zwar
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Doesn't sound "Was it the large love" like it could have been the working title for "The Last Tango in Paris"?
posted 01-24-2001 07:42 AM PT (US) Luscious Lazlo
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Shame on you, Nicolai. Any self-respecting anal-erotic German knows that the original title of LAST TANGO IN PARIS was: BUTTER BUGGER, HOT CHA CHA.
posted 01-24-2001 09:53 AM PT (US) Greg Bryant
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I think it translates as:"Where is that gross Liebe?"
posted 01-24-2001 10:34 AM PT (US) Nicolai P. Zwar
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Oh, of course... Let me apologize to all those self-respecting anal-erotic Germans who knew that the original title of LAST TANGO IN PARIS was: BUTTER BUGGER, HOT CHA CHA. I am so darn uninformed at times. Then again I am a firm believer in the from H Rocco spouted theory about the overuse of the "vile raisin" motif in German movies.
posted 01-24-2001 02:27 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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I forgot to mention that raisins were banned in East Germany because they were regarded as "decadent." This led to the notorious Raisin Trials in East Berlin in 1965-6 -- you remember, the smugglers? If I remember right, they were also brazenly cultivating a raisin tree right in the back yard! Just asking for it, IMHO, although putting them to death seemed to be a bit of an overreaction.
posted 01-24-2001 03:20 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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Raisins. I wouldn't mind if they were still banned.
posted 01-24-2001 03:47 PM PT (US) Nicolai P. Zwar
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Those "§!O%! Raisin Trials were all staged and phony communist propaganda if you want my opinion.
posted 01-24-2001 04:11 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Marian, am I to take it that you've never been to, or simply didn't enjoy, Austria's own raisin-related theme park? Featuring such admittedly Disney-based rides as "Raisins of the Caribbean," "Big Raisin Mountain," and "Raisins Over Austria" (featuring music by Wojciech "We Have So Few Raisins In Poland" Kilar!)At least you MUST admit the beauty of Austria's vast and plentiful raisin groves! (Chime in if you can, Nicolai!)
or maybe you're too BUSY to have FUN!
NP: TOTAL RAISIN EXPANDED (Goldsmith's first version of TOTAL RECALL as peformed by the lamentably sacked Graunke Symphony)
posted 01-27-2001 12:40 AM PT (US) Probable
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Ich ben ein der sprechen auberhaus deutsche naturilich fraulein.
posted 01-27-2001 01:03 AM PT (US) Nicolai P. Zwar
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Austria's vast and plentiful raisin groves are among the most vast and plentiful raisin groves anywhere to be found in Austria, so help me God.
posted 01-27-2001 01:17 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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Rocco, you really shouldn't have reminded me of that Raisin Park (or Rosinenpark, as it's called here). I've had a very traumatic experience there I had luckily managed to repress and forget (focusing my fear on spiders instead), but now it's all coming back to my memory again. You know, they had those big...what?...take those raisins away from me...no...stop...kill...NP: Tam O'Shanter (Malcolm "Old Grapes" Arnold)
posted 01-27-2001 04:21 PM PT (US) Probable
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Is that the Tam O' Shanter with the great bassoon solo at the beginning?
posted 01-28-2001 10:38 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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There are bassoons at the beginning, but no solo.NP: Tam O'Shanter (Malcolm Arnold)
posted 01-30-2001 03:30 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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aw, Marian, you must've gone there when they were still using REAL spiders on the "Haunted Mansion of the Bloody Raisins" ride ... so sorry, man! This explains your present "condition."
posted 01-30-2001 03:43 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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...kill...shoot...break...burn...
posted 01-30-2001 04:00 PM PT (US) Probable
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Well...if it IS the Tam O' Shanter I know, I've played it, including the bassoon solo at the beginning (I play bassoon).
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