Backtranslated Bond Titles

2:18pm, 20th September 2003

In Brazil, foreign films get butchered in the translation. The most obvious examples are the titles which are horrid. Here are the titles of all the Bond films, backtranslated (not by machine - this is what they really mean). My favourite mangling is Moonraker:

  1. 007 versus the satanic Dr. No
  2. Moscow versus 007
  3. 007 versus Goldfinger
  4. 007 versus atomic blackmail
  5. With 007 you only live two times
  6. 007 - The secret service of her majesty
  7. The diamonds are eternal
  8. Live and leave to die
  9. 007 versus the man with the pistol of gold
  10. 007 - The spy that loved me
  11. 007 versus the rocket of death
  12. 007 - Only for your eyes
  13. 007 versus Octopussy
  14. In the sights of the assassins
  15. Marked to die
  16. Permission to kill
  17. 007 versus Goldeneye
  18. The world is not enough
  19. A new day to die