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Race naar de Schroothoop????


Ik heb deze DVD net besteld, omdat ik bijna zeker weet dat deze toendertijd in de bios "Race naar de Schroothoop" werd genoemd. Heb ik gelijk?

I've just ordered the DVD, because I'm almost certain that it was called "Race naar de Schroothoop" in the Dutch cinema at the end of the 70's. Am I right???

Thanks for a reply!
Ezra

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Ezra-

Are you sure this wasn't released in the Netherlands as "Race aan de PoopShoot"?

I apologize for being so silly, but "Shroothoop" just made me laugh. I am obviously an ugly American.

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Vir farhn farhn farhn auf der poop shot!

Oops, I think that's more German than Dutch.

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Lol Sambuca62

Hahaha PoopShoot isn't that what the website in Jay and Silent Bob Strike back was called?

Schroothoop means junkyard in Dutch, I have bought the film in the Nehterlands as "Grand Theft Auto" in DVD format.

But you could be right though, I would be very surprised to find out if the title is called "Race aan de PoopShoot". That means that the Netherlands were way ahead of it's time in the 70s, because it is typical dutch standard humor/insults nowadays next to trolling ofcourse.


Keeping the 80s up to date

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Hey Ezra,

Een beetje een late reactie (2013 ondertussen) maar wellicht is het een alternatieve Nederlandse titel? Veel films uit de 60s en 70s uit de USA kregen zo'n alternatieve titel in Nederland.

Een voorbeeld hiervan is bijvoorbeeld "Tell them Willie Boy is here" in Nederland heet die film "Jacht op Willie Boy". Waarom ze dat precies deden heeft denk ik te maken met het feit dat veel Nederlanders destijds nog geen of slecht Engels konden spreken en schrijven.

Ik hoop dat ik je hiermee alsnog (na 6 jaar) heb kunnen helpen :D

groeten,

Lance

Hello Ezra,

A bit of a late response (2013 in the meantime) but perhaps it's an alternative Dutch title? Many films from the 60s and 70s from the USA got a alternative title in the Netherlands.

An example of this is "Tell them Willie Boy is here" in the Netherlands the film is called "Jacht op Willie Boy". I think that why they exactly did that had to do with the fact that many Dutch people at the time could not speak or write English or were just bad at it.

I hope I still have been able (after 6 years) to help you with this :D

Kind regards,

Lance

Keeping the 80s up to date

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An even later response, but I guess this solves the 'mystery':
http://peelenmaas.rooynet.nl/issue/PEM/1982-06-11/edition/0/page/16

I don't know how it was in 2007, but nowadays it's really easy to find these scanned back issues via Google:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22race%20naar%20de%20schroothoop%22

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