MR. WHITE
"Was the guy pissed off?"
NICE GUY EDDIE
"How the *beep* would you feel if everytime you had to piss, you had to perform a *beep* handstand?!"
In Dutch
MR. WHITE
"Was hij boos"
NICE GUY EDDIE
"Hoe zou jij je verdomme voelen als je steeds op je handen zou moeten staan, om te pissen???!!!"
The joke has 2 jokes in it. One is the verbal joke in English. Pissed off in relation to pissing. The other joke is the weirdness of a handstand in relation to urinating. As you can see... the first joke can not be correctly translated in Dutch, so we will miss out on the first layer of the joke... but still, if translated, it holds a great bunch of the impact it originally had in English.
What about having Mr. White say 'pissig' instead of 'boos'? Not only does it also carry the second joke in Dutch, it's a better translation of 'pissed off' anyway.
I think that Tim Oliehoek had a too big of a budget which in my opinion all got wasted in the hiring of well-known actors/actresses. That is just waste of money and tells me that this kid is not spending the money in the right corners. If he would use less-known actors/actresses (theatre actors/actresses for instance), he could have allocated more money into other aspects of the movie. Anyhow, a movie which costs 3,4 million euros, is considered to be a big production and can not excuse itself if it remains a non-profitable project. Such productions... if success... has to make profit in the first month. Otherwise it's a failure. Because the movie has fully got the attention in order to draw people to the theatres at its premiere, but still hasn't managed to earn the money back. If he would spent as much as a million, his production would broke-even and could not be called a failure.
I guess he thought people wouldn't be interested by action and comedy alone, so he decided to hire some well-known faces. They were obviously doing everything they could to give Vet hard the best possible chance. Having the movie premiere in February would avoid box office competition from American summer blockbusters. I do wonder why so few people showed up for the movie, because the trailer promised lots of great slapstick humor and action unlike anything previously seen in Dutch cinema (even topping what Dick Maas pulled off at his peek in the 80's). I guess people didn't have high hopes for Dutch cinema.
People say one should be on the look-out for further productions coming from this Tim Oliehoek. But if he will continue the way he makes movies as in Vet Hard, I'm afraid he is not the next Paul Verhoeven.
I recently heard from someone he was planning another similar project, but I question this person's reliability; she said she heard it on TV somewhere. She also said he had to cut back on his ambitions for the TV series Shouf shouf for budget constraints.
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