Monday, 19 August 2019

dialogue - English puns in OSS 117, Cairo Nest of Spies?

In the movie, OSS 117, Cairo Nest of Spies, the spy defeats two Russians and the subtitles say something along the lines of



They were "Russian" at me



This makes sense in English, but the movie is in French. There were a couple of other puns in the movie that made sense in English.


Is the movie written for an English-speaking audience even though it's in French, or were those thrown in there?


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