Why was the name of "Philosopher's Stone" changed to "Sorcerer's Stone" in the American edition?
Why was the name of "Philosopher's Stone" changed to "Sorcerer's Stone" in the American edition?
Michael Taylor
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Ryan Miller
Burgers don't know what philosophy is, the name should have been just been "Harry and the magic rock" in usa
Anthony Adams
Philosopher was too hard to pronounce for them
Eli Brooks
These
Camden King
The publishers thought Americans would be too stupid to know what a philosopher was in that context (I'm not kidding)
Colton Brown
"Sorcerer" sounds exciting, "philosopher" sounds boring, and nobody in America knows what a philosopher is. Famous title changes to take account of the incredible ignorance of the average American include "Licence Revoked" which became "Licence to Kill" when over 70% of those polled didn't what "Revoked" means, and "The Madness of King George III", which had to drop the "III" because it was realised that Americans would be uninterested in the film since they'd obviously missed the first two films of the trilogy.
Andrew Lee
Harry is too British as well. It should have been "Jesus and the Magic Rock".
It would sell like hotdogs.
Hudson Powell
>and "The Madness of King George III", which had to drop the "III" because it was realised that Americans would be uninterested in the film since they'd obviously missed the first two films of the trilogy
Matthew Roberts
It should have been "Wizard boy 1"
Henry Nelson
>and "The Madness of King George III", which had to drop the "III" because it was realised that Americans would be uninterested in the film since they'd obviously missed the first two films of the trilogy
I would have believed that, if not for the fact that Americans can't read Roman numerals.
Xavier Sanders
"The Nerdy guy"
Isaiah Mitchell
>Greeks no longer interested in philosophy
Explains a lot
Brandon Howard
>being this pathetic that you need multiple proxies to samefag your own thread
Evan Martinez
kek
Joseph Ramirez
They thought children would be adverse to philosophy, it was a right decision
Michael Cox
screaming
Julian Moore
lmao
Jaxson Gomez
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Thomas Howard
Yeah that book totally tanked in the rest of the world...
Mason Johnson
theguardian.com
I also found that most of the posts were copypasted from here.
Which is pretty much what you'd expect from Ikibey.
Jaxon Jenkins
Only the Greek comment you pillock
Julian Foster
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Andrew Gomez
gredast ally :DD
Ethan Gutierrez
>nobody can think we are stupid, must be proxy!!1
Jack Peterson
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Leo Richardson
>He Googled a comment in a Harry Pooting thread out of raw bum pain
Brandon White
Anyway, invoking Occam's Razor, "sorcerer" just sounded more badass to the target audience.
Parker Gutierrez
That's the reason why i didn't saw a single "Lupin III" films.
Evan Bell
>being this mad
Kayden Carter
That's the reason why i didn't saw a single "Lupin III" film.
Levi Nelson
Still better than the Pokemon dub changing Japanese rice cakes to donuts.
Nicholas Lewis
>Which is pretty much what you'd expect from Ikibey.
How do you know it's Ikibey?
Mason Cook
Albanian subhuman immigrant in America. Jealous of Greeks.
Justin Young
The wh*te and orcposting was started by him and 1-2 other mentally ill Turks after they got bullied too hard for not being white and they snapped and started spamming Sup Forums with this shit.
Kevin Myers
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Justin Lee
>"Jesus and the Magic Rock"
That's too white, "Muhammad and the Magic Rock" sounds more tolerant.
Caleb Carter
>muh proxy
Hudson Cooper
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Oliver Thompson
>and "The Madness of King George III", which had to drop the "III" because it was realised that Americans would be uninterested in the film since they'd obviously missed the first two films of the trilogy.
Dominic Sanders
>all those americans
Didn't know that finland was that popular american tourist destination.
Benjamin Morgan
>"The Madness of King George III", which had to drop the "III" because it was realised that Americans would be uninterested in the film since they'd obviously missed the first two films of the trilogy.
lel
Jack Wood
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Soros paid me to make this thread btw
Logan Reed
> Butt blasted
Matthew Young
>we always joke even if that supports the stereotypes
James Bennett
ITT we complain about successful author selling kabillions of books to people who aren't supposed to be able to read.
Well done, Sup Forums.
Jeremiah Moore
>american children aren't supposed to be able to read
Brandon Ramirez
you are the retard
Nolan Reyes
>no u
Get a grip, mate.
Hunter Long
Well, looks like you got me there. We only buy them too put BBQ sauce upon.
Samuel Green
In Master & Commander the enemy ship was originally American but was changed to France so as not to offend the easily insulted American audience.
Juan Brown
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Leo Turner
Are there any other examples of altered movie titles?
Liam Richardson
Donuts? We need more people thinking about fucking donuts? Why not just leave it at rice balls? Those are healthier than donuts and it's not like it's hard to understand what they are. But no, we just have to encourage kids to think that their favorite characters are actually eating donut meals. It's in their interest for kids to grow up as fat fucks who watch tv all the time.