Thread: "Die Hard!"

Time for my daily weird question. According to IMDB, the movie series "Die Hard" was called "A hard nut to crack" in Russia:
# The Russian title for "Die Hard" in all of the three movies is, "A Hard Nut to Crack".

A) Is this true?
B) How would you translate it? Крепкий орешек or something?

Thank you in advance for not telling me "Дай Хард Туй или Дай Хард Три."

Originally Posted by Barmaley

B) How would you translate it? Крепкий орешек or something?

Exactly. BTW, "Крепкий орешек" was almost a nick of Bruce Willis.

Yes. Крепкий орешек is a person or a problem that is not so easy to handle with. Such an idiom.

а на самом деле что это значит? "умри тяжело"? Я думал тут что то немецкое, типа Die Totenhoze, Die Brott etc

А, вдруг, это немецкое слово с артиклем?

As always, I'll produce a quote

If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.

A diehard (also die-hard) is someone who is very strongly opposed to change and new ideas, or who is a very strong supporter of a person or idea.


So, I would say the movie could be translated like:

"Борись до конца" (keep fighting to the end) or "Держись до конца" (hold on to the end)

What do you think of it, guys? Suggest your variants.


P.S.

"умри тяжело"?

I don't remember personally but I read somewhere that our pirates during the early 90s had translated it as "Умри тяжело, но достойно"

некий Гоблин перевел это как "Упёртый"

Originally Posted by ST

некий Гоблин перевел это как "Упёртый"

Камрад Гоблин прав, IMO .

ну, а у нас поговорорка: "old habits die hard", как перевести на русский? "старые обычи плохо умирают?"

наверно. или-старые привычки живучи....хз

От старых привычек трудно избавиться.

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Time for my daily weird question. According to IMDB, the movie series "Die Hard" was called "A hard nut to crack" in Russia:
# The Russian title for "Die Hard" in all of the three movies is, "A Hard Nut to Crack".

A) Is this true?
B) How would you translate it? Крепкий орешек or something?

Thank you in advance for not telling me "Дай Хард Туй или Дай Хард Три."

Hah! I'd like to see Willis' face when he heard that! :P

Originally Posted by DDL

Hah! I'd like to see Willis' face when he heard that! :P

Heh. Which brings to mind this question: How do you translate "Йиппи-кай-ей, Матерфакер!"???