Thread: Анекдоты showing "Verbs of Motion" (or other points of Russian grammar)

"Они вешаются от жары" ~ The heat is making them really mad

There’s an episode in the movie Nothing to Lose when one of the protagonists has got a spider on his head. “Get it off!,” he screams, and the other guy starts recording it with a camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUvUV69PzA
Do I understand right that “Get it off!” has no connection with filming / taking pictures in English?

The Russian translation however features an unexpected wordplay:
— У тебя́ на голове́ пау́к.
— Сними́ его́, сними́! (can be understood either as ‘get it off!’ or as ‘film it!’)
The guy starts filming the spider, as he is asked

Originally Posted by Soft sign

Do I understand right that “Get it off!” has no connection with filming / taking pictures in English?

You're right, there's no pun at all in English. There are ways you could make a pun in this situation -- for example, the passenger in the car is a prostitute; the driver says "Take it off!" (meaning, "Сними паука!"); the prostitute interprets this to mean "Раздевайся!", and she says "You have to PAY me first..."

There are other possible puns (e.g., "shoot the spider with a camera" versus "shoot the spider with a gun," as I already mentioned). But no pun HERE, in the movie. Kudos to the Russian translators for improving the scene!