Comments on: That’s Man OF La Mancha

By: CIDU Bill

CIDU Bill — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:44:39 +0000

I remember that disco revival of the musical. It wasn’t pretty.

By: David A. Rooney

David A. Rooney — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:36:25 +0000

Direct translations from other languages into English do tend to have amusing grammatical mistakes. I think if this had been title in American english originally it would be “LaMancha Man”.

Oh God, now I’m hearing the Villiage People in my head: “Lamancha, Lamancha Maaannn . . .”

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:44 +0000

Just to rain on Bill’s parade, it’s worth mentioning that Spanish de is both “of” and “from”. In other words, the marquee is just as correct (in the sense of translating the phrase from Spanish) as the more common phrase, although of course that is not the title of the play.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:35:41 +0000

I rented Man of La Mancha. I didn’t like it much, though I think it’s mostly because Dulcinea didn’t sing very well.

By: More fantasy, less reality, no baby blues

More fantasy, less reality, no baby blues — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:06:52 +0000

I love the fact that Don Quixote , perfectly, applies to video games. Most Western games this century have featured generic muscular infallible toughasses fighting in generic World War II battles. Don Quixote would be a perfect metaphor for any of those characters.

By: The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:48:53 +0000

Bill, I assume you got the joke, and were just commenting that that marquee does not show the correct title for the play/movie. I seem to know a disproportionate number of people who are unable to correctly state the name of any person or thing without mispronunciations or totally incorrect wording, and I’m always wondering whether it’s laziness or brain damage.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:15:50 +0000

Rasheed… I was thinking Glad myself.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:19:07 +0000

So there isn’t supposed to be a strange little logic puzzle here?

By: Lord Jubjub

Lord Jubjub — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:47:50 +0000

Charlene, in the Victorians’ defense, Quixote was written as a bit of satire against the renaissance romances about the medieval times.

By: Rasheed

Rasheed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:40:13 +0000

Maybe it was Snowy River? Or U.N.C.L.E? Or Nantucket?