Talk:Emil and the Detectives

message: The title should be "Emil and the Detective".  I don't know how to change the title or url of the page.
Patrick19 17:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What makes you think so? The title is given as "Emil and the Detectives" e. g. on Amazon, and it's also the correct translation from German. --Mellum 21:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

text: You are mistaken. "Die Detektive" is plural of "Der Detektiv". --Mellum 16:52, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Herr Grundeis translates literally into "Ground Ice". - This is correct, but furthermore this word is obviously referring to the phrase "Ihm geht der Arsch auf Grundeis", a vulgar phrase meaning "He is really scared". This could reflect the thief's feelings when he is chased by the children's crowd - the scene which leads to his detention. 89.12.243.136 (talk) 21:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia / "Grundeis" 

message: In the adaptations section, the line In some cases Emil and the other boys are made into Americans, and the theft takes place on a Greyhound bus rather than on a train. is very puzzing. The only American adaptation listed is the Disney, and that is set in Berlin, and the characters played (in English) as Germans. The British series seems unlikely to have converted them to Americans, and the German versions are played by Germans, in German in Germany. So where are the “cases” that do otherwise? I can’t say they don’t exist, I just don’t know to what productions (and it should be more than one as the quotation is plural) they are. Jock123 (talk) 16:02, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a "citation needed" as I am pretty sure that no such americanized version of the story exists. 85.178.125.191 (talk) 13:30, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The article mentions a 1964 US version produced by Disney which is Emil and the Detectives (1964 film). In that film, Emil travels indeed by bus to Berlin, not by train, so I assume that's what the article's reference to "Greyhound bus" is trying to convey. I suggest to remove the word "Greyhound" and the citation request. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:14, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I actually saw the 1964 Disney version a few years ago when it was available on Youtube. May I refer you to this Amazon review, which talks at length about the “very European feel” and german “cast and key crew”: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2PDR7GPHON3BK/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B005G84GG0&nodeID=2625373011&store=movies-tv Not only is the bus not a Greyhound but there is nothing else americanized about that adaptation. 85.178.127.132 (talk) 23:49, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed that whole paragraph some days ago. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:11, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work. Unfortunately there isn‘t a lot of stuff about those movies to be found online in english.Udoschmitz (talk) 11:57, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Americanization? 

message: Regarding the phrase "with 140 marks ... to give to his grandmother and 20 marks for himself", since 140 marks were stolen - I think this should be "with 120 marks ... to give to his grandmother and 20 marks for himself" or alternatively "with 140 marks ..., 120 marks to give to his grandmother and 20 marks for himself". --Redrose64 (talk) 22:56, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The amount that Emil was carrying 

message: It seems that most of the content has been deleted from the article. The talk page contains much information about things which are no longer in the article itself.
I have increasingly noticed such changes... much of the history of many articles has progressively vanished, too. 86.171.145.86 (talk) 06:49, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: They're corrections, especially "Greyhound" which was completely misleading. The old content is in the revision history if you want to see it, no? Sluggoster (talk) 23:58, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something strange in Wikipedia