The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies?
I love that one though.
And The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
This is bananas! "The boy" and "the child" are identical but without the alliteration. Without it it'd be a terribly portentous title and it wouldn't capture the film's sense of fun.
Of course it's a terrible film but that's incidental.
The Boy Who Would Be King at least sounds like The Man Who Would Be King. Bit more definitive than "kid" too.
But yes, Child is shit. Sounds like it was written by a disapproving Victorian headmaster.
I remember reading that in some Asian countries 'Wayne's World' was called 'Disregard Them, For They Are Fools!' which is pretty mint.
Did you read that in Empire or Total Film or something in the 90s? That's where I came across that info and it's stayed with me since (although I recall it being some Eastern European country).
I always assumed that in whatever language it was translated to, it sounded really good, or was just a common saying (like Queer As Folk or whatever) and had been brutally and bluntly translated back into English.