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Wallace & growl has always had a global appeal, but Vengeance Most Fowl‘s unique position as the first in the series made with a little international support in mind thanks to Netflix has meant that no everyone of its British charms have been widely recognized by those international partners. While that led Aardman to cut a few nods that were perhaps a little too specific for the British audience, the one that made it into the final film only came about after clearing the confusion of some distinctly non-British Netflix executives.
The point of concern? “Flippin’ Nora!”
Uttered by PC Mackintosh (played by British comedian Peter Kay) during the film’s climactic chase sequence, the exasperated saying is a harmless British colloquialism used to express shock or outrage. Especially common in the north of England, where Wallace and Gromit is established, the turn of phrase might as well be a foreign language for Netflix. “Peter ad-libs a lot,” Vengeance Most Fowl co-director Nick Park recently explained The sun. “At one point, he’s surprised by something and yells, ‘Flippin’ Nora’… one day we got a note (from Netflix) asking, ‘Who is Nora, and why did she get flipped?'”
Fortunately after Park and his co-director Merlin Crossingham explained that the line was “an innocent turn of phrase,” Netflix was inclined to leave the moment as is. With a film as packed with nods to British culture as Vengeance Most Fowl is, at some point, presumably, they began to accept something that sounded a little strange was due to national differences more than anything else.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowlwhich debuted on Christmas Day in the UK and Ireland, will jump around the world when it hits Netflix worldwide on January 3rd.
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