Narrigheden en narigheden

21:04 Feb 16, 2012 

I see what you mean, but this is exactly what I tried to find out about in my first question to Charline. I wasn't perfectly sure about this either.
However, she confirmed this was about the utterings of Till Eulenspiegel and indeed this may very well be case, given the whole context (and I would like it if it does :-)

I summarized this in:

So (this is about) all the different problems they encountered in trying to make a succes of the film about Till Eulenspiegel's 'narrigheden'


Further, I think 'narrigheden' may very well refer to 'narachtige fratsen' or something, that is, to 'jests' (and in Till's case these may have a deeper layer).

20:25 Feb 16, 2012 

The way I looked at the question was that "narrigheden and narigheded" both refer to what the crew experienced during the making of the film. Narrigheden is a word play that only sideways refers to Till (and like most word plays is hard to translate into English).

18:19 Feb 16, 2012 

This would imply that Till Eulenspiegel produced 'bloopers' and the crew 'blunders'
Not very likely that the crew would say that about themselves. Besides, I understood from the information we have, it concerned unforeseen/unexpected setbacks.
Also, I don't think that what Till Eulenspiegel was doing concerned 'bloopers'. I always understood he was more like a jester who brought the truth in the form of buffoonery. Some kind of popular sage.

17:27 Feb 16, 2012 

I think 'bloopers and blunders' would work quite well and preserves the alliteration. If you would post that as an answer, I would agree.

16:07 Feb 16, 2012 

So all the different problems they encountered in trying to make a succes of the film about Till Eulenspiegel's 'narrigheden'

16:00 Feb 16, 2012 

Problems with the script, problems they encountered when shooting the film (weather), one of producers backed out of the project, film was not received well by the press, etc.

15:57 Feb 16, 2012 

Thank you, I just asked for sake of clarity
So it is kind of about the problems they encountered in representing the 'narrigheden'

15:52 Feb 16, 2012 

I thought that the word narrigheden referred to Till Eulenspiegel and narigheden to the problems they encountered...

15:48 Feb 16, 2012 

You tell us: "It tells about how difficult it was to produce the film (all the troubles and problems they encountered)"

Could it be that 'narrigheden' refers to things like 'weerbarstigheden' 'neteligheden', 'heikeligheden' or are you sure it refers to 'hansworsterij', etc.?

09:38 Feb 16, 2012 

How about buffoonery and bloopers/blunders?

09:34 Feb 16, 2012 

neologism for bothersome aggravation, in case you're looking for another "b" word. Isn't commonly used, but we'd all know what it meant in context.

09:16 Feb 16, 2012 

And I have to admit, it's fun, but not that much fun if you still have about 7000 words to go and a tight deadline :-)

09:15 Feb 16, 2012 

Well, I wanted to incorporate the word buffoonery, was now looking for a synonym of troubles/problems, starting with a "b"...

09:09 Feb 16, 2012 

what do you have so far? what have you already rejected as unsuitable?

09:02 Feb 16, 2012 

Finding an English title that covers every aspect of the Dutch one is...

09:00 Feb 16, 2012 

Narren krijgen nu eenmaal narigheid wanneer ze zonder narrigheden de waarheid spreken.
http://www.toneelgroepdeappel.nl/page/540