chopsocky

Portuguese translation: porradaria oriental

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00:55 Aug 31, 2020
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Additional field(s): Media / Multimedia
English term or phrase: chopsocky
Definition from Collins Dictionary:
A genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence.

Example sentence(s):
  • You get a fair amount of bang for your kung fu buck: decent Fu-fights, the classic scenes of the chopsocky genre, wherein, inevitably, large crowds of Hawaiian shirt-clad men run into either a brothel or a restaurant and proceed to gesticulate wildly with kung fu territorial threat/dominance displays, and then one quietly heroic man of greater alpha dominance (who would always prefer to be left alone) runs amok among them and dominates them. The Epoch Times
  • From chopsocky Hong Kong martial arts movies to campy Bollywood of the '70s and '80s, Bala pours his adoration for the cinema he grew up on into this irreverent tribute. News 18
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Portuguese translation:porradaria oriental
Definition:
While looking for movies within this category, I noticed they were listed in Brazilian Portuguese as just martial arts or action movies. I could not find any specific source pointing out an expression created by the Brazilian public to define this genre.
To suit the colloquial style of chopsocky, I proposed a term that could be easily understood by any reader without further researches.
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Fábio de Macêdo
Brazil
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4 +2porradaria oriental
Fábio de Macêdo
5Porradeiro
Lucas Gonçalves
4Kung-fu
Daniela M Andrade


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porradaria oriental


Definition from own experience or research:
While looking for movies within this category, I noticed they were listed in Brazilian Portuguese as just martial arts or action movies. I could not find any specific source pointing out an expression created by the Brazilian public to define this genre.
To suit the colloquial style of chopsocky, I proposed a term that could be easily understood by any reader without further researches.

Example sentence(s):
  • Dos filmes de artes marciais e porradaria orientais de Hong Kong aos exageros de Bollywood dos anos 70 e 80, Bala manifesta seu carinho pelo cinema com que cresceu nesse tributo irreverente. - Translation from the Sentence 
Fábio de Macêdo
Brazil
Local time: 02:29
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

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Porradeiro


Definition from own experience or research:
Porrada (vulgar) - substantivo. luta, combate corpo-a-corpo, em geral sem armas.

Porradeiro - adjetivo. referente a porrada

Example sentence(s):
  • "7 filmes porradeiros de Michael Jai White para você assistir" - Ato@nanet  
Lucas Gonçalves
Brazil
Local time: 02:29
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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Kung-fu


Definition from Steam Community:
Kung-fu ou pancadaria kung-fu

(jogo Sleeping Dogs)

Example sentence(s):
  • Ele nos traz um certo tipo de ação linha dura que só os filmes de kung fu asiáticos (Chopsocky) podem proporcionar. - Comunidade Steam  
Daniela M Andrade
Brazil
Local time: 02:29
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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