Sure , I agree it ' s hard to translate titles sometimes , but the usual method at least when the people in charge of it know what they ' re doing in those cases in Portugal is simply to leave the title untouched and eventually adding a subtitle , but not always . In this particular case , a straight translation wouldn ' t even be difficult , even if the title Shaun dos Mortos Vivos to link it to the . of the Dead franchise would be a bit awkward . That said , it ' s quite rare for a title to be improved when translated in Portugal there seem to be people involved in the process who abhor any kind of subtlety , and tend to either make titles more explicit or to simply replace them with generic descriptions . To illustrate the last time I went to the movies , I noticed Hacksaw Ridge had been translated to the equivalent of The Hero of Hacksaw Ridge god forbid that audiences were not previously informed that there would be an hero involved ! and the movie I went to see , Arrival , which could have simply been translated as Chegada and meant exactly the same , got the Portuguese title of . O Primeiro Encontro , which can either translate as The First Encounter or The First Date . The fact that the movie poster features both Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner proeminently did nothing to dimish the idea that someone who didn ' t already know of the movie might form of it being either a romantic drama or a romantic comedy .