Movie titles are always fun. Sometimes they’re precisely effective and you know exactly what you’re going to get when you sit down in the theatre (“Aliens” for example); sometimes not (“Outrageous Fortune”). It’s a specific point of audience recognition though, because many times moviegoers buying their tickets have nothing to go by except what they remember or mis-remember as the title. “Quantum of Solace”? That’s a tough one, gets short circuited to “The James Bond Movie.” “The Dark Knight” became “The Batman movie” (obviously) but also became “The BLACK Knight” (I didn't know Errol Flynn was still making movies...). With Leonardo DiCaprio’s REVOLUTIONARY ROAD out in theatres, it begs the question, how many of these addresses have you visited in your Hollywood vehicle? And how many people live in this crazy subdivision anyway? And how does the mailman ever figure out who gets what?
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That is so tru, people usually call a movie we all know by what we all know it by instead of it's name.
ReplyDeleteand, how does a mailman figure out who gets what?
That is very true. Every time someone says the Batman movie I go through all the Batman movies there have ever been. I do want to say something about Quantum of Solace. The producers really have no idea what it means. They had to name the movie after a work by Ian Fleming, though, and Quantum of Solace was the last choice. It's a short story about James Bond going to a dinner party. When they wondered how to incorporate the title into the story, they named the bad guy's (I forgot his name) project Quantum, but otherwise, the title is totally unrelated. That's my piece on this.
ReplyDeleteWhat you said is very true. With every title of a movie it seems that you can get what the movie may be about without seeing the movie itself. But like you said, some of the titles are hard to figure out, while others are very simple.
ReplyDeleteMovie titles, to me, are what attract my attention to the movie. It makes me either want to see that movie or not. The movie title definately is a major part of the advertising "gig".
ReplyDeleteThe title of a movie plays a really big role in attracting attention to the potential consumers. Besides that, it's all a matter of opinion for those who like to deviate from the actual name of the movie, Black or Dark Knight, it's all the same.
ReplyDeleteI do that! Only because people always end up knowing what I'm talking about.
ReplyDeletethats true. i do it cuz i ahve a little brohter who dose not konw the real name of the movies, and i ahve some hella dumb friends. so when we talk we talk like that
ReplyDeleteya movie titles sumtimes make me decide whether or not i want to see da movie
ReplyDeletelyk if i havent seen da preveiws i ll luk at da name :]
That is very true!!
ReplyDeletesome movies can be so predictable and the title just kinda takes away from all the excitement......
OH yup thos movies awesome (by da way this is Hector aguiar)
ReplyDeleteFOR SURE! People end up saying things more like, "Let's go see that movie... Oh what was it called? You know, the one with that guy who's really funny and he's been in all those different movies before?" as if that really helps you know what they're talking about.
ReplyDeletep.s. love the mailmen pun, since every movie title in the picture setup has the word 'road' in it.. clever!
p.p.s. my computer is malfunctioning and not showing who I am properly half the time, so in case you can't find out this is Jennifer G. from first period.
oh wow i never really realized this to now. but its so true
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