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In Reply to: Best movie TITLE?..... posted by Mrs. Piggy on October 08, 2002 at 19:04:30:
Some of the best titles come from literary works such as Thomas Harris's "Silence of the Lambs", Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" all of which turned out to be fine films bearing their original author's titles.OTOH, sometimes a simple descriptive one word title is perfect; several which come to mind are "Memento", "Seven", and "Unbreakable."
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This is a fantastic film--on many levels. It addresses so many of lifes daunting mysteries, in an ironic, but strangely light way--hard for me to describe--but it is one you have watch and examine.mp
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Have you noticed the trend toward one-word movie titles? Writers used to reduce pitch sessions to a single paragraph, but with today's emphasis on the youth market and general dumbing-down of movies, the pitch and very concept has been reduced to a single word. (Memento is hardly a dumb movie -- I thought it was the best film of the year -- so I'll consider it the exception to the rule).Some funny examples.... "XXX" was re-titled "Triple-X" because the studio felt there would confusion as to the rating of the movie. "The Abyss" (okay, two words) partially tanked at the box office because so few movie-goers actually knew what an "abyss" was. And "Beetlejuice" was changed from "Beetlegeuse" because no one could pronouce it.....
"Crocodile" Dundee. (ok, it's 2)
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Re, retitling of movies: I read someplace that "Crocodile" was put in quotation marks for the USA release so people wouldn't think it was a nature film about a Crocodile!
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