On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:06:37 -0500, Star Gate SG1 (don't
bother....send to this newsgroup) wrote:
>On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:51:40 -0600, Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
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>>On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:13:17 -0700, William George Ferguson
>><wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>We can trust Rob to keep us updated on LG,
>>
>>Yep. Her indie movie with Matthew Perry that was once called "Laws of
>>Motion" is now called "Birds of America" (the name of one of Audobon's
>>greatest works, btw).
>When they choose a name do they throw darts at a dart board with
>letters on it to get these names?
No. The titles of movies have to go through vetting by entertainment
lawyers in order to make sure there are no other (recent and/or
non-iconic) movies or (recent, non-iconic) TV shows with the given
title.
>Do they even look at what the movie is about?
>Do they even bother to look at the s script?
Titles are the domain of the writer, director and producer, so yes,
the decisions are made by the people most directly involved with the
making the movie.
Give them a break -- new titles are kinda hard to come by because
pretty much any 1, 2 or 3-word title is either already taken or has
been used 3-4 times already. Take, for instance, the title "Crash,"
which is the name of both a car-crash mutilation fetish movie from the
90's direct by David Cronenberg *and* the Best-Picture winner two
years ago.
If legal gives them a no, the movie makers (producer and director in
collaboration) generally find a new title that *they're* happy with.
Sometimes a big studio will assign a new title anyway because they
think the original title is unmarketable. For instance, the Gillian
Anderson movie "Playing By Heart" was originally called "Dancing About
Architecture," which IMO was a better title. (You can count on
whatever creative decision comes down from a studio to be exactly the
wrong one, IMO.)
Also, some titles are simply too vague to use. Sure, "Birds of
America" doesn't sound much better than "Laws of Motion" (both are
science references to me), but it's also possible that the movie could
undergo another title change in the next month or even before it
premieres on either the big screen (after Sundance) or on DVD (if it
goes direct-to-DVD).
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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