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Post by london777 on May 22, 2020 14:33:26 GMT
This thread should rather be entitled "Misleading Film Titles", but you know me - drama queen.
Paris, Texas (1984) dir: Wim Wenders No scene in this movie is located in Paris, Texas. It is mentioned a few times and I think we see a few Kodak snaps of plots allegedly in that town, but could be anywhere. Obviously has some symbolic significance, but I suspect played a bigger part in early drafts.
I Wake Up Screaming (1941) dir: H. Bruce Humberstone No-one wakes up screaming in this movie, or claims to have done so. In fact, considering the mess they are all in, they sleep surprisingly well. A clear re-naming to appeal to a genre audience. The original title Hot Spot was far more apt, and very Noir. This was 20th Century Fox's first Noir so they would not know about that.
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Post by cynthiagreen on May 22, 2020 15:18:39 GMT
KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA - I believe Krakatoa is actually west of Java HOUSE OF A THOUSAND DOLLS - 1967 perky white slave melo with Vincent Price & Martha Hyer - but only twenty "dolls" at best and dig that groovy title song from Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers
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Post by Catman on May 22, 2020 15:30:02 GMT
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack leaves out Baragon!
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Post by bravomailer on May 22, 2020 15:47:38 GMT
Almost none of Fargo takes place in that North Dakota city. At the end a character is apprehended there.
Songs from the Southern Seas takes place exclusively in landlocked Kazakhstan.
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Post by Isapop on May 22, 2020 16:02:48 GMT
KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA - I believe Krakatoa is actually west of Java Well, you could think of it as KRAKATOA, WAY EAST OF JAVA.
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Post by Isapop on May 22, 2020 16:20:18 GMT
12 ANGRY MEN - There were at least a couple of them who weren't angry.
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Post by Catman on May 22, 2020 16:22:39 GMT
Son of Godzilla never establishes that Minilla is indeed Godzilla's actual son.
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Post by Reynard on May 22, 2020 16:42:14 GMT
Black Magic (1949), starring Orson Welles as Count Cagliostro, who uses his natural charisma and hypnotism on his quest for revenge. Hypnotism hardly qualifies as magic, black or white, but that's all we got. Great movie, though.
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Post by cynthiagreen on May 22, 2020 16:55:37 GMT
SON OF ROBIN HOOD 1958 turned out to be June Laverick....
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 22, 2020 16:56:47 GMT
Just finished watching one: 1954's Black Widow.
It's a whodunit/wrongly accused man melodrama centered around colorful Broadway theater personalities, but doesn't involve anything, figuratively or literally, suggested by the title. Come to that, Ginger Rogers, in spite of her top billing, has far less screen time than costars Van Heflin, Gene Tierney or Reginald Gardner, but makes the most of what she's got, chewing the scenery from one end of the CinemaScope screen to the other as an extravagantly grand stage star (usually waving a cigarette in a long holder, and looking fabulous while doing it). Otto Kruger and a grown-up Peggy Ann Garner lend support, along with George Raft, doing his customary impression of a wood carving, as the investigating detective. Over the top, but fun.
Just no black widows of any kind (unless you count the main titles).
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Post by Isapop on May 22, 2020 16:59:08 GMT
RESERVOIR DOGS - Just sat through the whole thing waiting for dogs. Or just one dog. Or a reservoir.
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Post by cynthiagreen on May 22, 2020 17:07:44 GMT
RESERVOIR DOGS - Just sat through the whole thing waiting for dogs. Or just one dog. Or a reservoir. Okay so you were down a reservoir and a few dogs maybe... but didn't you consider yourself unexpectedly gifted with ear slicings, sadistic torture scenes, betrayal, banter and flashbacks?
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Post by Isapop on May 22, 2020 17:13:38 GMT
ear slicings, sadistic torture scenes, betrayal, banter and flashbacks That's what the title should have been.
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Post by mikef6 on May 22, 2020 17:50:52 GMT
SHINE - the 1996 biopic that won Best Actor for Geoffrey Rush. The title was a mystery questioned even at the time of the movie. I seem to remember that some dialog dropped in pre-production mentioned the word and a theme song with that title was rejected, leaving a title with no reference to anything in the picture.
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Post by Reynard on May 22, 2020 17:53:17 GMT
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) - A very poorly chosen title that potentially keeps people from watching this great film, since it leads the audience to expect something that never comes. Explaining further would be spoiling, but in short: there's no twist ending. My guess is that the title could come from the original, more satirical screenplay, before it was almost completely rewritten and eventually became a hazy, dream-like suspense story.
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Post by cynthiagreen on May 22, 2020 18:07:17 GMT
SHINE - the 1996 biopic that won Best Actor for Geoffrey Rush. The title was a mystery questioned even at the time of the movie. I seem to remember that some dialog dropped in pre-production mentioned the word and a theme song with that title was rejected, leaving a title with no reference to anything in the picture. I much preferred the remake.....
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Post by President Ackbar™ on May 22, 2020 18:08:56 GMT
STAR WARS (1977)
There are no wars, only one short aerial battle near the end.
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Post by Rufus-T on May 22, 2020 18:09:18 GMT
Horror movies do that a lot
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Post by Prime etc. on May 22, 2020 18:20:57 GMT
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
There was no monster from Hell in it.
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Post by mikef6 on May 22, 2020 18:30:37 GMT
SHINE - the 1996 biopic that won Best Actor for Geoffrey Rush. The title was a mystery questioned even at the time of the movie. I seem to remember that some dialog dropped in pre-production mentioned the word and a theme song with that title was rejected, leaving a title with no reference to anything in the picture. I much preferred the remake..... Ya know? I think I do too.
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