One of my favourite topics; movies came in to my head just now. Movie titles. When I was little I was convinced I was going to be a writer and I wrote over 30 pages of cool book and movie titles. I don't know where this list is now, but I've always been attracted to titles. Who knows, maybe I'm not a good writer, maybe I'm only good with titles? English once? Norwegian is not a good language when it comes to titles, or poetry for that matter...
Anyway, I was thinking, who want to see a movie called "Moulin Rouge", or "Britget Jones Diary"? What kind of titles are that? Are they female names? Have these women lived? Am I the only one who doesn't know who these women are? Because of the bad titles, I don't even want to go see, what kind of people these names are attached to. Another bad one is; "There's Something About Mary" -I'm thinking; is it?, so what?! Isn't there something about all people that are called Mary, all people that are called Bob and so on. I'd like to see the individual, that there isn't anything about, I mean my doG how pleasant that would have been... A good movie title; "Fire Walk With Me!" -Now that rules doesn't it, it gives you a feeling of wanting to rebel, rebel against anything whatsoever. Rebel against the vacuum cleaner that yells at you, tell it to go strait to hell! and sit and feel good about it afterwards. It's the kind of title you wanne put on your door, on your car, on your whole existenz. When I saw that title, I felt just like I felt after I'd seen "Natural Born Killers"; I wanted to join a voodoo cult down in Tahiti, wear white cream make up all over and bast skirts and jump around a fire, together with several hardcore zombies while crying; -"Voodoo thrillers, voodoo killers, demons of the soul, embrace me in the night, so I can say; it's alright!" Anyway, let me not carry myself too far here, I want to keep a small part of my sanity for at least a few years more...
A gentle movie title that was pretty good in my opinion, was "Immortal Beloved" You know, it's about the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven. It would be quite shitty if they just called it Ludwig Van Beethoven wouldn't it (?). You don't have to have seen that movie to agree with me; that there must at least be one talented poet or something involved in the writing of it, when you see the title. It was actually a good movie in my view as well and the title added it all up. "The English Patient" was a shitty movie, with a shitty title (sorry to say that, I know a lot of people liked it). It a had however a good point in the end, you know; about humans being the real map of the world, instead of countries, law and systems. I really don't think the movie brought this about, it was too long and you never really understood the point until it ended and then I felt the point was kind of separated from the movie. "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" are good movies (for me at least, being an old Scifi fan and all), but the titles are not very original, both starting with Star and every damn version of them have a longer and very uncreative episode kind of title to it. Stephen King usually have really good titles, but "The Lawnmower Man" was a good movie with a bad title. Wouldn't it be better with something like; "The Human God". You can easily think of good titles for that movie...
No matter what, it is wrong in a artistic sense to say these things, movies like books in my opinion, should stay original according to the writers choice. These things just ponder my mind sometimes, but it shouldn't be taken too seriously. If I would make a movie about my life, or me, I've wondered what I would call it... I always thought "Destroyer" was such a good word, a title in itself, I know a book that is called that, I've never read it, I've just seen the title, but I thought to myself; -"Now isn't that something!". Only one word and it expresses so much...
Nightmare Before Christmas
Interview With The Vampire
Natural Born Killers
Fire Walk With Me
Apocalypse Now
5 Bad Movie Titles:
There's Something About Mary
The English Patient
Britget Jones Diary
Moulin Rouge
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