Post by Smilla on Aug 6, 2009 8:10:59 GMT -4
I started a thread like this in the Lit forum and it seemed to do okay, so I thought I'd re-up it here.
I'm one of those people who thinks a good film can't even approach perfect without a great title. (And good film titles are hard to come up with if my screenwriting friends are to be believed!) My taste in titles tends to run toward the clever and original.
My favorite film title is Gus Van Sant's Elephant, which I thought for sure was a reference to the fable about the blind men of Indostan, who can't tell they're holding an elephant because they're all touching different parts of a complex beast. I thought that was a nice way of symbolizing our society's failure to recognize the different factors feeding into the school violence epidemic. This excellent article on titles, however, claims Elephant...has nothing to do with that.
So...your faves?
I'm one of those people who thinks a good film can't even approach perfect without a great title. (And good film titles are hard to come up with if my screenwriting friends are to be believed!) My taste in titles tends to run toward the clever and original.
My favorite film title is Gus Van Sant's Elephant, which I thought for sure was a reference to the fable about the blind men of Indostan, who can't tell they're holding an elephant because they're all touching different parts of a complex beast. I thought that was a nice way of symbolizing our society's failure to recognize the different factors feeding into the school violence epidemic. This excellent article on titles, however, claims Elephant...has nothing to do with that.
So...your faves?
