# Has there been a movie where the title was not mentioned during the movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107 "2008-01-03T05:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Penchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Penchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penchan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/1 "2008-01-03T05:35:41Z")
I was taking a shower last night and this random thought popped in my head. Has there ever been a movie where the movie title was not mentioned at all during the movie? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/2 "2008-01-03T05:44:28Z")
Do you mean the title is never shown in the movie itself, or that the title is never mentioned in the dialogue? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/3 "2008-01-03T05:44:38Z")
Does any character say the words “gone with the wind” during the film? I know that they occur in the novel. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/4 "2008-01-03T05:45:30Z")
Sure! The film adaptation of “Pride & Prejudice” doesn’t include all of the narration that the novel does, and in dropping that excess narration, they also cut out the paragraph or two where Austen actually uses both words from the title. On preview, I bet this has happened in lots of books-turned-movies. Also, nobody in the movie “Jaws” has that word anywhere in their dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/5 "2008-01-03T05:50:28Z")
I think it happens a lot. I don’t think anybody says “star wars” in any of the movies. Nobody says “toy story” in that movie, either. I think the list could go on. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/6 "2008-01-03T05:56:17Z")
I had the titular line in Star Wars. I walked by in the background and said, “I’m so tired of all these Star Wars.” ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/7 "2008-01-03T05:56:50Z")
I can’t believe I’m the first person to come up with _“Snakes on a Plane”._ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/8 "2008-01-03T05:58:01Z")
It’d be a pretty long list. The list of movies where the title _is_ mentioned would be much shorter. In fact, my sister once told me that among her movie-mad college buddies, there was a standing rule that you had to applaud when the title was mentioned. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/9 "2008-01-03T05:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=Plynck] I can’t believe I’m the first person to come up with _“Snakes on a Plane”._ [/QUOTE] Well, Samuel L. Jackson did come close to saying that. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/10 "2008-01-03T06:00:39Z")
How about “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”? Or “Silent Movie”? ---
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/11 "2008-01-03T07:41:32Z")
I was only half-paying attention but I think Tears of the Sun wasn’t mentioned anywhere in it. Actually, I still can’t fathom what if anything the title has to do with the movie. [QUOTE=JThunder] How about “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”? [/QUOTE] That’s because it was actually a chiffarobe. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/12 "2008-01-03T07:46:24Z")
I can’t find it right now, but if I recall correctly, Roger Ebert once said that the mark of a bad movie is that the title IS uttered in the dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/13 "2008-01-03T07:46:36Z")
I don’t think James Bond ever said “Diamonds are Forever” or “You only live twice” or “Live and let die.” Very few titles are quoted verbatim in the movie. The exceptions are movies where the title is a proper noun central to the story, like “Ghandi” or “Godzilla.” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/14 "2008-01-03T08:17:57Z")
“Pulp Fictoin” and “Reservoir Dogs” aren’t mentioned. “Cruel Intentions” and “Dangerous Liaisons.” “Edge of Seventeen.” “Affliction.” I’m not sure the “Devil’s Advocate” is either. “Dog Day Afternoon.” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/15 "2008-01-03T08:34:59Z")
2001: A Space Odyssey. Unless Moonwatcher grunted it, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/16 "2008-01-03T10:25:42Z")
How about _Citizen Kane?_ ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/17 "2008-01-03T11:12:04Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] In fact, my sister once told me that among her movie-mad college buddies, there was a standing rule that you had to applaud when the title was mentioned. 😃 [/QUOTE] In our house, one drinks when the title is said in the dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/18 "2008-01-03T11:29:04Z")
_Raiders of the Lost Ark_ ---
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The World According to Garp ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107/20 "2008-01-03T13:26:09Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] I don’t think James Bond ever said “Diamonds are Forever” or “You only live twice” or “Live and let die.” [/QUOTE] One of the villains said “You only live twice, Mr. Bond” in that film. Most- if not all- of the Bond films have the title either written or spoken in the film. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-movie-where-the-title-was-not-mentioned-during-the-movie/432107.md?page=2)