# Mis-named movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2006, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425 "2006-05-27T08:44:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/41 "2006-05-28T12:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Similarly, “horse feathers” was an expression of disbelief (see also “applesauce”). There’s also a pun on whore’s feathers, referencing dancers who stripped using large feather fans to hide and reveal. The “college widow” is thus being subtly referenced in the title, although I agree, it has little to do with the movie. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/42 "2006-05-28T13:12:21Z")
**Babe**. I watched the movie. Note a single babe in it. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/43 "2006-05-28T15:31:40Z")
**2001: A Space Odyssey** – no mention of Ulysses at all. I don’t think **Ulysses** mentions him, either. ---
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/44 "2006-05-28T16:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=bluethree] **The Neverending Story** [/QUOTE] How do you know? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/45 "2006-05-28T16:05:45Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] The accents were pretty crappy too. [/QUOTE] I used to think that until I actually visited Brainerd. The accents were dead on. ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/46 "2006-05-28T17:00:08Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] I used to think that until I actually visited Brainerd. The accents were dead on. [/QUOTE] I was born and raised in Fargo, though. I see it as something like British people seeing through what we’d think was a good English accent done by an American. Where are you from originally? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/47 "2006-05-28T19:53:16Z")
[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph] _Watership Down_. Rabbits, yes. Ship, no. [/QUOTE] Well, to be fair, unless you’re being whooshy, Watership Down was the name of the, um, landscape feature; the geological formation; the “spot” where most of the story takes place. Kind of like dumping on \*Washington Square \*for not being about George Washington. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/48 "2006-05-28T20:02:51Z")
**Blazing Saddles** didn’t have any saddles on fire. **Monty Python and the Holy Grail** didn’t have any snakes in it. And it had no full Monty either. Tho **Life of Brian** did. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/49 "2006-05-28T21:30:21Z")
As I remember, _Hearts in Atlantis_ was the title of a book of short stories but the actual story on which the movie was based had a different name. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/50 "2006-05-28T21:34:01Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Well, to be fair, unless you’re being whooshy, Watership Down was the name of the, um, landscape feature; the geological formation; the “spot” where most of the story takes place. Kind of like dumping on \*Washington Square \*for not being about George Washington. [/QUOTE] Yeah, sorry. It was a lame attempt at whooshiness (but not the first in this thread, I don’t think). Actually there was a small rowboat in the movie though. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/51 "2006-05-28T22:27:31Z")
[QUOTE=BobT] “To Kill a Mockingbird” had no useful information on how to kill a mockingbird… [/QUOTE] [Homer Simpson]…although it _did_ teach me not to judge a person by the color of his skin- although what good will _that_ do me?[/HS] ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/52 "2006-05-29T04:47:36Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] **Fargo**. Gunderson hires the hitmen in Fargo (the scene for which was actually filmed in Grand Forks, ND, about 70 miles to the north). I don’t think people would have been too interested in a movie called **Brainerd**. The accents were pretty crappy too. [/QUOTE] The scene that you refer to in your spoiler was actually filmed in Minneapolis. The exterior was a bar on Central Avenue in Nordeast Minneapolis. I’m 95% sure that the interior scenes were filmed in that bar. Your rationale for calling the movie “Fargo” is spot on. The Coen brothers said as much themselves. However, the accents, while a bit over the top at times, are not that far from the truth. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425/53 "2006-05-29T05:24:13Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] **Babe**. I watched the movie. Note a single babe in it. [/QUOTE] Imagine how I felt when I watched [XXX](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295701/). They should sue for false advertising. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-named-movies/358425.md?page=2)