Why do movies have to do things like this? We know the name of the movie. Why does a character have to say the name of the movie in a line?
I understand it happens all the time, I don’t mind it when it happens in movies like “Black Hawk Down”. It doesn’t sound bad or cheesy when it comes up in the movie.
But when they force the line, that’s when it pisses me off:
“Awesome Point Break”
“They pose a clear and present danger to us”
“Welcome to con air”
I think the best example of this has to be A View To A Kill. The phrase barely makes sense even when you consider it as a Duran Duran song. Still, it was spoken by Christopher Walken, so it can’t be all that bad.
I was just thinking: what if when I’m writing a movie script and I can’t find an adequate title for the movie, it suddenly appears a line that may be the title?
I suspect, for example, that The Full Monthy could have been developed this way (just guessing).
Thanks God that other James Bond movies don’t do that. It would be ridiculous to hear Roger Moore saying to Barbara Bach: “You are The Spy Who Loved Me, my dear”.
For the record, I’ve only ever seen two James Bond movies - A View To A Kill, which I nominated, and From Russia With Love . . . in which he didn’t say the title out loud . . . he just used the title to . . . well . . . to autograph a picture with.
I think that is sometimes done, Marine One, to get around legal issues. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. Maybe this isn’t the same thing, but it seems like Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” was named because the title “Dracula” was owned by some other movie studio.
On second thought, maybe this is two different issues. Maybe someone will come along to set it straight.