IIRC, it was some sort of randomly assigned government code-name for the incident. The military has a long history of using them, they are neutral-sounding for security reasons. For example, Operation Market Garden in WWII had little to do with the growing of root vegetables.
No, I am serious.
Why Citizen Kane? Calling him citizen makes it sound like he’s an immigrant trying to become an American. But there was no mention in the movie about Kane’s citizenship.
Same thing with The Godfather. Why make the title about Vito Corleone being a godfather? It wasn’t a major part of the movie. It was like calling the movie The Guy Who Bought Some Oranges.
Okay, Coppola had an excuse. He was adapting a novel that already had a title.
Rosemary’s Baby is never seen in the movie.
With Six You Get Eggroll
No shit. That movie had nothing to do with footwear of any sort! :mad:
Reindeer Games. IMDb plot description: “After assuming his dead cellmate’s identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.”
So, there’s…deer?
Man on the Moon is neither science nor science fiction.
A Midnight Clear is not really a Christmas movie.
Ice Harvest has zero to do with Eskimos or a bizarre scheme to drag ice floes to the desert.
As Homer Simpson pointed out, To Kill a Mockingbird contains no useful information about killing mockingbirds.
Gone with the Winddid put some thought into the title. I wonder if book buyers in 1946 would have been familiar with the poem?
I wasn’t interested either. I was pleasantly surprised.
Anyone seen Happiness? Not exactly a feel good movie.
I still think you’re fucking with us, but alright…
“Godfather” was his title in the mob.
It was a good choice, though, since it could refer to the October 1957 launch of Sputnik 1.
Can’t tell if serious
People were calling him Godfather all throught the movie.
The Neverending Story is a case of the title making sense in the book and not in the movie. The title is a large theme of the book.
And “godfather” was not that obscure as a term for a mob boss even at the time the movies were made, even if they helped popularize it.
I as a kid thought the movie Fiddler on the Roof had a, you know, real fiddler who was a sort of V for Vendetta freedom fighter (yes before VfV existed, but anyway). Turned out he is in the movie, but barely, as a figment of the lead character’s imagination, and not central to the plot at all.
I don’t know if you’re joking but the song “Man On The Moon”, which came out several years earlier, is about Andy Kaufman.
The movie came out in 1999. YouTube didn’t exist until 2005. Anybody walking into a theater in 1999 without knowing what the film was about would not have had a clue from the title.
It was on VH1 about 750 times a day and in pretty heavy rotation on the radio when it first came out.