I’m asking a question in GQ about ballistics and forensics so that I can get a certain detail right in a film I might make. (Right now, I’m just planning to make something for my demo reel and the information doesn’t apply. But if I actually go on to make a film the information will help to make it more realistic.)
If I make the film, can I put this in the credits?
Of course, it’s your movie. Nice to give credit where it’s due. 
TubaDiva
Thanks, Tuba. If it gets made, I’ll put it in.
What about any residuals?
Who gets to hang on to the Oscar?
You can also thank a moldy slice of pizza for divine inspiration for this mythical film.
It would have the same amount of relevence.
Just a suggestion.
Maybe the credit could be in the “real” credits rather than in the “thanks to” list. E.g., “Technical Assistance: The SDMB”. Then maybe the SDMB would qualify for an entry at IMDB.
(And then there could be a “bio” section, some favorites quotes, maybe even have a Bacon number …)
Yeah, he’ll just say “I want to thank all the little people…”
What would the Bacon number for the SDMB be? I mean, my Bacon number is (…starts counting …) 4, and I’ve never been in a movie.
Bacon number? I usually put about 4 slices per sandwich. 3 on a hamburger.
I think you need to explain this one. Isn’t Bacon number exclusively a property of people who’ve been in movies? It’s cheating to use “I have a friend who…” and the like; if one allows things like that, then I have a Bacon number of 1: I live on the same continent as Kevin Bacon.
I’ve met Kevin Bacon’s father – is that good for anything?
Put it in the “Thanks to” section.
The makers of this film would like to thank the following:
Better yet, you could make up some fictional pseudonym–maybe “Frank Leudon”[sup]1[/sup] and assign him credit.
And on an entirely unrelatd and utterly pointless note my personal Bacon number[sup]2[/sup] is now 2, thanks to this movie (though seeing that it is still “in production” perhaps that doesn’t count.)
Stranger
[sup]1[/sup]Don’t make me explain it to you. Just sound it out.
[sup]2[/sup]That is to say, actual person-to-person connection to Bacon. I’m not a film actor–I don’t even play one on television–so I don’t qualify in that sense. However, one of the people who appear in that film used to change my diapers. Wow, I’m like…one step away from being a Hollywood powerhouse. Admittedly, it’s a step across a chasm that makes the Grand Canyon look like a sidewalk crack, but hey, I’m connected.
Chronos that’s what I’m trying to point out. Obviously badly. There are probably only a handful of people who qualify to have a Bacon number on the board. Would we take an average of theirs’? Or maybe use the smallest one?
Thunder, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
“Unca Cecil and the SDMB” seems appropriate.
I think the point is that the Board itself, as a single entity, would have a Bacon number (if Johnny LA puts us in the credits), completely independantly of any Bacon number any individual members of the SDMB may or may not have. Using listings in credits seems a bit more legitimate to me than just any old connection, though I suppose it should be restricted to leaf nodes of the Bacon graph. In other words, when a movie credits, say, the NYPD for assistance, the NYPD thereby gets a Bacon number, but one cannot consider two movies linked by virtue of both having credited the NYPD.
OK, I’m getting “Frank Lee-oo-don” which has no significance to me, but then it is getting close to my bedtime. Could you spell it out in little words for me?
I’m getting ‘Frank Loo-don’, and a distinct sense that there is nothing to get.
Stranger On A Train, prove me wrong.
For what it’s worth, I have a legitimate, honest-to-God, movie-credit, verifiable-in-IMDb, Bacon Number of… crap, now I don’t remember. Four, I think. None of this “I once had lunch with a guy who backed over the foot of the guy who used to trim Kevin Bacon’s second cousin’s hedges” stuff for me, nosirreebob.