Making your movie titles short to make them hard to search for on piracy websites, at the expense of making them hard to search for on regular websites.
(“Her” was a very short title for a movie, but it wasn’t bad. Is there a movie called “I”? Would be a good title for a movie about solipsism and individualism)
This is Hollywood, movie titles should be two words or less
There Will Be Blood? More like there will not.
Now, if you called it There Will, or Be Blood then I could see it
Pretty hard to beat π.
If they wanted short titles why do so many movies unnecessarily begin with ‘the’
I tried and failed to come up with a joke so I googled. I found this result at Reddit - I don’t understand the rules behind the usage of “the” in movie titles. It’s Reddit and it’s about movies so they take this question very seriously.
It’s mostly about branding and aesthetics. Sometimes “The Flash” feels right for emphasizing a specific hero, while just “Hulk” aims for a more iconic vibe. Sequels like “Avengers: Endgame” drop “the” to highlight events. Shorter titles like “Eternals” are catchier. Reboots like “The Fantastic Four” use “the” to signal a fresh start. It’s a mix of marketing strategy and how the title sounds to the audience. Hope that clears it up!
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Something I haven’t seen mentioned so far is that it’s also used to distinguish from previous films.
For example, Hulk vs The Incredible Hulk.
This is even more important when you’re cinematic universe and plots aren’t related. Such as:
Room vs The Room Deadpool vs The Deadpool
Details here of these films, and other instances of very similar titles.
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While it’s stylistic, it’s not completely random. The rules about specific vs general evoke different feelings about the titles.
For instance, if I saw a movie titled “Badgers”, I’d assume it’s about a group of animals. But “The Badgers” I would think is about a specific group - maybe a sports team called The Badgers or something.
The Wolverine tells us it’s about a specific individual called The Wolverine (or a car or an airplane or something). It sounds like it will be an origin story, maybe. But leaving out the article for Hulk makes me think of how the Hulk talks - Hulk no put extra word in title.
For The Avengers, the article tells us that this is a title for the group and not just a description of people avenging. But once they’ve established that, they can leave off the article in later titles.
In all of these cases, they could go either way, but they have carefully considered how people will respond to the different options.
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There’s more but this comment is already (more than?) long enough.
I do appreciate the effort you went to to find this. But I will say the marketing ploy is lazy. You can explain away anything behind the vague excuse of focus groups or marketing and then force an idea upon it.
Exorcist I fully believe sounds better without ‘the’
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Spoiler?
