calander

HA for once my title has somethign to do with my post...all be it wolly and slightly roundabout...and only to with a small proportion of the post..anyway

I was looking through my calander (see there it is blink and you'll miss it) of movie posters and i was wondering where the names for films come from so here we go!

January An MGM classic "The thin man" a murder mystery masterpiece from with william powell and Myrna Loy. The name for this film came from the fact that when they were orginally doing the film the scene where the police looked at the chalk outline, the artistic director had drawn said outline much too thin. The name leaped out of the floor...from this day on in films when an outline is needed they go a store of premade outlines of varying shapes and sizes..its big buisiness!

February on of the greatest films ever "Sunset Boulevard"...Not named after the road..its a common misconception in fact the road was named after the film. Which was actually named after someone looked down this nameless road in Hollywood whilst making the film and said wow look at the sunset, then sneezed and it sounded like boulevard.

March is Charlie Chaplins "Modern Times" there is no reason for this film title, charlie in character once threw a hissy fit and threw the scrabble tiles across the room and the formed this word

April Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in our next film "Top hat" called this because it was often commented that it looked like Fred Asraire had a Top hat in his trousers!

May Stanley Kubricks banned master work "Clockwork Orange". Stanley used to loose his keys when he just left them about the house, so when he came in he started putting them in an orange. So they were always in the same place and quite tasty if he ever sucked his keys (which he did often) SOmeone once mentioned that it looked like a clockwork orange..he had them killed for the comment but like the phrase so pinched it and decided to claim it as his own.

June sees in Double Indemnity with the gorgeous Barbara Stanwyck...This was named after the producer for the film look at his penis whilst stood next to a mirror and said to his wife...now this is compensation double indemnity!

July has gary cooper in the classic western "High Noon" named after Gary Cooper turned up stoned at midday and the Grip asked him what time it was and he said "It's High Noon bitches"

August This month sees in My Fair Lady, originally based on Pygmalion but this has nothing to do with the name of the film it actually comes from where they found Audrey Hepburn at a Fayre...but it didnt work right in the film so they changed the spelling...(this is the official release for the spelling error...the actual reason is they didnt have microsoft word spell check when they did the poster)

September and in Rocks "The Hustler" Staring the Amazing Paul Newman....this film is about a pool hustler...simple as...(September is a dull month so it fits u know)

October and we have a film noir classic La Dolce Vita. This was never the origional name for the film, it was originally called that fit lass over there. However someone said that that sort of phrase hadn't really been used in this context yet and wouldnt be used like this for a few decades, so the producer and writers threw a hissy fit and drank fourteen bottles of gin...in a quipping a cutting remark one of the writers said "Oh screw it why don't we just call it La Dolce Vita?" "Another writer who didn't understand sarcasm but could write some serious irony thought he was serious and put it on the film...it wasn't till it was too late that they realised what happened!

November a Marx brothers stunner now "A night at the Opera". This came about when during the first cut of the film Groucho said the phrase four hundered and eighty six times in twelve and a half minutes of film. As an in joke they named it after this incident. Groucho threatened to burn the studio down with a cigar because he was embarressed..thefilm got cut but the title remained

December finally we have one of the greatest thrillers of all time "Vertigo" from the master himself Alfred Hitchcock. This was named after the main characters fear of heights which forms most of the plot! (I couldnt be silly on this one cos its alfred hitchcock...you know!?!)

And that concludes the year in film
(All of this is made up apart from vertigo....It has nothign to do with any of the films....unless im right in which case it was a lucky guess plus i hope i dont get sued for that poster...its just a bit of fun )