What names should not be re-used in movies?
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July 30th, 2011
I went to see “Cowboys and Aliens” today. One thing that was very distracting for me was Harrison Ford’s last name was Dollarhide. That kept my mind refering back to the movies “Manhunter” and “Red Dragon”, which are based on the same book, and have a bad guy named Francis Dollarhide. That name is obscure enough in real life to easily avoid it in a movie.
You probably wouldn’t make a movie or book today with a character named Lector, Vader, or Ripley, because the names are too familiar to us.
What other names should be avoided by future media?
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Well, every time I hear the name Jason it reminds me of Friday the Thirteenth. But that shouldn’t be a reason not to use it, it’s a perfectly good name.
Maybe the last name O’Hara.
Mine. It is the character’s name in a movie for the the psychotic, murderess.
I should confirm it was my whole name. First name and surname.
Jason Voorhees good one @Symbeline.
Michael Myers
Keyser Söze
Griswold
Dirty Harry, Clark Griswold, Cool Hand Luke, Annie Wilkes, Pinhead, and Marty McFly.
Highlander (with any number behind it).
please, never, ever, ever again
@DarlingRhadamanthus Haha yeah.
Most people are afraid to die. That’s not your problem. You’re afraid to live.
That always cracks me up lol.
They could reuse it, if they didn’t pronounce the T at the end, as orignally intended. :D
Speaking of Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones would be one, certainly, that shouldn’t be reused.
Harry Potter
Norman Bates
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