Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

They could have come up with a generic name for the company. But they didn't.

Um, no. The movie takes place on earth. Real earth. Today. Sorry you disagree with that choice, but don't assume that you get to make that choice for the filmmakers.

(Heheh, I used "TransGlobal" as my example above - because it was the fake airline used in the Airport movies, to illustrate how fake names stand out like a sore thumb. Real names just stick out like a thumb.)

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Um, no. The movie takes place on earth. Real earth. Today. Sorry you disagree with that choice, but don't assume that you get to make that choice for the filmmakers.

Filmmakers do it all the time. Even though the film takes place in the real world, they don't necessarily have to have real world company names. If I were a filmmmaker I would use made up names. Nothing dates a movie like having someone in it singing a McDonald's jingle that isn't around anymore (ie. 'Ordinary People') or referencing a company that no longer exists...

C'mon, how much of a sore thumb was McDonald's in 'Fifth Element'? Huge sore thumb.

You can't say he was trying to be realistic. Pshaw, he had dollar signs in his eyes.

Zemeckis didn't have money in mind when he put Fed Ex in his movie? He most certainly did. ie. The California Raisin Company paid millions of dollars to feature a bus bench with their ad on it in 'Back to the Future' (another Zemeckis film).

FedEx stuck out like an sore advertisement.