Tweetweek: Punctuated Titles (and other brief distractions)
Saturday, November 6, 2021 at 8:00AM Let's start with our old pal Joe, who is brilliant at Twitter asking a very good question:
Thinking about "Tick, Tick... Boom!" and whether any other movies pass the "three types of punctuation in the title" test.
— Joe Reid (@joereid) November 4, 2021
Turns out it's pretty rare. Even super long movie titles usually only use one or, maximum, two. But here are a handful that do...
- Hoodwinked Too! - Hood Vs. Evil (2011)
- "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964) *
- The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964) *
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
- Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? (2010)
* These are iffy since in the case of Sweet Charlotte the quotes are only on the movie poster but not within the movie itself. In the case of Zombies it's sometimes listed without that last question mark so is the question mark part of the title for real or just how people write the title now?
OKAY ON TO DIFFERENT TWEETS curated for your enjoyment
Kristen Stewart hitting the "gives no fucks" point of the #Spencer press tour. Love to see it. pic.twitter.com/5PG0CnJZuA
— Zack Sharf (@ZSharf) November 4, 2021
every time an audience laughs at “fall collection, ikea” in the eternals trailer, my soul dies a little more
— the morally corrupt juan barquin (@woahitsjuanito) October 17, 2021
The calm before the storm. pic.twitter.com/CbuLyrCK7C
— L (@lukeanth1) November 4, 2021
BOB THE DRAG QUEEN DOES THE MOST ICONIC WIG REVEAL OF ALL TIME!! @thatonequeen #werehere pic.twitter.com/9fhoPrLMBe
— Alex Paterson (@AlexPattyy) November 3, 2021
oh wow they’re having a costume party at the front of the SNOWPIERCER train https://t.co/ZA8f2QGJoa
— BenDavid Grabinski+ (@bdgrabinski) October 28, 2021
convinced the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are ben platt, chris pratt, james corden, and camila cabello
— timzilla (@deliclit) November 5, 2021
the accuracy. Ohmygod. The tongue pop as consonant and exclamation point.someone explained to me that one way to tell muppets and sesame street apart is that muppets fuck and sesame street doesn't.
— alex (@alex_abads) November 5, 2021
this also applies to x-men and the avengers and a good way to tell them apart
Billy Porter auditions for Wicked. pic.twitter.com/7zssB45Iln
— Calvin Seabrooks (@larrygayvid) November 5, 2021
this thread (click for the full thing) would be my favourite thread if I had actually loved Midnight Mass. It's pretty damn cute (the photos not the show)...
father paul as cats: a meow meow thread #MidnightMass pic.twitter.com/wYWyAmyasY
— déia (@whitewolfrivia) November 5, 2021
and finally this is a good point. But it takes a lot for studios to shift their focus and dollars...
In a Best Picture race that is running out of passionate Best Picture contenders...WB and @neonrated should really push the pedal to the medal with In The Heights and Worst Person in the World...wasting opportunities here... pic.twitter.com/jcodQg4c9N
— Gregory Ellwood - The Playlist 🎬 (@TheGregoryE) November 4, 2021
Bob the Drag Queen, Midnight Mass, Tweetweek, cats, title sequence
Reader Comments (6)
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Two parenthesis count as one, right?
Because in spanish we use opening and ending punctuations to interrogative and admirative expressions and seems that would be a little unfair advantage to sum the three marks (even so, not many titles comes to my mind)
It's funny to discover that some original titles that doesn't have marks it has it in the translation to spanish like:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - ¿Quién engañó a Roger Rabbit?
Bom Yeoreum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom - Primavera, Verano, Otoño, Invierno... y Primavera
Get Out - ¡Huye!
In this moment I can name only three original titles with three punctuated marks:
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll
@ César Gaytán
The Cook, The Thief only has two: comma and ampersand.
@Working stiff. Oh, you are so right. I totally missed the "types" word from the original publication.
On a similar tangent, I HATE incorrect/lack of correct punctuation in a movie title. Like Two Weeks Notice or The 40 Year Old Virgin. (Also, Lifes Rich Pageant by R.E.M. has annoyed me since the '80s.)
Nathaniel.. I wish you liked Midnight Mass more. It gets better as it goes along and has a phenomenal final 2 episodes. Hamish Linklater and Annabeth Gish definitely Emmy-worthy.