I DON'T KNOW WHY DID YOU
WHY DON'T YOU HAVE
A FUCKING QUESTION MARK
I don't think the big upside-down one in the design counts. I think a regular question mark directly following the letter "d" is also in order.
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posted by JenIsFamous at 10/11/2007 02:19:00 PM
3 Comments:
It's actually industry convention. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit!" uses an exclamation point instead.
Jen,
As you know, my punctuation skills are FAR from perfect.
Over the years, I have observed a lot and managed to learn a few things.
Usually, movie titles that are questions end with question marks.
The posters for these movies, often also have the correct punctuation.
The first four, that come to mind are
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (1966)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970)
There are many others, whose title and movie posters are correct.
Which Way to the Front? (1970)
Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
What's Up Doc? (1972)
Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Who's Life is It Anyway? (1981)
Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
(2001).
I think it's important to remember, that movie posters are a form of advertising. The point of advertising being to get your attention, to be memorable and to get you to buy what they're selling.
That being said, advertisers don't always follow the rules.
The perfect examples being
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1997)
Scooby Doo Where Are You!
and my personal favorite rule-breaker,
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
Check it out. This is the name of the movie and the way the poster was printed. Sometimes rules are made to be messed with. (Do you believe your mom just wrote that?)
In the eighties, I was worried that ever young child would think bunnies sounded like baby chicks. It annoyed me to no end. I still remember the Cadbury Egg commercial, that played every spring. The commercial got our family's attention(even if it annoyed me), was memorable(still annoyed) and got us to buy their product. I bought dozens of those eggs, because you and your brother asked for them. The point of advertising in this case, was sucessfully executed.
If it weren't for advertising, song lyrics, movies and book titles like "If I did It?", where would you get your examples of
incorrect grammar and punctuation?
They provide material for the classes you teach. Sometimes, just sometimes, they can also be amusing.
Your Mom
Member of the class of
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
Holy crap Jen, your mom knows of The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? I just saw that the other day in a new MST3K pack I bought. Your mom rocks.
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