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| Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
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| Let's start with a funny one: Solondz wanted this film to be called "Faggots & Retards" obviously running into decency problems with his distributors. |
| Mean Streets (1973)
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| Working Title: "Season of the Witch" There is a conversation in the movie where Harvey Keitel does in fact utter these words. |
| Scream (1996)
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| Original Title: "Scary Movie" Was changed by Miramax in order to hopefully market the film as a thriller that happens to be funny in parts, not the other way around. |
| Scary Movie (2000)
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| This movie was bestowed with the self-involved title since it was a funny spoof of the genre. This movie's original titles included "Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween" and "Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th." |
| Pulp Fiction (1994)
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| Working Title: "Black Mask." An homage to the pulp magazine where the genre once flourished and folks could find stories like ones we're prensented with in this movie. |
| Reservoir Dogs (Widescreen) (1992)
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| Working Title: Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves." After the Cher song from the 60s. The song is mentioned in the screenplay during the opening conversation after the Madonna Speech, but before "The Nights the Lights Went Out in Georgia" discussion. |
| Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
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| Alternate Title: "Bill and Ted Go to Hell." I wish, oh I wish this one would have happened. Sounds like a play on the Ernest movies. |
| Goodfellas (1990)
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| Original Title: "Wise Guy." The title of the source material book by Nicholas Pilleggi. It had to be changed because Brian De Palma already made a movie that sounded similar and the fact that there was a show on around that time also called Wise Guy. |
| Dangerous Minds (1995)
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| Working Title: "My Posse Don't Do Homework." I don't know if this one is real or not, but another that I wish would have gone through. Just to see that come up while during a string of previews. And that fact that they were serious... priceless. |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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| Working Title: "Watch the Skies." Interesting because this ended up as the tag line on the posters. |
| Almost Famous Untitled: The Bootleg Cut (2000)
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| Working Title: "Untitled." Cameron Crowe wanted this title in the worst way. Eventually, the DVD "bootleg" release is called such, but it was kind of too late to be effective. |
| Happiness (1998)
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| Working Title: "Untitled" I don't know the story about what happened, but I know the studios must really hate this title. Someday someone's going to get away with it and that movie will hopefully earn it after causing so much trouble in the past. |
| Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
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| This actually was the working title and it stuck. It sounds like a working title which makes it funny because it was never intended to actually be used. |
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