From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #162 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Monday, June 14 2004 Volume 04 : Number 162 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Napoleon Dynamite [GlenSarvad@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Napoleon Dynamite [Stewart Mason ] Re: [loud-fans] Napoleon Dynamite [Dan Sallitt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:03:27 EDT From: GlenSarvad@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Napoleon Dynamite Has there been any acknowledgement regarding this new film that the title character's name is cribbed from an Elvis Costello conceit circa Blood and Chocolate? I haven't seen the film, but there's been no mention of the connection in the 3 reviews I've read (or does the name have other significance I'm ignorant of?) I *did* see a great documentary on Scrablle, Word Wars, at the Atlanta Film Festival last night. I believe it's opened commercially in New York. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:45:18 -0400 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Napoleon Dynamite At 11:03 PM 6/13/2004 EDT, GlenSarvad@aol.com wrote: >Has there been any acknowledgement regarding this new film that the title >character's name is cribbed from an Elvis Costello conceit circa Blood and >Chocolate? I haven't seen the film, but there's been no mention of the connection >in the 3 reviews I've read (or does the name have other significance I'm >ignorant of?) There was a piece about the movie in today's Boston Globe where the writer/director claims that he once met an elderly Italian man named Napoleon Dynamite. Smells like he didn't get permission from EC to use the phrase and he's trying to pretend that's not where he got it from. > >I *did* see a great documentary on Scrablle, Word Wars, at the Atlanta Film >Festival last night. I believe it's opened commercially in New York. In Boston as well. S ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:02:11 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Napoleon Dynamite > There was a piece about the movie in today's Boston Globe where the > writer/director claims that he once met an elderly Italian man named > Napoleon Dynamite. Smells like he didn't get permission from EC to use the > phrase and he's trying to pretend that's not where he got it from. If EC can copyright the phrase, I doubt the filmmaker could plead ignorance successfully. Can one reserve rights to nicknames like that? Song titles can't be copyrighted, so that any movie can steal the title of any song. - Dan ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #162 *******************************