Santo wrote:Mitch Perkins wrote:
Well, Mr. Wizard of Intelligence, let me clarify; I chose the *name* Super Duper 8 because it is silly. Okay then? The *name*.
Watch out though; you're next...
http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderp ... hanger.htm
Ever heard of a little company nobody takes seriously called "Google"? How 'bout "Yahoo!"? In Canada, we have BMO ("bee-moe", Bank of Montreal).
I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "this whole thing is silly", but if you are refering to life in general, yes, I am saying it is silly.
Mitch
[santo]
Yahoo! and Google were created by techies when pretty much only techies had the internet.
[mitch]
>>For the full story:
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorg.htm
"In 1940, Mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nephew, nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, to come up with a name for such a big number. Sirotta came up with googol and also suggested the term googolplex for an even bigger number. Kasner assigned that term the value of ten to the googol power."
The number is 10^100. The name is silly.
[santo]
So they established a market share (and pretty much wrote all the rules with regards to) the intenet in which they quickly became insurmountable. After all, you get in on the ground floor of the biggest of all growth industries and offer something pretty much nobody else is offering, to what was then a highly captive and specialized audience, you can call your business Yahoo! or Whoopdiedoo! or whatever you want. And likely because the internet was a fun discovery experience for the general public who followed, Yahoo!, already established and offering great service with a stupid name they remembered was okay. Everything was new. New rules apply.
Film is not new. Film formats are not new. Your argument holds no water.
[mitch]
>> The argument holds until you add the spurious restriction, "new".
[santo]
Bank of Montreal is not a silly name. There's no connection between calling it BMO and thinking they named it silly on purpose first. I has a formal name.
[mitch]
>>*They* shortened it from the respectable, "Bank of Montreal", to BMO, which they pronounce, "bee-moe", in their ads. Silly.
[santo]
Naming lighting equipment Mickey Mole was fine in the little world of film sets and techies slugging out 14 hour days. Nobody is going to, or ever promoted, their film as being "lit with Mighty Moles!". It might get a laugh, but nobody would care if they saw it unless it was a cartoon maybe.
[mitch]
>>Your point? Nowhere on our package does it refr to the name of the format in which the film was originated. Why would it?
[santo]
You didn't come up with a silly name for your film. It's actually a pretty good name. And the DVD art/design is pretty well done. Looking at the packaging, I can take it seriously. If you wrote "shot in super duper 8!" across the box, I'd never watch it because suddenly an otherwise well-packaged product looks like it was made in somebody's backyard by a bunch of teenagers who don't take themselves or their filmmaking seriously.
When I heard that term I thought of Superduperman!, the MAD comic story by Kurtzman and Wally Wood. Terrific classic comic satire. And now I think: "You know, some people take super 8 and Superman pretty sincerely, though many do not. Depends. But nobody would take something called Superduperman or Super Duper 8 seriously. Obviously it's making fun of something in pretty much anybody's mind."
