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This idea combines the fact that people our willing to pay to get their name in print (vanity publishing) with the fact that movie studios are already willing to let companies pay for product placement. To make it work a production company or studio would offer a new product - people placement (names)
in movies. Some of the details involved are listed below.
1. People would be charged an amount based on how big
they wanted their name to appear on the screen. For
instance, a name on the list of names an actor looks at
on the call box outside of an apartment building would
cost just a little, a poster advertising a new perfume
called bwv61 in a subway station would cost more, an
advertisement for Worldgineer's Wonderful World of
Widgets on the side of a bus would cost even more,
and at the top of the line you could up a billboard for
FarmerJohn's Pet Shop and Wholesale Meat Company.
2. The price of these people placements would be high
enough to take care of whatever it cost to produce the
actual display plus a reasonable margin.
3. Buyers would be able to pick the genre they want the
name to appear in so if a guy was buying it as a gift
for his girlfriend he could make sure her name showed
up in a romantic movie and not a horror movie.
4. Allowances would made for deleted scenes. This could
be handled by moving a name that's been used to the
bottom of the waiting list and only dropping it off when
it actually appears in a movie. If the scene the name
was in gets deleted during editing then that name
would move back up to the top of the list to make sure
it made it to the big screen.
WWW.uinthemovies.com
http://www.halfbake...euinthemovies_2ecom
not as cool. [brodie, Oct 04 2004]
Name Carl Hiassen's taxidermied rat!
http://www.ebay.com/fap
14 authors have donated naming rights for minor character names from their upcoming work to be auctioned off for charity - the first amendment project. OK, so it's not movies, but maybe someone's going to buy the rights. [jutta, Sep 11 2006]
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Although it sounds so identical to any other standard form of "product placement" or movie advertising, I'll give it a [+] just for novelty value: |
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Aliens vs. Predator "According to these runes on this ancient tomb, the first sacrificial human was named . . . Tread A. Two . . . " |
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Likewise for negative placement - e.g. your enemy's name appears in a newspaper article, (next to the one being read by the film's hero but still in shot) entitled "XXXXXXX - the man with an unfeasibly tiny penis declared most evil and smelly git ever" etc? |
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Immortalized in both a crummy movie and a fake pyramid...works for me. |
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Why not go all the way and let people buy time for them to appear in the movie (no speaking background extras). I think if people would be willing to pay to see their name in print on the big screen they would be more than willing to pay to see themselves in the background of some cool scene.... dammit i'm trying to think of some cool movie i've seen recently.... difficult... I'll try to think of one. |
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Yes, [brodie] but what about them inevitably trying to be as noticable as possible? |
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This is a great idea, I'd love to be the first victim killed in a truely awful horror film. Now that's cult status. |
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Like being one of the zombies and having your head shot off in 'Dawn of the dead'. That would be cool. |
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Destructionism Meat-Vision: Do YOU have it??? |
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Right above the required strip-club in the action movies... |
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cool idea, if totally indulgent. but
that'ss the point. [+] |
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how much to get on to "the simpsons"? |
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It doens't matter what movie/show it is-- how cool would it be to see your name up on IMDB??? |
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"Summerland"
..up in my favourite Top 5 Songs.
+ for the idea as its time has come. |
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Great idea but this wouldn't interest me because I'm not vain. *guffaw* |
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[Bach], the perfume you described sounds like something I'd use. And why don't they use essence of tobacco? I always think that a *light* whiff of ciggy smoke mixed with scrumptious perfume (cologne for the guys) smells damn sexy. |
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You could buy people air time as a gift for Christmas or birthdays. |
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Oh, I just had a thought. Buying your way into scenese would be pretty rough on struggling actors who couldn't afford to do that. The original name idea hurts no-one (without imagination). |
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[mach] Av-gas. If a chick were to actually use av-gas as a perfume, I would drop everything and marry her on the spot. My kind of girl right there. mmmm......av-gas. |
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Mmmmmmm. Sweet, leaded Av-Gas. Just don't lick them
before they've washed it off. Paint chip effect! Paint
chip effect! |
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Uh, yeah. I can see why a woman smelling like airplane emission could be sexy. |
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That's how we get baby planes. |
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Not exhaust, [mach], just the fuel itself...it's actually classified as an aromatic fuel. The scent of av-gas is, ummmm, for lack of better terminology, sweet. Smells like home. |
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Whatever floats yer boat, [des]. Or at least powers yer 'plane. |
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I prefer the phrase "Whatever tickles your pickle." |
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Whatever floats yer boat, [mach]! |
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No, not [EvilPickles]. He's a minor, anyway! How would I explain *that* to the judge? |
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[tredair2] How much would it cost me to get a character named after me? (And we're not talking about death from "The Meaning of Life") |
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<Writing scene for a large, barrel-chested man seen beating his golfing partner slowly to death with a used, Cleveland lob wedge. No specific tie-in to remainder of movie plot.> |
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[des], don't despair! I love the way you talk about your dream girl! She sounds so...sweet-smelling...and natural. It's just that I was side-tracked by [gnome]'s anno about "whatever blows yer skirt up" or whatever. My attention span's pretty short. |
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