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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Pardon if this has been asked before in another context.  The film in question is A River Made to Drown In. The director is currently listed in the profile as James Merendino. Screen credit reads Alan Smithee. Should the profile be changed to: 1. Alan Smithee 2. James Merendino [Alan Smithee] or should it remain: 3. James Merendino I went to try to verify the credit, and Merendino is listed (or credited) as the director by the following: - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165445/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_River_Made_to_Drown_In - http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/2/merendino.htm - http://www.chamberlainfans.net/reviews/rivers.htm - http://www.richard-chamberlain.info/opens/LarryKing.html | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 810 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
Pardon if this has been asked before in another context.
The film in question is A River Made to Drown In. The director is currently listed in the profile as James Merendino. Screen credit reads Alan Smithee.
Should the profile be changed to:
1. Alan Smithee
2. James Merendino [Alan Smithee]
or should it remain:
3. James Merendino
I went to try to verify the credit, and Merendino is listed (or credited) as the director by the following:
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165445/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_River_Made_to_Drown_In
- http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/2/merendino.htm
- http://www.chamberlainfans.net/reviews/rivers.htm
- http://www.richard-chamberlain.info/opens/LarryKing.html Alan Smithee was one of the fake names that directors used if they did not want their own name listed on a film that they worked on. I think that they needed to ask the DGA if it was ok and might have had to prove that the studio made changes to the film that they did not approve of. Number 2; James Merendino credited as Alan Smithee would be how I would enter it. pdf | | | Paul Francis
San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | 2 is definitely the best (and correct) option. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting synner_man: Quote:
2 is definitely the best (and correct) option. Agree. | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting m.cellophane: Quote:
Quoting synner_man:
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2 is definitely the best (and correct) option.
Agree. Me three. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 8,722 |
| | Posted: | | | | Count me in for option #2 as well. |
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| | Posted: | | | | 2. James Merendino [Alan Smithee] |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Same as everyone so far; option 2 | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| | Posted: | | | | Though I would add that in your contribution notes you should provide some proof that you have correctly identified the person using the pseudonym! | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks everyone! I knew what Alan Smithee meant, I just wasn't sure how Profiler handled it.  | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield | | | | Last edited: by Danae Cassandra |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Isn't it great when we all agree?  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 171 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Isn't it great when we all agree? Great, yes. I think the better definition would be a miracle!!!  |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
Count me in for option #2 as well. And another one for option 2 | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | With the verification listed there is only one choice based on the film credits....#2
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr Pavlov: Quote:
With the cerification listed there is only one choice based on the film credits....#2
Skip agreed | | | | Pete |
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