Movie Title Typos: Making Movies Better by Subtracting One Letter

120 Pages·2015·16.46 MB·English

by  Austin Light

Copyright © 2015 by Austin Light. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any
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Designed by Neil Egan and Ben Kither
Illustrations by Austin Light
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Title Key
6–7: 10 Things I Hate About You 8–9: 300 10–11: Babe 12–13: Alien
14–15: Saw 16–17: Beauty and the Beast 18–19: Scarface 20–21:
Casino Royale 22–23: Cast Away 24–25: Dawn of the Dead 26–27:
Dirty Dancing 28–29: Drive 30–31: Fight Club 32–33: Finding
Nemo 34–35: Goodfellas 36–37: Happy Feet 38–39: Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s Stone 40–41: Home Alone 42–43: Inception
44–45: Inglourious Basterds 44–47: It’s a Wonderful Life 48–49:
Jurassic Park 50–51: Lady and the Tramp 52–53: X-Men 54–55:
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 56–57: Robocop 58–59: Oh Brother,
Where Art Thou? 60–61: Pretty Woman 62–63: Pirates of the
Caribbean 64–65: Apollo 13 66–67: Pretty in Pink 68–69: Pulp
Fiction 70–71: Training Day 72–73: Raising Arizona 74–75: Brave
76–77: Iron Man 78–79: Snakes on a Plane 80–81: Star Wars: A
New Hope 82–83: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 84–85: E.
T: The Extra-Terrestrial 86–87: Taken 3 88–89: The Dark Knight
90–91: The Breakfast Club 92–93: The NeverEnding Story 94–95:
The Fast and the Furious 96–97: The Hunger Games 98–99: The
Lord of the Rings 100–101: The Princess and the Frog 102–103: The
Princess Bride 104–105: The Silence of the Lambs 106–107:
Twilight: New Moon 108–109: Evan Almighty 110–111: War of the
Worlds
Contents
INTRODUCTION 7
O THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU 8
30 11
ABE 12
ALEN 14
AW 17
BEAUTY AND THE BEAT 18
CARFACE 21
CASIO ROYALE 22
CAT AWAY 24
DAN OF THE DEAD 26
DIRT DANCING 28
DIVE 30
FIGHT CUB 32
FINDING EMO 34
GOOFELLAS 37
HAPPY FEE 38
HARRY OTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE 40
HOME ALOE 42
INEPTION 44
INGLOURIOUS BASTERS 46
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIE 48
JURASSIC PAR 50
LADY AND THE TRAM 53
MEN 54
MY BIG FAT GEEK WEDDING 56
OBOCOP 58
OH BOTHER, WHERE ART THOU? 60
PETTY WOMAN 62
PIRATE OF THE CARIBBEAN 64
POLLO 13 66
PRETTY IN INK 68
PUP FICTION 70
RAINING DAY 73
RAISIN ARIZONA 74
RAVE 76
RON MAN 78
SNAKE ON A PLANE 80
STAR WARS: A NEW HOE 82
STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE TRIKES BACK 85
T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 87
TAKE 3 88
THE ARK KNIGHT 90
THE BREAKFAST CUB 92
THE EVERENDING STORY 94
THE FAT AND THE FURIOUS 96
THE HUGER GAMES 98
THE LORD OF THE RIGS 100
THE PRINCESS AND THE FRO 102
THE PRINCESS RIDE 105
THE SILENCE OF THE LABS 107
TWILIGHT: NEW MOO 108
VAN ALMIGHTY 110
WAR OF THE WORDS 112
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 114
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 114
INTRODUCTION
When I was a kid I would make crappy movies with my brothers
and friends. Godzilla movies with toys and paper backgrounds.
Over-choreographed living room lightsaber fights that never
looked as cool as they felt. Backyard trampoline wrestling
extravaganzas with preposterous signature moves. We knew
they were crappy when we were making them, but that didn’t
matter.
We probably spent more time making our movies than we did
watching them, which was fine by me—the making was the best
part. I eventually stopped making movies, but never stopped
making things. I always have to have a project, something fun
to work on. Making stuff is in my DNA.
That never-ending desire to make things is what led me to
InkTober, a month-long drawing event created by artist Jake
Parker that challenges artists to make thirty one ink drawings,
one a day. It sounded like fun, but I needed a topic.
Around the same time a coworker showed me a Reddit thread
about movie titles with one letter missing. Hilarious what-ifs
and could-have-beens, they were movies that would have been
fun to make with my brother and friends.
So I did the next best thing. I drew them. Every day I made a
new movie with a silly drawing and a new plot description. It
was the closest adult me could get to those papercraft Jurassic
Parks and ramshackle lightsaber fights of my youth. At the end
of the month, a friend helped me post a gallery of the images to
share with the Reddit community. And then the Internet
exploded.