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Quoting Kvack:
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I feel that the common name should be invoked when a person uses various versions of their actual name "Mike/Michael/Michael S" or when somebody changes their name (possibly because of marriage).
You just illustrated a good reason for the current common name system. Take Katie Cassidy. For a time she was credited as Katie Cassidy-Rogers, which strongly suggests she had her name changed due to marriage to Matthew Rogers. However they are now divorced and she is back to Katie Cassidy. No one is going to oversee legal name fluctuations due to marriage or divorce. | Posted: Topic Replies: 61, Topic Views: 18661 |  | Quoting SpikyCactus:
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This is similar to the problem with TV series, when the initial opening credits are fixed and list the main, on-going characters, but the latter don't always appear in every episode. It just adds another layer of complexity to doing contributions and I'm personally not sure I want to sit with a notepad so I can tick them all off for each episode as I watch it.
I suspect that this is also true of some closing credits of Saturday Morning cartoons, which sometime list about 20 people but not their roles. Which is even worse because you have no visual cues to work off of. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 522 | | One thing that I couldn't find in the rules is how best to cover cases where someone is listed in credits but actually isn't. My feeling is to leave them out/remove them but note confirmed cases in the Contribution Notes.
For example, in one of the bonus features for Basket Case that I recall watching a couple decades ago the director admitted to padding the credits. Also, for Terror Firmer, there's a section called Other Festival Heads We Would Have Liked to Have in the Movie But Were Unable To. In addition, unfortunately, Barbra Streisand, who's not in the movie, is credited as Bitch. More amusingly but still fake, Hollywood Reporter is listed as played by Better Than Variety.
Do people concur that the best way to handle such cases (where you're certain they're not in the move/are just made up names) is as a reverse of the Uncredited Cast rule, i.e,, leaving them out but explaining why in the Contribution Notes? | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 522 | | | A tricky thing with uncredited cast is that in some older cases the uncredited cast was clearly taken from an IMDB listing, which often gets things wrong. In fact in the audit I'm currently doing on Terror firmer, at least one person listed as uncredited is in fact credited. On the plus side that means they won't be removed even though I have no idea who they are. I think screeners are generally more careful now to ensure people don't just copy and paste IMDB listings over, including the uncredited stuff. | Posted: Topic Replies: 14, Topic Views: 1179 | | I am going through the credits for Terror Firmer because the existing credits seem to have been pulled from the IMDB [notably one actor has a (IV) after his name]. For deceased characters, the credits give the character's name, and then how they died in parentheses. Should I include that part? Obviously they provide spoilers for people wanting to see the cast before watching the movie, but on the other hand they are listed as part of the end credits.
If yes, it's possible in some instances that the death will push the character name past the character limits (in the letters, numbers, et al sense). What would I do in that instance? | Posted: Topic Replies: 2, Topic Views: 415 | | | "Ultimate TV Specials Collection" definitely seems like part of the box set title to me. In this instance it's hinting as to what the product actually is, not which version of the product it is. If I were to see that on the shelf, I'd assume that it was a set of most or all the Peanuts specials, whereas if I were to see This is Spinal Tap: Criterion Collection, I'd assume the movie was the same as other releases, only with the Criterion audio, video, bonus features, etc. | Posted: Topic Replies: 19, Topic Views: 2726 | | | Redneck Comedy Roundup 2: Bobcat Goldthwait | Posted: Topic Replies: 36, Topic Views: 19736 | | Quoting ObiKen:
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There is already a precedent in the online database for a comic book artist being credited for OMB and OCB, and that is Jack Kirby (CAPTAIN AMERICA, ANT-MAN, AVENGERS, BLACK PANTHER, FANTASTIC FOUR, HULK, IRON MAN, THOR, X-MEN, ...).
Jack Kirby was an American comic book artist, he was not a writer. He combined with writers Stan Lee and Joe Simon to create many of the super heroes.
A tangent: Kirby was at the very least a co-plotter in most or all the work he did, and in at least some cases the sole plotter (that's all I'll say on that score since that degree to which he is co-plotter or sole plotter in his collaborations with Lee is hotly debated). On some works he was definitely the scripter as well (most of the stuff he did in the 1970s). Simon, like Kirby, was also an artist and the two of them contributed to both the writing and the art in their collaborations. | Posted: Topic Replies: 4, Topic Views: 3597 | |
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