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Why don’t they put the name of a film at the end?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve turned on the tele in the middle of a film. It looks like a good movie so you sit down and start watching it. You don’t know its name but it really grabs you. I wonder who made this film? I must get it on DVD. I wonder what it’s called. And you watch it all the way to the end. Then you watch the credits–you know, those long, long pages that scroll on for about ten minutes, telling you the names of the actors, the director, the director’s assistant, and secretary, who did the make-up, who fixed the fights, where they got the cars, the name of the key-grip, the producer’s name, who supplied the coffee in the tea breaks, who it was dedicated to, who had the original idea, who did the accounts, what lab processed the film, all the countries where it was shot and the names of their tourist boards, and finally the date it was made written in hieroglyphics–and you still don’t know the name of the movie. Why do they do that? Is it to punish you for not having watched from the beginning? Anyway, don’t tell me. I’ve lived all my life with this problem and I don’t think there is any answer.

Joe | Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 | Filed under Rants

10 Responses to “Why don’t they put the name of a film at the end?”

  1. hanane says:
    28th May 2008 at 12:45 pm

    Hullo Dear SIR,
    Your question sounds so plausible,the answer to which is so difficult. simply it occured to me so many a time,but i’ve never asked a question like yours.so, to resolute such a problem we have to ask some director of films and let them know about our difficulty and make a suggestion to putting the name of a film at both the beginning and the end. But to try an answer, i will say that no one from the cinématographic field did ever make such an important remark or analyse it at least to contribute in the volume of the selling of DVDs, perhaps they don’t gave too much attention to the name of the film as compared to its actors.Or, maybe they don’t dare change the ritual of introducing the name of a film at its beginning.
    thanks

  2. hanane says:
    4th June 2008 at 5:55 pm

    Hullo Dear SIR
    I’ve been waiting to read a word about this subject from my clubmates. unfortunately no one did submit a comment. Is the subject so difficult that no one tried to write about it? or you already know that there is no answer to this question and most of us will ignore it? I want to know!!!

  3. cmom says:
    15th June 2008 at 11:35 pm

    I would suggest the movie makers to include a banner with the title of the movie every other 20 minutes. Only movie fans read the credits to the end.

    But I am sure the they, the movie makers, will not pay any attention to my suggestion!!!

    Btw: The date (year) in the credits are not written in hieroglyphs, it is roman numerals (just tradition).

    Regards to all,
    cmom

  4. winnie0706 says:
    4th July 2008 at 7:02 am

    Dear sir:
    hello!why do not they write the title of a article at the end?your question sounds like this question.
    in fact,the name of a film is like the title of a article.In my memory,we do not understand that we write the title of a article at the end.i think it is wrong.

  5. Linda k Hollywood says:
    8th April 2009 at 6:03 am

    You absolutely right. Everyone have to watch it all
    until the end of the movie or DVD.You should know
    about the name of actors,actress,the director, the
    written, the produce’s name the place and the country where When the end of the title.
    I’m agree with you.

    Good bye
    Linda k (hollywood)

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  10. said says:
    9th July 2010 at 11:49 pm

    Good questoin but i think they have their motives.for me i think they don”t publush the film’s name at the end so by that you can teel yo friend tomorrow about the film and starting to describe it and make him watch the film by you and then you make a conversation and good communicationand may be that can be with english lol.
    so if u yo know the name of the film so you friend will say stop i knwo it.don’t desturb me plz

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