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Tips for Creative Writing
Facing that blank sheet of paper.
One of the most difficult things for a writer is motivation, and sometimes it's hard to
Just thinking…
No Country for Old Men is kind of a long title for a film.
Does it matter how long a title is?
Does it help make the movie stand out, or is it too hard to remember?
Have there been any memorable films with long names that have hit it big - it doesn't count if it's a "chapter"
title in a series, like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King or
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back,
It has to be part of the whole title, like Monty Python and the Holy Grail or
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
The longest names I can think of are
No Country for Old Men
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Once Upon a Time in America
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
how about the title with the longest words, like
The Shawshank Redemption
the longest title may be
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
I thought Jaws was the shortest title, but I forgot about Ran (does it count if it's foreign?) then I remembered an old one called 8½,
so I looked it up and found a movie from 1931 called M.
So if you want the shortest film title (at least the shortest looking), call your movie I,
the letter. maybe it's shorter if you use the number 1. Can you call a film "-" or "."?
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