[WTF] Beetlejuice, Betelgeuse?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/

Film title: Beetlejuice
Main character: Betelgeuse

Dyslexic film producer/deliberate misnomer?

 

Deliberate misnomer in the title. HTH.

 

Probably thought that nobody would pronounce Betelgeuse properly so
spelt the film title as you'd say it.

 

So, two answers, both the same. Still begs the question "why?".
Insulting the audience IYAM. Ho hum.

 

CF : the film version of the play "The Madness of George III" was
renamed "The Madness of King George", cos they were worried that
american audiences would think it was a sequel...

 

Not if you're an astronomer IIRC.

 

Probably thought the septics would't pronounce it correctly ....

 

Sadly that's a myth. To say I was gutted when I found out would be an
understatement.

 

Au Contraire:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110428/

"Madness of King George, The"

Also Known As:
Madness of George III, The (1995) (Australia)
Madness of King George III, The (1995) (Australia)

 

Bugger. So am I, now. You bastard.

 

And then there was the mid-West drive-in manager who was booking an
all-night horror-fest. Looking through the films available from the
distributor he found one which looked gory. He hadn't seen it, but he
booked it anyway. It was:

Die Fledermaus.

 

Champ wrote:

[ The Madness of George III ]

Further research has the jury as still out..
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/george.htm

 

I'll cling to that.

Mind, any culture not used to royalty would probably have trouble
knowing that "George III" referred to a monarch. As both a republican
and an ignoramus, I know almost nothing about the history of the
monarchs of the UK, and have to think hard to know when, say, the
Edwardian period was.

 

Tch, when Edward was King.

 

I think of what the furniture and architecture looks like and make a
guess from there.

 

Yersh. You know what I meant. And I sort of know that Edwardian was
the early part of the 20th century.

 

1901-1910. The innocence of Britain before the mechanised slaughter
house of 1914-1918 and the international shock of the 1917 revolution.

The last gasp of the English English.

 

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/productCd-0764570218.html

HTH

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Not if it's a Merkin audience!

 

Betelgeuse isn't the subject of the film, it is a demon, and Beetlejuice
sounds much funnier than Betelgeuse.

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