Doesn't look good? The first version looks good and brief enough for me. I'd probably go for something like this: "Dirty Harry 1971 - Do I feel lucky?" Short and has the relevant info. Might even drop the year and include it in the description. You could always include the full quote in the description as well.

 

Now you just switched from the general argument to the title of the video... The answer to that is very easy: search optimisation. A match in the title has more weight then in the description and as you originally pointed out most people won't search for the correct term.

The misquote makes more sense as a stand-alone quote than the real quote.

Now you just switched from the general argument to the title of the video... The answer to that is very easy: search optimisation. A match in the title has more weight then in the description and as you originally pointed out most people won't search for the correct term.

 

No, I haven't switched anything as my point has all along been about the title of the video. I originally said I found it funny that the title of the video is the famous misquoted version of the line. The title of the video is silly considering that you will hear the real quote during the video. Especially when it's one of the most famous misquoted movie lines in the history of Hollywood cinema. It's right up there with "Luke, I am your father", "play it again Sam" and "we're gonna need a bigger boat". Even if there was no misquoted version anywhere in the video title or the description, I'm pretty confident it would come up in youtube searches even if people searched for it with the misquoted version.

 

The misquote makes more sense as a stand-alone quote than the real quote.

 

I don't see how it does, but I suppose that's a matter of taste. Besides, I think it sounds so much cooler when it's said the way that Clint says in the movie.

In your first post you haven't mentioned the video at all just misquoted lines in general, so your point wasn't the video title all along. Not sure why you're trying to move the posts now, discussing the reasons for popular misquotes is at least an interesting argument, while the title of a single video is anything but.

Anyway. Of course it would come up but lower on the list, maybe not even on the first page. Same with google searches. That's how it is. Now you can question why is it important at all to have your video on the top of the search lists, some people live and die for the view count. I personally wouldn't give a sh*t but that's just me. But that doesn't mean that there is no sound argument for the misquote based on SEO practices for those who care. If that annoys you then don't watch them and keep searching for a version that has a satisfying title. I didn't because I didn't care about the title, only the video itself.

The Shawshank Redemption was released 21 years ago today. Amazing, still the best IMO.

The Shawshank Redemption was released 21 years ago today. Amazing, still the best IMO.

 

Probably one for the unholy confessions thread this but I just don't get what all the fuss is about with Shawshank... 

 

I've only ever watched it once and at the end I thought to myself "yeah it was alright" rather than "that was brilliant". 

Really?

I was utterly compelled throughout and couldn't believe what I was watching. Absolutely outstanding performances and just a wonderful movie.

Really?

I was utterly compelled throughout and couldn't believe what I was watching. Absolutely outstanding performances and just a wonderful movie.

 

 

Me too - I can't tell you how many times I have watched it.  Knowing the ending in advance doesn't matter!

I was kind of like that with Sleepers too. A little disturbing but I really loved that movie. Only seen it for the first time a few months ago. Very underrated.

Melancholia?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzD0U841LRM

 

Hable con Ella?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fl8tyEIXXI

 

The Fountain?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAuxryJ6pv8

 

Sunshine?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_dNGQ2rK3w

 

Vanilla sky?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyoz0WM5PY

 

The Broken Circle Breakdown?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiNjfI_DR1w

 

 

In your first post you haven't mentioned the video at all just misquoted lines in general, so your point wasn't the video title all along.

 

Ok, my first post on the subject didn't mention the video title, because I hadn't seen the video being posted yet. I posted a reply to moi's post which was on the previous page. But when I saw the video had been posted and moi replied to me about the misquote, my very next post was this:

 

It gets misquoted so often and in so many ways... I mean even the title of that youtube video above gets it wrong.

 

So, no... No goalposts being moved. From that post above and onwards I've been mainly talking about how it's silly that the video title has the misquoted version. In the context of youtube it doesn't annoy me as much as I find it funny. BUT... As the original quote is so much better than the misquoted version, it is a shame that it gets chopped down and mangled so often.

Edited September 23, 201510 yr by Maksimov

Melancholia?

 

I'd say it's overrated. I think it gets an extra star or two in the reviews just because it's directed by Lars von Trier. It's definitely one of his weaker ones.

"Houston we have a problem", etc.

Isn't that what it actually says?

I always assumed it was.

Unless you mean the movie changed the actual wording from the real quote of Apollo 13?

Edited September 23, 201510 yr by MayosNoun

It definitely sounds like he does.

It definitely sounds like he does.

 

It's a case of the movie having the line from the actual real life conversation changed. The original is "Houston we've had a problem". The scriptwriter and/or the director changed it because they felt that the original version wasn't dramatic enough. They thought that "we've had a problem" sounds like they had a problem, but now it's solved. Which was definitely not the case. I remember seeing or reading an interview about it in which they talked about it. I couldn't find that interview, but here's the a link to a recording of the original conversation:

 

https://youtu.be/kfPrnzMPesg?t=6m30s

 

The "Houston, we have a problem!" version is now so famous that it's become "the official version" to many. It's a bit like the movie Apollo 13's tagline (and maybe it's being said it in the movie, I can't remember) "Failure is not an option", which is credited to Gene Kranz, but he never actually said it.

 

---[edit]---

 

Ha, Gene Kranz does actually say the line in the movie!

 

 

Art rewrites history. It's not quite Battleship Potemkin, but it's become part of the "official story" now.

Edited September 23, 201510 yr by Maksimov

I thought you meant that after second reading. Cool, thanks.

I thought you meant that after second reading. Cool, thanks.

 

Yeah, I just noticed your post above. I think it's a fascinating phenomenon this thing how the misquoted versions become the official ones. It needs to get misquoted countless times before it becomes official. Maybe it was more common before the age of the internet. Now pretty much everything can be found online so that you can easily check it, but back then you saw or heard someone quote a line in the movie, you just assumed they got it right. Unless you remembered the movie well enough yourself.

OK,. another question for you, Maks.

 

In A Few Good men, does Jack Nicholson say

 

"You NEED me on that wall, you WANT me on the wall?"

or

"You WANT me on that wall, you NEED me on that wall!" ?

OK,. another question for you, Maks.

 

In A Few Good men, does Jack Nicholson say

 

"You NEED me on that wall, you WANT me on the wall?"

or

"You WANT me on that wall, you NEED me on that wall!" ?

 

I've only seen it once about twenty years ago, so I needed to check it for myself:

 

https://youtu.be/9FnO3igOkOk?t=1m21s

 

So... it's WANT first and then NEED.