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Badbird
04-30-2008, 12:50 AM
So I know everyone sees these guys in the credits. The one or two names per movie with a "nickname" in quotation marks.

It always makes me think: "How did they get that name?" "Do people really call them that?" "Is there some kind of special movie union paperwork they have to fill out to get that special credit?"

Sometimes the nicknames seem really stupid. Like John "Johnny" Smith. Really? A common form of the name John is considered a nickname? And you bothered with the credit?

Then there's really random ones like Escobar "Timmy" Montoya, or something. A foreign name with a very American nickname.

I just made up those names, but they fit examples that I've seen.

I once saw the nickname "Vin Man" to a guy named Vincent. That has to be one of the stupidest nicknames I've heard. And he even got credit for it.
Jay Underhil
04-30-2008, 01:34 AM
WORST THREAD EVER
Digifruitella
04-30-2008, 01:37 AM
Like totally.
Lindsey
04-30-2008, 01:40 AM
I think my favorite would have to be Tommy 'Tiny' Lister.

And come on guys... Cut him some slack. ;)
thedudeman69
04-30-2008, 02:41 AM
THIS THREAD IS FROWNED ON BY CHUCK "BEAT YOUR FUCKING ASS" NORRIS!




Wait, actually. Through out the 90's, those fucking names were like popping up everywhere, and I didn't know why.
monkeybutler
04-30-2008, 04:01 AM
Maybe they use a nickname when there is more than one person with the same name, but that would only work with the more common names. Or perhaps it is predominantly how they were referred to.
hail2theking
04-30-2008, 05:50 AM
Well, there's Don "The Dragon" Wilson. Of course, he got his name from kickboxing before he became an "actor"

I guess all the cool sounding nicknames were taken by wrestlers and martial artists
Homyrrh
04-30-2008, 10:45 AM
Well, there's Don "The Dragon" Wilson. Of course, he got his name from kickboxing before he became an "actor"

I guess all the cool sounding nicknames were taken by wrestlers and martial artists
No. Chris Berman. 20+ years of NFL Primetime originality...
Badbird
04-30-2008, 06:34 PM
Oh come on, I can't be the only one who thinks of stupid shit like this.
EvilHenchman
04-30-2008, 06:51 PM
Oh come on, I can't be the only one who thinks of stupid shit like this.

You're not. Not by a longshot. I think one of the ZAZ movies' credits parody that very thing with some funky nicknames of their own.
Lost in Space
04-30-2008, 06:57 PM
Oh come on, I can't be the only one who thinks of stupid shit like this.

Not at all, i have no idea why they flamed you there tbh?

ily<3
FLAME_ON
04-30-2008, 09:23 PM
If I remember right, the credits of The Naked Gun had a whole bunch of nicknames.... I'm not really sure if that's what were talking about but... ?