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Post by paradox9 on Jan 14, 2007 13:24:40 GMT -5
Okay, well my theory is that she's got the nickname so we automatically feel a sense of endearment to her (along with familiarity, ease). It makes her character instantly approachable. I have no idea about any of the other character names though. Your guess is as good as mine on Capa.
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Post by punctuator on Jan 14, 2007 18:05:13 GMT -5
Wanna know something weird? I never knew Cassie was named Cassidy until this thread. Strange. I just noticed it when I looked at the "crew cap" over in the merchandising thread! And, yeah, it bugs me. A lot. Here: everything for me boils down to movie metaphors, or movie scenes, if you will, and this Cassie/Cassidy thing brought to mind the scene in "The Silence of the Lambs" where Crawford (Scott Glenn) tells the West Virginia sheriff and his mob of male deputies not to discuss Buffalo Bill's latest victim in front of a woman, that being Starling (Jodie Foster). Later, in the car, Crawford tells her, "It was only smoke, Starling. I had to get 'em out of the room." And she says: "It matters, Mr. Crawford. They watch you to see how to act. It matters." To which he replies, "Point taken." The point here is that it's fine if Cassidy has a nickname. Hell, I think it'd be cute as anything if we found out Harvey's nickname was "Muffin." But we should have to find out. Up front, all the characters, female and male, should be labeled the same way: all first names, all last names, or all nicknames. Forty years ago, in "Mission: Impossible," it wasn't Collier, Hand, Briggs, Armitage, and Cinnamon. It was Barney, Rollin, Dan, Willy, and Cinnamon. Here: Trey: "Cassidy, we're showing two degrees' drift." Cassidy: "Compensating. And it's 'Cassie.'" Trey: "Noting compensation. [Pause] Umm, sorry." Cassidy: "No problem." Whereupon we can all speculate: why doesn't she like "Cassidy"...?
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Post by thisisliz on Jan 15, 2007 0:11:52 GMT -5
I don't think the nicknaming is necessarily gendered. Cassie actually looks like it's not the only nickname listed on the official stuff. "Trey" could also be a nickname--he might be Blahblity Blah Blah III and is called "Trey."
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Post by punctuator on Jan 15, 2007 0:42:52 GMT -5
But her nickname isn't on the cap. On the cap, she's "Cassidy." (Heck, now I'm seeing all of 'em in bowling shirts with nicknames embroidered on the front: Cassie, Brainiac, Muffin, Doc, Hot Stuff, Ahab, Shotgun....) Just wait 'til the movie, when-- shades of Brendan Routh's don't-it-make-my-brown-eyes-blues in Superman Returns-- the caps and all the other patches DO say "Cassie." (Hiya there, hail and well met, oh gods of CGI!) Then I'll gobble down my big ol' plate of crow an' Tabasco an' shut the heck up. Much as I'll do now. I'm watching Ringu-- and waiting for the phone to ring....
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Post by sunshinedna on Jan 15, 2007 3:42:09 GMT -5
I just noticed it when I looked at the "crew cap" over in the merchandising thread! But I've *had* a cap for a year now and STILL didn't notice it! Doh! **THIS ISN'T OFFICIAL IT'S JUST MY OWN SPECULATION*** Cassie- her nickname Mace- his last name Searle- his last name Harvey- his first name Capa- his last name Kaneda- his last name Trey- his nickname, or an 'Americanised' name (this is based slightly on knowledge of the character's background.) Corazon- her first name
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Post by brittany on Jan 15, 2007 15:37:14 GMT -5
Wow I never really considered some of their names to actually be their last names. Nice speculation, Gia.
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Post by sunshinedna on Jan 17, 2007 9:30:23 GMT -5
So as you will have seen in the trailer he's named: Robert Capa I wonder what it was, exactly, about the real Robert Capa which prompted Alex Garland to name this character after him?...
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Post by thisisliz on Jan 17, 2007 12:51:34 GMT -5
Very interesting, Gia! Thanks for the info!
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Post by chero on Jan 17, 2007 18:50:51 GMT -5
Hmm...Robert Capa? Cillian as a "Robert"? This should be interesting.
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Post by paradox9 on Jan 18, 2007 22:45:07 GMT -5
Robert....it just sounds so formal and yet it works.... Shoot his first name could have been Ferdinand and I'd be okay with it....
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Post by Amanda on Jan 21, 2007 13:38:49 GMT -5
Lindsey just brought this up to me in IM--
What if Cassie's LAST name is Cassidy? And she's just Cassie as a nickname?
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Post by punctuator on Jan 21, 2007 13:50:46 GMT -5
That's what I've been yodeling on about. "Cassidy" is her last name; I don't like it that she's the only one whom we [definitely] know by a nickname. All the characters should be "last-name-up-front"; any nicknames should be revealed during the course of the film. It's a professional formality thing-- as brought to you by someone who really enjoyed listening to the kids trying to pronounce her ear-twister of a last name when she was student teaching....
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Post by Amanda on Jan 21, 2007 13:55:23 GMT -5
ROFL, how did I miss that that's what you were talking about? I don't even know...
Maybe the other crew members just started calling her Cassie all on their own, whether she likes it or not, and that's why we've all ended up knowing her by that. D'you know what I mean? Like, she didn't tell them to call her Cassie at all, and just because she's--well, Rose Byrne, and--so fragile-looking and whatnot.
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Post by chero on Jan 22, 2007 23:52:36 GMT -5
Where does it say *officially* that Cassidy is her last name?
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Post by punctuator on Jan 23, 2007 0:52:11 GMT -5
I'm going by what it says on the crew cap in the "Sunshine Merchandise" thread. If you twist your head a bit, you can see "Cassidy" on the shirt patch, too.
(Holy cannolies, I'm starting to wish that those patches just said "ICARUS II"--!)
Maybe her name is "Cassandra 'Cassie' Cassidy"-- but, hey, one more time: she shouldn't be the only one we're tagging with a diminutive up front. Maybe, subconsciously, Alex Garland was overly feminizing the character; we should know them all by their last names to start and then learn any relevant nicknames after the movie is underway.
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