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| Registered: March 16, 2007 |  Posts: 278 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
COLOMBIANA is not an acronym nor an abbreviation, which is the topic of discussion here  That we know of  |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
COLOMBIANA is not an acronym nor an abbreviation, which is the topic of discussion here Please show me on the official site main page what shows that RED is an acronym. The official posters of the movie uses RED or Red (in red colour). Why choose RED or Red instead of R.E.D. if the intend was to use mainly an acronym? | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: April 14, 2007 | | Posts: 433 |
| | Posted: | | | | I know this has no bearing in how it's treated in DVD Profiler, but in the comic that the movie is adapted from, Bruce Willis' character's status changes from Green to Red after he's been attacked and targeted for termination. | | | | Chris |
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| Registered: August 23, 2008 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,656 |
| | Posted: | | | | RED | | | Reviewer, HorrorTalk.com
"I also refuse to document CLT results and I pay my bills to avoid going to court." - Sam, keeping it real, yo. |
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  | Corne | | Registered: Nov. 1, 2000 |
| Registered: April 5, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
Quoting 8ballMax:
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COLOMBIANA is not an acronym nor an abbreviation, which is the topic of discussion here
Please show me on the official site main page what shows that RED is an acronym. The official posters of the movie uses RED or Red (in red colour). Why choose RED or Red instead of R.E.D. if the intend was to use mainly an acronym? First of all there are movie posters that actually use R.E.D. as title. Furthermore, abbreviations and especially acronyms aren't always followed by dots after every letter. For example C.E.O. is often written as CEO and so on. | | | | Cor |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | The applicable rules dealing with this topic:
"Use the title from the front cover."
"Check capitalization of the title."
"For English titles do not capitalize joining words such as "of", "the", "a", "in", etc. unless they are the first, last or only word of the title."
No where does the rules dictate that acronyms be treated differently.
Since none of the words in any of the letters R, E or D fall into the second rule sited above, they are capitalized.
The database already contains similar titles and treats them the same way, SWAT or S.W.A.T. for example.
Therefore, in my opinion, the title is contributed as RED or R.E.D depending on the DVD cover. |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Corne: Quote:
First of all there are movie posters that actually use R.E.D. as title. Well, I have seen DVD covers with R.E.D. but no movie poster. Perhaps you have a link to an official site that could made me change my mind... | | | | Images from movies | | | | Last edited: by surfeur51 |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
Therefore, in my opinion, the title is contributed as RED or R.E.D depending on the DVD cover. Totally agree with that. But we were discussing about original title, not DVD title. That is why my opinion is based on credits of the movie, confirmed by the different movie posters, and also by the title of the original comic (RED, which is not an acronym > Red). | | | | Images from movies | | | | Last edited: by surfeur51 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 762 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
But we were discussing about original title, not DVD title. Tim never says that he is looking for the original title or did I miss that? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
Quoting 8ballMax:
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COLOMBIANA is not an acronym nor an abbreviation, which is the topic of discussion here
Please show me on the official site main page what shows that RED is an acronym. The official posters of the movie uses RED or Red (in red colour). Why choose RED or Red instead of R.E.D. if the intend was to use mainly an acronym? From the Official RED Web Site. Please pay particular attention to the use of the acronym in the CURRENT STATUS section of Frank Moses's dosier:  | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheDarkKnight: Quote:
Tim never says that he is looking for the original title or did I miss that? I cannot answer about what meant TIM when he wrote "for our purposes". But generally, he is interested in common names threads where original title is used. Anyway, when I wrote about a discussion about original title, I meant the discussion that began after this post. Users that disagree with me discussed about original title (or have not read my post). | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 762 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
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Tim never says that he is looking for the original title or did I miss that?
I cannot answer about what meant TIM when he wrote "for our purposes". But generally, he is interested in common names threads where original title is used.
Anyway, when I wrote about a discussion about original title, I meant the discussion that began after this post. Users that disagree with me discussed about original title (or have not read my post). OK got you. |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,945 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would go for either RED or R.E.D.  Donnie | | | | www.tvmaze.com |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just a minor question to be able to estimate the relevance of this topic:
Does the database distinguish the capitalization of titles, or is it all the same Red, RED or red?
Does anyone know? | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Quoting surfeur51:
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Quoting 8ballMax:
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COLOMBIANA is not an acronym nor an abbreviation, which is the topic of discussion here
Please show me on the official site main page what shows that RED is an acronym. The official posters of the movie uses RED or Red (in red colour). Why choose RED or Red instead of R.E.D. if the intend was to use mainly an acronym?
From the Official RED Web Site. Please pay particular attention to the use of the acronym in the CURRENT STATUS section of Frank Moses's dosier:
Completely irrelevant, amigo...outside the Rules | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Please pay particular attention to the use of the acronym in the CURRENT STATUS section of Frank Moses's dosier I do not want to restart this discussion from the beginning. Since the first post of this thread, it was evident that there is a double meaning to RED: 1/ RED= all caps for Red (red colour) 2/ RED= all caps acronym for Retired Extremely Dangerous My opinion, based on the fact that some official movie posters showed the title "Red" in red colour, is that the authors wanted to keep the ambiguity. So RED means at the same time "Red" (the colour), and Red (a small letters acronym, as in Unesco). That is why we never see for the original title R.E.D., and why we should not use RED for original title in DVD profiler (exactly as we do not use COLOMBIANA). | | | | Images from movies | | | | Last edited: by surfeur51 |
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