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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they had to make a bunch of changes involving CGI hair because it turns out with modern picture quality you can see a quite a lot more of Daryl Hannah than they originally intended.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Less fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they for no justifiable reason started splicing and cutting the original version to add CGI to censor things out of the movie for "modern sensibilities" and then sold it as the same product without any warning.

I am much less afraid of the authoritarian who would ban 1984 from being read, and much more afraid of those authoritarians who take it to heart and take out all the "controversial" things and leave a completely declared and neutered 1984+ on the shelf.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can someone use plain words to explain what happened here? Were pubes visible or something and they CGI'ed them out?

Never heard of this movie or anything about it but trying to piece it together from context clues in this thread is very confusing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I just looked it up: Apparently there was a scene where the actresses butt was visible, which got covered by CGI hair extensions.

However, the movie has since gotten a 4K remaster on D+, which does not censor da booty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I spell Madisynn with a Q U

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Wow, two N's, and one Y, but it was not where I thought it would be.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imogen is from a Shakespeare play, but it’s actually supposed to be Innogen but the first prints had a printing mistake and the name Imogen came into existence and the script with the error was reprinted for centuries. So everyone who is named Imogen is named after a typo.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I love this fact. I'm going to accept it without doing any verification!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The name "Kayleigh" was invented by Marillion in 1985

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

James Madison was the 4th president of the United States. Just saying.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did his mom see this movie?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Apparently... Since Madison wasn't a name before Splash in 1984.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Madison wasn't a given name before the movie

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Madison, Wisconsin was Tedsville until Splash; it was so popular there, they changed the name of the city.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

James Madison and the presumed Madison family would beg to differ.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Was James Madison a Japanese woman? If not, your example doesn't apply. We're not talking about surnames or men's names here.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tiffany was similarly not used as a first name until Tiffany & Co, and particularly Breakfast at Tiffany's, the 1958 novel/1961 movie.

The "Tiffany" from Tiffany & Co was a last name, and that owner was one of a handful of Tiffany's in the world at the time of the founding.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CGP Grey did research on the name Tiffany: https://youtu.be/9LMr5XTgeyI (8 min long video)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Obligatory [email protected] mention!

Edit: damn it, has the toast instance gone toast?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Looks like it's fine, it's just been quiet.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is actually a myth. Tiffany as a name dates back before Shakespeare. The more you look into Tiffany as a name, thinking it's modern, the more you'll find it just fell out of favor for a while.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

It’s called “The Tiffany Problem”. You might want to use the historically accurate name Tiffany for a character in your 16th century historical fiction novel, but you can’t because it sounds like someone who was born in 1982.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It was masculine before the film

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There is a character named Madison 1964 film "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies" (later shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000), but he's a boy, so I don't know if this is relevant.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean it makes sense, after all the name isn't "Madidaughter"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you mean "Madifather"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You mean Mad Father? (Edit, this, too, was a "dad joke", if it wasn't clear lolol)

My comment was meant to point the fact that this was a pretty dope dad joke lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, but I know, I was just continuing it :D

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only tangentially but thank you for your service.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

This is my favorite tiny internet interaction.

[–] [email protected] 182 points 1 month ago

Yes, that's literally what wikipedia says:

Madison is also used as a given name. It has become popular for girls in recent decades. Its rise is generally attributed to the 1984 release of the film Splash

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_(name)