When ‘Anora’ Becomes ‘Anorak’: The Art of Wrong Movie Titles
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Staffers at Film at Lincoln Center keep a list of the incorrect movie titles they’ve heard from patrons. That list is very, very long.
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According to Coolidge Corner’s office and merchandise manager, Erin Gilmour, their wrong-movie-list tradition dates back to the 1990s, when the theater’s floor staff would leave notes for one another, documenting the most egregious flubs. Those notes evolved into a clipboard in the box office to document errors that included changing “Bend It Like Beckham” to “Bend Over Pac-Man” and someone who pronounced “The Namesake” as “Na-ma-sa-ke” (rhymes with Nagasaki). Eventually, a digital list was created, with Coolidge Corner’s current 96-page version originating in 2017 (when someone referred to “The Beguiled”
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