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[SPEC] Why the name is Cloverfield used in the movie
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brettoniasam
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 		1) Jojo and Denisse already explained it. "Cloverfield" was the name of an airport near one of JJ's production studios.
2) The army gave the operation the name (or "case designate" -- yes, it can be used as an adjective, english-speaking people Rolling Eyes ) as a purely nonsensical name, the same way they do all other top-secret ops. MEDIA operations are given "appropriate" names after they've gone public.

Example: US invasion of Panama, 1989. When it was still a secret, it was given "case designates" such as Purple Storm, Bushmaster, and Blue Spoon. It was only after Bush (Sr.) went public with the plans that he gave it a nice little "heroic" name: "Operation Just Cause."

So no..."Cloverfield" has no meaning beyond its association with JJ Abrams' production studios.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:42 pm
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LC_from_The_Hills
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 		Being a resident of Santa Monica and having buddies amongst the Paramount-Dreamworks family...

The title is "yes and no" in relation to Abrams work in Santa Monica.

The name has a reason.

Here's a hint...

Quote:
Originally called Clover Field, the airport was the home of the Douglas Aircraft company. The first circumnavigation of the world by air took off from and returned to Clover Field in 1924.


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Dr.SharK
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 		Fervid Cell
Long time lurker (been here since 6'th of July!), first time poster. Mainly because I haven't had much to say.

Anyways, I tried watching the trailer frame by frame, untill I found something pretty interresting.

Right in the end, when the letters "Cloverfield" are fading in, the "o" is removed for a few frames, spelling "Clverfield".
I tried getting an anagram for that and got, quite suprisingly, "Fervid Cell". check for yourself.
I have no reason to believe that this is a coincidence, since, according to our good friend-- the dictionary, Fervid is = BURNING HOT.
Cell might be relating to the way that it -- apperantly, appears to make people sick, i.e. changing cells.
So there you have it, anagram for "Fervid Cell".

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FromTheDeep
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 		People need to do their homework. Cloverfiled as of now means one thing, the street that Bold Futura and the other studio stuff is near or located on. If you don't know that "Bold Futura" is the name of the corporation that trademarked the "slusho" name then you really need to do you home work.

http://www.boldfutura.jp

never mind it seems some need more of a hint so here:

Word Mark-SLUSHO! YOU CAN'T DRINK JUST SIX.
Goods and Services-IC 025. US 022 039. G & S: clothing, t-shirts, hats and caps, clothing accessories

Mark Drawing Code-3) DESIGN PLUS WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS

Design Search Code-01.15.25 - Coal; Dust; Light rays; Liquids, spilling; Pouring liquids; Sand; Spilling liquids

08.09.25 - Other frozen confections and ice

11.03.01 - Glasses without stems

Serial Number-77229623

Filing Date-July 13, 2007

Current Filing Basis-1B

Original Filing Basis-1B

Owner-APPLICANT) Bold Futura, LLC LTD LIAB CO CALIFORNIA 1223 Wilshire Boulevard #1422 Santa Monica CALIFORNIA 90403

Attorney of Record-Lori N. Boatright

Description of Mark-The applicant claims color as a feature of the mark, namely, blue, red, white, grey, green. The mark consists of the words SLUSHO! in blue, the words You Can't Drink Just Six. in grey, a red and white striped cup with blue drink and a green starburst background.

Type of Mark-TRADEMARK

Register-PRINCIPAL

Live/Dead Indicator-LIVE



http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=223+Wilshire+Boulevard+%231422+Santa+Monica+CALIFORNIA+90403&btnG=Google+Search

By the way Cloverfield Blvd. only goes for like 4-6 blocks.

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detranova
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FromTheDeep wrote:
People need to do their homework. Cloverfiled as of now means one thing, the street that Bold Futura and the other studio stuff is near or located on. If you don't know that "Bold Futura" is the name of the corporation that trademarked the "slusho" name then you really need to do you home work.

http://www.boldfutura.jp

never mind it seems some need more of a hint so here:

(...couldn't make sense of this bit...)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=223+Wilshire+Boulevard+%231422+Santa+Monica+CALIFORNIA+90403&btnG=Google+Search

By the way Cloverfield Blvd. only goes for like 4-6 blocks.


Sorry, FromTheDeep, but I couldn't understand part of your post. Was that part from boldfutura.jp? BoldFutura.jp has been established as OOG, I'm not sure if that was part of what you were trying to say.

LC_from_The_Hills wrote:
Being a resident of Santa Monica and having buddies amongst the Paramount-Dreamworks family...

The title is "yes and no" in relation to Abrams work in Santa Monica.

The name has a reason.

Here's a hint...

Quote:
Originally called Clover Field, the airport was the home of the Douglas Aircraft company. The first circumnavigation of the world by air took off from and returned to Clover Field in 1924.


Aww...I'm not very good at inferences. Just a few more hints, pretty please? With a cherry on top? With seabed nectar on top?

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Dr. Awkward
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 		Cloverfield Title...
Cloverfield designate reference to virus...
Srathnal wrote:
Clover could be tied in to the genetics of the creature/creatures...

The Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1968 went to Dr. Holley (among others) for his 'Clover Leaf' model of tRNA. If the monster somehow transfers its genetic material from itself to others (hence the smaller monsters)... one would expect it to be through transfer RNA... or tRNA. Shrug,... some more grist for the mill.


Possibly on to something there. Maybe "designate Cloverfield" refers to the
research and tracking of a virus Grumpypantz spread through out the city.

ie. instead of one case (Clover Leaf) there are multiple cases designate "Cloverfield"; hence Cloverfield (plural clover leafs)...idk.

Wiki wrote:
Using Holley team's method, other scientists determined the structures of the remaining tRNA's. A few years later the method was modified to help track the sequence of nucleotides in various bacterial, plant, and human viruses.

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bfarrell
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Cloverfield and 447
First it appears as though our main characters will not survive the attack. They will die in a helicopter crash. Their footage will be recovered when found in "the area formerly known as central park." Why is it formerly? Because no one is left in NYC, if the monster is destroyed or it's bioagent eradicated NYC would be repopulated and Central Park would keep it's current name. The city is abandonded.

Another strange link is that FEMA and other US Gov agencies that handle disasters have a phone prefix of 447

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bryanflurry
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LC_from_The_Hills wrote:
Being a resident of Santa Monica and having buddies amongst the Paramount-Dreamworks family...

The title is "yes and no" in relation to Abrams work in Santa Monica.

The name has a reason.

Here's a hint...

Quote:
Originally called Clover Field, the airport was the home of the Douglas Aircraft company. The first circumnavigation of the world by air took off from and returned to Clover Field in 1924.
whatever it is(alive&huge), its returning, am I right or am I right?

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humanfly8
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 		Santa Monica Airport (IATA: SMO, ICAO: KSMO, FAA LID: SMO), also known as Santa Monica Municipal Airport, is a general aviation airport located in the heart of the residential community of Santa Monica, California, United States. The airport is located approximately six statute miles north of LAX and one mile east of the Santa Monica Bay (Pacific Ocean). Van Nuys Airport is 12 miles to the north. The airport has a control tower and, on average, handles 400-500 operations a day - which includes 18,000 jets per year (up from 1,000 per year since 1984).[1]

Originally called Clover Field, the airport was the home of the Douglas Aircraft company. The first circumnavigation of the world by air took off from and returned to Clover Field in 1924.

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gypsy songman
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detranova wrote:


LC_from_The_Hills wrote:
Being a resident of Santa Monica and having buddies amongst the Paramount-Dreamworks family...

The title is "yes and no" in relation to Abrams work in Santa Monica.

The name has a reason.

Here's a hint...

Quote:
Originally called Clover Field, the airport was the home of the Douglas Aircraft company. The first circumnavigation of the world by air took off from and returned to Clover Field in 1924.


Aww...I'm not very good at inferences. Just a few more hints, pretty please? With a cherry on top? With seabed nectar on top?


Perhaps it has something to do with the flight the airport is famous for? IIRC, the first circumnavigation was done by the Army Air Corps with 4 planes.

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I'M HUGE!
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LC_from_The_Hills wrote:
Being a resident of Santa Monica and having buddies amongst the Paramount-Dreamworks family...

The title is "yes and no" in relation to Abrams work in Santa Monica.

The name has a reason.

Here's a hint...

Quote:
Originally called Clover Field, the airport was the home of the Douglas Aircraft company. The first circumnavigation of the world by air took off from and returned to Clover Field in 1924.

OMG, don't tell me you're the real LC/Lauren from LB/The Hills Shocked . Cause if you weren't, I would really be disappointed. Crying or Very sad
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An anagram for JJ Abrams is Cloverfield. Shocked

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TallulahBelle
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 		Say, this site: http://www.cloverfield.com/ wasn't there a few month ago, was it? And searching Unfiction for "lutge*" comes up blank.

The site seems a bit odd but legit, save for two things that bothers me:

Why on earth would they put their customer login on a different domain, and stranger yet, why would someone holding the domain cloverfield.com start using it for that, now?

And secondly: Check out the logo on this baby http://www.lutge.com/who.html.

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gypsy songman
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TallulahBelle wrote:
Say, this site: http://www.cloverfield.com/ wasn't there a few month ago, was it? And searching Unfiction for "lutge*" comes up blank.

The site seems a bit odd but legit, save for two things that bothers me:

Why on earth would they put their customer login on a different domain, and stranger yet, why would someone holding the domain cloverfield.com start using it for that, now?

And secondly: Check out the logo on this baby http://www.lutge.com/who.html.


Dig up the archive of that site from July and it says "this site is in no way affiliated with the trailer running in front of Transformers" or words to that effect; someone else links to it in a recent post, but I can't find it atm. Cloverfield.com is oog.

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TallulahBelle
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gypsy songman wrote:
TallulahBelle wrote:
Say, this site: http://www.cloverfield.com/ wasn't there a few month ago, was it? And searching Unfiction for "lutge*" comes up blank.

The site seems a bit odd but legit, save for two things that bothers me:

Why on earth would they put their customer login on a different domain, and stranger yet, why would someone holding the domain cloverfield.com start using it for that, now?

And secondly: Check out the logo on this baby http://www.lutge.com/who.html.


Dig up the archive of that site from July and it says "this site is in no way affiliated with the trailer running in front of Transformers" or words to that effect; someone else links to it in a recent post, but I can't find it atm. Cloverfield.com is oog.


aight. thanks.

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gypsy songman
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TallulahBelle wrote:
gypsy songman wrote:


Dig up the archive of that site from July and it says "this site is in no way affiliated with the trailer running in front of Transformers" or words to that effect; someone else links to it in a recent post, but I can't find it atm. Cloverfield.com is oog.


aight. thanks.


NP, good lookin' out. I couldn't find it and I knew what to search for.

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