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[META][UPDATE] So... "Cloverfield" it is...
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The phrase that strikes me is "area formerly know as Central Park", almost as if this is an investigation of past events.
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My 2 cents: The government classified the case "Cloverfield". Or was it the video found is classifed "Cloverfield". Maybe the camera was found in a field of clover? Or maybe that name was etched on the side of the camera or on the video tape cassette?

Won't really know until the movie is shown, I suspect.
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konamouse wrote:
My 2 cents: The government classified the case "Cloverfield". Or was it the video found is classifed "Cloverfield". Maybe the camera was found in a field of clover? Or maybe that name was etched on the side of the camera or on the video tape cassette?

Won't really know until the movie is shown, I suspect.


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MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF CASE DESIGNATED "CLOVERFIELD"
.......CAMERA RETRIEVED AT INCIDENT SITE U.S. 447
..........AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS "CENTRAL PARK"


You have it right the first time Kona...case (investigation into Monster & path of destruction) is "Cloverfield",
film found at what is left of Central Park - what is now called U.S. 447.

Granted, this is all derived from the bootleg...
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I haven't viewed this "trailer" yet (waiting for an official version before taunting myself), but I'd like to point something out.

MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF CASE DESIGNATED "CLOVERFIELD"
.......CAMERA RETRIEVED AT INCIDENT SITE U.S. 447
..........AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS "CENTRAL PARK"

Multiple sightings of Cloverfield? That tells me that is NOT the code name for Central Park, but for the monster.
Or..if we want to go back to some other theories..."case" could refer to a sort of..epidemic or disease...so if there are "multiple sightings of case designated Cloverfield", then it could mean that they've seen many people "infected" by the monster who have transformed. But that's all spec. I think it's more likely that it's intended to refer to the monster.

Code name for Central Park would be Incident Site U.S. 447.
Also, if they're up to "incident site U.S. 447" that suggest many things to me.
A. This is a world wide situation, or U.S. wouldn't be specified
B. 447th site? This clearly occurs outside of New York.
C. Incident site? Certainly makes it sound like an industrial accident...further solidifying the Chuai station theories.

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Awhite2490 wrote:

MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF CASE DESIGNATED "CLOVERFIELD"
.......CAMERA RETRIEVED AT INCIDENT SITE U.S. 447
..........AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS "CENTRAL PARK"

jj is really fond of using the number 47, I hope its a sign (that its a legit trailer) the suspense is killing me!

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Awhite2490 wrote:
I haven't viewed this "trailer" yet (waiting for an official version before taunting myself), but I'd like to point something out.

MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF CASE DESIGNATED "CLOVERFIELD"
.......CAMERA RETRIEVED AT INCIDENT SITE U.S. 447
..........AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS "CENTRAL PARK"

Multiple sightings of Cloverfield? That tells me that is NOT the code name for Central Park, but for the monster.
Or..if we want to go back to some other theories..."case" could refer to a sort of..epidemic or disease...so if there are "multiple sightings of case designated Cloverfield", then it could mean that they've seen many people "infected" by the monster who have transformed. But that's all spec. I think it's more likely that it's intended to refer to the monster.

Code name for Central Park would be Incident Site U.S. 447.
Also, if they're up to "incident site U.S. 447" that suggest many things to me.
A. This is a world wide situation, or U.S. wouldn't be specified
B. 447th site? This clearly occurs outside of New York.
C. Incident site? Certainly makes it sound like an industrial accident...further solidifying the Chuai station theories.


Good point, I never really took into account the fact that it says "multiple sightings". That seems pretty odd. I really need to think about it a bit longer, but it really doesnt make sense.

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Related to "Brownfield"

opencws wrote:
Well if you read the opening text, the government is referring to it as "case designate 'cloverfield'". So the title is just what the government refers to the incident is the most likely answer.
That's what I thought, possibly related to "Brownfield"?

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21975&start=44

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I would have preferred the name 1.18.08 but the name Cloverfield is pretty rad.

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Uh, and yet "Cloverfield" is still only registered as a food brand by Cumberland Farms. Check the USPTO site.
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I like Cloverfield as the name. The movie has been 'known as' Cloverfield from the very beginning of this ARG. Actually, before this ARG started.

Although, just because they put 'Cloverfield' at the end of the trailer doesn't mean that it's the official title. The first trailer had 1-18-08 at the end. Maybe there'll be another one in December with 'Monstrous' at the end.

That would really screw us up wouldn't it?

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Awhite2490 wrote:
I haven't viewed this "trailer" yet (waiting for an official version before taunting myself), but I'd like to point something out.

MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF CASE DESIGNATED "CLOVERFIELD"
.......CAMERA RETRIEVED AT INCIDENT SITE U.S. 447
..........AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS "CENTRAL PARK"

Multiple sightings of Cloverfield? That tells me that is NOT the code name for Central Park, but for the monster.
Or..if we want to go back to some other theories..."case" could refer to a sort of..epidemic or disease...so if there are "multiple sightings of case designated Cloverfield", then it could mean that they've seen many people "infected" by the monster who have transformed. But that's all spec. I think it's more likely that it's intended to refer to the monster.

Code name for Central Park would be Incident Site U.S. 447.
Also, if they're up to "incident site U.S. 447" that suggest many things to me.
A. This is a world wide situation, or U.S. wouldn't be specified
B. 447th site? This clearly occurs outside of New York.
C. Incident site? Certainly makes it sound like an industrial accident...further solidifying the Chuai station theories.


At last. I've been wrestling with this in my mind for a little while. I agree with raising a question against the general assumption that "Cloverfield" refers to the monster. Mainly because if we assume for a minute - and for the moment - that the title card refers exclusively to what's in the trailer] we see multiple sightings of a lot of things, but not of the creature - as we understand it from the glimpse we do see. Perhaps it is the case that "Cloverfield" could be a "Who", not a "What"?
Hi, by the way.

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Mptangyangnippopoop wrote:

At last. I've been wrestling with this in my mind for a little while. I agree with raising a question against the general assumption that "Cloverfield" refers to the monster. Mainly because if we assume for a minute - and for the moment - that the title card refers exclusively to what's in the trailer] we see multiple sightings of a lot of things, but not of the creature - as we understand it from the glimpse we do see. Perhaps it is the case that "Cloverfield" could be a "Who", not a "What"?
Hi, by the way.


I tend to think the teaser, trailer, and www.cloverfieldmovie.com are part of a more traditional marketing campaign and therefore are OOG. In other words it's probably reasonable to assume that the title card refers to the entire movie and was just one scene from the entire movie that they decided to put in the trailer.

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To me the title card is pretty obvious.

This is a world wide incident and the monster in this specific case is given the name 'cloverfield'.

A monster in Los Angeles may be case designated 'rainbow in your ass', but they didn't find the camera where case designate 'rainbow in your ass' was destroying stuff, so we are not watching that movie.

This is obvious because the in-movie government has an entire listing of 'incident sites', of which this is U.S. (united states) 447.

This would make our 'rainbow in your ass' from L.A. maybe incident site U.S. 231 and the case designate 'tickle trunk' from J.P. incident site 001.

It's kind of like what George Lucas did with the Star Wars movies by starting at episode 4. Here, we are starting at episode 447. It gives the movie an instant implied backstory.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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When I first saw the official title and that "Multiple sightings" crap I got very excited.

Mostly because that means that the whole incident was named Cloverfield by the government. Not just some stage name for a movie in development.

Here's an idea...

Maybe after NY was destroyed the entire place was covered in clovers. And anything that saw the monster was dead. No one killed it. It just came and killed everything and dissapeared from whence it came.

So the "Multiple sightings" crap could be them finding this camera in central park to find out exactly what went down. I'm sure they have other footage but this one doesn't have to be important. It's just evidence for the chest. Evidence that makes a good movie.

Picture a scene of new york destroyed and covered in clovers. Lol. A nice final shot for a movie. Lmao.

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Naw ...

The 'multiple sightings' part is obviously because so many people saw the thing as it was destroying the city. It wasn't just one person seeing it in one place, it was many people seeing it all over the city.

Come on, you guys are just grasping at straws now. It's plain as day.

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