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[META][UPDATE] So... "Cloverfield" it is...
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hmghosthoost
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 		I am disappointed with the title. I seriously hope it is relevant to the story.

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Anteros
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Ajking3 wrote:
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.


Heh.

Way back in mid July, when the story first broke about the movie being about someone finding a camera and playing it back (which has now been verified,) one of the posters here said something interesting. A thousand pardons please, I don't remember who it was and really don't want to research it.

What this person said was (paraphrased from memory,) "what if after the tape in the camera plays, the recovery team members take off their suits and we see that they're aliens?"

Now THAT would be cool. Cool
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 		I am ok with the title "Cloverfield."

I've mentioned this a couple of times before. It's the title I've always known the movie by, unlike others who are fixated by the release date. It's also the title I use when talking about the film with friends, as others have mentioned.

To clarify my previous post a bit more; back in mid July the story broke that the film would begin with a recovery team wearing Haz-Mat suits combing through a scene of destruction. One of the team members finds a camera and hits play...
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Diamond Dog wrote:
I agree with you. I was hoping for either 18-1-08 or Monstrous but when discussing the build up with others (non ARG/E followers) I have usually referred to it as the Cloverfield movie so at the end of the day it's probably the safest choice for JJA to reach the widest audience.

The next 2 months are going to take forever.


Your forgetting, JJ is a writer, and is striking with the rest. He couldn't 'write' the title any more than they could do script touch ups on the Lost scripts now in production. JJ can do edits and production work, but can't put a word on paper without breaching the strike. (well, lunch orders and directions to assistants he can and the like, don't get silly).

The studio picked it. Probably as the the most recognizable of the terms its been called in the press.

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wizkey wrote:
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.


Agreed. Your observations are, indeed, profoundly obvious. Personally, I am not disputing them - and I don't think anyone else I have seen here is.

My query is whether Abrams might not have decided to subvert all of that that a little - given that the conclusions are so apparent that most would reach them and that most would assume "Cloverfield" is a reference to the monster and physical incident exclusively.

Considering that is seems almost certain there is a Bio-agent [/genetic?] thread in the story - and that the use of the term "case" is so often associated with infection or disease - I wondered whether the they might not have decided that "Cloverfield" refers less to the creature itself or the physical incident it creates - and more to the bio-agent or agents associated with it?

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