'Has the record for shortest movie title ever.'??? - Z (1969) Discussion

[–] ndatmo-1 17 years ago

On a technicality, the letter Z at 3 strokes is 'shorter' than M with 4.

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[–] Jackpine2 17 years ago

Are you serious? Length of movie title refers to number of characters in the title, not length of strokes. I could argue that M can be written 1/10th the size of Z, therefore M is shorter.

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[–] mrura 17 years ago

I'd guess that he wasn't serious. Your response was rather a waste of time.

This whole discussion, the more i think of it, is a big waste of time. But, while we're arguing, i'll suggest that the movie Pi is the shortest because it contains a symbol, and ZERO letters.

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[–] el98020 16 years ago

No, it doesn't. It contains ONE letter - a greek letter. So it's exactly as short as 'Z' or 'M'.

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[–] mrura 16 years ago

i suppose, techinically, that's true, though in the mathematical world where it's used, it would be considered a symbol. people talk about the "symbol for pi".

and i guess, technically, all letters are represented by symbols. a letter IS a symbol.

whatever. who really cares about the shortest title ever?

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[–] almaqueloide 16 years ago

There is a Problem with M. M is not the official complete title. In german it would be: "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" (M - a city searches for a murderer). As far as I know Z has no "extra" title. So Z IS the shortest movie title ever.
Oh, and just in case you want to investigate about this. Some movie posters read "Z - il est vivant" (Z - he lives) as the movie title, but the added part is not the title but the tagline.

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[–] defusethefire 16 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184791/
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[–] TheLionKingKong 16 years ago

This thread is funny! People arguing about small movie names.

If every letter of the alphabet is a film title, maybe they should have a 26-disc DVD boxed set.

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[–] menyinc 14 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408060/

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[–] cavia 15 years ago

I appreciated your creativity, ndatmo-1. All we need now is a film maker to produce "i" (one stroke and a dot, excluding serifs). What will it be, a Steve Jobs biography?

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[–] ndatmo-1 15 years ago

Thanks, cavia. And they thought JAWS was HUGE on the marquee! Wait until 'Applestem'(as the public will fondly call it) opens.

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[–] Hancock_the_Superb 10 years ago

Well, O has zero strokes.

I'm afraid that you underestimate the number of subjects in which I take an interest!

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[–] grapplernz 16 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072386/

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[–] iwao 16 years ago

is there a collector boxset with Z, M, W and O ? i'd love to buy it

by the way O is the shortest title ever because it has NO strokes

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[–] JackBenjamin 16 years ago

I'd argue that "O" has an infinite number of strokes tying it for longest movie title ever (with every other title that has at least one "O" in it).

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[–] iwao 16 years ago

i'd argue that since infinity isn't quantifiable, you can't say if it's the longest or the smallest title ever. because otherwise, a title like "the omen" would have an infinity of strokes + a certain amount of strokes and would be longer than O. but you can't add to infinity.

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[–] gryspnik 15 years ago

Of course you can add to infinity! There are different kinds of infinity. THere are infinite rational numbers and infinite irrational numbers. However, the rational numbers are more than the irrational numbers. Read some Leibniz and you'll understand it all ;)

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[–] rgcustomer 14 years ago

I believe it's the other way around...

The rational numbers are countable.
The real numbers are not.
Therefore the irrational numbers (reals without rationals) are not countable either.

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[–] pt100 13 years ago

Technically, "O" has one stroke of defined length. The length is pi times its diameter. The single stroke could be converted to a line of defined length by simply opening it up and straightening it. Let's not confuse the character with a mathematical construct that is separate from the character itself.

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[–] Gordyl 16 years ago

Don't forget Q.

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[–] FoShowty 15 years ago

This discussion is awesome.

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[–] BrerRabid 15 years ago

I haven't click any of the links, so this one may have been mentioned...

Has anyone thought of the movie "$"? Nowdays you have to look for the it under the name "Dollars" but it was released in the former, not latter.

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[–] k3kx 15 years ago

Getting technical again, you could argue that M is "longer" than Z because M is traditionally used as the definition of typeface width, namely its Em Width.

Z wins!

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[–] A_Fistful_of_Pennies 15 years ago

It does hold the record, but holds it with a few other movies. So it is a co-holder technically.

Maybe someone could come up with a movie that is just " "...nothing. That would be the new record holder.

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[–] davidajgp 12 years ago

There is a new film this year called "L"

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[–] Grizzly101 15 years ago

Yes. There is none shorter. :)

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[–] x_imdb-385 14 years ago

"Z" means "he lives" in Ancient Greek

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[–] bluesky84 14 years ago

Well, M is before Z I guess.

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