Why LORD'S? Instead of LORDS?
Anyone?
shareThis is a symptom of imdb being pedantic and silly. I have tried to fix dozens of misspelled titles, sometimes successfully, but the folks who created imdb lack common sense. Here are two recent examples I remember: Look up the Ingrid Bergman movie, A Walk in the Spring Rain, which is obviously correct, and imdb calls it Walk in the Spring Rain -no way Jose is that correct. Also, just to be silly they insist on listing very long & pointless titles like the original title of Henry V by Laurence Olivier (look it up and weep!), BUT they don't for example use the tongue twisting endless Marat/Sade title. So they aren't even consistent! Now don't get me started about pornography: imdb has listed tens of thousand of porno videos and films but the titles and years attached to them are all over the place -most of the time wrong. Their "strict" rules on what year goes in the title of a film's listing is a joke -since imdb never obeys those rules.
shareYet, others also review it as Lord's. Even Variety.
shareThe actual, official name of the movie is: "The Lord's of Flatbush" because these guys aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. It's intentional, and amusing.
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I agree with reklawlah.
The first thing I noticed while watching this tonight was the way they spelled "Lord's" in the title. Then I noticed it was spelled the same on their jackets. That cracked me up.
And according to imdb's rules & regs & stuff, they claim to put the exact title as it appears in the film's opening (or sometimes closing) credits.
A prime example is Cronenberg's "eXistenZ".
I'd be more interested in knowing what, exactly, the initials, "SAC" are that appear in the long tail coming off the "h" of "Flatbush." I could only deduce that they're of the person who designed the logo. And if that's the case, why would they want to put it on the Lords' jackets, as well? Or even more so, why the "Lord's" logo on Stallone's jacket is quite worn in places (those of the other three actors look perfect in comparison)?
shareI saw The Lord's of Flatbush on TV tonight and saw SAC in the title, but SAC doesn't show in either the VHS or DVD cover images at amazon.com. I'm going to take a guess that the C means club -- like the Lord's of Flatbush is some type of club. I gave it the Google search and came up with the following possibilities:
1 Strategic Air Command
2 Santa Ana College
3 Student Advisory Council
4 South Atlantic Conference
5 Survey Action Center
And my own creation:
Stupid A'holes Club
Maybe y'all can come up with some guesses of your own.
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"social-athletic club" Their euphemism for gang.
Why don't you just lay there and bleed awhile.. before you taste some real pain. "Clint Eastwood"
This is mentioned in the "Did you know?" for the film.
I wonder if the writer knew about Lord's Cricket Ground in London, so called because the original ground was a field owned by Thomas Lord?
And yet on the poster we see on the page, it clearly says, Lords. I don't remember people being quite as illiterate in 1974 as they appear to be now. I wonder if the writer would have made an ironic reference to the ignorance of the Lord's by using the wrong spelling back then. It should, of course, read Lords of Flatbush, the poster does. What does it say on the title in the film itself? That is where the truth live's!
shareThe really frustrating one for me - Which I, too, have tried to fix, numerous times - Is Kelsey Grammer. IMDb ALWAYS spells his last name as 'Grammar', and won't accept the correct spelling.
shareThe original posters did have it as "Lord's" - whether it was intended or not, movie reviewers at the time pointed out that the apostrophe was used incorrectly. Maybe posters over time were corrected but it was originally "Lord's."
shareIf the SAC stands for "Social Athletic Club," then their jackets says:
Lord's Social Athletic Club. The possessive would seem better in this case although the meaning isn't perfectly clear. If Lord refers to the deity, why wouldn't it have an article (The Lord's Social Athletic Club). If it is a proper name, who is Lord?
If I had to justify it, I would say it was designed to convey two alternate meanings with a play on words.
The huge letters LORD'S are all that is easily seen. This is likely indicating the common perception that they are claiming they are LORDS (at first glance knowing people would not notice or think through the apostrophy), but then as a inside joke justifying the title they add Social Athletic Club as SAC, which requires the apostrophe.
Alternately, it we expect people would immediately be aware of the meaning of the apostrophe, it could be indicating (sarcastically) they are (the) LORD's, but then the SAC inside joke.
The jacket doesn't include "of Flatbush." The poster just uses the jacket to provide the word "LORD'S" in the poster indicating the title as LORD's of Flatbush.