what is the name directors use when they dont want to be associated with the film the've made?

Answer 1

Allen Smithy. It's pretty rare for someone to use it anymore as most people know what it means. There was a movie with Eric Idle called "Burn Hollywood Burn" that was all about a director trying to get his name taken off the film and replaced with Allen Smithy. As irony would have it the real director felt the actual film was so bad he wanted his name replaced with Allen Smithy. It could have just been for publicity, but that movie was actually really terrible.

Answer 2

A director can't use the name Alan Smithee simply because he knows he's made a turkey, but the Directors' Guild allows its use when the studio re-cuts a film to the extent that what they released was not what the director intended.

Answer 3

It used to be Alan Smithee but that name has been retired. Now they use a rotating series of names so that no one can figure out that it's a ditched name. The movie that came out about Alan Smithee a few years ago prompted the change.

Answer 4

Depends.

If you really made a dog there's no escaping it if you're playing to stay in the business.

More often than not you don't want an unfavourable or prejudiced review. As in the Spaghetti Westerns. All the credits sound affectedly English sounding because nobody thought an Italian western could be too good.

Then there's for reasons of privacy. You want a life you've worked for so you use a pseudonym. Like Natalie Portman. Not a real name.

Courts in this country are funny things. They say if you're ' a personality ' you have no private life.

Come again?

Then again, who's got any confidence in jurisprudence or government, generally, nowadays?

Did I hear a vote of ' no confidence ' ? Particularly where it involves California??!!

Answer 5

Alan Smithee

Answer 6

smithee, i think the firs tname is bill

Answer 7

failure.