Last-Name Basis/Film: Difference between revisions

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* Martin Riggs from the ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' movies is always referred to as "Riggs", even though he calls his partner Roger Murtaugh by his first name.

** In fact, the original draft of ''Alien'' (included as a [[DVD Bonus Content|DVD extra]] in the [[Boxed Set|Alien Quadrilogy box set]]) was written such that ''all'' the characters had no assigned gender.

** With the exceptions of Carter Burke, Ellen Ripley, Dwayne Hicks and (possibly) Gorman, all the marines in ''Aliens'' have [[The Danza|their actor's first name for their real one]] (e.g. Al Apone (Matthews), Jeanette Vasquez (Goldstein), etc)

** The ladies call him James. Including M at times. Normally M (and Q) refers to him by his number, 007

* In ''[[Rear Window]]'', the protagonist, L. B. Jeffries is called "Jeff" by everyone.

* In ''[[Inception]]'', the characters often refer to each other by their last names -- the main character, Cobb, is only called by his first name by his wife and father/father in law, another character only goes by 'Eames', implied to be his last name (there's even a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6275157/1/pseudonymous fanfic] about this), and the team usually refers to Robert Fischer as just 'Fischer'.

* ''[[The Way Back]]'' has Mister Smith, who refuses to give his first name and is simply called Smith by most of his companions. Some of the ones with a shakier grasp of English think 'Mister' is actually his first name, and the sole child in the group uses it like it is.