Spell My Name with an "S"/Film

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Examples of Spell My Name with an "S" in Film include:

  • Practically any monster from a Godzilla movie—including Godzilla (originally Gojira) himself.
    • Angirasu/Angilas/Angurus/Anguirus (the last finally being registered as a trademark in the 90s).
    • Kingu Gidora/Ghidrah/Ghidorah; also Death Ghidorah/Desgidora.
    • In almost all English versions except Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1993), the monster Radon (from "pteranodon") is called Rodan. Speculation as to why it was changed includes confusion with the element radon and a conflict with the name of a British brand of soap; nobody's exactly sure why.
    • Kingu Shiisaa/King Seesar/King Caesar—especially problematic because it implies a false Meaningful Name (Caesar = Roman emperors) while clouding its real one (Shiisaa = Okinawan mythic lion-dog).
    • In Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, the monster's name was deliberately changed from "Destroyer" because a descriptive name like that is hard to trademark.
      • Also, Destoroyah has been called Destroyah.
    • Don't forget about Minya/Minilla/Minira/Milla.
    • Likewise there's Kamacuras/Gimantis and Kumonga/Spiega.
    • It is Lampshaded in the American remake.

"It's 'Gojira', you moron!"

      • And referred to exclusively as "Gojira" in the accompanying novelization.
  • In Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings, Executive Meddling led to Saruman's name being changed to Aruman, because the studio thought that viewers would confuse his name with "Sauron". However they only used the new name about half the time, making everything that much more confusing.
    • The potential for confusion between their names is actually noted in the universe—while viewing an 'S' painted on an enemy's shield, one of the characters wonders if it stands for Sauron; another character quickly points out that Sauron's minions don't call him by name, and besides, Sauron never uses elf-runes. So it could only be Saruman.
  • In Animal Crackers, Captain Spaulding has the first name of "Jeffrey" in the film credits and in the script of the play, but "Geoffrey" in a newspaper headline also displayed at the start of the film. (Spaulding's name originally lacked the U, but was changed to avoid coincidental resemblance to persons living or dead.)
  • Randall Graves is not a clerk at RST Video. Randal Graves, however, is.
  • Depending on the source, the heroine of King Kong spells her name as either Ann or Anne.
  • The tablet owner from Night at the Museum's name is popularly spelled Ahkmenrah, but other spellings exists as well. In the Nintendo DS Licensed Game of the movie's sequel, they added the spelling "Akmenrah" and "Akhmenrah", which was mentioned during the beginning, when Jedediah called Larry on the phone.
  • Blazing Saddles: It's HEDLEY!
  • The Hangover: Is it rufilin or roofalin?
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