Is the band named after this movie?
As you may or may not know, there is a band called They Might Be Giants. They started out in the 80s, after this movie, so don't you think it's likely that their namesake is this movie?
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The answer is yes; they got their name from this movie
They Might Be Giants
"The band's name
The band takes its name from a 1971 movie starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward (based on the play of the same name written by James Goldman.) In the film, George C. Scott plays Justin Playfair, a man who believes he is Sherlock Holmes; his psychiatrist (last name "Watson") goes along with him in search of Moriarty. Playfair defends Don Quixote's tilting at windmills, saying that the windmills of course were not giants, but thinking they might be shows imagination:
''"All the best minds used to think the world was flat. But what if it isn't? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what might be, why we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes. "''