What Does The '/I' After the Year Mean?
This film is dated as 2003/I - I've run into this notation on a couple of other listings and can't figure out what it means. Can someone clear up my confusion? Thanks!
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It's a slash followed by the Roman numeral I (one). This denotes that, unlikely as it seems, more than one film titled "The Reckoning" was released in 2003, so listing the title and year does not uniquely identify the film. This notation is also used in imdb to tell different actors with the same name apart.
My guess is that "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe is better known than the other film of the same name, so it's given the "/I" designation while the other one is given "/II".
Here's the imdb entry for "The Reckoning (2003/II)" (A full twelve minutes long!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379954/
Thank you very much! I have always wondered what that meant and it is good to know now.
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hey ironspam,
what does it mean when it has the actor's name in parentheses beside the characters name?
like
BRAD PITT .....The Surgeon (as Brad Pitt)
like that. i have always wondered about this???
thanks
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The movie database strives for historical accuracy by noting not only the actor's participation in a work, but also their name as it appears in the credits. Players can be billed differently from title to title, so the "(as...)" denotes that the individual is credited under a name different from their most commonly used moniker.
Billing name discrepancies may apply to:
- Variations on first name ("Jim Carrey" a.k.a. "James Carrey")
- Inclusion/exclusion of middle names or initials ("Harrison Ford" a.k.a. "Harrison J. Ford")
- Maiden vs. married last names ("Farrah Fawcett" a.k.a. "Farrah Fawcett-Majors")
- Artist aliases ("Dwayne Johnson" a.k.a. "The Rock")
- Honorific titles ("Alec Guinness" a.k.a. "Sir Alec Guinness")
- Misspellings ("Joan Cusak" vs. "Joan Cusack" in 'Broadcast News')