Why is it called Knight and Day?
If their names aren't Knight or Day? I signed onto imdb expecting to see Tom Cruise as Steve Knight and Cameron Diaz as Sun Day. What is this crap!
shareThe film was originally titled "Wichita" as well as "Trouble Man" while it was shooting in Massachusetts, (also filmed in Cadiz and Seville, Spain). Looked and couldn't find the reason.
shareIf you're going to have the word knight replace the word night there better be a knight in there! Either somebody named Knight or an actual Knight from the middle ages. And if the guy's name is Knight then the girl's name has to be Day! That's how puns work!
Still gonna see the movie though cuz it looks great!
The night and day expression is just when to people are totally different, and the name is a play on that, but Cruise is kinda like the Knight in shining armor, so the call it Knight and Day, kinda like it's a buddy comedy. In France it's only called Night and Day, as I guess they don't understand Knight/Night thing.
Yeah, the french don't know the difference between Knight and Night because they're a bunch of retards, right?
Moron.
GhostFace353 made a good point about the French not getting the pun because of cultural/language differences. The Japanese just got Twitter and instead of 'tweet' they say 'mumble.' That should be as clear as night and day.
shareJust so you know we have the exact same expression in French...Le jour et la nuit. Ok its "Day and night" but its the same meaning...
share... and what is French for knight and does it sound like nuit? or is it spelled similar to nuit? if both answers are no (or non) then we have a pun that does not work so ya may as well stick w/ plain ol' Night and Day.
It isn't because you are dumb retards... it's that some things with the French are just a waste of time.
merci, merci beaucoup!
Or maybe just because puns don't translate into other languages.
Moron.
> Yeah, the french don't know the difference between Knight and Night because they're a bunch of retards, right?
I guess so.
Ah oui, c'est vrais.
shareA knight figurine appears in the movie, which is a very weak link to the title.
shareby quik_silver (Mon Jun 14 2010 05:05:19) Ignore this User | ReportAbuseWe know the difference between knight and night.
Yeah, the french don't know the difference between Knight and Night because they're a bunch of retards, right?
Moron.
We know the difference between know and now...
You know we are not stupid.
Knights of the round table. In french :Chevaliers de la table ronde.
The distributors in france have decided to title the movie night and day, but i don't know why...
I have learn english at school like a lot of people.
I don't like when you write that we 're a bunch of retards, it's wrong.
The title of this movie is a " jeu de mot" like " now you know, you know no" is also a "jeu de mot"
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Knight in french is Chevalier, that doesn't sound like night either.
shareSimply put, that isn't what he meant dude. Don't gotta get pissy.
sharejust another case of a horribly titled movie i guess where they force a pun in there like the abysmally titled "made of honor" where the pun again made no effin sense
shareWell I gotta good feeling about this movie. I'm really bummed that the action comedy genre is pretty much dead. Now we have movies like Pineapple express which claim to be "action" but I'm more interested in action-comedy along the lines of true lies. Now that was a film that defined this genre.
Hopefully, Knight and Day will bring back some of that stuff.
What are you talking about!? Pineapple Express was great and this movie seems like it would be completely awful. I saw another thread for this movie along the lines of a Poor Man's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and I thought the exact same thing when I saw the preview. It seems like just another typical crap movie with a horrible plot and horrible dialogue. There is a shortage of movies with original plots and storylines these days. Pineapple Express was funny and did have action, it was funny action, but still action non-the-less, if that's all you're looking for.
sharetoo true
share...besides Matthew Knight is his real name...
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At least somebody paid attention to the movie
shareAt least somebody paid attention to the movie
Agreed. Several pages of inattention and pointless argument.
Dean: I am wearing sunglasses at night. You know who does that? No-talent douche bags!
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At least somebody paid attention to the movie
Agreed. Several pages of inattention and pointless argument.
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I am so glad they renamed this movie! I've lived in 'Wichita' and it irks me when movies are never filmed in the locations they are named for. I don't know why it would have even been called that, because they never came close to filming in Kansas. Maybe it's his spy name.
Anyway...'Knight and Day' sounds so much better.
Desmond: I'll see you in another life, brother....
they meet at the airport in Wichita. And Diaz's character is from Wichita...
shareIt amazes me that people can write and write and post and post and have no idea what they are talking about and not even care. I worked on this movie and it is true that the title makes almost no sense. However, Tom Cruise's character's real last name IS "Knight" for whatever that is worth. Diaz's character's name is in no way named "Day". It's just a lame attempt at a catchy title and Fox did not seem to care that it did not make any logical sense. Although they do meet at the Witchita airport, Diaz's character is NOT from Witchita but returning back home to Boston from Witchita.
shareAs opposed to “illogical sense”?
Sense REQUIRES LOGIC!!
But it’s only “others” who “have no idea what they’re talking about” which, if you’d like to avoid the grammatical error of a dangling participle, is better phrased “who have no idea whereof they speak.”
I love that they meet in Wichita but the Wichita airport looks nothing like that unless it wasn't in Wichita,KS but an airport in another Wichita.
shareI've lived in 'Wichita' and it irks me when movies are never filmed in the locations they are named for.
It irks me when people make this complaint as I take it they expect the whole film crew to move to that location for the 3-4 month shoot.
What if the story takes place during different seasons? Do you film some in the summer then come back in the winter?
Say the the location is not suited for filming because it is too small or the lighting is wrong? Do you change the story so that a scene takes place in a different location so you can film there?
These are just some of the reasons films are not always filmed in the locations they are named for, or for that matter, take place in. share
Should have been called "The Guy" as in "This is the guy" cafe scene. Anyway, I did see 'Knight' on the old couple's letterbox, but there was no Day to be found in the movie. Weird.
shareI also wonder where did the concept for the Knight and Day title come from. I am assuming that Roy was June's Knight in shining Armor and the day when the both of them would be together.
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