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Equally I'd consider many given names in the US slightly unusual, given my own experiences. Hermione is uncommon in middle class Britain, but it's a name I have heard a number of times in an upper class context. HiLo48 ( talk) 05:44, 2 January 2011 (UTC) Reply Context is pretty significant. Kevin Myers 05:06, 2 January 2011 (UTC) Reply Hermione Granger stood out, but she was in a book first.

Another character is called 'Future Man', with no explanation given - or needed. A main character is named Dignan, perhaps a first name, which is unusual. One of my favorite movies, Bottle Rocket, springs to mind. That said, I think movies characters are sometimes unusually named just to be offbeat and memorable. Maybe the author was familiar with the name and picked it for historical reasons, or just liked the oddness of it. Google tells me that 'Sala Post' was the name of a real person in Connecticut history, where the film and novel was set, and where the author was from. They're familiar enough names so as not to require any explanation.

Mwalcoff ( talk) 04:01, 2 January 2011 (UTC) Reply Seems to me that Homer and Bart are uncommon names but not unusual ones, which is a bit different from the original question. (Fans know Homer was Matt Groening's father's name and 'Bart' is an anagram of 'brat.'). Come to think of it, did they ever explain the origin of the title character's name in any of the 247 episodes of Murphy Brown? And The Simpsons has never given an in-universe explanation, as far as I know, for Homer and Bartholomew Simpson's unusual first names. Perhaps if you had 300 pages to discuss someone, it would make sense to explain the origin of the name, but in a 90 minute film it might be a distraction. 'Parrish' sounds like one of those last names used as first names, like with the real-life people McGeorge Bundy, Jefferson Davis, Anderson Cooper, Jackson Browne, Turner Gill, Brooks Robinson, etc. So, what am I missing here? - Jack of Oz 03:15, 2 January 2011 (UTC) Reply It's not that uncommon for people to have uncommon names. I can see some sense in making a character stand out from the crowd by giving them an unusual attribute – but to then treat it as if it was not remotely unusual is sort of giving out a confused message. I could probably produce quite a long list if I had the energy. Nevertheless, I’ve often noticed this tendency, particularly in American movies, of characters with given names that virtually nobody has ever heard of but everyone treats them as perfectly normal and never asks how they're spelt. Maybe in this particular case the novel went into the name issue but that explanation got lost in the translation to the screen. But if it’s treated as if it were a perfectly normal name like Bill or Harry or Mary or Jane, then what actually is the point of going to the trouble of giving the character such a name to begin with? The title character Parrish Maclean is another case in point.

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There would be a point in having a character with such a name if the name itself played some role in the plot, or at least there was some acknowledgement in the movie of its oddness. Now, unusual given names are things that people in real life notice and often comment on or ask questions about. So, we have a character with a particularly unusual given name (nothing wrong with that per se). I checked and found there are three Wiki-notable people with the first name Sala, but one’s a woman, one wasn’t even born till 1976 (the film was based on a 1958 novel), and the other was hardly well-enough known to have influenced the novelist. The only Sala I’d ever heard of is a surname (pronounced Sah-luh). But anyway, my question is about names of movie characters.ĭean Jagger played a man named Sala Post (Sala pronounced like a non-rhotic Sailor). I’m not at all sure I’m any better off for having done so. Yesterday I watched a re-run of Parrish, a 1961 Troy Donahue/ Claudette Colbert/ Karl Malden movie, which I’d heard of but never seen.

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