Please help me!!!!

Katamai wrote on 11/13/2004, 1:28 PM
Hey everybody..

I am a new movie director, and i have just made my first movie, but you people have to help me. It is nothing about Vegas, or editing, it is about my name in my movies. I could not find any other forum on the net, så i decided to write here. Maybe you people can help me.

Just like i said, i have made my first "ambitious" movie, but the problem is what name i am going to use, because if i am ever going to be a little "famous", i have to have a name that people can remember and a name that sounds good. So i really hope you people on these forums can help me a little.

My real name is Nic Pasalic (i am from Danmark), but is my last name a little weird to use? What name do you think i should use:

1. Nic Pasalic
2. Nick Pasalic
3. Nick Beck

I really hope you can help me.
Thank you.....!!!

Comments

MichaelS wrote on 11/13/2004, 1:33 PM
Capra, Kazan, Cukor, Zimmerman, Tarantino, Spielberg, Fellini, Wyler...I had to look up the spelling of each name...just to be sure.

Make a good movie...they'll remember your name!
rextilleon wrote on 11/13/2004, 1:37 PM
Geeze---let that bet the worst of your problems---If you make a great movie that people buy then you could call yourself Daffy Duck and it wouldn't matter.
nickle wrote on 11/13/2004, 1:40 PM
Check this list and see if you think the name makes a difference.
http://www.fact-index.com/l/li/list_of_film_directors.html
Stonefield wrote on 11/13/2004, 1:45 PM
I think Nic Pasalic is a fine name. Stick with it.

yours truly,
Edgar Dweebelmyer
Grazie wrote on 11/13/2004, 11:46 PM
Hi! You related to the "Dweebelmyers" of North London? . .WOW!

Stay with your name . .it is a fine strong sounding name . . one of my favourite directors is Andzrej Wajda [ . . I think the forename is pronouced after the french "André" and the surname is "Vayah" ? ].

Be bold! Be what you are!

Grazie
Blues_Jam wrote on 11/14/2004, 12:23 AM
Nic Pasalic is a perfect name! Just unusual enough in both the first AND last names to make it memorable.

My last name is "Blanchette" and I always thought "Gee, you'll never hear THAT name associated with anyone famous." and then along comes Cate Blanchett. Now I think it sounds just fine :)

... but do you think I should drop the last "e" from my name?....hmmmm, oh the quandary.

Blues
epirb wrote on 11/14/2004, 5:11 AM
I think you should call yourself Eric Stammer, (my real name) ,that way when you become rich and famous ,I can live off your accolades! : )

Seriously I agreee with most, stick with your real name your good work is what will stick in peoples minds and your name will be naturally associated with it.
Stick With Nic ! (Pasalic)
winrockpost wrote on 11/14/2004, 6:42 AM
...........if i am ever going to be a little "famous", i have to have a name that people can remember and a name that sounds good...................


Where did you come up with that ? Maybe if you are wanting to be an actor , or maybe a rock star. Hell look at John Cougar.

Use your name.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/14/2004, 7:21 AM
Look at the performer formerly known as Prince! (sorry couldn’t resist) ;-)

Nic, there is nothing wrong with your family name. Use it and be proud. When I started performing, I picked the stage name Johnny Roy to honor my late uncle Jimmy Roy who was a guitar player in Al Goodman’s Orchestra. He was my father’s brother and he died just before I started to play professionally. Back in the 20’s & 30’s it wasn’t popular to be Italian and so he changed his name from Rofrano to Roy. Today, its all different. If they can’t pronounce your name or pronounce it wrong, it becomes a conversation piece and actually attracts attention. I still use Johnny Roy because all my musician friends know me by that name. I used my real name (John Rofrano) on my new Instant ACID book because that is who I am and I want my family to be proud. You should too.

~jr
Katamai wrote on 11/14/2004, 8:34 AM
So all you people think that i just should use my last name: Pasalic? Because, honestly, i think it sounds kind of weird, when said. But that is maybe just because it is my own last name, don't you think?
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/14/2004, 10:27 AM
So all you people think that i just should use my last name:

Yes... I think that is very clear... just about everyone here cannot understand why you are so hung up on changing your name.

You name... is your name... nothing weird about it from where I am standing.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/14/2004, 12:59 PM
> But that is maybe just because it is my own last name, don't you think?

Yep, its like the first time everyone heard their own voice on tape. We all said, “Do I really sound like that? ...I hate my voice”. Of course, the answer is, yes you sound like that, but everyone else is use to it hearing that way. Get over it and go make a great movie!

~jr
busterkeaton wrote on 11/14/2004, 1:02 PM
If you make a good enough movie that people care to learn your name, they will probably remember once that learn it. That's the benefit of having a unique name. People learned how to pronounce M. Night Shyamalan. (Thought I admit I'm not one of them)

How is Pasalic pronounced? Does the lic rhyme with Nic? It just doesn't seem that unusual to me. Though I grew up in Brooklyn and am used to a wide variety of ethnic names.

Remember if you change your name that's how people will know you from now on. It can work well. I just learned that Jon Stewart's (from The Daily Show a nightly fake, comedic newscast in the US) real name is Jonathon Stewart Leibowitz.

Just my opinion, but I think Nick Beck sounds too much like a private detective in a 50's pulp novel.
Katamai wrote on 11/14/2004, 1:58 PM
But.. Just a little thing more:
How do you people (remember i am from Danmark) from the US or England pronounce my last name, when you first read or say it.

1. Do you pronounce the last letter "c" like a nomal "c". You know like in cinema, CD and so on.

2. Or do you pronounce it like a "k". Like Copola, lyric, and so on.

I hope you know what i mean. This will be the last thing i am asking for, in here. You people really have helped me a lot. I now know what i am going to do. I am just going to use my own name. Please just help me with this last little thing and i will be very thankful..
THANK YOU ALL, I WISH YOU ALL BEST OF LUCK!!!!!!!!!!
Orcatek wrote on 11/14/2004, 2:17 PM
I read Pasalic as


pass a (short u sound) Lick

Probably no where near proper, but it sounds fine to my ear until I hear different.

BTW - Do you have a trailer of your movie yet??
ushere wrote on 11/14/2004, 2:28 PM
alternatively, change your name to steven spielburg, orson wells, alfred hitchcock (now that's a name!).

leslie wand

(and that's my real name!)