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[–] 184 points 2 years ago

Yes, that's literally what wikipedia says:

Madison is also used as a given name. It has become popular for girls in recent decades. Its rise is generally attributed to the 1984 release of the film Splash

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_(name)

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    There is a character named Madison 1964 film "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies" (later shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000), but he's a boy, so I don't know if this is relevant.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I mean it makes sense, after all the name isn't "Madidaughter"

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think you mean "Madifather"

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Imogen is from a Shakespeare play, but it’s actually supposed to be Innogen but the first prints had a printing mistake and the name Imogen came into existence and the script with the error was reprinted for centuries. So everyone who is named Imogen is named after a typo.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    James Madison was the 4th president of the United States. Just saying.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Apparently... Since Madison wasn't a name before Splash in 1984.

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    Tiffany was similarly not used as a first name until Tiffany & Co, and particularly Breakfast at Tiffany's, the 1958 novel/1961 movie.

    The "Tiffany" from Tiffany & Co was a last name, and that owner was one of a handful of Tiffany's in the world at the time of the founding.

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  • [–] 75 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    This is actually a myth. Tiffany as a name dates back before Shakespeare. The more you look into Tiffany as a name, thinking it's modern, the more you'll find it just fell out of favor for a while.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    It’s called “The Tiffany Problem”. You might want to use the historically accurate name Tiffany for a character in your 16th century historical fiction novel, but you can’t because it sounds like someone who was born in 1982.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    CGP Grey did research on the name Tiffany: https://youtu.be/9LMr5XTgeyI (8 min long video)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The name "Kayleigh" was invented by Marillion in 1985

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they had to make a bunch of changes involving CGI hair because it turns out with modern picture quality you can see a quite a lot more of Daryl Hannah than they originally intended.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Less fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they for no justifiable reason started splicing and cutting the original version to add CGI to censor things out of the movie for "modern sensibilities" and then sold it as the same product without any warning.

    I am much less afraid of the authoritarian who would ban 1984 from being read, and much more afraid of those authoritarians who take it to heart and take out all the "controversial" things and leave a completely declared and neutered 1984+ on the shelf.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Can someone use plain words to explain what happened here? Were pubes visible or something and they CGI'ed them out?

    Never heard of this movie or anything about it but trying to piece it together from context clues in this thread is very confusing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I just looked it up: Apparently there was a scene where the actresses butt was visible, which got covered by CGI hair extensions.

    However, the movie has since gotten a 4K remaster on D+, which does not censor da booty.

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