‘A Couple Of Dicks’ Name Change To ‘Cop Out’ Is, In Fact, A Clever Cop Out
A few months ago, we learned that a name change for director Kevin Smith’s upcoming “A Couple of Dicks” was imminent due to studio pressures. Apparently that title is just a little too suggestively racy; the “Dicks” in this case is a reference to the detectives at the center of the story, played by Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan.
Well Willis and Morgan may be playing a couple of dicks, but that’s no longer the title that will greet you in theaters when you see the movie. The fine folks at The Film Stage noticed the name change while browsing the Warner Bros.’ website (via The Playlist); a trailer will run attached to “Sherlock Holmes” for a movie called “Cop Out.” Smith has already said that the “Dicks” trailer would run in front of “Holmes,” so “Cop Out” is apparently the new title.
It’s a pretty darn clever title change when you get right down to it. “A Couple of Dicks” isn’t going to be topped of course, but at least the new “Cop Out” title speaks directly to that fact. Do I really have to spell it out? The act of changing the title is in itself a cop out, sooooooo… “Cop Out.” Sweet.
That said, I wonder how many people will really “get it” when they see the movie in theaters at the end of February. Smith has a sizable following of course, but the name doesn’t really relate to anything in the movie, as far as I can tell. Unless there’s something in the narrative to wrap some sense around it, I worry that people are going to leave the movie wondering exactly what the title has to do with what they just saw. We’ll find out soon enough, as “Dicks”… errrr “Cop Out,” that is, hits theaters on February 26.
What do you think of the new title? Do you agree that a name change needed to happen? Were you offended by the original title?
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