The Pursuit of Stupydity

Has anyone figured out yet why the new Will Smith movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” is spelled incorrectly? Did the film producers forget to run a spell check before the final print ads were run? Don’t tell me that it was actually supposed to be some lame attempt at an original and catchy title? Please. What is wrong with spelling happiness correctly? And I like how in the title, the word happy is all bolded and set in a different colour, so as to make the glaring spelling mistake obvious. ha!

I think that there should be a certain amount of responsibility involved in ensuring the general grammatical correctness of the titles to which hundreds of millions of people are going to be exposed. In other words, learn how to spell! I’d say that rule has more or less been followed until now. Of course I’m sure there are many films out there with "errors" in their titles. Spike Lee, for example comes to mind. But that’s all about Ebonics, and that’s a whole other kettle of fish. In those cases, at least people KNOW that ‘aint’ ‘gangsta’ or ‘homie’ are slang terms and that ‘Mo’ Better Blues’ is not--for lack of a better term--considered “proper English.” But in this case, I honestly think that the mistake is so subtle that most people won't even catch it.

Unfortunately, aforementioned movie producers are giving way too much credit to its North American audiences and doing a great disservice to the audience that this film is trying to target, namely younger viewers, by assuming that they are going to notice the deliberate error. So what we are going to have here, ladies and gentlemen is an entire generation of impressionable folks who think that Happiness is spelled with a ‘y.’ Does that really matter? Well, yes, I think it does, because where do we draw the line? Aren't things being dummied down enough?! Pretty soon, people are just going to revert to Neanderthal ways and point and grunt. Much easier. Who needs this pesky language business anyway?

So hey, why not play around with some of our most classic movies, you know, just to spice up their titles up a bit. Let’s see, there was Gone Wyth The Wynd, West Syde Story, Gandhy, Schyndler’s Lyst… And while we’re at it, let’s just start replacying all of our ‘I’ words with ‘y’s and vyce-versa. Whi the heck not?

What does yt realli matter aniwai?