Alan Smithee

English

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Etymology

Coined by American trade union Directors Guild of America in 1968, modified from the originally proposed Al Smith to avoid confusion with real people's names.

Proper noun

Alan Smithee

  1. An official pseudonym used by film directors wishing to disown a project.
    • 2014, David Hughes, “Dune (1984)”, in The Complete Lynch‎[1], Ebury Press, →ISBN:
      I then watched the Alan Smithee cut, which made a great deal more narrative sense (to a Dune virgin such as myself) than the theatrical version, but was unsatisfying in other ways. Later, reading [David] Lynch's various drafts of the script gave me what may be the purest form of the film in existence, allowing visual imagination and a recollection of the filmed version(s) to combine into an immensely satisfying experience.

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