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Article: An Unfinished Flick's Online Fang Club; 'Snakes on a Plane' Takeoff Gets Direct Link to Hollywood
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- The Washington Post
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- April 8, 2006
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The titles of movie thrillers tend toward the quick, macho, boom!
variety. "Firewall." "Inside Man." "The Sentinel." Lofty, bold labels
that resonate with gravity and danger and import.
Then there's "Snakes on a Plane."
Brian Finkelstein, a first-year student at Georgetown University
Law School, saw the title of the upcoming movie and turned it into a
joke. And the joke turned into Internet buzz, and the buzz has turned
into a feverish parlor game, making Finkelstein a short-term
celebrity.
"When I first heard the title, I was a little shocked. The title
seemed so obvious. But then I became enamored of the title," says