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« on: January 01, 2012, 04:25:46 pm »

I think that's how you spell it.

I don't understand the name choice. I know he hasn't started using John Smith at this point, or at least I don't think he had, but who is Caligari? Is it a reference from a lost story or just a name he made up? When I watched it it felt like there was something more there, but I have no idea what. It just seems like such a random name.
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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2012, 10:35:22 pm »

I don't know where the name came from, but I am 99.9% sure it wasn't something in one of the missing stories. At least I don't remember hearing it on any of the audios I have listened to. I'd check google but for some reason I can't get it to load
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2012, 02:10:58 am »

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari was a German silent film from 1920.  It's sometimes described as the first ever horror film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/
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« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2012, 03:24:01 pm »

Well that answers that then, thanks Smiley

Still though, a bit of a random name choice, don't you think?
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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2012, 11:00:16 pm »

I suppose it's more inventive than John Smith which would become the later staple, but it's very random.
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