Brody to the Max! First-Name Contest Gains Monentum

October 8, 2008

bloom brothers Brody to the Max! — First name “contest” for Adrien Brody’s first-nameless “Bloom” character in “The Brothers Bloom” gains steam

by Dan Bloom

HOLLWYOOD(RUSHPRNEWS)10/08/2008–Rian Johnson, director of “Brick”, has a new film coming out very soon, with festival screenings now going on around the world, and the movie is called “The Brothers Bloom”. It’s called that because there are two brothers in the movie, and their last name is Bloom. Mark Ruffalo plays Stephen Bloom, a con man extraordinaire, and Adrien Brody plays his brother, called only “Bloom” throught the entire film.

Here’s the earlier backstory from RushPRnews, from the backlot, with lots of background thrown in:
www.rushprnews.com/2008/09/22/online-contest-to-give-first-name-to-bloom-in-the-brothers-bloom

The nominations for a first name for Brody’s Bloom so far are:

Aloisius Bloom
Bombadil
Ka
Brandon
Sullivan Bloom
Brother
Milo
Rodrigo
Orlando Bloom
Theodore
Melvin
Ole
Sonic Bloom
Fox
Romeo
R.C. Bloom
Keegan Bloom
Brando
Boom Boom Bloom
Theo

Nominations will be taken online until December 15. Send in your entries to: firstnameforbloom@gmail.com

Those who have already played the game are legion. Nominations have come in from all over the known Bloomiverse, with one woman writing:
“Cool contest. Thanks for the heads up. I love contests like this.”
She nominated “Brandon”.

A blogger wrote in: “I am confused. Where has it been confirmed that Bloom is a last name in the movie? Maybe I missed a key clue in the film, but I thought the names were first names for both. I thought that “the brothers bloom” means that they both entered their prime.
Bloom discovers what’s important to him and his brother Stephen.
However, I might be wrong about this since, to tell the truth, I hadn’t considered Bloom as a last name until now.”

A woman named Kayleigh entered the contest with this comment: ”
“My suggestion is Theodore. It has Greek roots, just like Penelope and Stephen in the movie, so I thought it would fit. Also, Adrien Brody’s character doesn’t seem like the type who’d want to go by or be called Theodore (or Ted, or Teddy) to his face in public, which I thought could explain why he is called just Bloom.”

Rachel wrote in to nominate “Sullivan” as Brody’s Bloom’s first name.
When asked how she heard about the contest, she said: “I heard about it on a website at brodylicious.org, which linked to an article on RUSHPRNEWS. I don’t really know why I have chosen ‘Sullivan’ as Bloom’s first name; I was trying to find something to go with ‘Stephen’, Mark Ruffalo’s character. My mother named all her sons with the same first letter, so I guess that’s where it came from. I also thought of Sidney, but that seemed kind of girly.”

When director Rian Johnson heard about this contest, which by the way has no connection with the studio distributing the film or with the director at all, he wrote in to say: “This is very cool. For what it’s worth (and most people who’ve seen the movie I think pick up on this) the brothers grew up kicked around as orphans, just the two of them fending for themselves. Stephen always just called his brother ‘Bloom,’ as a nickname, and both because Bloom didn’t like his first name and because they were never in school or with the same parents for very long, it just stuck. Also, at the start of the film, Bloom’s problem is exactly that: he’s been living life through his brother’s cons for so long, that he doesn’t really know who he is outside of their partnership.”

And he added: “Glad you liked the movie. Sorry for stealing your last name, Dan.”

Director Rian Johnson’s “forum” for “The Brothers Bloom” discusses this contest at length. Join the fun here: http://www.rcjohnso.com/forum

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About the author: Dan Bloom is a RushPRnews political and environmental news columnist/reporter and a freelance writer from Boston, who has been based in Asia since 1991. He graduated from Tufts University in 1971 and has worked in media, public relations and education in several countries. He is currently doing research on climate change and global warming as the founder of the Polar Cities Research Institute. Write him at danbloom@RushPRnews.com

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