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Spell My Name with an

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Spell My Name with an	comment	This Short Film (under 9 minutes in length) is directed by Samuel Ali and based on the Short Story "Spell My Name with an "S"" by Isaac Asimov. It was created for the 2014 Showdown in China Town Film contest on November 10. The film was uploaded to YouTube two months later [link].Two Humanoid Aliens are having a conversation over Video Phone about their bet. Blue alien is insisting Green alien check their evidence for having created a Class A effect (created/averted Apocalypse How) with a Class F stimulus (changing one letter of one name). Green alien is shocked, and Blue alien reassures them "it's all in there."Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Six Months Earlier... Dr Zoroastri visits a numerologist to find out what she can do to get a better job. She's bored where she is and wants to be more independent. The numerologist advises her to change her name to Soroastri, but refuses to promise results. Frustrated by their opacity, Dr Zoroastri leaves.Two government agents discuss Dr Soroastri. The subordinate is concerned because of her Arabic heritage. His superior points out she's third-generation American and Zoroastri is Persian, not Arabic. They discuss possible Middle Eastern connections and the subordinate reveals that there was a Dr Zoroastri in the Iranian government who was also a biochemist, but they've disappeared. Without a connection to whatever the foreign powers are doing, there's no reason to suspect Dr Soroastri of espionage, but removing her from government projects is just good sense.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Sophie Soroastri is talking to her husband Marshall about Princeton offering her a job. Sophie is happy with the position and they agree that there's no point in changing the name back or to anything new. Dr Soroastri tries to visit the numerologist again, but they've closed shop.The numerologist takes off its Human Disguise to reveal itself to be the Blue alien and calls their friend, Metsack, to show the results of the bet. The Green alien admits the point but argues that their boss isn't going to be happy when he comes and finds that biological war failed to occur as planned.
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Spell My Name with an / int_1e669b8e	type	Humanoid Aliens
Spell My Name with an / int_1e669b8e	comment	Humanoid Aliens: The aliens making bets over the fate of the Earth have a very humanoid shape, having slightly different eyes and additional horns compared to humans. The one who pretended to be the numerologist has blue skin while Metsack has green skin.
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Spell My Name with an / int_1f3dcfdb	type	Short Film
Spell My Name with an / int_1f3dcfdb	comment	Short Film: Under 9 minutes in length, this work was created as a filming challenge where they had to include cigars in a mason jar as a prop and the line "What's that in your hand?" as dialogue.
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Spell My Name with an / int_2dfdd387	type	Human Disguise
Spell My Name with an / int_2dfdd387	comment	Human Disguise: The blue Humanoid Alien had disguised itself as the human numerologist to convince Dr Zoroastri to change her name to Dr Soroastri.
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Spell My Name with an / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Spell My Name with an / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: In this adaptation, Dr Zebatinsky is now a female whose husband convinced her to visit a local numerologist.
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Spell My Name with an / int_3ce9c9fa	type	FortuneTeller
Spell My Name with an / int_3ce9c9fa	comment	Fortune Teller: Dr Zoroastri expects the numerologist to have seen the future in a crystal ball or something. Instead, they explain to her that they can only predict probabilities, and that the predicted event (getting a better job) might never occur.
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Spell My Name with an / int_4e7017f1	type	Wig, Dress, Accent
Spell My Name with an / int_4e7017f1	comment	Wig, Dress, Accent: Dr Zoroastri covers her face with a shawl and sunglasses when she goes to the numerologist so that nobody will recognize her.
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Spell My Name with an / int_6454966e	type	World War III
Spell My Name with an / int_6454966e	comment	World War III: Humanity is on course to destroy themselves with biological warfare, when a pair of Humanoid Aliens get involved to prove they can avert worldwide biochemical destruction by simply changing one person's name. The second one points out that yes, the first one won the bet... but they're both going to be in trouble when their boss comes back and the humans are still around. They immediately triple the bet, and the first one goes back to recreate worldwide germ warfare with another subtle change.
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Spell My Name with an / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Spell My Name with an / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The film opens with the Humanoid Aliens talking about their bet, and the blue alien says "it's all there, I worked it out for you", causing a flashback to six months ago.
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Spell My Name with an / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Spell My Name with an / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name with an "S": This story shares a name with this trope because it is based on the Tropenamer, but is not an example. In-Universe name spelling changes are an example of My Nayme Is.
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Spell My Name with an / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Spell My Name with an / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: The original story had names for every character, but in this adaptation the name of the numerologist and the CIA agents are dropped completely. Even in the credits, the agents are simply CIA 1 and CIA 2.
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Spell My Name with an / int_95b7e807	type	Middle Eastern Terrorists
Spell My Name with an / int_95b7e807	comment	Middle Eastern Terrorists: Dr Soroastri was concerned about being investigated as a terrorist, but is firmly convinced that the investigations were on behalf of Princeton University, a prelude to their offer of a job.
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Spell My Name with an / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
Spell My Name with an / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: Dr Sophie Zoroastri decides, on the advice of a numerologist, to spell her last name "Soroastri", and the story tracks two side-effects of that change; the offer of employment by Princeton (a prestigious college) and the aversion of planetary catastrophe.
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Spell My Name with an / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Spell My Name with an / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Several elements are modified from the original story, such as making the main character is a third-generation child of Persian immigrants rather than Polish immigrants, making them a female protagonist, rather than male, and changing her into a biochemist rather than a physicist so that they can remove the Cold War plot while maintaining the secret government projects.
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Spell My Name with an / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Spell My Name with an / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: The main character is changed from having a Polish name (Dr Zebatinsky) to a Persian name (Dr Zoroastri).
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Spell My Name with an / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Spell My Name with an / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Amusing in a story about name changes, Dr Zebatinsky is changed to Dr Zoroastri. The alien Mestack is renamed Metsack. Played With for the first names of the main character and their spouse. In both works, Sophie is the wife and Marshall is the husband, but in this adaptation Sophie is the protagonist and Marshall is the one to encourage her.
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Spell My Name with an / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With for the first names of the main character and their spouse. In both works, Sophie is the wife and Marshall is the husband, but in this adaptation Sophie is the protagonist and Marshall is the one to encourage her.
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