3. 'To Rome With Love' Changes Titles Twice Because Woody Allen Is Indecisive
Woody Allen has made a career writing and playing famously neurotic characters, and it's always been said that these folks are modeled closely on his own personality, something made clear with his recent movie To Rome with Love, which has gone through more name changes than an entire menagerie of egotistical pop-stars. The movie was conceptualised under the name The Bop Decameron, but after realising that practically nobody - not even the audience for an Allen movie - would appreciate the reference to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, it was changed to the bizarre and wholly worse Nero Fiddled. Allen eventually settled on the generic and uninspired To Rome with Love, a title which he apparently hates, though one which is inevitably a whole lot easier to market. Allen has a history of bestowing his movies with esoteric titles; Annie Hall was originally called Anhedonia (the medical term for the inability to feel pleasure), but he had also flirted with the hilarious title It Had to Be Jew.