Names

 One of the biggest discussions in the group was what we wanted the fighter’s names to be. In the script in a prior blog post, we had the main fighter as Jesus Montoya and the bad guy as villain. Tomas and I were very concerned about the names as we wanted something that not only sounded cool and matched with the vibe, but we also wanted something with meaning, so we began brainstorming cool names and looking up the meanings of the names. The names we came up with were Vincent Montoya for the main fighter and Booker Cannon as the second fighter. We felt that these matched the street fighting vibe, and when we looked up the names, we kind of fell in love with. According to Behind the Name, Vincent is “from the Roman name VIncentius, which was from Latin vincere ‘to conquer’. This name was popular among early Christians, and it was borne by many saints. As an English name, Vincent has been in use since the middle Ages, Though It did not become common until the 19th century”. We liked this name because it was cool, had the meaning to conquer behind it, since the idea of the movie is that he comes back from his loss. We also liked the history that it has been used so long, to represent that he has been a fighter for a long time. His last name, Montoya, “is a Basque surname. It originally comes from a hamlet near Berantevilla in Alva, in the Basque region of northern Spain. During the Reconquista, it extended outwards throughout Castille and Andalusia. The name roughly translates to mean hills and Valleys”. We really liked the name and the meaning of hills and valleys. We felt that this represented his story as he reaches many ups and down, the case of this movie being a low in his career. With the name Booker Cannon, we thought it would be a cool idea to include Cannon in his name, as his punch will be like a cannon to Knock out Vincent. In regard to the first name Booker, Booker sometimes comes from Americans that changed their names when they migrated from Germany from Bowker to Booker. Bowker, is the Americanized form of German Bucher. We liked that this was like Butcher, since he is going to butcher Vincent in the fight. Overall, a lot of thought went into the naming of these characters. Almost too much work. This makes it feel like the characters are ours, almost like our children. Even though it is something that no one will notice, we feel that for us it adds a cool effect.