chapter stops and such and so

so you know how on a dvd there are different chapters? ever wonder who gets to decide how to break up the movie into how many chapters and when to break them up, and what to title them?

enter the guy in the dub room. which happened to be me today.

i got to break up the movie chestnut today. it's a kids movie about two little girls who try to hide their pet dog from their adoptive parents. what a blessing.

so i kept joking with the dub room guy, dave, about how i was thinking of making all the chapter titles start with "the" and be one word. i.e. "The Arrival", "The Rejuvenation", "The Betrayal" and whatnot. i thought it'd be funny. he thought it was funny, too, but the producer in the room didn't share in our joy, so i decided to go with the good ol' "A Newcomer," and "An Accident," and to finish with "An Unlikely Hero." so if you happen to rent chestnut when it comes out on dvd and flip through the chapter titles, you'll see that chestnut the great dane becomes an unlikely hero in the last chapter, and it'll add to your movie watching joy because you'll think to yourself, "golly, he really IS an unlikely hero, isn't he? lol!"

i also think it'd be funny to name a chapter near the end of the movie "A Fight to the Finish" or something like that. i mean, what movie doesn't have a chapter titled "A Fight to the Finish"?

you tell me.