 Neil Jordan (I) (qv) originally intended to title the film "The  soldiers wife", however he was advised by his friend  Stanley Kubrick (qv) to change it. Kubrick recommended this change  because he believed that films with either religious or military  titles usually deterred audiences and were often financial failures  (something that Jordan had experienced when his religiously titled  movies _Miracle, The (1991)_ (qv) and _Were No Angels (1989)_ (qv)  flopped at the box office).