Or the recent Tom Hardy movie, "Locke"...2 plus hours of just Tom inside his car, talking on his Bluetooth...yet totally engaging and captivating.


PS...can't wait to see him playing BOTH Ronnie and Reggie Kray in the film, Legend.

Beagle

Moshkito

bitflipper

...that this is yet another reason, why Americans have a hard time with foreign film!

And the reason this particular American seeks out foreign films.
 
Each country still has its own conventions, but they're all a little different from one another. What I especially look for is multi-cultural cross-pollination. When, say, China takes on an American genre such as the Western. Great stuff often ensues! It'll be just enough like a traditional Western to feel familiar, but will almost certainly take off in an unexpected direction with complex plot twists that are the hallmark of Chinese cinema. Ditto for horror films from Thailand or science fiction from Russia. I'm waiting for a Korean musical; that should be spectacular.

Another example of analog/digital ... the music by Mozart survived and we still listen to it!
 
For those differences, you really want to watch Godard, and his silliness. It's fun after a while because you know after a while he does not care, and he is having his fun with critics and film "ideas". The earlier stuff is best for me (2 or 3 things/weekend/alphaville/a bout de soufflé) ... I have not seen his Mozart film (just arrived) and his King Lear is one of the weirdest things ever, not to mention the casting. I like the French making fun of Americans! It's overboard! The Italians are not good at being funny because they already are! You must see Fellini's Roma and the fashion show at the end! Bombastic!
 
Dang, now I have to load more foreign film reviews ... I only have 500 of them total, and only 1/4 of them are up. I have been redoing them, and have to upload all reviews for the IMDB.

that might take a lot of your time away from posting in the Coffee House!!! 

Probably for the best. You wouldn't miss anything, then! Like Robert Fripp says ... "you're self sufficient, you don't need lessons or ideas."

Wow, what's next?  I bet he probably tries to make us believe that Raiders of the Lost Ark wasn't historically accurate! 

Moshkito

jamesg1213
 

Moshkito
1. In film you can see a lot about the setting that Hollywood -- specially!!! -- hides. For example: You would not be able to shoot a film/play indoors. Why? The lighting in a square room and roof, was a bunch of candles, and/or a bowl of oil burning. These lights would be on a pedestal of some sort, so they do not get bumped around. These also offer some warmth, and with no heating, most of these rooms would have tapestries hanging on the walls ...  
 

  Mosh, I've read this paragraph 3 times and still have no idea what you're talking about. What rooms?
 

 
THAT, ought to tell you how much you know/understand about different times, places and history...etc.

Hardly.
 
I just couldn't believe that you would have the brass neck to come on this board and try and explain a 'given' like suspension of disbelief in movies like we're children.
 
Do you really think we don't know this stuff? What kind of people do you associate with outside of the internet..anyone at all?
 
Do you think we've all just awoken from lifelong comas here Pedro?
 
Seriously man, get a grip. You beggar belief.

Moshkito
 all you can do is get defensive instead of intelligent and check out the information!

This is an interesting statement to reflect upon, as it contrasts defensiveness with intelligence. Perhaps when one is being defensive, then one is not using one's intelligence to its greatest capacity?

It bemuses me to say it but...wait for it....Pedro has a point. And not just on the top of his head. Technology, while it should be opening up vast new worlds of more accurate information to the curious mind...and is, is making each succeeding new generation of the incurious (read, most everyone) less and less interested with history and by direct connection, historical accuracy. While it is certainly true that the adults of today know full well the falsities and inaccuracies of the latest Hollywood regurgitations of the no more than a baker's dozen stories they have to tell, each new generation will be less and less cognizant of such omissions and obfuscations. Such is life.

Of course it is also true that "SkyNet" is due to "go active" fairly soon making all this moot anyway:-)

Er...word?

Jonbouy
If we take one definition of analogue it merely means something representative of something else.
...

I was thinking something like ... we have only had electricity for what 125 years or so? ... that means the word "analog" is much older than "digital", no? Like millions of years?
 
Craig will have that answer!
 
BTW, all, my apologies for the tone, I should be more "professional" and kiss ash a bit more ... but it just isn't in my nature! I just find it sad, when I look at a 45K book library of Portuguese, Spanish and Brazilian literature in Santa Barbara, that all of that paper is just toilet paper ... and that's how I feel, when you see comments like that ... and I find this tremendously sad ... like all those people will never be believed, or even understood.
 
I love movies, and art and all that, and everyone here knows that ... I live and die with them ... more than I do my own personal life, and every time someone does that, even if in gest, like Craig and Bapu do (which I've learned to let go with!), it feels like a stab ... a hard and harsh stab ... that education, in some places in this country, is not worth anything ... and that's like saying your song is not worth anything ... and that is SIMPLY NOT TRUE!
 
My play on Medea is a turnabout to the misogynist attitude towards her. If you use some of the examples, specially the inside of a room with the candelabras and pedestals, her story goes in so many ways, and she is not a monster ... she is a victim of the male manipulation world, which the chorus in the plays around her, obviously supports by calling it self the public, and it being all male! Women were not believed to have been a part of many chorus's at all, and in fact, many woman roles were originally done by men, the story of which goes all the way to Shakespeare, btw! We should not be surprised! heck, some writers had to hide the fact they were women, until the 1800's at least, because that was not acceptable and in some places, automatically made you a witch! This is still true in the Far East these days ... killing because "she's a witch" ...
 
It's just that nowadays, to me, this is not about Medea ... it's about the violation of the human spirit, and that I find not acceptable in any form. And I will die defending it ... even though some folks will never believe, or worse, understand ... any of it.
 
Sorry for the rant ... I do love you all, and you are one group that I treasure immensely. And thanks for the kind words, though my expression might not have come off as perfect as I would like ... sorry, it's the only language I can write in!

Manager = a representative of someone who is poor.
 
I wouldn't know, of course, because I'm only an American, and, therefore, too stupid to understand anything. If only there was an online representation of a person who would represent his perception of an entire nation in an extremely generalized and wildly inaccurate manner in order to demonstrate his relative superiority...

Mesh
How does one represent his perception?
(inquiring mindless want to know)

Like a lonely fart in a phone booth?

sharke
Is Pedro telling us all we're stupid again? I'm too dumb to tell 

That's a gross generalization of what I said. My contention is that folks are so used to seeing one thing, and it becomes the only thing they know ... and they end up believing it. And then think that any differing opinions simply is not politically correct, because it does not support the socialist concept of everyone agreeing and liking the same thing!
 
If you consider that stupid, that is your choice. I consider it a sad state and comment on what the world has become, and how we're so separated from it all. Doesn't mean you have to go fight for something, but it doesn't mean that what is happening elsewhere is not a valid story, or comment, because your point of reference is not the same.
 
If any of you have a chance, watch "Visions of Light" which is about cinematographers, and you will get a much better idea of what some folks can do with a camera in their films ... that in the end, what matters is the changes that made the work visible and valuable. Not just my words. But if it doesn't interest you, I would think that some respect is due for anyone seeing it and making comments on it. Some of you allow me to see different things, but want to make sure I do not say anything about them! Because it differs from what you know!
 
It's a taste you develop, no different for different foods from different countries! And MacDonald's is still available if you can't handle the spices!
 

bitflipper
Heavy stuff. Whew.
 
I once lived on a sheep ranch in England (do they have ranches in England, or do they just qualify as "farms"?) and I can tell you from direct observation that we throw the "sheeple" insult around much too lightly.
 
Those creatures are so dumb that they're easily outsmarted by dogs. Consequently, even calling someone a son-of-a-**** is placing them significantly higher on the IQ scale than sheep.

Yep, sheep are without doubt, the dumbest animal ever, and they can die from practically anything. A mild breeze or a harsh word is sometimes enough.