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Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
this is the missing link for my cost-of-a-movie theory! with really interesting comments about why he's wrong and incomplete
cheeseburger  theory  movies  cost  feasibility  thanksgiving  food 
december 2011 by wpenman
George Harrison: Living in the Material World on Devour.com
Mortgaged his house to make a movie just to see it. "It was still the most expensive movie ticket ever."
george_harrison  trailer  movies  expensive 
august 2011 by wpenman
Keep On Walking - YouTube
Shots of people walking from behind
supercut  video  movies  walking 
august 2011 by wpenman
FAUXGO - Tumblr
'A fauxgo (fake logo) is a symbol or other small design created to represent a fictional company or organization that exists only on film.'
tumblr  design  movies  nonce  realism 
august 2011 by wpenman
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Republicans watch The Town
A Republican shows a clip from The Town (the one about the Boston thief) to inspire Tea Party members to vote with Boehner's debt ceiling plan.
Jon Stewart explains that the metaphor favors the Republicans, but Tea Partyers let the clip sway them.
Dems summarize the movie clip drily.
rhetoric  inspirational  movies  video  the_town  rocky  politics  tea_party  the_daily_show  jon_stewart 
august 2011 by wpenman
Cinematic geography and the problem of genius
'Ager’s thesis seem to be: Since Kubrick was a perfectionist, anything that seems like an error in Kubrick’s work must not be an error, but must instead be a deliberate choice. Yes, that sounds like fundamentalism.'

'Cinematic geography is largely transient.
The audience pays attention to where things are within a scene, which is why we worry about camera direction and crossing the line. But the minute you cut to another scene, our brains safely discard the perceived geography.

Sets are designed to do things real locations can’t.
Walls move, giving the director the choice (and decision) how much to bend reality in order to position a camera where it couldn’t physically be.

Even when movies use real locations, they are often assembled from various pieces.
The exterior of the Overlook Hotel is actually The Timberline Lodge in Oregon. And yes: the rooflines and windows don’t match closely with Kubrick’s sets.'
religion  fundamentalism  movies  stanley_kubrick  the_shining  writing 
july 2011 by wpenman

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