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So I guess this means I need to watch Diner? Is the movie as good as this clip implies?
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Diner is awesome.
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Mar 15, 2013 05:35
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Watch Diner as soon as you possibly can.
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Mar 15, 2013 05:43
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Diner is great, here's a cool article from Vanity Fair on how influential it was.
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Mar 15, 2013 05:45
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Watched Diner for the first time a couple months ago and now it's one of my favorite movies.
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Mar 15, 2013 06:15
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He loving manhandled those 7"s.
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Mar 15, 2013 10:02
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Criminal Minded posted:Diner is great, here's a cool article from Vanity Fair on how influential it was. yeah, that clip definitely reminded me of Seinfeld as I was watching it. The whole "1 character does some trivially wrong thing, other character wildly overreacts." which made up about 85% of that show.
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Mar 15, 2013 15:08
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SubG posted:Do you think there are films which are considered to have an accurate portrayal of early 21st Century American life? Is Tarantino's dialogue `accurate'? Kevin Smith's? Andrew Bujalski's? Sure, I think there are plenty of films that more or less capture the way people "really" talk and act in a given time and place. Mechafunkzilla fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Mar 15, 2013 15:41
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I tend to model my speech patterns after movies I adore so yes, Kevin Smith's dialogue is fairly accurate to how I talk. I'm just kidding that would be horrible
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Mar 15, 2013 15:54
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feedmyleg posted:So I guess this means I need to watch Diner? Is the movie as good as this clip implies? Diner's great.
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Mar 15, 2013 18:01
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Diner is okay I guess.
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Mar 15, 2013 20:55
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SubG posted:Do you think there are films which are considered to have an accurate portrayal of early 21st Century American life? Is Tarantino's dialogue `accurate'? Kevin Smith's? Andrew Bujalski's? Yes, Before Sunset.
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Mar 15, 2013 23:50
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But it takes place in Europe!
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DNS posted:But it takes place in Europe! It's about two Americans?
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regulargonzalez posted:Yes, Before Sunset. The dialogue is naturalistic (according to the standards for naturalistic dialogue in film in 2004) but I don't think it reflects unscripted, unrehearsed contemporary American speech any more than, say, Bringing Up Baby (1938) does for its era. Which is to say that it's certainly comprehensible to its target audience and wouldn't strike anyone as sounding like, for example, the elevated style of a Shakespearian soliloquy, it's still not `real' in the sense that it doesn't reflect the speech patterns, diction, and so on of actual native speakers in their day-to-day lives. Not that I'm saying this should be a goal of fiction---I don't think it should. I'm just making a point about approaching narrative film with expectations of `realism' in these regards. And for the record I think that films like Before Sunset (2004) or, I dunno, Lost in Translation (2003) are basically Penthouse Letters for the New Yorker set, and so are more aspirational than descriptive---the model of relationships, behaviours, and so are more about expressing an ideal than observing a norm. So watching them expecting to get a `historically accurate' view of early 21st Century American behaviour doesn't make any more sense than watching Easy Rider (1969) for a model of the reality of the counterculture movement in the US in the '60s as opposed to a model of the ideals of that movement. If that distinction makes sense.
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Mar 16, 2013 02:30
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I still think the most accurate portrait of American life in the 1970s is Dawn of the Dead.
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Mar 16, 2013 02:58
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I still think the most accurate portrait of American life in the 1970s is That 70s Show.
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My girlfriend claims "Magic Mike" has very realistic dialogue, especially when the characters get into arguments with each other.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I still think the most accurate portrait of American life in the 1970s is That 70s Show. If you want to know what the culture and values were really like, you need to scrape the bottom of the barrel for lowest-common-denominator topical comedy. American Raspberry is the purest distillation of the state of the culture in 1977.
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I change my answer, if you wanna know about 70s culture watch Match Game.
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SubG posted:Do you think there are films which are considered to have an accurate portrayal of early 21st Century American life? Is Tarantino's dialogue `accurate'? Kevin Smith's? Andrew Bujalski's? Comedy option: Juno. God I want
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I change my answer, if you wanna know about 70s culture watch Match Game. This is the correct answer. I watched so much Match Game as a kid and I was all surprised when other kids at school didn't know who Charles Nelson Reilly was.
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Mar 16, 2013 08:18
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How about Blue Valentine for naturalistic dialogue?
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regulargonzalez posted:Yes, Before Sunset.
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Mar 16, 2013 10:27
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What are some movies where there's a strong soundtrack that synchs up really closely to what's going on? Something like the final duel in Once Upon A Time In the West, or the confrontation at the farm at the start.
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A human heart posted:What are some movies where there's a strong soundtrack that synchs up really closely to what's going on? Something like the final duel in Once Upon A Time In the West, or the confrontation at the farm at the start. Most everything by Quentin Tarantino.
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A human heart posted:What are some movies where there's a strong soundtrack that synchs up really closely to what's going on? Something like the final duel in Once Upon A Time In the West, or the confrontation at the farm at the start. Everything else by Leone fits this. John Williams' major works, like Star Wars and Superman also fit the bill. If you want a song that describes what is happening on the screen, Baseketball qualifies. My question - What book/play/existing property has been adapted to film the most times? Going through IMDB, I see that Les Miserables and The Three Musketeers seems to show up every few years, but it's hard to say which one has been adapted more. A Christmas Carol has also been adapted many times, but a lot of the adaptations are for tv shows.
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Mar 16, 2013 14:14
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The Bible?
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Discounting the bible are you talking about legit adaptions or "pretty much inspired by this other thing but not exactly" because just off the top of my head there are a lot of Romeo and Juliets.
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SubG posted:Do you think there are films which are considered to have an accurate portrayal of early 21st Century American life? Is Tarantino's dialogue `accurate'? Kevin Smith's? Andrew Bujalski's? The 40 Year Old Virgin.
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FishBulb posted:Discounting the bible are you talking about legit adaptions or "pretty much inspired by this other thing but not exactly" because just off the top of my head there are a lot of Romeo and Juliets. I know a lot of stories use classic literature and mythology as their inspiration, but I'm mostly curious about legit adaptations, or stories that are directly tied in to these properties. So something like Mirror Mirror would count, as it uses characters from the Snow White story. A movie like Forbidden Planet, which is clearly inspired by Othello, would not as the characters and setting from the original are not directly adapted.
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Mar 16, 2013 15:33
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Forbidden Planet was The Tempest, not Othello.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Forbidden Planet was The Tempest, not Othello. Yeah you're right. It's too early. 
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CopywrightMMXI posted:My question - What book/play/existing property has been adapted to film the most times? Going through IMDB, I see that Les Miserables and The Three Musketeers seems to show up every few years, but it's hard to say which one has been adapted more. A Christmas Carol has also been adapted many times, but a lot of the adaptations are for tv shows. I feel like "the bible" is a cop out answer, that's casting a really wide net - I'd say Zorro or Tarzan probably.
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A human heart posted:What are some movies where there's a strong soundtrack that synchs up really closely to what's going on? Something like the final duel in Once Upon A Time In the West, or the confrontation at the farm at the start. Syberberg's Parsifal.
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cloudchamber posted:Syberberg's Parsifal. Hell yeah.
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SubG posted:I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Of course, that goes to your larger point anyway; that type of conversation overlooks more mundane talks about what do you want for dinner, etc. But I don't think anyone is asking for a movie that contains every viable sentence spoken in a certain time period -- the viewer necessarily can and will extrapolate to the while from the dialogue contained in the film. And in that respect, Before Sunrise is the very epitome of my mid-2000s experience.
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Vegetable posted:Do people consider Before Sunset to be better than Before Sunrise? They are both brilliant individually but somehow the two taken together are even greater than the sum of their parts. Particularly with a decent sized break between the first viewing of each.
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Skwirl posted:It's about two Americans? She's French, not American.
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I just finished watching Rosemary's Baby and I loved how scary it was yet there was no blood at all in the movie and no stupid jump scares. What are some other prominent examples of horror movies that rely more on atmosphere than gore? Edit: I thought I was in the recommendations thread, but whatever. Jeff Wiiver fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Mar 17, 2013 |
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