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computer parts posted:Yeah, I'm sure the dastardly Chinese are the reason why we've never had a lot of black leads. Well, the lack of non-whites in Hollywood cinema is an historic tradition ranging back many fine decades but the development of China as a target market is a recent, fun, and innovative reason to continue racist casting practices!
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piratepilates posted:
Holy poo poo. It's nowhere near as bad as those Italian "12 Years a Slave" posters, but that's pretty loving bad.
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They don't hate black people, they just loving love TIE fighters.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Well, the lack of non-whites in Hollywood cinema is an historic tradition ranging back many fine decades but the development of China as a target market is a recent, fun, and innovative reason to continue racist casting practices! I'm sure that's why the Oscar nominees didn't include any minorities.
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Skwirl posted:Holy poo poo. It's nowhere near as bad as those Italian "12 Years a Slave" posters, but that's pretty loving bad. I think I missed this one.
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computer parts posted:I'm sure that's why the Oscar nominees didn't include any minorities. That and also most of the members of the Academy are old white guys.
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Hockles posted:I think I missed this one. They had single actor posters for Cumberpatch, Fassbender and Pitt and nothing that featured Ejiofor in anything resembling a close up.
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computer parts posted:I'm sure that's why the Oscar nominees didn't include any minorities. I mean I don't want to downplay the level of institutional racism in Hollywood (and the rest of America). But in China in many cases the level of casual racism simmers along just this side of ethnic cleansing.
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Ninja Gamer posted:(Alexander) Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi should get more work in general. He got in on one of the worst episodes of GoT (which is saying a lot) 
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General movie question: What's the name that awful Thai film that was joke recommended constantly in the general chat thread sometime last year? I remember there being a lot of piss and poo poo.
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Magic Lizard the Magic Lizard Story about a Lizard who is Magic?
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Man, I wouldn't describe Magic Lizard: The Lizard Magic Story as awful, it's got some strong moments
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Magic Lizard just Is.
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Heavy Lobster posted:General movie question: What's the name that awful Thai film that was joke recommended constantly in the general chat thread sometime last year? I remember there being a lot of piss and poo poo. It's on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aDOj43mPnQ
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Bingo! Thanks in particular for the link, I know how I'm spending my weekend.
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Random thought that popped in my head just now: Has there ever been a movie that had a trailer, but the full film was never released? This happens to video games all the time, but I'm guessing that movie trailers are rarely, if ever, made before filming is finished.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Random thought that popped in my head just now: Has there ever been a movie that had a trailer, but the full film was never released? This happens to video games all the time, but I'm guessing that movie trailers are rarely, if ever, made before filming is finished. Not sure about a trailer, but The Day the Clown Cried was fully filmed and ready to be released until Jerry Lewis realized what a terrible idea it would be to release the film and has held on to it tightly ever since.
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It isn't particularly uncommon for a teaser trailer to be produced for a film that isn't subsequently completed, or for films to be completed but never find a distributor.
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I remember seeing a trailer for a movie that didn't come out for at least a year or two. Also, the teaser for Alien3 inferred it would involve Earth, which was abandoned before shooting.
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here's a couple King Conqueror from 2008 with Tim Roth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXgiIGeww6s Spring Break '83 from 2010. Don't watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T470OE3t8ns
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Schweinhund posted:
Jesus christ you weren't kidding.
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Somebody made a trailer for a sixth installation of the Final Destination franchise, which was to be set in medieval times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cbiOv7s2Hw Granted it was only a pitch and was mostly made of clips from other movies, but I think it meets the criteria.
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SubG posted:That's bad. But, as a basis for comparison, in China the official State censors are known to block anything that portrays people of certain ethnicities and nationalities in too positive a light. I'm sure you know this, but it's complicated. Black NBA and CBA players are some of the biggest celebrities in the PRC, Kobe and Iverson and Ma Bu Li are all more popular there than they ever were here. African workers and exchange students are common, and a black friend of mine was regularly mistaken for a celebrity, asked to pose for photos, and in one case literally applauded by a crowd while getting on a bus (in Taiwan). But they sure as gently caress don't want to see a black guy dating a Chinese woman or Like, moving in next door. In that respect it's not much different from a mostly white neighborhood in the US.
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I went to China for a month during senior year of high school as part of a cultural exchange. One of the students in my group was tall and black. He was on the front page of the city's newspaper the day after we arrived. Not my group as a whole, just him by himself in some candid shot someone must have taken as we were walking around. It was a small town by China standard, but still, that was pretty crazy.
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Sleeveless posted:Somebody made a trailer for a sixth installation of the Final Destination franchise, which was to be set in medieval times. Well, there goes my pitch for a Final Destination movie.
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Klungar posted:I went to China for a month during senior year of high school as part of a cultural exchange. One of the students in my group was tall and black. He was on the front page of the city's newspaper the day after we arrived. Not my group as a whole, just him by himself in some candid shot someone must have taken as we were walking around. It was a small town by China standard, but still, that was pretty crazy. Goddamn that is crazy as hell. What was the headline, "black guy spotted in town – lock doors, windows"?
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Goddamn that is crazy as hell. What was the headline, "black guy spotted in town – lock doors, windows"? The newspaper was in Chinese, so I wasn't able to read it myself, but I believe the Chinese student who showed it to us said it was about all of us American students being in town for the next month, which to be fair is decent local news. Still, only one of the students was deemed picture worthy.
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Klungar posted:The newspaper was in Chinese, so I wasn't able to read it myself, but I believe the Chinese student who showed it to us said it was about all of us American students being in town for the next month, which to be fair is decent local news. Still, only one of the students was deemed picture worthy. That reminds me of when I was in this middle of nowhere East China town. They apparently hadn't seen white people in many years because all the kids were wide eyed and pointing at me and this lady at a restaurant wanted to sit and see if foreigners (her word) could eat noodles. And then there were two black people at the supermarket, and it was about as casual an interaction as anywhere in the US.
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Klungar posted:The newspaper was in Chinese, so I wasn't able to read it myself, but I believe the Chinese student who showed it to us said it was about all of us American students being in town for the next month, which to be fair is decent local news. Still, only one of the students was deemed picture worthy. Ah. Still pretty weird picture choice. The closest I got is my blonde nephews getting their hair tousled a lot when they're pretty much anywhere.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Ah. Still pretty weird picture choice. When my hair was long (like, rear end length) I had it fondled by a woman in a bookstore. In Shanghai just off the Bund no less, so not really out in no teeth nowheresville. Some of the more copiously endowed women I've worked with in China would regularly have their breasts touched and remarked on by ladies in little farming villages, they go wild for that poo poo.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Ah. Still pretty weird picture choice. I had platinum blonde hair as a kid and lived in Italy. Every where my parents took me Italian people would give me candy and change to play games with.
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DeimosRising posted:When my hair was long (like, rear end length) I had it fondled by a woman in a bookstore. In Shanghai just off the Bund no less, so not really out in no teeth nowheresville. Some of the more copiously endowed women I've worked with in China would regularly have their breasts touched and remarked on by ladies in little farming villages, they go wild for that poo poo. Your colleagues or the village women?
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Oh yeah my late uncle was a ship engineer, and he'd often go overseas to oversee construction wherever. One time in China, at the inauguration reception, he and a bunch of financiers & owners & what have you, they were all standing around having just received their first drink. Everybody nodding politely, smiling, etc. Then, the man next to my uncle says: "Your wife? Big milk tanks, yes?", gesturing a curve before his chest. My uncle nods solemnly and replies, "my wife, yes, big milk tanks." They got the next contract too. 
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I really like the YouTube series 'every frame a painting'. What similar youtubes or books would people recommend?
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Little_wh0re posted:I really like the YouTube series 'every frame a painting'. What similar youtubes or books would people recommend? B-Hard's No Small Parts
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I find Filmmaker IQ to be a good companion to "Every Frame a Painting".
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Kyle Kalgreen is also pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O6OTVyybZU His more recent stuff at least. The older stuff is very different and more "angry internet reviewer"-y and less analytical. His Shakespeare videos in particular are pretty interesting because the man knows his Shakespeare.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Kyle Kalgreen is also pretty good: God yes, that F For Fake one is great.
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Well this guarantees I won't be getting much done at work for the next few days. I loooove every frame a painting.
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Nerdwriter1 has a few good ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbZNkMn3PvQ
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