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FeastForCows posted:Any more examples of actors/actresses with names that sound more like a character rather than a real name, like Moon Bloodgood? Imogen Gay Poots. Samuel Clemens posted:Armie Hammer Real name: Armand Hammer
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Real name: Armand Hammer Somehow, that sounds even more ridiculous.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:00
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a new study bible! posted:Thanks so much! It's a pretty sweet soundtrack! I'm a big fan of Koji's found footage stuff as well.
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FeastForCows posted:Any more examples of actors/actresses with names that sound more like a character rather than a real name, like Moon Bloodgood? Rex Fortune, adventure seeker.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:30
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Pia Zadora.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Somehow, that sounds even more ridiculous.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:42
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Empress Brosephine posted:Is his last name Jablowme 
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TychoCelchuuu posted:gently caress yes it does, it's a brand of baking soda. What the gently caress were his parents thinking? Named after his billionaire grandfather, who owned a big chunk of the company that made Arm & Hammer, although: quote:In the 1980s Hammer owned a considerable amount of stock in Church & Dwight, the company that manufactures Arm & Hammer products; he also served on its board of directors. However, the Arm & Hammer company's brand name did not originate with Armand Hammer. It was in use some 31 years before Hammer was born.[47] He was spurred to buy shares in the company as a result of often being asked about the brand being so close to his name.
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If someone made a movie about that poo poo starring Armie Hammer nobody in a million years would believe that it's a true story.
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Oct 17, 2018 17:11
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What's even weirder is that Church & Dwight wasn't a company named after two people but one dude named Churchand Dwight.
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Oct 17, 2018 17:18
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The name does have something to do with heavy tools though. quote:Hammer said that his father had named him after a character, Armand Duval, in La Dame aux Camélias, a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. According to other sources, Hammer was named after the "arm and hammer" graphic symbol of the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP), in which his father had a leadership role.[9] (After the Russian Revolution, a part of the SLP under Julius' leadership split off to become a founding element of the Communist Party USA.) Later in his life, Hammer confirmed that this was the origin of his given name.[1] So the great-grandfather's name name is quiet literally Arm & Hammer, just not the baking soda one. Also Armie Hammer got grief from his family for aspiring to be something as lowbrow as a movie actor.
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This has been sittin on a corner table in one of my classrooms for weeks, i wanna take it but i wouldnt even have a projector for it   Does anyone here have actual films at home, do you ever watch them or just preserve them for posterity?
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Oct 18, 2018 22:40
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I have a few AAP 8mm reels from a thrift store (scenes from Dawn Patrol, Keystone Hotel, and Casablanca). I've wanted to collect more, but I never see any 8mm or 16mm stuff in the Atlanta area unless I'm not checking out the right places.
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got any sevens posted:Does anyone here have actual films at home, do you ever watch them or just preserve them for posterity? The people I knew who had 8mm/16mm eventually decided to throw it out when the convenience of VHS/DVD came about.
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Oct 19, 2018 22:09
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Do all of John Carpenter's movies take place in the same universe?
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Oct 25, 2018 02:46
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At least two of them!
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I was watching Prince of Darkness last night when I had that thought. It would be hard to reconcile the Excape movies with the others, but I would buy Michael Meyers, Sutter Kane, and Chevy Chase being acolytes of Prince of Darkness' Satan.
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Oct 25, 2018 13:48
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What was the first sequel that was comedic when the original was more serious? I'm thinking it's Son of Kong, but is there an earlier one than 1933?
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Almost Blue posted:What was the first sequel that was comedic when the original was more serious? I'm thinking it's Son of Kong, but is there an earlier one than 1933? It's lost, but The Golem and the Dancing Girl was a sequel to the 1915 The Golem. It apparently revolves around a fan obsessed with the movie. There's a scene where Paul Wegener dresses up in the Golem costume and hides in her home, followed by her coming back to caress it. As soon as she's out of frame, he winks to the camera. Only a fragment of the 1915 film exists and only the 1920 "prequel" exists in full.
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Egbert Souse posted:It's lost, but The Golem and the Dancing Girl was a sequel to the 1915 The Golem. It apparently revolves around a fan obsessed with the movie. The original Human Centipede 2!
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Teenage Fansub posted:The original Human Centipede 2! also Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
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I just saw Fargo for the first time and there’s one aspect of it that I can’t stop thinking about. Almost every scene involves deception, from small white lies that allow people to smoothly navigate awkward social situations or domestic life, to the massive deceptions propping up half-baked evil schemes and mercenary double-crossings. The end result is that the movie is almost like a moral tale, or something, about proper and improper ways to spin the truth and present yourself to other people. Is there a word for movies that do that - making every plot point and character interaction revolve around a moral, in a way that’s kind of systematic?
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Oct 27, 2018 03:44
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Didactic is the word you're looking for, I believe.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Didactic is the word you're looking for, I believe. Or maybe morality play.
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Oct 27, 2018 16:41
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I don’t think Fargo’s didactic. That signifies a message that’s explicit and by implication heavy-handed and propagandistic. Isn’t it just theme? I didn’t get the same idea that the Coens were teaching me a lesson that some lies are good and some lies are bad. More like they were saying, this is just what human nature is. (And in Fargo, it’s mostly horrifying, but in The Big Lebowski, the same capacity for pettiness and deception is charmingly farcical.)
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Oct 27, 2018 18:21
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Didactic narrative isn't necessarily rigid or pejorative, it just implies a structure.
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Oct 27, 2018 18:27
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Mayble parable or allegory is more what you're reaching towards. Coen brothers movies definitely have an allegorical quality to them (sometimes explicitly within the text, such as the opening parable in A Serious Man).
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Maybe ‘moral tale’ isn’t the exact right words. I was more thinking of a systematic/structured/not-too-subtle approach to theme. Parable seems like it fits. Allegory’s in the ballpark. Didactic seems related, but it does seem like didactic implies one-dimensionality. Yeah, A Serious Man seems to fit even better than Fargo for the type of movie I’m talking about.
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the_tasman_series posted:Maybe ‘moral tale’ isn’t the exact right words. I was more thinking of a systematic/structured/not-too-subtle approach to theme. Parable seems like it fits. Allegory’s in the ballpark. Didactic seems related, but it does seem like didactic implies one-dimensionality. The Fargo TV series seems to be in a similar vein. To the extent that the 3rd season follows the structure of the fable 'Peter and the Wolf'. There's definitely a folk tale quality to the Fargo universe so morality and bad decisions play a strong role in the plot lines. I'm not sure it's a morality play so to speak, but it's something akin to that. If you liked Fargo then you'd probably enjoy the TV show. It's only tangentially related to the movie to the extent that none of the same characters are in the show but the ice scraper and bag of money makes an appearance.
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There's a hebrew word, remez, referring to the teaching of scripture such that the moral subtext behind the literal meaning of a passage is understood by the audience without the need for explicit interpretation.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:There's a hebrew word, remez, referring to the teaching of scripture such that the moral subtext behind the literal meaning of a passage is understood by the audience without the need for explicit interpretation. I like that a lot.
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the_tasman_series posted:Maybe ‘moral tale’ isn’t the exact right words. I was more thinking of a systematic/structured/not-too-subtle approach to theme. Parable seems like it fits. Allegory’s in the ballpark. Didactic seems related, but it does seem like didactic implies one-dimensionality. Have you seen Burn After Reading? If not, that's right up the same alley.
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I recently watched through the Fargo series. It's really good, maybe a top five all-time show for me, but in the third season it was sort of... distracting might not be the right way of describing it, but clearly the big hook was meant to be Ewan McGregor playing twins and then David Thewlis steals the show in every scene he's in. I watched that season when I was absolutely bunged with a dreadful head cold and felt nauseous all the time and every time Varga showed up I felt like I could smell him through the screen. He was robbed not getting the Emmy.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I recently watched through the Fargo series. It's really good, maybe a top five all-time show for me, but in the third season it was sort of... distracting might not be the right way of describing it, but clearly the big hook was meant to be Ewan McGregor playing twins and then David Thewlis steals the show in every scene he's in. Bet you never wanted to eat ice cream again for a bit. Looking forward(?) to Chris Rock in season 4.
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Power of Pecota posted:Have you seen Burn After Reading? If not, that's right up the same alley. I have! It’s the first Coen bros that I really loved.
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syscall girl posted:Bet you never wanted to eat ice cream again for a bit. Looking forward(?) to Chris Rock in season 4. Nah, the grossest bit is him in the third or fourth episode (the one where Thornton does the Peter and the Wolf narration) and he's just piling food into his mouth; he picks up this fried egg and just crams it in on top of everything else and it's just  (literally so a few seconds later).
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syscall girl posted:Bet you never wanted to eat ice cream again for a bit. Looking forward(?) to Chris Rock in season 4. Cool, I hadn't realized they announced anything on season 4. It was up in the air if there was going to be one. 1950's though? So this will be the first season without Mr. Wrench, who up until now has been the only character to be in all 3 seasons.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I recently watched through the Fargo series. It's really good, maybe a top five all-time show for me, but in the third season it was sort of... distracting might not be the right way of describing it, but clearly the big hook was meant to be Ewan McGregor playing twins and then David Thewlis steals the show in every scene he's in. The series is amazing and he’s just brilliant. What a fun role it must have been!
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