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it's not really that subtle, but the court scenes in Gigantic Ethnic Asses 4: Round by the Pound are inspired by Rashomon
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You can tell this, because each of the characters remembers the sequence of banging slightly differently.
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flavor.flv posted:When they split up in the third act, her next scene is taken shot-for-shot from the climax of Yojimbo, and his is shot-for-shot from the same scene in A Fistful of Dollars Yojimbo (1961) took it's climax from A Fist Full Of Dollars (1964)? Interesting theory.
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EmptyVessel posted:Yojimbo (1961) took it's climax from A Fist Full Of Dollars (1964)? I think he's saying Ashoka took her scene from Yojimbo Mando took his scene from Fist Full of Dollars Not whatever you're saying Edit: you know since Yojimbo uses swords and fist full uses gun
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EmptyVessel posted:Yojimbo (1961) took it's climax from A Fist Full Of Dollars (1964)? Might wanna reread the thing you quoted
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Everyone's right pretty much, since A Fistful of Dollars is a Yojimbo ripoff.
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Aphrodite posted:Everyone's right pretty much, since A Fistful of Dollars is a Yojimbo ripoff. Legally a Yojimbo ripoff apparently The film has been identified as an unofficial remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961), which resulted in a successful lawsuit by Toho, Yojimbo's production company.
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rydiafan posted:You sound like somebody who needs to see a car towing a truck towing a truck towing a truck towing a helicopter. Why? I've already seen a car drive out of one building, land in another building, then drive away in the desert all while Rhonda Rousey fights the one of the main characters whilst she is dressed in a cocktail dress. Which is adequately Fast and sufficiently Furious for my present needs.
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One of the ones you haven't seen yet has the Rock being so strong he redirects a torpedo.
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deoju posted:Finished the new season of the Mandalorian. In episode 5 Ahsoka fights the whole episode dual wielding overhand. Her fight with the Magistrate is toe to toe at first. But then the Magistrate flings one of her lightsabers away. The Magistrate is confident she has her on the ropes. Ahsoka then switches to an underhanded grip. The Magistrate has an 'oh poo poo' face for a moment before she gets killed. She was not at all prepared for that, and Ahsoka knew and kept that trick up her sleeve. The baddy getting defeated when it's revealed the hero has mastered the forbidden/forgotten/secret technique is very much a trope of martial arts movies. Like the Bride killing Bill with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique or the Crane Kick in Karate Kid. I'm sure there are better examples but those come to mind. She didn't kill the Magistrate (she could have done that as easily if she wanted to) the whole point was defeating her while keeping her alive in order to get information about the whereabouts of her boss
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Ah extremely subtle moment in The Mandalorian was in season 2, in the 3rd episode, when the mandalorians show up to help him out at the dock ambush, baby Yoda has this amazing "my shiny metal dad and his shiny metal family are gonna gently caress you up" look on his face. Just a beautiful "hosed around, and find out, you did" expression. I didn't notice it the first time I watched it, but the second time I near about pissed myself laughing.
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The Grogu puppet is incredibly expressive. Makes total sense why Werner Herzog demanded they keep it on set instead of resorting to CGI. I wish there was recording of Herzog berating the crew for wanting to replace it when doing B-roll shooting for possible CGI use. "You are all cowards. Leave it." 
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The cameras were rolling, and they actually used some of that footage in the episode.
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While on the note of Star Wars, been watching a convention interview from before the movie's release, and trying to put myself in the mindset of what it might have been like to see it for the first time. The way droids are designed, depicted and treatment stands out in particular- a lot of standard sci-fi 'robots' would basically be singular and be able to do anything, but right off the bat Star Wars introduces two robots who have diametrically opposed design philosophies that reflect their skillsets and functions, and in the Jawa auction they even show that they're not unique, that there's lots of droids like them of various makes and models. ...said scene is also pretty clearly a slave auction, reflecting exactly what the roles of the two are. Including in their designs- C3PO speaks because it's his job to, R2D2 isn't able to speak coherently to non-droids because he's not meant to speak, he's meant to be spoken to.
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The weirdest thing about droids in Star Wars is that they seem to all be compatible with everything. Which means there isn't one manufacturer making a lightning droid that's only compatible with specific hookups
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Len posted:The weirdest thing about droids in Star Wars is that they seem to all be compatible with everything. Which means there isn't one manufacturer making a lightning droid that's only compatible with specific hookups Star Wars tech is just weird in general. How can Luke understand R2? Why do they keep the Death Star plans on a VHS tape? I think it's some kind of retro tech in joke or something since the original was made in 1977 or w/e. TIE fighter's "wings" aren't for aerodynamics because that would be insanely bad design. Instead they're solar panels. For non light speed fighters that are rarely if ever pictured flying anywhere near a sun.
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https://swse.fandom.com/wiki/Droid_Manufacturers drat if I'm reading any of that, though. there doesn't seem to he hypercapitalism in Star Wars, which is a little odd given that Pepsi paid Lucas a literal billion dollars to secure prequel marketing and Lucas later sold it for four more literal billion dollars edit: ... so I imagine it'd be more like electrical standards than computer ones, except that I just remembered that Edison and Westinghouse battled that poo poo out, so never mind
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And now you can buy Coca-Cola at Galaxy's Edge, and it of course has a Wookieepedia article. I'm sorry
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bony tony posted:And now you can buy Coca-Cola at Galaxy's Edge, and it of course has a Wookieepedia article. full-circle, I guess... Coke made some full-size remote-controlled not-R2s in the 80s:  somewhere, there is a picture of my grandfather with one of these things
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The F Plus - Wookiee Ookiee Ookiee
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I'll still never get over Jizz
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Jizz-wailing all day and all night
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quote:Jizz was first mentioned in canon in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization
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The Ape of Naples posted:I'll still never get over Jizz It’s great for old novels that have back cover blurbs about “the best hot jizz riffs in the universe”
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The figures of that band were some of the hardest to find toys when hasbro was making the 12 inch toyline. I remember some dude had the entire set and there was a bidding war that cleared a grand. Dude loved his jizz I guess.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Star Wars tech is just weird in general. How can Luke understand R2? Why do they keep the Death Star plans on a VHS tape? I think it's some kind of retro tech in joke or something since the original was made in 1977 or w/e. Tie fighters flying in atmosphere always looks so weird and sure enough in Rogue One you see Tie fighters built to look at least slightly aerodynamic. So I guess while space Tie’s can go both places, the Empire keeps sleeker ones to guard ground bases? Except in the Mandalorian where the ground base Tie’s are just space Tie fighters. So real consistent.
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I haven't been able to verify this, but I remember reading a scholar saying that jazz used to be spelled jass, but that people in the early 20th century weren't any more mature than anyone else in the entire course of human history, so
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Empty Sandwich posted:I haven't been able to verify this, but I remember reading a scholar saying that jazz used to be spelled jass, but that people in the early 20th century weren't any more mature than anyone else in the entire course of human history, so There were a ton of different spellings before Jazz was standardized, one of the oldest ads for a jazz performance even mentions four different spellings.
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The Mandalorian is set like 20 years after rogue one, and after the fall of the empire. Makes sense they are just using what they had, and if it's cheap, even better.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:There were a ton of different spellings before Jazz was standardized, one of the oldest ads for a jazz performance even mentions four different spellings. I know this isn't how language works, but I still hope that one of them was jiss
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Ugly In The Morning posted:There were a ton of different spellings before Jazz was standardized, one of the oldest ads for a jazz performance even mentions four different spellings. Its all about the letters you dont use.
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Empty Sandwich posted:I know this isn't how language works, but I still hope that one of them was jiss One of the legends of how it got its name was that they called it jism music in Storyville when it first got popular in the brothels.
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SiKboy posted:Its all about the letters you dont use.  citybeatnik posted:One of the legends of how it got its name was that they called it jism music in Storyville when it first got popular in the brothels. there's no way in hell this is true, but I like it
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I was rewatching Die Hard again yesterday and remembered a detail that I missed for years. Throughout the film several characters are seen humming or singing to themselves. Whenever a hero is doing this the tune is Bing Crosby and when it's a villain its Beethoven. This theme carries over into the non diagetic music as well in key climactic scenes. When the terrorists finally break into the vault Ode to Joy i's played and in the finale Let it Snow carries the film out.
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Was it subtle that Ellis, a coke-head, was served literal Coca-Cola when he was with Hans' crew? I just mean 'am I late to this party, or is that something everyone's noticed by now?' I only saw the movie for maybe the 4th time last week, after having not seen it in close to 10 years.
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I always just assumed that was product placement or if anything to imply that Ellis is the kind of guy who would begin the negotiation by saying something like "Hans buddy can you have one of your guys get ne something to drink I parched. " One thing the movie is not subtle about is his coke use.
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James Woods posted:I always just assumed that was product placement or if anything to imply that Ellis is the kind of guy who would begin the negotiation by saying something like "Hans buddy can you have one of your guys get ne something to drink I parched. " One thing the movie is not subtle about is his coke use. he probably asked if someone could get him some coke
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James Woods posted:I was rewatching Die Hard again yesterday and remembered a detail that I missed for years. Throughout the film several characters are seen humming or singing to themselves. Whenever a hero is doing this the tune is Bing Crosby and when it's a villain its Beethoven. This theme carries over into the non diagetic music as well in key climactic scenes. When the terrorists finally break into the vault Ode to Joy i's played and in the finale Let it Snow carries the film out. I did my annual re-watch the other night and for the first time I noticed that they play a very low, subdued version of Ode to Joy the very first time the vault is shown on screen. Also the guy who sets up to repel the police breach at the snack counter and grabs a candy bar? The shot where he grabs one, and the subsequent two shots with him eating are 3 different candy bars. Dude is chowing down.
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CaptainCrunch posted:
The Berlin Wall didn't come down until a year later; gotta get your decadent western pig treats wherever they pop up
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CaptainCrunch posted:Also the guy who sets up to repel the police breach at the snack counter and grabs a candy bar? The shot where he grabs one, and the subsequent two shots with him eating are 3 different candy bars. Dude is chowing down. That's Al Leong and he owns At some point years ago he would just accept all friend requests on Facebook so a friend of mine is to this day Facebook friends with Al Leong
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