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I think the story goes that he didn't know the name of the lens, so he used hand motions to describe it, which the DoP understood.
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Yep, that’s the one. He definitely should know his lenses but Willis was still a dick about it.
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Oct 4, 2021 20:38
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Eh. People forget words for things all the time. poo poo just today I had to ask my office mate for a "spring but wound wrong" because for some reason I blanked on paperclip.
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Oct 4, 2021 20:51
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CainFortea posted:Eh. People forget words for things all the time. poo poo just today I had to ask my office mate for a "spring but wound wrong" because for some reason I blanked on paperclip. 
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Oct 4, 2021 20:56
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CainFortea posted:Eh. People forget words for things all the time. poo poo just today I had to ask my office mate for a "spring but wound wrong" because for some reason I blanked on paperclip. "Marge... where's that metal dealy you use to... dig food..." "You mean a spoon?" "Yeah, gimme!"
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CainFortea posted:Eh. People forget words for things all the time. poo poo just today I had to ask my office mate for a "spring but wound wrong" because for some reason I blanked on paperclip. Hahaha that’s great. But I don’t think it was forgetting the word, by all accounts Smith just didn’t know the names for the lenses
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Oct 4, 2021 21:39
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I've heard that one of the theories for why we forget things like that is that our brains try to highlight the memories we're looking for and deliberately hide the "irrelevant" ones, meaning that if the correct memory is accidentally included with the "irrelevant" ones in a given moment, trying harder to remember it will just bury it further as those internal filters double down -- which certainly matches what it feels like!
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Oct 4, 2021 21:48
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Sometimes I randomly remember in vivid detail a dream I had months (or even years) ago that I had forgotten like you normally do and I get pissed off because I have a hard time remembering and learning poo poo that actually matters. gently caress you brain for hanging on to pointless poo poo while refusing to internalize poo poo like a foreign language that I actually put effort into learning.
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Oct 4, 2021 22:00
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See also: why I can remember that Peter Murphy is the name of the singer from Bauhaus, not even one of my favorite bands, but have to use Google Calendar to remember my mom's birthday.
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Oct 4, 2021 22:11
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Imagined posted:I've heard that one of the theories for why we forget things like that is that our brains try to highlight the memories we're looking for and deliberately hide the "irrelevant" ones, meaning that if the correct memory is accidentally included with the "irrelevant" ones in a given moment, trying harder to remember it will just bury it further as those internal filters double down -- which certainly matches what it feels like! And why it feels SO GOOD to shout out the word you were looking for 1 hour later.
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Oct 4, 2021 22:59
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Is Bruce Willis broke or something? He’s in ALOT of straight to dvd/streaming movies over the last 7 years or so. Also his last great performance was in Color of Night. Masterful.
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Imagined posted:I've heard that one of the theories for why we forget things like that is that our brains try to highlight the memories we're looking for and deliberately hide the "irrelevant" ones, meaning that if the correct memory is accidentally included with the "irrelevant" ones in a given moment, trying harder to remember it will just bury it further as those internal filters double down -- which certainly matches what it feels like! I get this real bad, I'll need a specific word for a sentence and I'll have to find the closest word I can think of and google synonyms until I find a closer word and then check its synonyms etc etc until I eventually hone in on the exact word I was trying to remember. A couple days ago I got a tune stuck in my head and I knew the lyrics were just the name of a female celebrity repeated over and over but for the love of god I couldn't remember who it was, so I kept humming the tune and trying random celebrity names to see if they fit. In the end I had to google it. Barbra Streisand.
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I think Bruce Willis is just in a kind of nice sweet spot where his level of fame, his actual acting talent, his screen persona, and his popularity with a certain demographic, (divorced middle aged dads), all combine to the point where a lot of people willing to hire him don't want an intense art-house performance, but just to have him show up. And his laziness, and willingness to make these cash grab films means that he does a lot of them. I don't think he is in a Nicolas Cage position where he needs to make them to pay off tax debts. Just that he can make them, and earn a lazy few million for glaring at the camera and mumbling a few lines under his breath then go home to his mansion.
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How many actors actually retire? Most just keep making movies that get progressively smaller in scale. Bruce Willis is a leading man, but he's no longer a tent pole leading man, so he stars in lesser movies. Films where he's not the star, but part of an ensemble cast, are usually better. The only films where he gets his name above the title are predictably shittier films. The only big name living actors I can recall who officially retired are Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, and Daniel Day Lewis. I'm sure there are more, but most keep making films until they are physically incapable.
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Tons of actors retire, fewer stars do. Male actors are more likely to choose to retire, female actors tend to get essentially pushed out for lack of roles for women of a certain age.
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Rick Moranis retired at the top of his game and I respect him for it
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He quit after his wife died to take care of his kids, which I respect him even more for.
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Sean Connery retired after League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I don’t think anyone could blame him for. Cameron Diaz retired after Annie but no-one noticed because she was never very talented
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Rick Moranis is coming back for a new Disney+ Honey I Shrunk the Kids movie. He actually continued to act for 5 years or so after his wife died, but the roles he got were lovely and turned him off Hollywood so he decided to retire and just focus on raising his kids instead. They wouldn't have been any older than 10 still then. Gene Hackman retired in 2004. Aphrodite has a new favorite as of 13:51 on Oct 5, 2021 |
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It's a fine line between officially retiring and just not getting anymore work. Like Gloria Stuart was for all intents retired before Titanic, but then she worked into her 90's. There was a great story about what was supposed to be Sean Connery's last role, but the film fell through. I can't find the story now, but Connery was funny enough in it to almost make you forget all the lady slapping. Almost...
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rantmo posted:Tons of actors retire, fewer stars do. Male actors are more likely to choose to retire, female actors tend to get essentially pushed out for lack of roles for women of a certain age. A shitload of those might just have been refusing to put up with Harvey Weinstein's poo poo anymore.
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I think Connery partially retired due to dementia. But yeah he was offered the roles of Morpheus and Gandalf lol
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A shitload of those might just have been refusing to put up with Harvey Weinstein's poo poo anymore. You know, that can't be discounted either.
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i watched a narcos shootout compilatiom & it still makes me laugh that the annoying white guy audience standin is playing the guy wrote the script from experience (embellished, obvs) a real record scratch you might wonder moment irl
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also they keep mentioning "220 pounds" of tnt/c4 (depending on epsiode) which sounds suspiciously like it should be "about 200 pounds"... like saying its "about 160 km" thats way too many significant digits to carry circas: 100 kilograms = 200 pounds 100 kilometers = 100 miles 200 kilometers = 300 miles Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 08:27 on Oct 9, 2021 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:also they keep mentioning "220 pounds" of tnt/c4 (depending on epsiode) which sounds suspiciously like it should be "about 200 pounds"... like saying its "about 160 km" what
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jazzyjay posted:what you heard me
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character says "idk, an inch I guess?" and subtitles say "2.54 centimeters" I'm just saying keep the lack of precision in mind when translating. So "idk, a couple cm I guess?" When some rando is clocking a thing at "probably at least 100 miles" it's way better to translate that to 100 or 200 km than 160. Even 150 is too specific for what they're saying
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jazzyjay posted:what They're saying that often in translations when the original is an estimate the translation will be a conversion of that estimate but be too exact. Like how 200 miles is roughly 320 kilometres. The original would say it's about 200 miles and the translation would say it's about 320 kilometres even though translating it as about 300 kilometres would be more natural. I think.
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Taeke posted:I think. Yeah it's just like when an anime character is eating a bowl of ramen and the American subtitles say "Oh boy what a delicious cheeseburger!"
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah it's just like when an anime character is eating a bowl of ramen and the American subtitles say "Oh boy what a delicious cheeseburger!" I wondered what weird rear end donuts Japan had for the longest time after watching Pokémon as a kid.
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CainFortea posted:Eh. People forget words for things all the time. poo poo just today I had to ask my office mate for a "spring but wound wrong" because for some reason I blanked on paperclip. This reminded me of a post I saw somewhere of a guy & his wife who were cooking in the kitchen & he asked for the "meat tweezers" (tongs) 
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Once at work the team started discussing how they commuted and when it was my turn my mind went completely blank looking for the word bus so after an awkward pause I said I took the people truck.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:This reminded me of a post I saw somewhere of a guy & his wife who were cooking in the kitchen & he asked for the "meat tweezers" (tongs) I remember a post where a woman was describing her French boyfriend forgetting the word for "lid" so he held up the tea kettle and asked "Where's his hat?"
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BOOTY-ADE posted:This reminded me of a post I saw somewhere of a guy & his wife who were cooking in the kitchen & he asked for the "meat tweezers" (tongs)  
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Literally Rumble In The Bronx?
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And if they were a foot long (30.48cm) they'd have roughly the same shape and function of tongs.
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