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Speaking of nineties and Keanu Reeves, is his southern or british accent worse?
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Aug 29, 2023 20:23
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rydiafan posted:They made it work in editing, like Star Wars. Exactly, Star Wars didn't originally have any space in it. Marcia Lucas' idea during the editing process, completely turned around the picture.
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Aug 29, 2023 20:25
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Fish of hemp posted:Speaking of nineties and Keanu Reeves, is his southern or british accent worse? drat, now this is a debate. I'd say british.
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Aug 29, 2023 20:31
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Fish of hemp posted:Speaking of nineties and Keanu Reeves, is his southern or british accent worse? I think the southern accent is worse because I actually feel like his british accent works within the context of the movie. Coppola's Dracula is totally over the top in a hundred different ways, I like that Keanu got in on that action as well. Like, go back and look at some of Anthony Hopkins line deliveries, they're completely absurd.
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Aug 29, 2023 20:33
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Pacino in The Devil's Advocate is full ham and it's great.
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Aug 29, 2023 21:22
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BIll and Teds Excellent Adventure was going to be a very serious Cinema Verite style doco about two teens and how they typically spend there nights hanging outside their local Circle K, but than one night Rufus just suddenly showed up and the film makers followed them on their excellent adventure. The rest is history! 
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Aug 29, 2023 22:04
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Basebf555 posted:I think the southern accent is worse because I actually feel like his british accent works within the context of the movie. Coppola's Dracula is totally over the top in a hundred different ways, I like that Keanu got in on that action as well. Like, go back and look at some of Anthony Hopkins line deliveries, they're completely absurd. FEED ME! E: PYF Subtle Movie Moments: PYF Blatant Movie Moments
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Aug 29, 2023 22:18
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As if I'm giving anyone the benefit of the doubt in the thread that taught me about Brad Pitt's illiteracy.
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Aug 29, 2023 23:40
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I once overheard a couple guys trying to remember the subtitle of Bill and Ted's movie, and finally settled on, "Bill and Ted's Neat Invention"
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Aug 29, 2023 23:59
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credburn posted:I once overheard a couple guys trying to remember the subtitle of Bill and Ted's movie, and finally settled on, "Bill and Ted's Neat Invention" Haha, that adorable. Also I would totally watch that movie.
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Aug 30, 2023 00:04
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credburn posted:I once overheard a couple guys trying to remember the subtitle of Bill and Ted's movie, and finally settled on, "Bill and Ted's Neat Invention" Reminds me of the couple I overheard going on about that year's Oscars host, that Hugh Jackson fella. Basebf555 posted:I think the southern accent is worse because I actually feel like his british accent works within the context of the movie. Coppola's Dracula is totally over the top in a hundred different ways, I like that Keanu got in on that action as well. Like, go back and look at some of Anthony Hopkins line deliveries, they're completely absurd. Yeah, everyone in FFC'sBS'sD is acting like they're in a different movie and it's wonderful. All the performances are insane, every last one of them. Yes, even Cary Ewels, yes especially the cowboy. Keanu spitting out Budapest in the first few minutes like there's a bug in the word that he almost swallowed. Gary Oldman's hairline. The cowboy. I think of all the performances, the actress playing Lucy might have gotten closest to what Coppola had in mind.
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Aug 30, 2023 02:57
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Yeah Lucy is perfect. Though Winona does a lovely job too and her accent is only mildly strained.
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Aug 30, 2023 03:10
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Cat Hatter posted:
It was more like olddevilless
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Aug 30, 2023 03:17
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Baron von Eevl posted:The cowboy Billy Campbell was the Rocketeer and the cowboy who kills Dracula*! That's a career I'd be proud of. *e: in the book, anyway. In the movie he just stabs Dracula real bad. Phy has a new favorite as of 03:37 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Aug 30, 2023 03:35
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dr_rat posted:Haha, that adorable. Also I would totally watch that movie. You can, it's just called Weird Science.
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Aug 30, 2023 03:44
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My boy D-Rac just a straight up pimp 
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Aug 30, 2023 04:02
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I like that they kept the mustache from the novel, but it should have been huge. Real bugger's grips.
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Aug 30, 2023 06:58
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Philippe posted:Real bugger's grips. Thanks, I have a new phrase I hate.
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Aug 30, 2023 07:55
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I've read that one of the few times Kubrick allowed full on improv was Full Metal Jacket, where R Lee Ermey was originally going to be a consultant as an example of a Vietnam-era drill instructor to go on, but apparently after doing some practice and demonstrations that left both men hoarse, Kubrick basically figured he might as well cast Ermey for the role. As a result a lot of his dialogue is ad-libbed, apparently they had to pause a shoot so he could explain to Kubrick what a reach-around was.
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Aug 30, 2023 08:03
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spookykid posted:Thanks, I have a new phrase I hate. It took me a second to realize what it implied and personally now I thoroughly love it Ghost Leviathan posted:apparently they had to pause a shoot so he could explain to Kubrick what a reach-around was. This is the new greatest Film Fact
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Aug 30, 2023 11:42
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Ermey, while he did a fine job, basically backstabbed the guy who'd already been cast as the gunney sergeant to get the part. That guy elended up playing the 'GET SOME' door gunner.
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Aug 30, 2023 12:20
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Baron von Eevl posted:Reminds me of the couple I overheard going on about that year's Oscars host, that Hugh Jackson fella. To be fair, you don't get much more southern than Australia.
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Aug 30, 2023 12:59
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Torquemada posted:Ermey, while he did a fine job, basically backstabbed the guy who'd already been cast as the gunney sergeant to get the part. That guy elended up playing the 'GET SOME' door gunner. I mean, considering Emery's "performance", if I were the other guy, I would give him the role, because
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Aug 30, 2023 13:24
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Randalor posted:I mean, considering Emery's "performance", if I were the other guy, I would give him the role, because The only main issue (not the movie or Emery's fault) is that to this day we are still suffering through bad impersonations/pastiches/homages to his performance anytime a drill instructor or even just "loud army guy" has to be on screen. I'm playing the game Armored Core 6 and one of the guy giving you missions is a bad Emery-wannabe performance.
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Aug 30, 2023 15:26
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Well you do look like a guy who'd gently caress a mech in the generator without giving it a goddamn reach around.
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Aug 30, 2023 15:54
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Phy posted:Billy Campbell was the Rocketeer and the cowboy who kills Dracula*! That's a career I'd be proud of. Coppola's Dracula gets major credit for keeping Quincy in the movie, he seems to always get cut because you want a suitor for Lucy to at least maintain that storyline somewhat, so that's Holmwood. Then you also want to have Doc Seward in the movie but a lot of times Quincy is considered superfluous. Which is criminal because yea how can you cut a guy who has such a big role in actually killing Dracula in the book?
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Aug 30, 2023 15:57
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've read that one of the few times Kubrick allowed full on improv was Full Metal Jacket, where R Lee Ermey was originally going to be a consultant as an example of a Vietnam-era drill instructor to go on, but apparently after doing some practice and demonstrations that left both men hoarse, Kubrick basically figured he might as well cast Ermey for the role. As a result a lot of his dialogue is ad-libbed, apparently they had to pause a shoot so he could explain to Kubrick what a reach-around was. According to some, the "Here's Johnny!" line from The Shining was improved by Nicholson, and had to fight tooth and nail to keep it in, because Kubrick was apparently the original "I don't even own a TV" guy, and he didn't get the reference.
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Aug 30, 2023 17:09
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CzarChasm posted:According to some, the "Here's Johnny!" line from The Shining was improved by Nicholson, and had to fight tooth and nail to keep it in, because Kubrick was apparently the original "I don't even own a TV" guy, and he didn't get the reference. It’s a weird line to be fair that doesn’t really seem like it fits the movie when you think about it. I knew it as a Shining reference before I’d even watched the film without knowing it was a reference to something else.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:47
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Annabel Pee posted:It’s a weird line to be fair that doesn’t really seem like it fits the movie when you think about it. I knew it as a Shining reference before I’d even watched the film without knowing it was a reference to something else. It's one of those things that works better over time the further you get from the original reference. At the time, Jack's making an odd reference to Carson. Nowadays, he just comes off as having gone fully into insanity.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:54
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Cat Hatter posted:And Ron Perlman was so excited he broke character pretty much the frame after where they cut to the next shot. If I remember the commentary correctly she made it on the first shot, leading to Ron Perlman ruining it, and the shot we got, with the ball going off frame, was the only other time she managed it after trying again and again for the rest of the day.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:51
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Randalor posted:It's one of those things that works better over time the further you get from the original reference. At the time, Jack's making an odd reference to Carson. Nowadays, he just comes off as having gone fully into insanity. Also, "Here's Johnny" has become so freaking iconic that it's just the thing he does. As a side note, the first time I saw someone breaking through a door in a movie and they did a tracking shot of the axe head in homage to The Shining I thought it was real cool, but then I saw it in like two other things in fairly short order and it's like c'mon now people. Basebf555 posted:Coppola's Dracula gets major credit for keeping Quincy in the movie, he seems to always get cut because you want a suitor for Lucy to at least maintain that storyline somewhat, so that's Holmwood. Then you also want to have Doc Seward in the movie but a lot of times Quincy is considered superfluous. Which is criminal because yea how can you cut a guy who has such a big role in actually killing Dracula in the book? I think probably because he doesn't add a ton that can't be divided up amongst other roles, except for being a Dracula-stabbing cowboy. If I were filming Dracula I'd definitely always leave him in, because, fuckin cowboy, but they don't ask me these things.
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Aug 30, 2023 21:15
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I love Quincy Morris dearly. He's a real American and you can tell because of all the American things he says and does.
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Aug 30, 2023 21:47
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Coppola's Dracula is the only film version I can think of that includes Quincy. If there are others, please post them because I love the rootin'-tootin' cowboy who stabs Dracula to death.
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Aug 30, 2023 21:54
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Quincy Morris is canon to the IGA Castlevania games, though only his decidedly less cowboy-ish son John and grandson Jonathan actually appear in the series proper. I'm pretty sure he's still the most directly referenced non-Dracula character from the novel in the entire series.
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Aug 30, 2023 22:18
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Kantesu posted:Quincy Morris is canon to the IGA Castlevania games, though only his decidedly less cowboy-ish son John and grandson Jonathan actually appear in the series proper. I'm pretty sure he's still the most directly referenced non-Dracula character from the novel in the entire series. Oh, like John Morris in Bloodlines? Neat! Not sarcastic, I legit think that's cool.
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Aug 31, 2023 01:28
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It's really funny seeing people actually discover the book Dracula and learn it's not only presented in blog format (to a degree that is often hilariously implausible) or that it's a techno-thriller showcasing the latest technology of the time being used against the supernatural, but it does indeed also have an actual cowboy.
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Aug 31, 2023 06:36
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There's a mailing list that you can join that will send you the letters and newspaper clippings from Dracula in order as the dates take place over the course of a couple of months. This year's is almost over but you can sign up for next year here: https://draculadaily.com
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Aug 31, 2023 09:04
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They built prop doors for that Shining scene. But Nicholson had been a firefighter and knew how to swing an axe and broke through them too quickly so they had to get real ones. https://twitter.com/stanleykubrick/status/1576602982086578179 The axe itself sold at auction for $175k last year. https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-shining-ax-stanley-kubrick-stephen-king-auction-stanley-film-center-1234722171/#:~:text='The%20Shining'%20Ax%20Purchased%20for,based%20on%20Stephen%20King's%20novel.
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Aug 31, 2023 09:30
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's really funny seeing people actually discover the book Dracula and learn it's not only presented in blog format It's called epistolary, if you were curious.
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Aug 31, 2023 10:11
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There's even a substack that emails you chapters of Dracula on the day they took place! It's a great way to read the novel. https://draculadaily.substack.com/about
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Aug 31, 2023 11:46
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