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Didn't the director of Napoleon say that inaccuracy for a better movie was good? But that does feel like one of those statements that are meant to bring people to your movie to talk about it.
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Feb 4, 2024 08:04
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bobjr posted:Didn't the director of Napoleon say that inaccuracy for a better movie was good? But that does feel like one of those statements that are meant to bring people to your movie to talk about it. I think Ridley Scott just said "go gently caress yourself" when responding to French historians complaining about inaccuracies.
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Feb 4, 2024 08:06
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Kurgarra Queen posted:I encountered "Jeanie Becomes A Mom" on one of Courtney Barnett's playlists and immediately fell in love. lol, for me it was Pedestrian At Best from Courtney, though largely for similar reasons, for whatever reason angry indie/punk girl rock has been hitting a particular spot for a while, an acquaintance a while back told me I have the music taste of an aging lesbian and it’s stuck with me ever since. Muncie Girls, poo poo Present, Cayetana, and Hop Along were the other mainstays if they happen to be not broken up and passing through your neck of the woods ever (most are now defunct, go figure).
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Feb 4, 2024 08:26
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Biopics need one central theme that its going to revolve around or it becomes a mess trying to focus on multiple threads across multiple years. Napoleon suffers from trying to have bits and pieces here there about French society and the revolution, the political climate in Europe at the time, his own career and his love affair with his wife instead of focusing on one thread to inform the historical narrative. It could have been a military campaign story, it could have been a love story, it could have been a straight up historical drama but it tries to be all three things and therefore succeeds at none of them. He was also routinely made to look like a cuckhold, a simp and a petulant, petty scared man and flat out revises reasons for his actions as a leader. The other issue is that because of Phoenix's age you have a 50 year old man doing stuff that IRL was done by a guy in his 20s which makes it look like the time between the guillotine dropping and his heart attack is two years and it condenses some rather important aspects of history and events to glossed over footnotes. For instance I'll spoil for anyone not familiar with history / the movie We know that Napoleon was called back from the campaign in Egypt by the republican government because they were getting their rear end kicked in wars on continental Europe. But in the movie the reason he returns home is because he gets told by one of his bros that he's a cuck and his wife's been getting dicked down while he's away and so he tearfully runs away on a ship back to France to bawl his eyes out in front of her. They also for some reason show his artillery gunning down civilians in the royalist uprising and its about 50 people charging into cannons. IRL it was 30,000 men or thereabouts who were mostly landed gentry and staunch royalists who were a mostly organized veteran force looking to reinstall the king to his throne and it was more akin to an actual rebellion rather than simply gunning down what's presented as the poor and destitute of the city. Its just a weird choice. Napoleon was a weird, brutal and cold dictator but he was also a pragmatic, effective military commander, someone who revolutionized education, colonialization, modern warfare and the political system and who also by most historical accounts had a poetic and caring streak that was often unusual considering his military reputation and actions as a dictator. They make his coronation as this self aggrandizing gesture when it was more of a practical one designed to try and ensure some continuation of ruling regime in France and lend legitimacy to the rulers of France when it came to European diplomacy. Most of these changes seem to be some kind of stupid modern interpretation that's completely different from actual history. I can understand choices like having him ride out at the battle of waterloo and him standing in the front lines in other battles because that's what audiences would expect to see and I'm fine with those, but to completely change the motivations for some pivotal events that we still see the effects of today is somewhat frustrating. It's like the script was written by King louis' great great great grandson or something.
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Feb 4, 2024 08:47
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I think biopics can absolutely play around with history and be inaccurate but to pull it off they need to be able to grasp the essential character of their main player and/or story. Napoleon just didn't appeal to me since I'm less interested in Napoleon's ability as a soldier and more interested in his weird personal and political life. Also casting someone who you can't buy as older than Joaquin Phoenix as Josephine was annoying to me. The best Josephine was Isabella Rossellini in the mini-series from 2002. Toby Stephens pops up as Czar Alexander I, which threw me off since I also watched Black Sails around the same time I stumbled on that.
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Feb 4, 2024 09:07
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BlindSite posted:Biopics need one central theme that its going to revolve around or it becomes a mess trying to focus on multiple threads across multiple years. The Russians burned their fields
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Feb 4, 2024 09:12
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I think biopics can absolutely play around with history and be inaccurate but to pull it off they need to be able to grasp the essential character of their main player and/or story. 100% agreed. I think in this Scott had a fundamental misunderstanding of the man and it showed.
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Feb 4, 2024 09:22
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bobjr posted:I was really surprised Netflix One Piece turned out well, but the people in charge of it really want to make it as good of adaptation as possible. Oda forced them to reshoot stuff and I believe had some form of creative control so they couldn't screw it up like cowboy bebop
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Feb 4, 2024 13:43
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If it's worth anything I enjoyed watching Napoleon in the theaters, but like House of Gucci I'm not familiar with the actual source material & its inaccuracies. Also like House of Gucci I had fun watching Napoleon when I thought of it as a comedy. In this case, Napoleon being a dorky, horny cuck. Alas, Napoleon didn't have a genius performance from Jared Leto inadvertantly doing his best Wario impression to anchor the film.
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Feb 4, 2024 14:30
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It's a bummer we never got the Kubrick Napoleon doc
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Feb 4, 2024 14:41
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https://twitter.com/WithChem/status/1753639711690641679?t=JCcrictlhlbAkRop90k6rw&s=19 I've never been so invested in speed skating like this.
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Feb 4, 2024 14:50
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That was a neat strategy
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Feb 4, 2024 15:12
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/WithChem/status/1753639711690641679?t=JCcrictlhlbAkRop90k6rw&s=19 Oh come on, there also was like 10 years ago everyone was super invested in Apollo Anton Ono for the entirety of one Winter Olympics
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Feb 4, 2024 15:31
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Qwijib0 posted:That was a neat strategy Yeah, it's smart for a few reasons even if the other skaters don't brain fart. Presumably you can draft in the back, so you can recover energy a bit. But also, there's that famous race where everyone fell over but the guy in the back who cruised to gold. So if she just hangs in back in first she either wins if they don't push (as seen) or she wins if they push too hard and all wipe out. The other comparison is the chase mentality in these sports - it happened in women's cycling in Rio. One lady who wasn't highly ranked took off early and no one would chase her, because whoever chased would wear themselves out and lose. So the whole group just sat 10 minutes back or whatever it was until they all lost. It was really weird Edit https://velo.outsideonline.com/2021/07/anna-kiesenhofer-takes-surprise-victory-in-tokyo-olympic-road-race/ Tokyo, not too
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Feb 4, 2024 15:40
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Cycling racing kick rear end I'm so glad that Zwift exists so I can do it during the winter.
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Feb 4, 2024 16:35
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I really want to see that race with full commentary
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Feb 4, 2024 16:37
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I found an article that says it was two teammates working together to get gold and silver. The one took off and the other in second place stayed in the front of the pack so everyone stayed behind her. It’s also young, not adult competitors, so not as much experience out there to realize what happened. https://english.news.cn/20240204/81b9bc3490eb448fb6b86e1fc15b61b4/c.html quote:
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Feb 4, 2024 16:45
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Random survey time! I know some people love them, some hate them, some are indifferent. Do you have a custom ringtone or text tone in TYOOL 2024? If so, what do you use? I am currently using the Harley Quinn theme as a ringtone, and the first three musical notes signifying a MK2 fatality as a text tone. No thanks to iOS 17, which has made it much more complex than it used to be.
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Feb 4, 2024 22:13
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My phone hasn’t made a sound since Obama’s second term.
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Feb 4, 2024 22:15
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I've done one custom notification in my life. I set it up on my wife's phone for when I text her. I think she quit using it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv9NSy86d9U
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Feb 4, 2024 22:26
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I haven’t heard my phone make a notification sound or ring since like 2009. Hearing a cell phone ring or make a notification ding just alerts me there is an old person in the room. E:lol I got a new avatar I guess
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Feb 4, 2024 22:36
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Freaquency posted:My phone hasn’t made a sound since Obama’s second term. i was late to getting a modern phone and it's always been silent i did have don't fear the reaper in the late 2000's
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Feb 4, 2024 22:40
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yo someone call me and listen to my ring back tone, it’s the newest nickelback
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Feb 4, 2024 22:40
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We're doomed. https://twitter.com/jimcramer/status/1754260418036474140?t=2tG91a7kjsjMr3gvNwhJaQ&s=19
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Feb 4, 2024 22:50
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wandler20 posted:We're doomed. *Cyberpunk 2077 theme intensifies*
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Feb 4, 2024 22:51
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Silly Burrito posted:Random survey time! This post made me go check my tones, which I basically haven't changed since I first got an iPhone a decade ago, and made me realize what a pain in the rear end it is to put custom stuff as a ringtone/notification is because one I used, an old classic tone, was now gone! I have Constellation for my ringtone, and had Cosmic for my text. I have different sounds for everything else, but those are the only two that matter. Only, when I went to click text tone, it said "Cosmic" in the "None" section, which confused me. I clicked another tone, and the Cosmic option was now gone, nor was it in the "Classic" section. Cue me spending the last ten minutes figuring out how to get it back (This video ended up being a good guide) cause my mind is too keyed on what's my tones were, but now I've got it back. I can't keep my phone on silent all the time. In obvious places like at work or whatever, yeah, but just around the house I like it to make the noise since I'll often have it just out of view or on a shelf behind me or something like that, so I won't see it light up and the vibrations are loud enough on their own.
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Feb 4, 2024 22:51
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I used to use the 90s X-Men theme as my ring tone, it's currently the Beverly Hills Cop theme. For text it's currently one of the built in ones but I used the "opening a chest" from Zelda and this axe sound from Kill Bill.
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Feb 4, 2024 22:56
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My ring tone is the entirety of the Monty Python Parrot Sketch
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Feb 4, 2024 22:57
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My phone is silent 99% of the time, but otherwise I’m using standard iPhone ringtones.
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Feb 4, 2024 23:01
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I use the Final Fantasy crystal theme as my ringer and the metal gear YOU GOT SPOTTED sound for texts
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Feb 4, 2024 23:04
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Ether Frenzy posted:My ring tone is the entirety of the Monty Python Parrot Sketch Not the Lumberjack song? Anyway, back in the days of flip phones and whatnot, or when we had a cell phone shared by the family rather than individual ones, hell yeah there were custom midi ringtones for everything. I know the family cell phone circa 2005 had the Indiana Jones theme, my cousin had Closer to the Heart at one point, and I had a slightly edited version Van Halen's Cathedral as my ringtone the last year or two of high school once I had a phone of my own.
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Feb 4, 2024 23:04
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I try to never have my phone make any noise whatsoever. SB and his sister are the only adults I know under 60 who have their phones making sounds. God I hate sounds.
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Feb 4, 2024 23:07
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Yeah, that whole new GarageBand crap is just so needless. You used to be able to just add a m4r file to your iPhone and you were done.
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Feb 4, 2024 23:10
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I have notification sounds because I'm not looking at my phone 24/7, but it's always either a single beep or a satellite uplink chirp - a very short and unintrusive sound.
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Feb 4, 2024 23:12
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Mario Bros theme
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Feb 4, 2024 23:23
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I used to have the Phenocryst chamber theme from Torin's Passage as my tone, but that was two phones ago, and it's just not worth the effort to try to put it back on now.
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Feb 4, 2024 23:26
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i think my first iphone was the 2nd gen one and i haven't used a ring tone or changed my background in that time.
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Feb 4, 2024 23:32
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Do you people keep your phones shoved up your rear end at all times, who the gently caress ever just notices vibration without sound
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I keep my personal phone on vibrate at all times thanks to work. My work phone does have the ringer on but it's because I absolutely won't check it if I don't hear it. I'll also get another Samsungs or Android phone when I finally replace the Galaxy 8 I've had for forever because I need to be able to tell it apart my work phone, which is a new iPhone.
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