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Yeah, it's Hollywood seeing a lay-up of PR. Every agent in town is probably calling their talent and going "invite the bullied kid to something or say something to him get to it go go go go"
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Murdoch would also be getting Disney stock out of the deal.
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Dec 12, 2017 03:02
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He probably drank too much cough syrup.
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Dec 12, 2017 19:45
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bring back old gbs posted:The middle ground is they never showed the smouldering pile of bones that used to be a family. Family in danger, superman kills danger, superman angry that he killed. The sequence is too simple to require anything else. And the literal context of the scene is "Superman must choose between letting innocent people of his adopted homeworld die or kill the last remaining soul of his true home". And he chooses the innocents. And, now blindingly aware that he is truly alone in the universe and it's by his own hand, he lets out an agonized scream and cradles his head against Lois's body as she rushes to embrace him. It's stupidly straightforward.
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Dec 12, 2017 20:00
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Lessons From The Screenplay does okay to avoid going out-and-out expressing disdain for things, but it has a terrible habit of calling back to Robert McKee's formula bullshit - and specifically his book, STORY - more often than I'd prefer. Channel Criswell does pretty well. 100 Years of Cinema has an interesting hook but is a bit shallow.
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Dec 13, 2017 03:14
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I really like Channel Criswell and he was hanging on for a thread there for a bit with Youtube's bullshit content auto-claims. He also doesn't even get $500 out of Patreon. Which is sad because at times he's a bit more insightful than even Every Frame A Painting was, and clearly puts in as much time as the duo behind those did/do (since now the EFAP guys' stuff will just show up as FilmStruck and Criterion essays).
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Dec 13, 2017 03:57
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https://vimeo.com/189876347
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Dec 16, 2017 23:36
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Yeah, measuring any movie against Star Wars is what leads to studios deciding everything needs to be Star Wars. It's an outlier, the moment Lucas had kickstarted the franchise again with the Special Editions (twenty years ago now) the entire thing has been turned into this alarmingly large aspect of American pop culture. Remember, originally, after Jedi came out, the series faded from memory, becoming just another thing in a larger tapestry, leaving a heavy influence and that being the legacy. Then George did a one-two of re-release and prequels and late capitalism seized upon it and has never let it go, and now instead of this heady thing of the past that changed cinema forever, it's this weird ever-present thing that vacuums up money like nobody's business and is in the hands of the (also alarmingly) most trusted and ubiquitous entertainment company on the planet. Justice League's gross is embarrassing on its own. But, compared to Star Wars, so is pretty much everything else released this year.
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Dec 18, 2017 17:07
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It's going to mean a lot more to a 12 year old with a camera shooting something on a street in Mexico City to remind him of how the Three Amigos have managed to achieve massive success making whatever the hell they feel like making (while pulling up DPs like Emmanuel Lubezki and Guillermo Navarro, and actors like Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna and the loaded loving cast and crew of Cuaron's upcoming Roma along the way) than to tell them "you can get a movie made with Disney if you're willing to let your cultural heritage be used as cheap exoticism over a standard, lily-white narrative structure". It's like telling a young black kid with a gift for rhyming that he should be aiming to be MC Hammer and not Kendrick Lamar.
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Dec 24, 2017 19:51
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WENTZ WAGON NUI posted:Haha what? Can someone fill me in on this? http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/10/us/disney-trademark-day-dead/index.html
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Dec 25, 2017 07:33
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I thought the story of Charles Barkley that he wasn't very political all the way through his college career - like paid absolutely zero attention to it - and when he got to the NBA, his agent was like "register to vote, it's an election year and you'll get asked about it and you don't want people reporting you're not even registered". Barkley asked what he should register as, his agent told him "Republican, they work towards you keeping your money", and so he did. Later he researched what else the Republican platform was, discovered how badly it hosed over poor people and black people, and has strived to push back against conservatism ever since.
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Huh. Didn't know any of that, since the last time I ever noticed Barkley's name in the news was when he was still actually an active player. Surprised to find out he's a gigantic rear end in a top hat on that level.
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