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to catch up, my middle finger cooperates quite well, I just can't get the little finger to do anything without the ring finger getting involved, either up or down. They're so co-dependent.
There seems to be more of a sense of isolation/desolation in Spaghetti Westerns, ie, the long establishing shot of an empty landscape and one guy on a horse. A lot of SF has the same feeling.
My ex-husband would screw the three finger hypothesis all to hell; he used the little, ring and middle finger to indicate three. I've been known to do that myself, occasionally.
My Dad does that too.
That's what I do, too--see previous co-dependent finger issues.
Of course, now we're revealed as alien spies, so we'll have to kill you.
I have seen 3 fingers counted from either side of the hand, or the middle. I go back and forth between thumb and middle 3, but usually do the "German" way (because the middle 3 mean "W" t /ASL )
my middle finger cooperates quite well
Best line all week.
Wow, The Hurt Locker is already playing at the $2 theatre near me! I might have to go see it again for that price.
We finally saw Brick, which we DVRed off of free HBO preview week a while ago. Best High School-Film Noir-Coming of Age- Comedy-Murder Mystery I ever saw. I really liked it. I am a sucker for movies which mash up genres in an interesting way.
If you like that, you likely will enjoy the director's followup "The Brothers Bloom." I liked this movie quite a bit.
Of course, Leone's first movie A Fistful of Dollars was basically a straight-up (if not official) remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which, while a samurai movie, was Kurosawa's tribute to westerns. It had a lot of the same attitudes of the spaghetti westerns already in place.
And, of course, Yojimbo was basically a samurai version of Dashiel Hammett's Red Harvest. And so on, and so forth.
Speaking of stuff like this. Can I get a little help? I'm trying to come up with a list of movies that are basically classic stories retold.
I have stuff like Twist, 10 Things I Hate About You, Scrooged...but then I get stuck in Shakespeare and can't get out (West Side Story, My Kingdom, My Own Private Idaho, Scotland, PA) and I'd like a little more diversity.
Not straight up shooting a play or a work of literature, but a different take on a popular tale.