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David, did you get to her humiliating fling with Marlene yet? Poor Garbo was young and unsophisticated at the time.
I did. Marlene's name was forbidden to ever be spoken in front of her. I guess she learned a thing or two, though.
There exist gorgeous candids of Garbo shirtless in shorts.
Which is where she had one-up on Dietrich, as Marlene always hated her rather flat breasts.
Anyone seen the director's cut of Alien yet? I think I'm gonna go tonight....
An odd and obsessive sci-fi article that I nonetheless found interesting: In praise of the sci-fi corridor
Coincidentally, I just got back from Alien. I wanted to slap the people who kept on laughing....
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Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they're so utilitarian by nature - really they're just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are 'sold' to viewers, movie magic is close at hand.
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Repeat sections are what corridors are all about, and they're part of the iconography of pre-CGI sci-fi movie-making. For Alien, Roger Christian would have the production department mock up different sections of corridor for Ridley Scott's perusement, and whatever got the green light was fabricated multiple times to create the final corridor, often with the classic trick of placing an angled mirror at the end of the long set to suggest further recession and depth.
It's a trick lovingly employed by Duncan Jones in this year's Moon, wherein rather thin sections of strut support have been laid in to provide geometry on a pretty low-budget corridor...
Note the use of the 'Eurostile' typeface that pretty much typified movie and TV sci-fi typography in the 60s and 70s once everyone got over the ghastly computer-fonts that were sadly used in Space:1999 (in fact this was the typeface used in the earlier UFO, and in most of Gerry Anderson's late sixties SF TV shows). Moon is a retro-feast for the SF corridor nut!
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Another great example of NASA-porn is to be found in the first class mis-en-scene of the Steven Soderbergh remake of Tarkovsky's Solaris (2002)...
What luxury - a flat wall with a slight curve. It's antiseptic, unfriendly and really quite repellant, but a very convincing projection into the near-future from the current state-of-the-art in space stations.
I think I love this guy....
Casting for the A Team movie continues apace, with Quinton "Rampage" Jackson as BA Baracus. Kee-razy.
Patrick Swayze has died.
Well, Sunshine Cleaning sucked. In case anyone was curious.
(DH brought it home ages ago, and for some reason we felt like finally watching it tonight. Oops.)
(Just ONCE I would like to see a movie where the Amy Adams type is the pothead with no job and her gothy sister is the mature responsible one. Just once.)
(Just ONCE I would like to see a movie where the Amy Adams type is the pothead with no job and her gothy sister is the mature responsible one. Just once.)
I didn't know this was a trope! How many instances?
I feel like "pretty blonds are more responsible and deserving of happiness than their weird friends with all the piercings" is a pretty established trope in movies which contain both types.
I can't think of a case where I've seen that reversed, and I would like to.
I can't think of a case where I've seen that reversed, and I would like to.
Oh you're just saying that because you've got blue hair and clearly don't deserve happiness.
Show's what you know - I haven't had blue hair in over a year. So THERE.