Anyone seen the director's cut of Alien yet? I think I'm gonna go tonight....
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
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tommyrot - Sep 12, 2009 4:13:45 pm PDT #4143 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Sep 12, 2009 11:11:19 pm PDT #4144 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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....
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2009 2:24:42 pm PDT #4145 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Casting for the A Team movie continues apace, with Quinton "Rampage" Jackson as BA Baracus. Kee-razy.
evil jimi - Sep 14, 2009 5:04:36 pm PDT #4146 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Patrick Swayze has died.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2009 5:04:59 pm PDT #4147 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.)
DavidS - Sep 14, 2009 5:10:04 pm PDT #4148 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(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?
Jessica - Sep 14, 2009 5:15:31 pm PDT #4149 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
DavidS - Sep 14, 2009 5:17:59 pm PDT #4150 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2009 5:23:12 pm PDT #4151 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Show's what you know - I haven't had blue hair in over a year. So THERE.
DavidS - Sep 14, 2009 5:27:25 pm PDT #4152 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Show's what you know - I haven't had blue hair in over a year. So THERE.
But I know you miss it. Can one have both blue hair and happiness?