Interestingly enough, Paul Feig recently actually admitted in an interview that he understands a lot of the backlash at this point.


Not the sexism so much, but the fact that when the movie first came out, he was in film school. He went, he saw it as a comedy with great special effects, and that's what he was remaking.

What he didn't realize, that as much as the film itself was just a comedy to him, a lot of kids grew up watching it and idolizing the main characters, myself included. It's not necessarily the gender swap that was the issue, it was the remake in its entirety.

The honest trailer nails that aspect prettymuch.

Back in film school, a classmate of mine wrote an interesting screenplay set in 1955 at Le Mans, the year in which a crash lead to the deaths of over 80 spectators.

looks like its about one minute taken from two separate videos she did that total about sixteen minutes and then pulled one minute of dancing from 1440min(24 hrs) of dancing video done for Pharrels Happy Video. Shes only using the clips of Pharrel which were actually taken from his music video.
http://vimeo.com/18446531
http://vimeo.com/32824772
(she actually may have pulled her clips from much more video http://girlwalkallday.com/watch-the-film/schools-out)

Meh im guessing lots of videos out there of people dancing in the street could do the same when using 24 hours of dancing footage. Much better argument if all the footage was from his three minute Happy video.

was introduced to Vin Diesel by way of his "sizzle-reel" of sorts, when I was in film school. The short film, called Multi-Facial, is on youtube and worth watching to see the guy's range and humble beginnings.

When I was in film school, a friend of mine made a very similar film of tracking a paper airplane's descent from a high rise building (without the avian intervention).

A very cool film.

I was born between the release of the original Gershon Kingsley version and the release of the the Hot Butter version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_%28instrumental%29, so I think there's a very good chance I heard one of them as a child.

I can say though that I only thought of posting that video because of this one - http://videosift.com/video/Stop-Motion-Animation-Using-500-Ping-Pong-Balls - an excellent stop motion video made at film school, by Victoria Foroponova.
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I'm trying to figure out right now, where and when I first heard that tune. It seems impossible!!
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Thanks :

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>> ^Quboid:

@therealblankman - or anyone else - can you name anything specific that Citizen Kane did? How was lighting different?
I've heard that it was the first film to use camera angles to portray power (e.g. looking up at someone dominating) which seems obvious to me and I've never made any films. Also I've heard it was the first to have ceilings on sets, which would go hand-in-hand with more camera angles. Before Citizen Kane, cameras were just placed at the normal approximately head height? That seems incredible.
I assume these weren't actually the first, like in 3D gaming (my forte), Doom is generally considered the first 3D game when it's not and Quake considered the first true 3D game when it's not - they were just the first to really bring this to the forefront.
Edit: Damn, that Touch of Evil shot is impressive. That must have been hell to organise.


Well I could babble on, but really I'd mostly be regurgitating Wikipedia so have a look for yourself... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane#Filmmaking_innovations

And I'm glad you agree about Touch of Evil. You should really see the whole movie of course. It's not a "chore" like Kane, the only challenge really is suspending disbelief and accepting Charlton Heston as a Mexican police chief!

>> ^Quboid:

>> ^ant:
Citizen Kane put me to sleep, Godfather was decent but not my type of flick, Star Wars movie was good, etc.

Citizen Kane was a chore, I only watched it because, well, people like this guy. I didn't notice anything special about it at all. I can only assume that the clever, innovative stuff it did has been repeated in every other movie I've seen so I'm accustomed to it. Maybe if I'd only seen pre-Kane movies before seeing it, it would blow my mind.


You've got it exactly right, after Citizen Kane movies were changed forever. The non-linear way the story was told had never been tried, and the camera and lighting were used in completely innovative ways. Hell, in one scene when Welles couldn't get the camera angle that he wanted he grabbed a pickaxe and shovel and dug a deep hole in the middle of the set in which to place the camera!

Truth is though, my favorite Orson Welles movie is "Touch of Evil" with Janet Leigh, Charlton Heston and Welles himself playing one of the most disgusting villains ever portrayed on film. The opening shot alone is a masterpiece, an uncut tracking and crane shot that goes for more than 3 minutes. Fantastic stuff.

Check out the opening scene here... http://videosift.com/video/Opening-shot-to-Touch-of-Evil

No director has ever surpassed this scene... Altman made a great effort in "The Player" and Scorsese came close in "Goodfellas", but still not quite.

>> ^ant:

Citizen Kane put me to sleep, Godfather was decent but not my type of flick, Star Wars movie was good, etc.


Citizen Kane was a chore, I only watched it because, well, people like this guy. I didn't notice anything special about it at all. I can only assume that the clever, innovative stuff it did has been repeated in every other movie I've seen so I'm accustomed to it. Maybe if I'd only seen pre-Kane movies before seeing it, it would blow my mind.

>> ^marinara:

good vid, and i hunted down the dali vid and sifted it


I won't be watching it--the idea is just too creepy for me.

This is almost like film school. A school with a weird, creepy teacher but I'm actually learning some things useful for me!

>> ^probie:

Why do half the professionally produced video clips on the internet look like they were filmed by a drunk asshole? Do they not teach tripod use in film school anymore? Yes, I understand it's supposed to emulate the look of home video, but it doesn't. It does a better job emulating Katherine Hepburn if she were behind the camera.


In this case a locked off camera might make the subject appear preachy given the contents of the address.

Why do half the professionally produced video clips on the internet look like they were filmed by a drunk asshole? Do they not teach tripod use in film school anymore? Yes, I understand it's supposed to emulate the look of home video, but it doesn't. It does a better job emulating Katherine Hepburn if she were behind the camera.

Sorry to hear about the divorce. That's rough enough when you do it in the same city, let alone a different country.

And I know what you mean about the fortress. I'm realizing now, more than any other time in my life, how important friends are.

What bugs me about the Jesse thing is...that I can't even believe the point is being argued.

Would the "she deserved it" people have sex with her if she offered it? Would they have sex with any eleven-year-old if they offered it? If no, why? Because it's illegal? Okay, if it were legal, would you have sex with an eleven-year-old?

See where I'm going here? If she's not old enough to be held responsible for making the decision to have sex, how is it that she's old enough to suffer the consequences of getting on the internet and espousing some bravado? "A brain slushie?" God, there are film school graduates who couldn't have dreamed that one up. Or maybe they did and, just like a stupid kid, she merely repeated what she heard.

But no, instead of just turning her off and ignoring her, let's get her personal info and make her and her family's life a living hell.

It's her own fault. She deserved it.

Most of the perpetrators of the mobbing were white, middle-class, suburban males, and it disturbs me deeply to see how many of them insist that she deserved it.

Sorry for the rant.

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Shit man, I'm sorry about what happend to you, I don't know what you went through exactly, but I think I can relate in at least one way, namely:

When I was younger I thought I was this fortress, invincible against other peoples opinions etc. Then I got married in another country and now divorced and I realized that I depend on others just as much as anyone else and that I'm fragile in ways that I think everyone is but don't know they are. It was a scary realization and I started doubting myself in ways I'd never done before.

I think everyone needs to be able to cut stuff off at a certain level and just have somewhere they can lick their wounds and build themselves up, but when you're in a situation with no escape then the damage starts to really fuck you up, like it did me here, and probably you too.

I also think many people never ever had to face what it is to be exposed and feel like shit, or maybe they did and it's easier to deny it and join the mob to go after someone else and feel some kind of strength from that.

About going after the 4chan people that hurt others. Honestly, I think it would just feed the trolls. It would be something that other 4chan'ers would laugh at or that would take their boredom away. I dont think it would really make one iota of difference. But I see where you're coming from.