paddy no 11 wrote:Das boot- oh to have seen this one in the cinema, classic
Only with subtitles. Otherwise it's balls.
'La Cage aux Folles' is another that must be watched with subtitles....and that French classic about the inappropriate guest. He's like a Columbo....??
paddy no 11 wrote:Das boot- oh to have seen this one in the cinema, classic
Only with subtitles. Otherwise it's balls.
'La Cage aux Folles' is another that must be watched with subtitles....and that French classic about the inappropriate guest. He's like a Columbo....??
I prefer Das Boot without subtitles, I find them a distraction and don't always convey the meaning of the dialogue very well.
I first saw it playing in the background of the Java Coffee House in departures at Jomo Kenyata Airport. It was around 7 o'clock in the morning and while all the Happy Valley mammies and daddies were getting their first fix of the day, their unattended kids were all glued to a muted movie showing Mayans having their living hearts ripped out and scoffed in front of their not yet dead eyes. Nice.
It struck me at the time that I may have missed something due to the lack of dialogue. Turns out I hadn't.
Going to say this only once,....Das Boot and La Cage Aux Folles must be seen with subs.
That's just a fact of life. Same as original Producers is definitive.
I read the paperback because I was too young to see the movie . I was thinking Parker had written the screenplay but it was Ridley Scott. Maybe it was him that was a Ripley fan. I saw someone say it.
Many years ago, probably when the 2nd movie was being released.
kk67 wrote:I read the paperback because I was too young to see the movie . I was thinking Parker had written the screenplay but it was Ridley Scott. Maybe it was him that was a Ripley fan. I saw someone say it.
Many years ago, probably when the 2nd movie was being released.
mine too - even google image search didn't help
I guess it's because we're normal people who don't tend to know what the people behind the camera looks like.
Hell, personally, I struggle to know what the people the camera points at look like.
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The two guys in the first photo are Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, who wrote the original script. O’Bannon did the majority of the writing, while Shusett’s major contribution was coming up with a way to get the creature on the Nostromo (“What if it screwed one of them?”). While O’Bannon had written the character who would become Ripley as a man, he added a note under the character list (which was also lacking any first names), that all characters in the film are unisex, which led to Ridley Scott agreeing to looking for an actress to fill the lead role.
The second photo is Walter Hill and David Giler, who are 2/3 of the producers that make up Brandywine Productions (the other is Gordon Carroll, who passed away in 2005). They rewrote the script over 8 drafts, renamed all the characters and introduced the Ash subplot.
cashead wrote:The two guys in the first photo are Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, who wrote the original script. O’Bannon did the majority of the writing, while Shusett’s major contribution was coming up with a way to get the creature on the Nostromo (“What if it screwed one of them?”). While O’Bannon had written the character who would become Ripley as a man, he added a note under the character list (which was also lacking any first names), that all characters in the film are unisex, which led to Ridley Scott agreeing to looking for an actress to fill the lead role.
The second photo is Walter Hill and David Giler, who are 2/3 of the producers that make up Brandywine Productions (the other is Gordon Carroll, who passed away in 2005). They rewrote the script over 8 drafts, renamed all the characters and introduced the Ash subplot.
I mean - how did we not all get that from 2 pictures
cashead wrote:The two guys in the first photo are Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, who wrote the original script. O’Bannon did the majority of the writing, while Shusett’s major contribution was coming up with a way to get the creature on the Nostromo (“What if it screwed one of them?”). While O’Bannon had written the character who would become Ripley as a man, he added a note under the character list (which was also lacking any first names), that all characters in the film are unisex, which led to Ridley Scott agreeing to looking for an actress to fill the lead role.
The second photo is Walter Hill and David Giler, who are 2/3 of the producers that make up Brandywine Productions (the other is Gordon Carroll, who passed away in 2005). They rewrote the script over 8 drafts, renamed all the characters and introduced the Ash subplot.
I mean - how did we not all get that from 2 pictures
I figured someone would recognise the faces. I obviously overestimated you lot.
cashead wrote:
I figured someone would recognise the faces. I obviously overestimated you lot.
You're talking about a bunch of people who'd mostly never heard of Harvey Weinstein 12 months ago, let alone be able to recognise him.
As mentioned, I struggle to recognise some A-list actors, O doubt I'd recognise more than a couple of directors, and no hope whatsoever of recognising any producer or screenwriter
