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Oscars were horrible
I have never been to the Awards but have family and friends who have gone semi regularly. From what I've heard, in the form of exhaustive complaints, is that it's a much better show on TV and is EXCRUCIATINGLY boring if you are in the actual audience ... the joke is that they will give a...- MikeKardec
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What are you Writing?
Hysterical! I too finally finished the early "independent film" essay and have put it briefly aside before starting to trim it into shape. Mysteriously, it started well then turned into a morass of "I don't want to do it!" Now that it's all written out I fear it not and revising should be a...- MikeKardec
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
Reading John Bentley's The Perilous Path, a novel about car racing in the late 1950s. Racing has never been a font of good plots for either fiction or film so we'll see how this turns out. So far the atmosphere, Nassau and NYC then moving to Europe is good. Period detail is a bit odd because...- MikeKardec
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What Are You Reading
Okay. Got to read it again. It's been way too long! I know lots of people who worked hard through that period. You'd have to hope that the brackets were giggered so that you didn't actually make LESS money if you were paid more!- MikeKardec
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What Are You Reading
It was nuts. One of the reasons my father specifically stuck with paperback companies was that the hard cover publishers made you virtually pay to publish your own book ... they took just about everything they could get their hands on. I've never been sure how anyone without a passive (like...- MikeKardec
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
As is probably obvious from the comments above, I've always been fascinated by how the technology and practices on one side of the mic/speaker divide informed what went on on the other. I'm not much of a historian in that respect but it does interest me whenever I can learn something about it...- MikeKardec
- Post #118
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
Yes. I was in it in an intermediate stage; the old Cap A is the classic old "Frank Sinatra" room you often see pictures of, and the new Cap A is astounding but much more modern looking. The old studios in Hollywood are dying like flies now that the record companies have become "democratized"...- MikeKardec
- Post #115
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
Where I live no one seems to go out at all after age 30, everyone is too stunned by the traffic to venture forth. I hope that's not the case in more mid-sized communities. Love Bob Wills. A lot of "mixing" in those days was the positioning of instruments around a single mic ... or the...- MikeKardec
- Post #110
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Stranger Things Season One
Laughter! I thought that the kids were great ... if a big loud. I wondered if all the parents weren't slightly deaf. The casting of child actors took a turn for the better when My So Called Life came out in the 1990s. Before that producers and directors were scared of kids and considered...- MikeKardec
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
Thankfully, I'm still young enough to say the RCA 44 was already a vintage mic when I was born! The more contemporary mics (including that early Sony I can't remember the number of) were/are worked in the way Lizzie describes, very correctly, as being the WRONG way to use an older ribbon mic...- MikeKardec
- Post #108
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
Absolutely, I've always thought he was SERIOUSLY under rated ... it's also nice to know that people back in the day responded to the same things we do.- MikeKardec
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
At some point in my youth that big bass exaggerated voice thing went crazy. I later found that a lot of it was the particular proximity effect of a particular Sony microphone. Announcers just loved to listen to themselves through than damn thing. Of course the fidelity of the whole chain from...- MikeKardec
- Post #102
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
I always found Dumas to be a very modern writer but I haven read him this century so I might reappraise my opinion. I always believe that the energy a writer puts into his work the reader will get back out. If I remember correctly Dumas was the sort of writer to finish one story, draw a line...- MikeKardec
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Stranger Things Season One
I loved Deutschland 83 but it had absolutely the fastest sub titles I have ever seen. I felt like I had to go back to Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics to keep up! A few years ago I actually wouldn't have imagined I'd have liked movies or TV set in the 1980s but a few seem to have discovered...- MikeKardec
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
My Dad (in the 1920s) worked for Deluvina Maxwell, the lady who inadvertently sent Billy the Kid to his death. I stood in her house, abandoned now, about 20 years ago. Kinda spooky, the connection to my father who often ate lunch on the porch and to the earlier history too. He also knew a...- MikeKardec
- Post #93
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What are you Writing?
Not theoretically. Most novels slip forward and backward in time as you suggest. I'd recommend that you get to something that the audience cares about, like a person (even if we barely know them) seeing that a problem needs solving, feeling a threat, etc., as quickly as is reasonable. That...- MikeKardec
- Post #380
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Verbal anachronisms in period movies
If you find singing cowboys humorous or just odd see Rustler's Rhapsody. It's actually one of the funniest, un funny films I've ever seen. I don't think I laughed once but, intellectually, if you're into dealing with old Westerns as I am, it's pretty funny. An alternate universe that operates...- MikeKardec
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Stranger Things Season One
This is a Netflix show and I do not believe I had created any spoilers ... We see far too many movies and TV series that are set in other times and reference popular culture a manner that is merely superficial if not completely counter productive. The great failing is trying too hard and being...- MikeKardec
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What Are You Reading
I agree, good God I live in that world, but I'm struggling with something a bit closer to the point of origin; the initial impulse prior to the fad. I don't want to derail things here because my own mind hasn't yet formulated the right question or observation. I think I need to mull it over a...- MikeKardec
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