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  1. MikeKardec

    Film Noir Documentary

    Few people in the film world, meaning documentary makers, seem to recognize that many of the qualities of Film Noir had the sort of literary corollary that I believe you are referring to. It is true, however, that it took the French to slap a label on it and they probably weren't as familiar...
  2. MikeKardec

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    My take was that Dunkirk was more "The Dunkirk Experience" than a traditional movie. Not complaining; I think that was a very interesting idea and VERY ballsy. It drops you off at the beach en media rez and you figure it out as you go. It's not telling you the STORY. It's not about how the...
  3. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Interestingly written by Ray Bradbury who later wrote a biographical novel, "Green Shadows, White Whale" which, if I remember correctly, is about living in Ireland with John Houston while writing "Moby Dick." Even further afield and at the bare edges of my memory, is that the title of the book...
  4. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    While I can't say I was the least enthralled with the film, other than the extreme pleasure of getting to see Colin Firth play James Bond, it was amusing to get fitted for a Bookster suit right upstairs from the still Kingsman badged Huntsman shop on Savile Row. Bookster is still a good deal...
  5. MikeKardec

    Thinking of Daniel and Cindy (Luvmyman)

    Like some I am only tangentially aware of the issues at hand but, these days, any woman who will make Lovemyman her handle has my support and I have to assume that the guy has gone a long way to deserve it. I think there is an example being set and a lesson being taught. My best to the both of...
  7. MikeKardec

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Those headlamp/indicator fairings are such a gorgeous detail!
  8. MikeKardec

    Lost Cities!

    Mainstream science is packed full of "experts" deathly afraid of upsetting the status quo. I friend of mine used to say that theories are rarely disproven or overturned until the originator and all his adherents (read students) die off. There's a chicken or the egg issue too. BECAUSE of...
  9. MikeKardec

    Show us your Guns!

    There may be states where the "carry gun" must be stipulated in reference to the permit. Though I have no first hand experience, I think that may have been the case back when it was slightly easier to get a permit here in CA. -- It was never easy to legally carry here but there used to be a...
  10. MikeKardec

    Lost Cities!

    Not a Lost City but for all of us who mourn the lack of mystery in our modern world here's a story that is worth googling to follow up on some of the additional details ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4373014/Rare-footage-captures-Sentinelese-tribe-Indian-Ocean.html
  11. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    HA! If you were to look at the collection West From Singapore (or The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume Six: The Adventure Stories ... which includes all of them) you would find what might be the inspiration for Indy's fight with the German boxer on the airfield in Wings Over...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    All that sounds about right. I'd say a "novel" runs between 50 to 120k words ... with the upper end limited to your publisher's patience and their consideration of whether it's good enough to pay off the investment in materials; which starts to pile up after 110k words or so. There are...
  14. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    Not to say that I demand realism in my movies but I always cut a film some slack if you can imagine that what is presented on screen is "what it is supposed to have felt like," rather than literally was. I enjoyed the fight sequences in the Doug Liman directed The Bourne Identity because of...
  15. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    There is often some confusion about exactly what CGI is, so sometimes people have a hard time agreeing on what they like and what they don't. Much of the time you use a computer to do exactly what you used to do with the old blue or green screen (Chroma Key) process. It's really no different...
  16. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    I like it. Quite a few years ago I created a website that introduced a number of 1930s pulp stories. Simulating what I imagined an era news reel to sound like (read like) I wrote the following as lead in: From Romania to Portugal, a revolution of militarism and conservatism sweeps Europe. In...
  17. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    Not that I want this thread or Disney's movies to go the least bit political but it seems to me that there are LOTS of similarities between today's world wide situation and the 1930s. The more you try to point fingers saying this modern person is the same as that historical person the stupider...
  19. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    I like this and I think it's a big part of it. For me (with and older parent) it is more of the world of my father than grand father. I'm not even really sure it relates to family so much as the older generation reminds us of the world that we just barely missed. I also think your right about...
  20. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    LOL. The first thing to do is for them to stop winking at the audience and doing shout outs to Raiders!
  21. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    It is a question whether anyone other than people like us really care about the more or less accurate call backs to the 1930s or any of the other historical references. But then why set the films in any particular time frame? I'd argue (not with you, just as a way of clearing some ideas out...
  22. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    I might be confused about the definition (or your definition) of cliche but I'd argue the literal answer is, no. You might be right in saying that Raiders source material may have been considered cliche at the time Raiders was written ... though I'd argue that Pulp Adventure was a nearly...
  23. MikeKardec

    Film Noir Office

    A darkly funny take on Vettriano --

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