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  1. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    Sounds like we worked in the biz around the same time. I started as a college student in 1981 and quit a number of times, my last credit was in 2001 when I was asked to do a semi Indy clone for USA Cable. It was fun and ticked off most of the boxes you mentioned. Because a lot of the issues...
  2. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    One of the greatest action moments (in my ridiculous opinion) in a film was in a generally terrible James Woods movie "Cop" that was an early adaptation of a James Ellroy novel (either Blood on the Moon or Suicide Hill, I can't remember ... but why, in God's name change the title?!). James...
  3. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    Even the sequels had a hard time taking Indy seriously. Someone who actually understood Pulp Adventure stories and the Adventure movies of the period worked on Raiders of the Lost Ark ... that sensibility vanished when it came to the other films. Maybe it was Philip Kaufman or Lawrence Kasdan...
  4. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    Those two guys perfectly triangulate Ford. Selleck would have been to straight and wimpy (I don't mean physically but in those days, as opposed to now, he had more of an "aw shucks," the light comedy personna), Walken had the sleeziness that in it's Ford incarnation was amusing and gave Indy an...
  5. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    The key to everything: The audience only wants to know what happens next. Raiders was magnificent at putting us in this space. A lot of films trip themselves up by thinking too much and trying to answer unanswered questions ... ESPECIALLY sequels! Possibly the best and quickest off the mark...
  7. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    A follow up on my own blather about film making: I used to teach and guest lecture about the film business. I was never the most knowledgeable guy in Hollywood but I did learn a thing or two. The most important is this: There is NO film business, there is only the distribution business...
  8. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Always have a Plan B. It doesn't have to be what you do if you don't make it, it more like what you do to survive while you put in the 10,000 hours that are minimal for competence. I lived with a father who had no Plan B and he had the steel spine to stare into the abyss every day, he taught...
  9. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Writing what you want to write and writing what will sell and make you money are often different and mutually exclusive things. Most commercially successful writers start off writing what they "want" and then learning how to want to write what will sell. The early "wanting" is often the part...
  10. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    If you're up for a laugh read Larry Niven's "Man of Steel Woman of Kleenex" or why Superman can't get a girl. it's kind of gross but amusing.
  11. MikeKardec

    Weapons in the Movies

    Or the range of the aircraft. I'm just guessing about that one I haven't seen the movie yet.
  13. MikeKardec

    WONDER WOMAN

    Slightly off the subject but I really get a kick out of watching Scarlett Johanssen and Robert Downy work. Their styles are utterly opposite. He's all classic movie star, Clark Gable, just hitting the high points, having a good time and making it all look effortless. This is not the way he...
  14. MikeKardec

    Noir lit

    I loved it too at about the same age, though I think it was in reruns. I loved that they cast Fred Astaire. I loved these simple guys who have some extremely limited goal that they pursue to the absolute limits. It's extremely important, and often forgotten, that characters should always be...
  15. MikeKardec

    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    A lot of weird things were happening then. Mike Hammer is interesting because he's VERY emotional and it doesn't seem that was a big part of male role models in those days. My memories of him are like more like a super id than a superhero. I'm not a fan of comics even though I've worked a bit...
  16. MikeKardec

    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    Batman (and Ironman) are almost exceptions to what I was thinking. However, in recent versions great emphasis is now put on Bantam's wealth yet I can't remember how he made his money (that's not a rhetorical device, I truly can't remember), Ironman was at least a "Steve Jobs/Sam Cummings" (SC...
  17. MikeKardec

    Show us your Guns!

    After a period of nonsensically despising striker fired pistols, I now really like them ... once the triggers are improved. I should really try the SIG, I used to like their DA guns a lot.
  19. MikeKardec

    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    As Lizzie sort of said, Hollywood, especially in the Depression, traded in lifestyle porn. Even the actors in those days were often more classically good looking than many today ... we tend to forget that because now we define attractiveness by the way people who are celebrities look, more...
  20. MikeKardec

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I too think that too much is made of it and that there is something more to it, something I don't yet understand completely. I come from the land of conspicuous consumption (though I also come from the land of rapidly changing fortunes, which may be an aspect worth considering) and I never saw...
  21. MikeKardec

    Noir lit

    I really like both of these guys and I do not remember Kerr seeming as defensive about his German/Nazi characters in the early books. I suspect the came under some pressure or criticism I am unaware of. Regardless I'll read anything they write and I always feel I've learned something. Not...
  22. MikeKardec

    Noir lit

    Furst seems to have made a fetish of minimalism (wonderful in his prose but not his plots) and takes on that "French" style of making a story all about nothing; the futility of life, etc. On the other hand most of his work is about the early part of the war that and the fact that it is French...
  23. MikeKardec

    Reading Glasses

    Shuron Rosnir's are frames for prescription glasses but quite reasonable priced. The up side is they some in many different lens diameters, bridge widths, and temple lengths. They will fit you if anything can.

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