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#1 Calvary

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Posted 28 December 2014 - 07:03 AM

I thought as a response to the Obviously, Duh, thread, we could have a fun facts thread. It's always pretty great just to accrue random useless facts, so lemme at 'em!

 

I'll start with this:

 

Scaled appropriately, Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake due to its topographical...flatness.


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 08:54 AM

Remember the show Road Rovers? After the first time it aired, a segment called The Russian Names Song was removed from an episode.

 


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 09:30 AM

I thought as a response to the Obviously, Duh, thread, we could have a fun facts thread. It's always pretty great just to accrue random useless facts, so lemme at 'em!

 

I'll start with this:

 

Scaled appropriately, Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake due to its topographical...flatness.

Scaled appropriately, the entire planet Earth is as smooth as a marble.


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 09:59 AM

Remember the show Road Rovers? After the first time it aired, a segment called The Russian Names Song was removed from an episode.

 

 

I was wondering why the hell that would've been removed before watching it.

 

Oh.

 

 

"Facilitator" comes from the French facille, "easy". So, a facilitator is one who makes things easier.


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 12:50 PM

I just read that in China, in their smart phone factories, have nets to prevent suicide.

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Posted 28 December 2014 - 06:54 PM

Watts on a light bulb don't measure electricity pulled in but the light it projects in wavelengths. Haha I learned that in physics in high school and it stuck


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 07:04 PM

Dirty Harry, the movie that made Clint Eastwood a household name, was a message movie: Fuck those horrible pro-criminal SCOTUS cases from the '50s and '60s.


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 07:13 PM

Social media lowers self esteem. I am guilty of this ( ._.) .........



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Posted 28 December 2014 - 07:15 PM

Social media lowers self esteem. I am guilty of this ( ._.) .........

Probably for introverts. The type of extroverts who are comfortable around ev'r'body and by themselves content as a pig in shit don't get bogged down with that stuff.


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 08:23 PM

Social media lowers self esteem. I am guilty of this ( ._.) .........

I avoid that shit like it's the plague, and I am a pretty peppy guy, so there might be something to that.

 

You can remove four of the five letters in the word queue and it will still be pronounced the same.


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 08:32 PM

Mandatory Fun, the most recent album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, was not only his first #1 album in the United States, but was the first comedy album to manage this feat since August 1963.


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 08:58 PM

All Dogs go to Heaven was forced to endure censorship for a G rating. There were two scenes where the majority of this was done: The first is when Charlie was killed. The original cut actually showed the car hit him and Charlie’s body sailing through the air and into the water.

 

The second is from Charlie’s still rather unsettling nightmare sequence, the only missing bits I’ve been able to find being this cel:

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Originally Charlie was chased around by the demon.

 

Another minor edit came to the gun that Killer has. I forget exactly what it was changed to, but originally it was just a plain old Tommy Gun. This alteration was due to a school shooting that occurred where many children lost their lives. Having the gun be something more phantasy like avoided any controversy.

 

I’ve heard rumors about the lost footage. Some say Don Bluth still has an uncut copy himself while other claim it was stolen, although it seems highly unlikely there would only be one copy.

 

The Land Before Time was hacked and slashed so bad about ten minutes of fully animated scenes were removed. The Sharp Tooth was deemed much too scary for kids, so most of his screen time was cut. When he killed Little Foot's mother it was a lot more brutal; she was bit on camera and, if you pause at the right moments, you can see some blood and puncture wounds that they tried to cut out.

 

For some reason a watering hole scene was entirely taken out as well as a part of when they meet Spike.

 

These are the only glimpses of the deleted footage that I've found:


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 09:12 PM

Sudden text changes cause discomfort and confusion. #TrueFact


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Posted 29 December 2014 - 01:52 PM

The Alfred Hitchcock film "rope" consists of what is the illusion of one uninterrupted shot. Although there are a few noticeable cuts, he does a pretty good job.

The film is 80 minutes long, but the sun moves through the sky the equivalent of 100 minutes.

The camera dolly ran over one of the cast member's feet, but the shot made it into the movie.
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Posted 29 December 2014 - 03:03 PM

Alfred Hitchcock, largely considered the greatest director of all time, never won an Oscar.


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Posted 29 December 2014 - 05:18 PM

On the topic of Hitchcock, apparently he was a terrible human being when it came to his movies.

Harassing actors when they didn't do what he wanted, terrorising several actresses to the point of mental beakdown and no longer wanting to be in movies.

I think there were also a few that he refused to pay after the movie they were in became a hit because he felt they didn't earn pay with their performance.

Pretty harsh shit.


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Posted 29 December 2014 - 05:55 PM

I've heard that too.

But, he did make a lot of fucking great movies.
That being said, I wouldn't call him tge greatest director ever. Maybe top ten.
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Posted 29 December 2014 - 06:00 PM

I said "largely considered."

 

I'd say either Nolan or Tarantino is my favorite director of all time.  Quality and consistency.

 

Back to the topic at hand. *Ahem.*

 

The lightsaber with the two extra prongs is based on the concept of a hilt, which is more than just window dressing.  It makes it much more difficult to disarm a fellow swordsman with your sword.  It is an idea that maybe somebody with fresh eyes on the whole thing just went "Why don't they just push down when they're in sword-lock and laser lance the other's hand off?"


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Posted 29 December 2014 - 06:15 PM

For me, tie between Kubrick, Kurosawa, Truffaut and Tarkovsky for me.

In the kubrick film "lolita", Peter Seller's american accent was really just an impersonation of Kubrick.

Sadly, 1800 feet of the original print of kurosawa's first film are lost forever

Truffaut conducted a series of interviews with Hitchcock prior to their deaths.

Tarkovsky was a fan if both Kurosawa and Bergman. Later in their careers, both of these directors expressed their appreciation of Tarkovsky's films.
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Posted 29 December 2014 - 07:10 PM

For me, tie between Kubrick, Kurosawa, Truffaut and Tarkovsky for me.

In the kubrick film "lolita", Peter Seller's american accent was really just an impersonation of Kubrick.

Sadly, 1800 feet of the original print of kurosawa's first film are lost forever

Truffaut conducted a series of interviews with Hitchcock prior to their deaths.

Tarkovsky was a fan if both Kurosawa and Bergman. Later in their careers, both of these directors expressed their appreciation of Tarkovsky's films.

Watch Being There, probably Peter Sellers' best work.

 

On topic, dolphins are one of the few species other than humans who have sex for pleasure.


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