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| lady wakasa |
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Earl - I just found a real-life answer to your Slumdog concern on imdb, although it's not quite how it played out in the movie (although I was wondering about the live vs taped thing too):
Quote: Last year in Australia we had a special 6 week series of 'Who Wants to be a 'multi' Millionaire which was filmed live. I was actually a phone a friend and had to go to the studio where they locked us away in a room with a camera on us to wait to see if we were called while it was filmed. We weren't allowed to see any of the show because we'd see the question in advance, and we were told to sit in silence and that all of a sudden there may be a voice in our ear if he used his phone a friend on one of us. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:24 pm |
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lady wakasa wrote: Earl - I just found a real-life answer to your Slumdog concern on imdb, although it's not quite how it played out in the movie (although I was wondering about the live vs taped thing too):
Quote: Last year in Australia we had a special 6 week series of 'Who Wants to be a 'multi' Millionaire which was filmed live. I was actually a phone a friend and had to go to the studio where they locked us away in a room with a camera on us to wait to see if we were called while it was filmed. We weren't allowed to see any of the show because we'd see the question in advance, and we were told to sit in silence and that all of a sudden there may be a voice in our ear if he used his phone a friend on one of us.
Interesting, lady.
Well, obviously they don't do it at all like they do in the U.S. where I read an article somewhere about how doing the show takes FOREVER and is very different in the studio from what you see at home. And then of course in Australia, this person obviously didn't know about...the other little room where they take you to beat the shit out of you before they put you back on the air. As to the smug host, I could just see a producer/host and mild-mannered originator such as Merv Griffin (of any number of shows) doing a real number on the contestant to protect his own nest egg. So there!  |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:33 pm |
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carrobin wrote: I haven't seen "Quantum of Solace," but I enjoyed Craig Ferguson's riff on it. Apart from having "the worst title" of any Bond movie, it had the worst villain--one who was only after money. In the old days, he reminded us, they had a villain who could kill you with a hat.
Yeah, whatever happened to world domination? I haven't seen Quantum of Solace yet either. I'm waiting for it to get to the dollar house so I can see it on 50 Cent Tuesday. Then if I don't like it, I won't feel too ripped off. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:34 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: Well, obviously they don't do it at all like they do in the U.S. where I read an article somewhere about how doing the show takes FOREVER and is very different in the studio from what you see at home. And then of course in Australia, this person obviously didn't know about... the other little room where they take you to beat the shit out of you before they put you back on the air. As to the smug host, I could just see a producer/host and mild-mannered originator such as Merv Griffin (of any number of shows) doing a real number on the contestant to protect his own nest egg. So there!
Well, he was just the lifeline. They're not in on everything, lol.
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I remember the old days, when villains were world-class. They wanted to take over EVERYTHING. Now it's just about the money *sigh* |
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| carrobin |
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| It's hard to see Bernie Madoff as a Bond villain, but he probably stole more money than any of them. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:44 pm |
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| There was a story that Osama Bin Laden took a hit from Madoff... but it turned out to be an Onion piece. |
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lady wakasa wrote: mo_flixx wrote: Well, obviously they don't do it at all like they do in the U.S. where I read an article somewhere about how doing the show takes FOREVER and is very different in the studio from what you see at home. And then of course in Australia, this person obviously didn't know about... the other little room where they take you to beat the shit out of you before they put you back on the air. As to the smug host, I could just see a producer/host and mild-mannered originator such as Merv Griffin (of any number of shows) doing a real number on the contestant to protect his own nest egg. So there!
Well, he was just the lifeline. They're not in on everything, lol.
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At least Goldfinger wanted it in bullion. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:13 pm |
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Syd wrote: At least Goldfinger wanted it in bullion.
And since at that point paper money was still backed with gold, you'd have the added bonus of bringing down world economies. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:21 pm |
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lady wakasa wrote: Earl - I just found a real-life answer to your Slumdog concern on imdb, although it's not quite how it played out in the movie (although I was wondering about the live vs taped thing too):
Quote: Last year in Australia we had a special 6 week series of 'Who Wants to be a 'multi' Millionaire which was filmed live. I was actually a phone a friend and had to go to the studio where they locked us away in a room with a camera on us to wait to see if we were called while it was filmed. We weren't allowed to see any of the show because we'd see the question in advance, and we were told to sit in silence and that all of a sudden there may be a voice in our ear if he used his phone a friend on one of us.
Thanks, Lady. That's interesting to know. I realize now that the way I should have phrased my concern was "that moment never would have happened on live TV so that Jamal's 'Phone-a-Friend' could have seen it live."
Anyway, I want to re-emphasize that the moment in question didn't detract from my enjoyment of the movie because, in spite of what I believe to be a logical inconsistency, that scene was the one that most got to me emotionally and made my eyes watery because...
SPOILERJamal's immediate concern, when he realized that Latika was on the phone instead of his brother, was Latika's welfare. "Where are you?" he blurted. And when she replied with "I'm safe," it was as if all tension drained from him in an instant. His body language, the look on his face and the tone of his voice all conveyed unadulterated bliss. He seemed to care very little (perhaps not at all?) about the outcome of the game show at that point. His love was safe and he knew that the next day he would meet her under the clock in the train station, the place where he'd promised her he would wait every day at 5pm until she met him there. That was all that mattered. END SPOILER
...it was a joyous and beautiful moment.
I took my mother with me to see Slumdog Millionaire and she liked it, too. At one point in the game show there was a question about the sport of Cricket. A couple seconds after the question appeared onscreen, Mum leaned over to me and whispered what turned out to be the correct answer. "I didn't think you followed Cricket," I said to her afterwards. "I don't," she told me, "but I knew that answer." |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:37 pm |
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Though not exactly Current Films, this is au courant about films:
25 films make up the 2008 entries in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, bringing the total of titles preserved thus far to 500:
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-237.html
This year's list:
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Deliverance (1972)
Disneyland Dream (1956)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Flower Drum Song (1961)
Foolish Wives (1922)
Free Radicals (1979)
Hallelujah (1929)
In Cold Blood (1967)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
The Killers (1946)
The March (1964)
No Lies (1973)
On the Bowery (1957)
One Week (1920)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Sergeant York (1941)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
So’s Your Old Man (1926)
George Stevens WW2 Footage (1943-46)
The Terminator (1984)
Water and Power (1989)
White Fawn’s Devotion (1910) |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:38 pm |
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| Flower Drum Song?????????????????????????? |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:42 pm |
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From the Library of Congress website:
Quote: Flower Drum Song (1961)
This film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical marked the first Hollywood studio film featuring performances by a mostly Asian cast, a break from past practice of casting white actors made up to appear Asian. Starring prominent Asian-American actors Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta, this milestone film presented an enduring three-dimensional portrait of Asian America as well as a welcomed, non-cliched portrait of Chinatown beyond the usual exotic tourist façades. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:00 am |
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It's a crappy movie, dull cinematically, dramatically, and musically. Can't understand why it was marked for preservation. There are a couple of good songs; I'm glad the cast recording remains available. Still...
And what does it matter that they didn't cast whites as Asians, when they just cast an African American, instead? |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:27 am |
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The Russian movie Mongol was nominated last year for a Foreign film Oscar. It has great sets and costumes and the battle scenes are grand and gory. It shows Genghis Khan as a child and as a young man, his love for and commitment to his young wife, his many battles with his enemies and his emerging as the supreme Mongol leader. This is supposed to be the first part of a triology. Good movie.
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| Nancy |
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| I enjoyed Mongol too. |
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