Random Rants Q': I protest against subtitles
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You do know that you can change your name, right?
And it's not as bad as PimpyMicPimp (look him up, he's real).
Yes, but people will still call me Kaitzilla forever.
Saw it happen to Tachywaxon.
Thanks for the info
Now that I know it will annoy you, roger that!
I see someone else already mentioned name changes. Forum names can sometimes have unintended consequences. I've been on TrekBBS for 14 years, and one day somebody registered with a username one letter off from mine. Next thing I knew, the mods and their buddies were accusing me of having a dual account (never mind that the other person was male and posted in areas of the forum I rarely go to, if ever). He was equally surprised to discover his name was that close to mine.
I mostly talk with civ 4 people.
A name change literally wouldn't work.
Thanks for the support though.
I soak up the occasional lazy Kai whenever I can get it.
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#hertoo, and her, and her and her. When looking up the bloopers reel for Liar, Liar (1997) for yonder thread - I was looking for the moment when Swoosie Kurtz deliberately breaks character to shout "overactor!" at Jim Carrey - I was aghast to see Carrey break character during the elevator scene with Krista Allen to compare her breasts to punching bags and pretend to jump her. I mean, Jesus Christ. I can't remember the scene that ended up in the movie, and I'm kind of afraid to look for it now. Just yesterday, I was saddened to read that Salma Hayek was forced into her semi-nude sex scene in Desperado (1995), which wasn't in the script when she signed on to the movie. She was told the scene was added after producers saw the screen-chemistry she had with Antonio Banderas. Uh-huh. Right. A couple of years ago, I read a similar story about Evangeline Lilly's semi-nude scenes in Lost, that she didn't want to do it but was pushed into it. After Charisma Carpenter accused Joss Whedon of abusive behavior while filming Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Michelle Trachtenberg said she was kept from being alone in a room with Whedon.
We're not talking about Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby-level villainy here. afaik. I guess I have to append everything I ever say about this type of news with "afaik." I don't think these women have accused anyone of physical assault, although, just from what we see in the bloopers reel, Krista Allen probably could. Hayek went so far as to say that Robert Rodriguez and Antonio Banderas tried to help her, clearing the set and pausing the filming whenever she asked (it doesn't seem like she was worried about the men she was working with, she just didn't want to do it - she was scared that her family, especially her father, would be humiliated). One thing I can't help noticing is that all five of these women were at the beginnings of their careers. Trachtenberg was literally a child. I noted that Trachtenberg didn't accuse Whedon of behaving badly towards her, but in a way, it's more insidious than that: People around her knew how Whedon was, didn't trust him with a kid, and tried to 'body-block' him for her. And, okay, Rodriguez and Banderas tried to put Hayek in the driver's seat while filming that scene - that's good, I guess - but did they storm into the producers' offices, shaking the new script pages in their fists and shouting "what kind of bull[cookies] is this?" Maybe they did, I dunno. Anyway, like I say, this isn't Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby-type stuff in these particular stories, but one gets the feeling this kind of crap was (is?) pretty much just-another-day in Hollywood.
The other day, Olivia Wilde publicly gave Harry Styles an "attaboy" for not being a [flaming] [tool] on her set. I think she was being serious, too. This is where we're at in 2021. A guy who's just not a donkey gets a 'thank you' from the woman he works for.
We're not talking about Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby-level villainy here. afaik. I guess I have to append everything I ever say about this type of news with "afaik." I don't think these women have accused anyone of physical assault, although, just from what we see in the bloopers reel, Krista Allen probably could. Hayek went so far as to say that Robert Rodriguez and Antonio Banderas tried to help her, clearing the set and pausing the filming whenever she asked (it doesn't seem like she was worried about the men she was working with, she just didn't want to do it - she was scared that her family, especially her father, would be humiliated). One thing I can't help noticing is that all five of these women were at the beginnings of their careers. Trachtenberg was literally a child. I noted that Trachtenberg didn't accuse Whedon of behaving badly towards her, but in a way, it's more insidious than that: People around her knew how Whedon was, didn't trust him with a kid, and tried to 'body-block' him for her. And, okay, Rodriguez and Banderas tried to put Hayek in the driver's seat while filming that scene - that's good, I guess - but did they storm into the producers' offices, shaking the new script pages in their fists and shouting "what kind of bull[cookies] is this?" Maybe they did, I dunno. Anyway, like I say, this isn't Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby-type stuff in these particular stories, but one gets the feeling this kind of crap was (is?) pretty much just-another-day in Hollywood.
The other day, Olivia Wilde publicly gave Harry Styles an "attaboy" for not being a [flaming] [tool] on her set. I think she was being serious, too. This is where we're at in 2021. A guy who's just not a donkey gets a 'thank you' from the woman he works for.
Quite a few productions now have what are called intimacy coordinators. These are people who work on the sets of plays, TV shows, and movies, to make sure that everyone involved in the production is aware of what intimate scenes are required (anything from a kiss on the cheek to full-out nudity/sex) and that the actors/actresses fully consent to performing such scenes. A further requirement is that the actors/actresses have an avenue to lodge complaints if their boundaries are violated (ie. the producer, director, or acting colleague throwing in something "extra" or altering the planned choreography of such scenes without the other actors'/actresses' consent).
This would have been handy to have even in the Harry Potter movies, as some of the kids were uncomfortable hugging and kissing other kids when the script called for it. That's why Ron only got a handshake in The Chamber of Secrets when Hermione returns from being un-Petrified... little Emma Watson wasn't comfortable hugging Rupert Grint.
There's plenty of examples of things like that, a particularly crappy recent one is the school dance scene in the season 2 finale of Stranger Things originally wasn't going to have kissing, then one of the writers jokingly suggested that Lucas and Max kiss, and after seeing Sadie Sink's negative reaction to that, decided "well now we have to add the kissing for real because making this teenage girl uncomfortable is hilarious"
Disgusting. Is she underage?
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Teenagers kiss. We all did it.
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it is or was or whatever the industry standart . Antonio Banderas was a global star or anything at the filming of Desperado ? Actually real courageous of him to do . ln the 1970s , at the height of "that" thing , Hollywood offering legs and stuff would not suffice and they would actually put sequences (totally unrelated) from generally "soft" variety in this country . Possibly until mid 1980s and forced out only by distributing companies starting to contribute to lslamists . And of course Weinstein fell only during Trump time , because Hollywood like hell couldn't like him ... And talk of human rights and stuff in the next project involving Brown people oppressing Brown people somewhere in the world .
That's a pretty wide generalization. I never did that in either junior high or high school, and it's not even the point. The point is that these young actresses are being ordered to do things that fall into the category of intimacy that they really don't want to do. And they should not be forced or coerced or shamed into it.
She's 18 now, but was 14 or 15 when season 2 was being filmed
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, just reached the point again where I feel that I can't possibly watch more Netflix, and I need a life again.
Luckily it's also bed time now, and that feeling will be over tomorrow (until when I can hopefully have a life again).
Luckily it's also bed time now, and that feeling will be over tomorrow (until when I can hopefully have a life again).
I haven't watched Netflix in years. There's plenty of interesting content on YouTube, though, if you get creative in your search words, or browse around a bit.
At some point I'm going to write a note to my MLA (local representative in the provincial Legislature), letting her know that if she hadn't done such a crappy job of being a cabinet minister, one person on her Facebook page wouldn't have been motivated to post a link to Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" - which in turn I wouldn't have followed and seen various other renditions of that song by other musicians - which wouldn't have led me to discover that I love panflute music by people other than Zamfir.
So because my Member of the Legislative Assembly is an incompetent idiot - the worst Minister of Education this province has had in living memory - I became a fan of Wuauquikuna and learned some new and interesting things both language-wise and about native South American musical instruments and how they differ from those used by native North American musicians. The guys in this group are multilingual and their livestream chats are a mix of English, Spanish, Quechua, Russian, and Polish, and sometimes they include a lesson in speaking Quechua or about the instruments they use.
Yeah, I should really tell her. And then tell her that doesn't cancel out what an idiot she's been about her pathological hate toward the public school system, the Calgary Board of Education (just the public board), her silence on the premier's notion that everything is fine in the classrooms even though cramming 30+ kids in a room means they can't possibly do social distancing; his notion is that teachers should "tidy up a little" at the end of the day, her pride at a budget that cut benefits to the disabled, and her utter refusal to communicate with teachers who try to reach her by phone, snail mail, and email (the latter is what led to someone posting the "Sound of Silence" link).
This keeps happening to me: the person living upstairs has the excellent life habit to not sleep during the night, but during the day, and keeps waking me up.
I won't be in this apartment forever, but it is really disgusting how some people just don't give af. They wouldn't like it if I called the police :/
I won't be in this apartment forever, but it is really disgusting how some people just don't give af. They wouldn't like it if I called the police :/
Not that it excuses being noisy, but some people are actually wired to be more awake and alert during the night, rather than during the day (I've had a lifetime of experience with this, and with people who insist that they're going to "straighten me out").
Right now it's close to 11 pm in my time zone. I don't expect to go to bed for at least another 6 hours. Most of the time I do try to be quiet out of consideration for the neighbors.
However, there's one set of neighbors who are noisy just about all the time, day or night. One of them has an awful cackling voice that carries, and I'm trying to figure out which apartment it is, so I can leave them a note to tone it down. It sounds like they sit out on the balcony and talk at the top of their lungs - which is obviously ridiculous in the winter, since it's too cold to do that and we're supposed to keep the balcony doors closed in winter anyway.
That wasn't a criticism of any particular streaming service :/, but rather of the situation in general.
I again need to have something to do outside of my apartment. I can only stomach X amount of screen time in my free time.
Bloody pandemic.
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