I’m standing with the CIA crew, regardless of how things shake out.
I’ll never quite wrap my head around why they bother deleting posts that have already been flagged; even my own get wiped, and it seems like someone gets grayed out while we're all online at once, yet I can't see any actual reason for it since, as gentlegull93 puts it, the post is already gone. Honestly, if a post is already flagged, what’s the point of scrubbing it, other than just playing psychological games with the person being targeted, and what does that actually accomplish for the rest of the CIA community? Well, let me tell you—it accomplishes nothing—because someone else will just step up and face the same fate, and that’s exactly how a community starts to dissolve, which is what people call censorship in any modern system these days. And what is censorship really for? It’s just there to mess with people. Come on, guys, go deal with your frustrations in your real lives instead.
Raymond Walker5 said:I agree that those two are easily among the absolute best. EMI is timeless, and Deborah's Theme is probably my number one Morricone piece, if not the best thing he ever wrote. The problem was I couldn't bring myself to vote for anything less than the maximum I set, given how much pure sonic bliss is packed in here.
I know exactly what you mean. 😁 When I heard Deborah's Theme live at the concert, I actually found myself tearing up; it’s just such a beautiful thing...
I really should have thrown a vote toward the main theme from The Mission, too.
Raymond Walker5 said:I’m with you on those two being some of the absolute best out there. Chi Mai is timeless, really, but Deborah's Theme might actually be his number one work for me, if not his best overall. Though I couldn't bring myself to vote for anything less than the maximum score I set, since there's just too much pure sonic bliss to ignore here.
I totally get where you're coming from. 😁 When I heard Deborah's Theme live at the concert, I actually found myself tearing up—it was just such a beautiful thing to experience...
I really should have thrown a vote toward the main theme from The Mission, too.
Morricone is a genius, but my heart belongs to Chi Mai and Deborah's Theme; I didn't bother voting for any of the others, mostly because why even bother when you want to keep the whole point of a poll from losing its meaning?
Morricone is a straight-up genius, but my heart really belongs to Chi Mai and Deborah's Theme; I didn't even bother voting for the others because, honestly, what's the point of a vote if you aren't picking the absolute best?
This isn't actually the first time we've heard the title "Inglourious Basterds," since Quentin Tarantino essentially lifted the name from an old Italian war flick released back in '78.
He originally intended to call the project "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France," but they eventually settled on "Inglourious Basterds," though he did tuck his original title away as the name for the movie's opening chapter.
The script was actually sitting there since 1998, but he just pushed it aside for a while to focus on finishing up "Kill Bill" and "Death Proof."
Even Jason Mraz lent a hand in getting the script over the finish line; apparently, Tarantino would loop "I'm Yours" constantly just to keep his head straight while writing.
There’s a moment where you hear Samuel L. Jackson’s voice before you ever see his face, acting as the narrator for the whole stretch involving Elle Driver.
Christoph Waltz wasn't even the initial thought for the role of Hans Landa, was he? In the early stages, Tarantino was actually looking at Leonardo DiCaprio for the part.
Then there was Adam Sandler, who was supposedly lined up to play Donny Donowitz, better known as "The Bear Jew," but he passed on it because he was tied up filming "Funny People."
Another German actress was almost cast as Bridget von Hammersmark; Tarantino wanted Nastassja Kinski, but the role ended up going to Diane Kruger instead.
That "movie within a movie" was produced by Eli Roth, the guy famous for horror hits like "Hostel" and "Cabin Fever," who shows up in the film as Donny Donowitz and produced that fake six-minute Nazi propaganda short called "Pride of Nations" that you can watch right here.
Michael Fassbender’s German sounded perfectly natural, which makes sense when you consider that he spent most of the film playing a German officer and was actually born in Germany.
Interestingly, the marketing materials had to be censored in Germany, with all the swastikas stripped out because displaying Nazi symbols is illegal there.
"Basterds" also marked the end of a long era for Tarantino and his editor, Sally Menke, who had handled all his films up to that point before she passed away shortly after the release.
Dorothy:"Then how can you talk if you don't have a brain?"
Scarecrow:"I don't know... But then again, some people without brains talk a lot... don't they?"
Tin Man:"Dorothy, what have you learned?"
Dorothy:"That if I ever go looking for my dreams again, I won't look outside my own backyard. Because if they aren't there, then I never really lost them in the first place!"
The movie is based on the children's books written by Frank Baum at the turn of the 20th century. The screenplay was penned by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, while the music and lyrics are credited to Harold Arlen and Edgar Harburg. The direction was handled by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, and King Vidor.
Paul Anderson7 said:A few actors who turned down iconic roles:
John Travolta passed on playing Forrest Gump, and after him, both Bill Murray and Chevy Chase said no to the role too.
Matthew Broderick turned down the role of Walter White in Breaking Bad.
Tom Selleck declined to play Indiana Jones.
Burt Reynolds passed on the chance to be Han Solo in Star Wars.
Kevin Costner turned down The Shawshank Redemption and filmed Waterworld instead.
I honestly can't picture any of them in those parts, so maybe they did us a favor by passing. 😁 Especially not someone as soft as Matthew Broderick playing Walter White in WW.
An incredibly gripping article from 2011 regarding all the little details surrounding the filming of the cult classic Stalker.
"But Stalker itself had a catastrophic history. While it's a well-known part of the film's legend that it had to be shot twice after the original film stock was ruined in the lab, it's less talked about that the entire production had by then already had to vacate its original location in northern Tajikistan after a major earthquake. Touched as such by disaster in its early life, the film would end up embraced by it. While the last month saw New York's drinking water deemed unfit for children, the toxic legacy of eventually filming near a chemical plant outside the US capital of Washington D.C. has been blamed for killing both lead actor Anatoli Solonitsyn and in 1986, just a few months after Chernobyl, Tarkovsky himself. Earlier this week it would have been his 79th birthday – there could hardly be a better moment to raise a glass."
This is easily the most fascinating part.
Even if most enthusiasts probably already know the main facts, there's no harm in repeating them for the new generations who are just starting to discover it.
Tarkovsky always gave off this underdog vibe, and he was so desperate to expose the sins of this world that he chose to go out that way. He's essentially the Jan Palach of the seventh art.
Carlo Pedersoli decided to go by the name Bud Spencer back in 1967, choosing it because he was a huge fan of Spencer Tracy and had a serious soft spot for his favorite American beer.
A legal expert by trade.
He was an Olympic swimmer back in 1952 and 1956.
In fact, he was the first Italian to swim the 50-meter freestyle in under a minute.
He teamed up with Terence Hill for 18 different films.
He’s also a pilot who owns a jet, a helicopter, and even runs his own small airline, having developed a bit of a flying addiction after filming... Più forte ragazzi!
Even Silvio Berlusconi personally recruited him into the "Forza Italia" party back in 2005.
At 85 years old now, he's actually closing in on his 79th role.
Superman's Kryptonian name is Kal-El, and his biological father was known as Jor-El.
Making his debut back in 1938, the character was born from an idea shared by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster on a summer evening in 1932 in >. It took them six long years just to find someone willing to buy the rights, and even then, they walked away with a measly $130.
The first man to step into the suit was George Reeves, while the second—and arguably the most iconic version we've ever seen—was Christopher Reeve.
Animated Superman films produced at the Max Fleischer studio back in 1941 are still widely considered some of the finest animation of the hero, and honestly, some of the best work to ever come out of that studio.
HAL 9000 just landed at number thirteen on the American Film Institute's ranking of all-time cinematic villains.
In the short story "Moxon's Master" (which is being adapted into a short film soon), written by Ambrose Bierce back in 1894, a computer simply refuses to lose a game of chess and ends up attacking its opponent—a human being. 👍
The Canadian actor Douglas Rain provided the voice for HAL 9000.
He’s one of the 101 most influential characters that never actually lived.
In the book Psycho: Behind the Scenes, Janet Leigh mentions that the intense shower scene actually took an entire week to film back in late December 1959.
Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates, a role he’d go on to reprise in three sequels: Psycho II (1983), Psycho III (1986), and Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990). He’s easily one of the 101 most influential characters to ever exist, even if he never actually lived.
Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz walked away with the Oscar for Best Screenplay back in 1942.
After making his mark with the score for Citizen Kane, Bernard Herrmann went on to compose music for several Hitchcockian films that earned massive critical acclaim, along with soundtracks for classics like Taxi Driver, Fear, Day, Stop the World, 12 Monkeys, and Kill Bill...
Perhaps the 101 most influential characters who never actually lived.
Bela Lugosi, the actor who became a household name in Hollywood for his portrayal of Dracula, was actually born in Lugos, Transylvania. You have to wonder if there’s just something specific in the air or the water over there, isn't there? When he passed away in 1956, the tribute to his legendary performance was so profound that he was even laid to rest dressed as Dracula, cape and all.
Source: 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived.
Well, the title pretty much says it all; if you happen to have any trivia, a random anecdote, or just some deep dive into film history you want to share with the rest of us, this is the spot. 🙂
I'll get us started:
Munch's expressionist masterpiece; Scream actually served as the inspiration for the cult classic Scream. That iconic mask from the movie was basically a literal attempt to mimic both the physical look and the sheer psychological breakdown of the figure on the canvas.
"A heap" refers to anything in the plural. It doesn't actually matter how much you're talking about; it could be two apples, twenty apples, or two hundred apples. It's all a matter of perception, really—as long as you define the term through the lens of plurality, you're technically always on solid ground. ☕
