Best use of the one “fuck” allowed in a PG-13 movie, EVER
You amateurs. That’s how you recruit a Wolverine. Three words, boys. Three fucking words. Sometimes, just sometimes, Tony Stark rocks.
Akira Kurosawa with cast members Keiko Tsushima, Toshirō Mifune, Isao Kimura, and Minoru Chiaki on the set of Seven Samurai.
the-thought-emporium-imperial:
is it bad that i did the same thing at one point?
Nah. I think we all do before we know any better.
Eight in The Name Of The Doctor
It was driving me insane that everyone missed this! My brother caught it live, and I checked and yea, there he is plain as day, just Two was much more distracting.
Star Wars 80s High School: Luke Binary Sunset, Leia message, Vader, Leia and Troops, Han approaches Leia, Let Chewbie win, Millennium Falcon and Prof Yoda train Luke
Star Wars 80 High School, art by Denis Medri
Perfection.
Douglas Adams on Do-Re-Mi and the unacceptable weakness of “La”
“One particularly niggling piece of Unfinished Business, it occurred to me the other day in the middle of a singing session with my five-year-old daughter, is the lyrics to ‘Do-Re-Mi,’ from The Sound of Music. It doesn’t exactly rank as a global crisis, but nevertheless it brings me up short anytime I hear it, and it shouldn’t be that difficult to sort it out.
“But it is.
“Consider.
“Each line of the lyric takes the names of a note from the solfa scale, and gives it meaning: ‘Do (doe), a deer, a female deer; Re (ray), a drop of golden sun,’ etc. All well and good so far. ‘Mi (me), a name I call myself; Fa (far), a long, long way to run.’ Fine. I’m not saying this is Keats, exactly, but it’s a perfectly good conceit and it’s working consistently. And here we go into the home stretch. ‘So (sew), a needle pulling thread.’ Yes, good. ‘La, a note to follow so…’ What? Excuse me? ‘La, a note to follow so…’ What kind of lame excuse for a line is that?
“Well, it’s obvious what kind of line it is. It’s a placeholder. A placeholder is what a writer puts in when he can’t think of the right line or idea just at the moment, but he’d better put in something and come back and fix it later. So, I imagine that Oscar Hammerstein just bunged in a ‘a note to follow so’ and thought he’d have another look at it in the morning.
“Only when he came to have another look at it in the morning, he couldn’t come up with anything better. Or the next morning. Come on, he must have thought, this is simple. Isn’t it? ‘La… a something, something… what?’
“One can imagine rehearsals looming. Recording dates. Maybe he’d be able to fix it on the day. Maybe one of the cast would come up with the answer. But no. No one manages to fix it. And gradually a lame placeholder of a line became locked in place and is now formally part of the song, part of the movie, and so on.
“How difficult can it be? How about this for a suggestion? ‘La, a…, a…’ — well, I can’t think of one at the moment, but I think that if the whole world pulls together on this, we can crack it. And I think we shouldn’t let the century end with such a major popular song in such an embarrassing state of disarray.”
(via halexandria.org)Fantastic - and I totally agree.
