But we have a similar situation in Sharknado so we know this is what actually happens. Shoot (or spear or chainsaw) a shark being tossed around by tornado-level winds and it will immediately fall out of the sky. I’ve seen it.
Well, they couldn’t put it in a movie if it wasn’t true!
Just saw this one again for the umpteenth time on Chicago PD.
Cops get a tip on a suspects whereabouts so two plainclothes detectives go to find and question them. Maybe at a church, or a factory, a retail store, etc.
When they find the guy, rather than one cop slowly approaching them while the other cop circles around the other side of the suspect to have them trapped, they stand next to each other and call out the suspects name from across the room “Hey, Jim Brown! We want to talk to you!” and 10 times out of 10 the guy/gal takes off on foot escaping out a back door.:smack:
I encourage you to seek out the film 'Round Midnight to see an excellent way to avert this problem: hire actual musicians and let them actually play the songs on film.
That’s just crazy talk.
An early SNL skit had John Belushi as Beethoven, quietly composing a sonata or whatever when he suddenly goes into Ray Charles mode. I think he might have been doing “What’d I Say”. He’s facing us while seated at the piano so we can’t say his arms below the elbows. Big laugh from the audience as he performs a huge glissando (“sliding” fingers up or down the keyboard). We hear a right-to-left (high-to-low) glissando but Belushi mimes the opposite action (low -to-high). The disconnect between sight and sound was hilarious. It had to have been intentional.
Agreed. Another workaround which didn’t impress me can be seen in Five Easy Pieces, Jack Ncholson’s first film after Easy Rider, IIRC.
Jack’s character is a former child prodigy classical pianist who’d dropped out of his life for many years, and is now revisiting his estranged family. At one point he plays a piano piece for his sister (or with her, can’t remember - the entire family is ). The hype was that Nicholson actually “learned to play classical piano” for the scene. I was underwhelmed when Jack’s performance was Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, a slow and extremely easy piece to play. No matter how many years he’d been away from the instrument, a former prodigy choosing a piece for advanced beginners* in that situation strained credibility.
- In my snooty opinion. Also, even an easy piece can be played superbly, mechanically, or adequately. I don’t remember where Jack’s performance would fall.
I apologize if this is posted upthread, but:
Someone gently closing the staring eyes of the recently deceased corpse.
Can’t do it. Tried twice (ie, two corpses). There’s a GQ OP I posted on that somewhere.
Speaking of intentional, remember “Dancing in the Dark” with Gilda Radner and Steve Martin? Gilda’s skirt and blouse are two different shades of white. That could have been a matter of the show’s costume department having to make do with what they had. Or it could have been intentional, and I choose to take it that way, because it’s that extra little dollop of absurdity.
Detectives are looking at a digital image but want to see something that’s not in the frame. They find a reflective surface in the image and zoom in on that to get a different view. Sometimes they need to further zoom in on a 2nd mirror before they can see their target. Digital images cannot be enhanced like that.
In some shows, this is done like slapstick, but I’ve also seen it taken seriously on CSI.
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Some movies set in the 1800's have as a theme that a player must borrow money, or throw in the deed to his land, to call a bet exceeding his table stake. I've always assumed this was fiction, but are we sure?I had to look up that piece since I am clueless about classical music…and I agree that it is one that a beginner ought to be able to play–even me with my totally non-existent skillz at the piano could probably learn to play it.
But it’s all in your asterisk. It sure sounds like a piece that has a HUGE amount of room for expression–it really sounds like you have to have had your dog die that morning in order to evoke the correct mood to play it as intended.
Now I have to dig up Jack’s performance and see if it is full of emotion.
Here you go.
So I’ve finally gotten around to watching Mindhunter, and although I’ve only watched two episodes so far I have to give them credit – I spotted two Pintos in episode 2. Not going to hold my breath for a Vega, though.
They’ve probably all rusted away to dust by now.
Speaking as the proud owner of a new '72 Vega that despite proper care and mild San Diego climate was literally worthless four years later (except for the tires). The LONG list of problems included rusted-out holes you could put your hand through. Click and Clack said you could HEAR a Vega rusting, and I almost believe them.