I came in here to talk about Kirk. Sniped.
It was worse than that in Spanish, Star Wars was called “La Guerra de Las Galaxias”
http://www.micromo.es/la-guerra-de-las-galaxias
Literally:* The War of the Galaxies*. I only remember seeing a sentient Galaxy in Futurama and it was not the fighting kind.
Dude, it is about dreams. It’s not open to interpretation, either. I think you have…imbued your own thoughts onto it. I’ll quote the screenplay, though this isn’t the only(and maybe not the best) reference.
But it’s an error of very long standing. The creature was referred to as "Frankenstein"by commentors and in plays within Mary Shelley’s own lifetime, in political cartoons from the 19th century, and in the Peggy Webling play that is the nominal (at least) source for the Universal movie.
And it should be noted that the Creature never has a name in the book, so it needs some kind of handle. Frankenstein himself calls it a number of things, but usually “The Wretch”. Some people claim that its name is Prometheus, but that’s never used in the book, and I think is a misreading of the book’s subtitle “The Modern Prometheus”, which actuallt refers to Victor Frankenstein.
My contribution:
It isn’t a mistake made much anymore, but Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as many people have pointed out, is no “Uncle Tom”, He was a self-respecting individual who, despite the burden of slavery and Simon Legree’s punishments, didn’t kowtow or sell out.
Yeah, calling a black person an “Uncle Tom” has always been an insult I got the meaning of but never really understood why it was used that way. Tom was, as you said, not a pliant or particularly servile slave. Yes, he was enslaved, but he was no Stephen from Django Unchained. (Despite being a ridiculous movie Jackson’s portrayal of Stephen was a pretty amazing manifestation of the concept of an “Uncle Tom.”)
As successful as the book Uncle Toms’s Cabin was, far more people saw the minstrel and stage shows it spawned, where Tom (usually portrayed by an actor in blackface) was portrayed as cowardly, obsequious, shiftless, etc. The minstrel show depictions were the source of Uncle Tom as an epithet.
I’ll have to reread it, 'cause I was remembering the Creature, having been taught to read from the Bible, names himself “Legion” for his parts are many.
I’d go with a more clinical one:
Yusuf: Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times to normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded: it’s three dreams, that’s ten hours times twen…
Eames: I’m sorry, uh, maths was never my strong subject. How much time is that?
Cobb: It’s a week the first level down. Six months the second level down, and… the third level…
Ariadne: …is ten years! Who would wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years?
Yusuf: Depends on the dream.
Inception is definitely about dreams. It’s similar to VR, but the environment is the dream of one of the participants, not a machine-hosted fiction - this is why the non-player characters are hostile to all participants except the host.
The machine is just a mechanism to facilitate the sharing - the dream happens in the heads of the participants.
Yes, the book really makes this clear. It’s all about man’s fear of the wild and their attempt to conquer it.
In the Heat of the Night was a good book and a fantastic movie about racial tensions in the early 1960’s South. Really praiseworthy.
The TV series wasn’t.
Everybody knows that Dracula was killed with a stake to the heart.
Everybody except Bram Stoker, that is. It was a Bowie knife.
Jim Bowie, Vampire Hunter!
Which is, for any who don’t already know it, exactly what happened in the casting call. She thought the movie would be about illegal aliens and showed up dressed as one.
The concept that Vulcans cannot lie was introduced in the TOS episode The Enterprise Incident, in which practically everything Spock says is a lie, as part of a complicated plot to steal a piece of Romulan technology.
Exactly. Letting your cruel master beat you to death rather than squeal on runaway friends is hardly being a spineless toady.
Legree tells Tom that he’s determined to kill Tom if he doesn’t tell what he knows. Tom calmly says, “I haven’t got anything to tell, Master.” Legree snarls that Tom has to know something, but Tom replies, “Of course I know…but I’ll die before I say a word.”
Now, Tom DID submit to being at the beginning of the book rather than run away like Eliza did when her son was about to be sold, but IIRC (I don’t have the book in front of me) he only did so because he knew if he ran away, someone else would have to be sold in his place, and he couldn’t live with that.
41 references to the creation as “the fiend”
33 references as “the monster”
11 as “the wretch”
No indication of the word “legion” or “bible.”
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SNF is not a caustic comment on disco culture. Tony is a loser with a dead end job who lives with his parents and is going nowhere. However when he goes to a disco he becomes an important person with influence and recognition because of his dancing abilities. The characters in the film are losers who are not very bright, but the film shows the allure of disco and why people like it.
Maybe this is what the poster was thinking of.