Nitpick, Walter wasn’t born Jewish. He converted for his ex-wife.
That’s why I’m asking if he counts.
And he’s not really a legitimate tough-guy hero. He’s a joke.
But you have to admit that he’s about as far from the Jeff Goldblum-type stereotype as you can get.
Who was the first male sex symbol in Hollywood–even before Valentino? Sessue Hayakawa!
I mean, the modern one, the PLA.
Walter’s good. I’ve known plenty of Jewish guys like Walter.
I think its very uncreative on the part of movie makers to always go for this cliche when it could be played off some other way. Movies may not be realistic but they try their best to fake realism. This is just my pet peeve, because honestly, it would be sooooooooo easy to do it more realistically and still come off good. I just cannot believe that it is some kind of glass ceiling that they cannot break through
The other parts of a movie are there for a reason. You have to have a monster or killer in a horror movie otherwise the whole premise falls apart. My problem with these particular cliches is how arbitrary they are, and ultimately pointless. It would not conflict one bit with anything in a movie to see a character drink a Fanta instead of a cola brand Cola. Hell, it would save money so that the prop department doesn’t have to make it up, they could just use the soda the guy is really drinking and put that in the movie
How about a movie about a busy business lady who has no time for love because she’s too busy with business, where she decides in the end that she does feel perfectly fulfilled and she tells Matthew McConaughey (it’s always Matthew McConaughey) to take a hike?
I wasn’t asking for the set to show the hallway, just to be designed like the house has one. Have a door that opens to the hallway where the bathrooms and bedrooms are; when the people on screen yell for someone who’s in another room, you hear them come down the hallway. It is done in Spanish theater all the time.
The thread was about what we would like to see. I’m sorry my dislike for seeing sets that are copied from others that make no sense in my cultural context offends you. Maybe you’d like to see movies set in Arizona where the houses have about 1m worth of cut stone, the rest of rocks, the roof is curved gables and it rains all the time.
Of course, you could make it to see them actually today … by going the Star Trek New Voyages route: get a group of people who know how to do it (either because they work(ed) in that field or have lay experience from hobby) and then
write the scripts (for all the ideas mentioned, if you can, and draw lots in which order to film them)
build the sets
get (lay) actors
sew or buy the dresses
do the make-up, lighting, sound, …
record on a video camera
edit on a computer (network to make a big supercomputer) with special effects
put on the Internet for download
If you aren’t using established characters like the Trekkies do, you can even offer the option of paying money via paypal for the whole movie (and offer a short segment for free, or offer the whole movie and wait how generous people are/ how many viewers it attracts)
That’s the beauty of the internet and technology today - you can work indepent of Hollywood.
Even cheaper option: use some video editing software and use clips from (free domain because old) movies cut together into a new one.
not quite the same but there was a Segal movie where he dies in the first 20 min or so…his best work ever.
Yep, it’s standard farce choreography. A hallway, though arguably accurate, would just interfere.
I would like to see a couch that’s actually set against a wall, though. That never seems to happen in sitcoms.
It sounds like something they’d use for a bad SNL skit that goes on far too long and stops being funny long before that.
So, apparently, while The Hunger Games has been an opening weekend smash, there is a significant contingent of fans who are very upset that one of their favorite characters, Rue, was cast as “some black girl”:
The article makes the point that the actual text of the book describes many of these characters as being dark-skinned.
Executive Decision? I agree, if so. I cheered.
Conversely (?), I would love to see the end of the comic book movie: “Whoa, you have super powers!” “Yeah, that’s why I’m robbing you blind, fuck nuts. Here, let me break your neck for you before I have a go at your wife.” The End.
I think that’s really offensive. You shouldn’t expect to lay your actors just because you’re letting them be in your movie, and it doesn’t matter how much lay experience you have. Be a dignified business professional and offer them a proper contract instead.
IWLTS
young male actors who don’t have a three-days beard in order to appear masculine and rugged. Get a real beard - if you have the face for it - or shave like a normal person.
Young male and female actors who are so filled with knowing they’re beautiful (esp. when they aren’t really) that they exude a field of conceitedness 10 miles in diameter (Tom Cruise is one of the worst, but most current actors are bad in that regard - esp. compared to 70s or 80s where actors were still actors and not pretty faces only).
IWLTS the Dickie Bennett character BRUSH HIS HAIR AND PUT ON CLEAN CLOTHES!!!