Margaret got into everyone’s business and was quirky as hell. Simply wanting to check out the Hot Girl is as much about her quirkiness as anything. IMHO.
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books and one of my favorite movies.
It took the made-up trivia thread to realize that attorney Atticus Finch is a bird who gets mocked for defending Tom Robinson. FINCH being his last name is obviously not a coincidence, but it never occurred to me.
I do like to think that Dennis Finch of Just Shoot Me is his grandson.
That’s not the way jokes work. If Margaret was just being quirky then there was no need to have the men show up before her. The scene only works if you see the men’s appearances as the set-up and Margaret’s appearance as the punchline.
She’s just being curious. She saw all the guys falling over themselves to get in there and went to see what all the fuss was about. Any woman would do the same.
I think it was from a post here that I realised that the mask in the movie Scream is supposed to be a 3D rendering of the face in the painting.
Whoa! Thanks. Just realized that now myself.
I’d like to see a reliable cite for that. They aren’t really all that similar.
For years, I thought the line in Boney M’s “Rasputin” was “and his eyes were flaming coals.”
Watching them on YouTube the other day, I could tell from the way their mouths moved that it’s “in his eyes a flaming glow.” :smack:
[Shrugs] The movie is named Scream. Imagine someone wearing that mask holding there hands up to their face, like in the painting.
Shrug right back at you. Have you taken a good look at them both?
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The Scream has a human face, with skin. Ghostface is a skull.
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The Scream has round eyes, Ghostface has eyes shaped like a ,
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The Scream has eyelids and irises. Ghostface has empty black holes.
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The Scream has two nostrils. Ghostface has a slit shaped like ^
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The Scream has a short chin. Ghostface has a chin at least twice as long.
All I can say is, if the mask was deliberately based on the painting, they did a really lousy job of it.
This is convinced the mask is at least partly based on the painting:
I saw that. Uncited claim. I think I’ll add a citation needed tag to it.
in general people use nicknames and shortened names more than full names with friends and family unless they are angry - Steph instead of Stephanie for friendly, and then you add in a middle name or last name when angry - Stephanie Michelle Plum, what do you think you are doing!!! [you know the whole angry mom thing]
I variously call mrAru Rob, Andy, McGrew, butthead and fucker [it is a military thing] when not pissed. He knows I am peeved when I just use his surname …
There’s kind of an odd scene in Men in Black. Just after Will Smith decides to join the MiB team, he goes into the vent building and rides the elevator down with Tommy Lee Jones. The elevator stops, the doors open, and they step onto a little platform that overlooks the whole operations floor, and then the platform lowers them down the rest of the way. How does that make any sense architecturally? Why doesn’t the regular elevator just take them the extra twenty feet down to the actual floor?
I thought of another one. Why doesn’t the Red October submarine (in The Hunt for Red October, or course) have rearward-facing sonar? We’re told that you can get behind a submarine and follow it undetected because the screws on the back create too much noise and create a blind spot for the sonar. But when Red October is using its secret, silent drive, they turn off the screws. If it’s so quiet that other subs can’t hear them, they should be able to listen to what’s behind them without having to turn in circles to check.
The obvious answer is that the first elevator was part of the original vent building architecture/construction, to get down into a big empty space into which all the MiB stuff was installed, at which point the fancy one took over.
(Or even more likely, it just looked cool… but it doesn’t strike me as implausible that a structure which had to look one way above ground and one way below ground would have some rough edges at the seams…)
On a regular sub the noise from the propeller(s) would overwhelm the sonar (or so I assume). For a super-quiet sub like the Red October, your idea is a great one! I suppose the author did not think of it, or focused on standard sub tactics for the book.
Don’t subs today have towed sonar arrays that trail behind the boat and are omnidirectional?
Not very obvious, but my brain connected the two last night:
Charles Schulz’s Peanuts had Snoopy reading a series of books by Miss Helen Sweetstory about the six bunny wunnies. The last title in the series as “The Six Bunny Wunnies visit Plains, Georgia”. The place of President Jimmy Carter’s famous killer rabbit incident.
God thing he didn’t see six killer bunny wunnies.