One scene in ToD that could be causing confusion in some people’s minds is when Indy is being threatened by a bad guy waving swords at him. Harrison Ford kinda smirks and reaches for his gun in order to shoot the bad guy just as he did in RotLA. It’s so obviously a reference to the scene in RotLA - but it indicates that Harrison is “remembering” something that hadn’t happened yet.
Early sound films. The first public showing of sound movies (all shorts) was at the Paris Exposition in 1900.
The first feature-length movie with sound sequences was D.W. Griffith’s Dream Street (1921), which had one song sequence with star Ralph Graves, and some background voices during a second craps-shooting sequence. Griffith also appeared in a talking prologue. The sound version of this otherwise silent movie was shown only in New York.
The first feature-length movie with a complete soundtrack was a 1925 U.S. release of the German silent movie Siegfried, with an orchestral music score recorded by the DeForest Phonofilm process. This was a year before Warner Bros. released the feature Don Juan (1926) with a music score and sound effects.
The first feature-length movie with talking sequences was The Jazz Singer (1927). The first all-talking feature was Lights of New York (1928).
May I add to the myth-busting:
Gone With the Wind (1939) does not depict the Burning of Atlanta. It depicts a smaller event that occurred two and a half months earlier, the burning of the Atlanta Depot.
Actually, the item in The Hollywood Reporter originated with the Warner Bros. publicity department, which released the same info to dozens of newspapers two days later.
The character who chases after the Roadrunner in cartoons is NOT Wile E. Coyote, it’s just the Coyote. Wile E. Coyote is a different character, usually pursuing Bugs Bunny. Wile E. Coyote talks, the Coyote doesn’t.
If you put the sub-titles on the DVD it says “laugh and cry”, though it did sound like “effin’ cry” when I first heard it, and that’s what I always thought it was. Who knows, maybe it really is, and they had to change it to “laugh” for some reason?
This official Warner Bros site says it is ol’ Wile E. Where did you hear otherwise?
I’m glad you found that site, for a while then my entire belief in the stability of reality had been shook to the core by thinking that it might not have been Wile E. chasing the road runner. Shocks like that can damage ones faith mightily.
Go back and watch the actual cartoons. The unfailingly polite canine who tries to catch Bugs Bunny introduces himself as “Wile E. Coyote, super-genius” (with business card to match). I’ll have to double check, but I don’t remember any time in any of the cartoons with the Roadrunner when he’s given any name other “the Coyote”. In one, he breaks the fourth wall (but not the fifth) to explain to two kids watching him why he wants to catch the Roadrunner, but still no name.
50 years later, Warner Brothers can try to spin whatever story they want.
How often do any of the characters refer to themselves by name and/or present ID?
Perhaps the Wile E. Coyote cartoons were made later, and up until then the character hadn’t been given a proper name? I’m with those who say it’s the same character and was always meant to be. Many of the other WB characters evolved over time like the coyote. Is the totally insane, constantly hooting Daffy Duck of the earlier cartoons meant to be the same character as the grouchy, self-centered scoundrel of the later cartoons? Sure. At least I’ve never heard anyone seriously propose that there are two wildly different Daffy Ducks in the WB universe.
Of course, this opens up a BIG can o’ worms: What about Duck Dodgers? Was he really Daffy Duck? If so, why was he calling himself by another name? If not, why did he share Daffy’s appearance and characteristics? And what about the temporal anomalies? Bugs, Daffy, and several other characters appear to exist in the present, the Old West, the Dark Ages, and several other time periods, simultaneously. How is this possible if they are all the same characters? Quantum physics?
(Okay, semi-hijack concluded.)
I am fairly confident that on the many packages he gets from Acme it says Wile E. Coyote.
Similarly, the published, “official” lyrics of “Across the Universe” go:
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass, they slip away
John actually sings:
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away
Not so. The murderer mentioned in the beginning is Rustin Parr, who confessed to committing the murders himself. (The cabin Mike and Heather find at the end is supposed to be Parr’s cabin, though the movie itself doesn’t explain that.)
I always like to think of this in terms of the system in place at the time, with actors signed to a contract with a particular studio. As such, the Coyote, Wile E. Coyote and (with makeup) Ralph Wolf, of the wolf-and-sheepdog cartoons, are three different characters played by the same actor. Witness Daffy making his pitch to be cast as the heroic lead in The Scarlet Pumpernickel.
GangOc, I don’t recall any Acme packages going to “Wile E. Coyote”, but further research is clearly called for. Now, if I can just write a grant proposal and get funding to sit and watch all the Roadrunner cartoons.
Actually, the name of the monster is listed in the script and program of Peggy Webling’s play Frankenstein as “Frankenstein”. and this play was at least nominally the source for the film. IIRC, earlier play versions of the story had done the same thing. (You can see photos of the play’s program in the Universal Script edition)
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How is the monster’s creator listed?
Kirk never ever said, “Beam me up, Scotty.” He used many variations on that phrase, but never those exact words.
And the ending to AI was originally proposed by Kubrik. It was NOT tacked on by Spielberg.
The first Roadrunner & Coyote cartoon was Fast and Furry-ous (1949). Wile E. Coyote first met Bugs Bunny in Operation: Rabbit (1952), which is also the first time he talked.
The Big Cartoon database, which is steeped in cartoon lore, assumes that the two Coyotes are the same person. So does the Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion.
Subtitles aren’t always 100% accurate. All I know is, I’ve never heard a “L” sound.
It’s “With great power, there must also come great responsibilty”, not “With great power comes great responsibility.”
(Though at this point the original’s been misquoted so often that the revised version has probably crept into the cartoon or the original movie or some other quotable source).
Has anyone mentioned “My dear Watson” yet?