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As a dramatic device it can work well, such as in the war film 'Hell in the Pacific'.
The problem with Sun is that she often seems to be able to understand and communicate quite well without actually speaking English! Anyone who has been in a situation, even a calm one, where nobody speaks their language will know this isn't how it works. You can perhaps understand basic stuff, but complicated concepts like 'we go out the back and you tap on the window as a decoy when I give my signal' is highly unlikely to be understood!
Yes, I was yelling at the TV because of that. That guy is the original 'cuckface soyboy'. Although I guess we see his character develop because he at least decides to fight back (with the fire axe) and then by braining that guy who was about to become a zombie. So his instinct to run away and hide got less.
That's a real shame as the ending was clearly set up for a second series. I had quite a lot of unanswered questions, such as, how actually is the disease spread? It seemed to be through some sort of sound frequency in the voice, but this was not made clear. Also, what level of intelligence/ability did the infected have? They seemed to have some basic level of concern for others and were able to recognise other humans, but could they feed themselves etc? If not, who was looking after them in the unsupervised zones? How many stages of the disease are there? They said stage six was rare, but what happens to the others? Death? We saw one or two infected with their mouths stitched up. How could they survive more than a day or so?
Well there's a lack of fat people represented in the film, so that may be a problem for her.
Yes it's hilarious. Particularly the torn/ragged clothes they wear. Why? OK they don't want to spoil their 'sunday best' but why would they wear completely ruined clothes like postapocalyptic zombies? The dancing in unison is pure camp, it's the sort of thing 1960s drama students doing 'primal dance therapy' or something would think really good. Also the ridiculous antiphonal chanting of the high priestess!
It's a shame because the rest of the film is really good, particularly the mounting sense of fear and unease. I get the impression they ran out of money/ideas on how to end it though. Similar to the ending of 'To the Devil a Daughter' in the 1970s.
There is only one known recording of Hitler's normal speaking voice, a secret tape made of his negotiations with the Finnish high command. He sounds rather similar to the actor in the film and I suspect this is what it was based on.
Q being gay is a combination of Woke and the silly modern obsession with a 'backstory' of the personal lives of characters. As far as I know the sexual preference of the old Q (Major Boothroyd) was never alluded to, so there's no reason for them to work it into the new version.
I think the reasons for killing him off are:
a. to garner publicity
b. because modern film-makers and fans are obsessed with 'story arcs' and 'character development' and therefore need to see some sort of conclusion to the arc. There's nothing wrong with that in literature, but it's a bit silly to expect it with cartoon characters like James Bond.
c. it's possible he's not actually dead and somehow got away from the explosion, ie in some sort of special blast proof room.
My guess is they got the idea from DC Comics who have been killing off superheroes (and then bringing them back again) for years. It's just a way of getting publicity and 'rebooting' the series.
And to be fair the black lesbian 007 was eventually put in her place by Bond and she submitted to his authority, so he wasn't exactly cucked by her.
Exactly, what is the problem millennials have with age gaps? My father was thirteen years older than my mother and they had a long, happy married life.
IIRC Moore said something like 'I didn't mind when I started having to have stunt doubles during the action scenes, but when I started having to have them in the love scenes it was time to quit.'
Ah ok, got it.
Being in a position of power does not make a woman 'hot' in itself. Otherwise Angela Merkel, Margaret Thatcher and Jacinda Ardern would all be sex symbols.
I think Bloom's interest works on several levels. Firstly, he likes Nina because they share goals and have the same corporate-greed attitude to life. He's probably never had the chance to hook up with someone like that before. Secondly, she is his 'in' to the industry, so in that sense its an inversion of the classic older man/younger woman showbiz romance. Thirdly, remember that Bloom is not an ordinary, red-blooded male, he's a sociopath/extreme narcissist or some sort of Asperger spectrum person who does not have 'normal' relationships with anyone, including women. The fact he is attracted to a woman of ANY age and type, as opposed to say, an inanimate object or some sort of sex doll - or worse - is a miracle in itself.
Exactly. I can sort of understand that attitude at the time - there was the 'wind of change' and liberals/progressives in the west thought that all they had to do was give independence to African colonies and they would become model states, but the last sixty years has shown this clearly was misguided. And yet so-called 'progressives' still cling to this outdated idea.
Good points. There's an implication though that the warders don't follow a lot of the rules however. Eg when we first see the prison we see the fines for smoking, but then the camera cuts to a shot of boys smoking. This suggests if one rule is allowed to be broken, perhaps the others are not that well enforced either. We also see in other shots the warders seem more interested in reading novels (or in one case, Playboy magazine) than watching their charges.
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Also, the film is a great advertisement for Horowitz Hi-Fi - sound so powerful it will blow your mind!
It would also have been unlikely for a soldier to salute an officer with his hat off, and for an officer to refer to NCOs several times as 'gentlemen' (the rank and file of the British Army are not referred to as gentlemen, even if they ARE gentlemen).
Most of the dialogue was written and spoken as a modern Englishman would speak it, not as someone in 1917.
Modern time travellers would probably be OK until about 1600, although it would be difficult to communicate they would be able to do so, before then they would start having problems due to the 'great vowel shift' which occurred in the 16th century and which changed Middle (medieval) English to early Modern English.
I think it was a matter of pride that all of them were caught. Plus, the German officer made a big fuss about having caught all of them even when he knew it was still possible one could have escaped, so it was vital for the 12th man to be caught (actually I was surprised the German did not shoot himself because of the disgrace or face a court martial, but the credits say he was not executed for war crimes until after the war)