Thursday, December 22, 2005
Just a few loose ends
Tomorrow morning, I should dot the last i , cross the last t , hit "upload" and be officially done with Fall Quarter 2005. Sheesh! I promise never to mention it again. I also promise that next quarter will be different.
I guess I didn't mind so much that today featured almost continuous rain. I hope tomorrow is better, so I can get out and kick up my heels a bit.
Here's a sweet little movie, even if it s a Motorola commercial. I count at least seventeen specific movie references - can you name them?
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I'll try:
Charlie Chaplin
Nosferatu
Metropolis
Citizen Kane
(Busby Berkley musical)
Singin' in the Rain
Vertigo
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Great Escape
(That window opening reminds me of something, but I can't remember what..."Life of Brian?")
The Graduate
James Bond
Saturday Night Fever
Tron
Apocalypse Now
Fatal Attraction
The Little Mermaid
Gladiator
Lost in Translation
I knew I should have disqualified you...
What about the animation style before Chaplin? Steamboat Willie? Betty Boop?
The generic Busby Berkley fades in to Gotta Dance, right? I had that.
Missed Vertigo.
I don't know what the window is either.
What bit is Little Mermaid?
Is the end Batman or just a projector?
Alas, it is my curse.
Animation style is "Steamboat Willie"-ish, but it's probably more related to Oswald Rabbit...what was the first cartoon besides Gertie the Dinosaur? Anyway, somewhere in the inkwell ballpark.
"The Little Mermaid" is the bit where he comes out of the pot and scampers along the dinner table and sees the roast rarebit. The shellfish (I forget his name) goes through a similarly violent dillem-na in the musical number "La Poisson" (Really violent/Really funny)." The Disney cartoons are best with an edge.
"Room with a View?" No idea. The "Life of Brian" reference I'm sure was a parody. What movie has a woman opening up a pair of window shutters and ecstatically admires the view? Hmmm.
Just a projector. Movie over. Would have been nice to have the sound-track hammer through the trailer, but you can't have everything. besides, it's a commercial...gotta leave with niceness when you show the product name. It's a great spot, though.
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