angusmain.bsky.social
Technology / Creativity / Experience - Lecturer and Researcher - Cambridge and London, UK
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It’s uncanny
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“Sumer is A-Cumen In”
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I find that with kids it’s worth setting up a remote control app if you can. Turning things off from another room if sometimes useful, frequently funny, and often means you don’t have to hide the remote in the first place.
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5G amulet
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In cassocks and mitres, obvs
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Harrison Ford improvised that famous scene in Raiders when he had a dodgy tummy and needed to run really fast to the loo instead of getting crushed by that boulder as scripted.
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I think this every time
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Daphne’s brothers in Frasier are the text book example of this
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The problem is that the Shakespeare study was funded by AHRC, and they’re less interested in simian / lightbulb ratios.
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Maybe he had his revenge on Sherlock Holmes, and the pipe was a trophy.
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Seems overpriced. There’s clearly not enough magnification for opera glasses.
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I’ve not seen that reading of No Time To Die before. That works.
I think the key to a lot of it is humour. All those films work when there’s enough humour to keep them light, but also to maintain that nod and a wink link with audience, letting them know it’s ok not to take it all deadly seriously.
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I guess all the big franchises, Bond, Marvel, Star Wars, successfully convince kids and adults that they’re watching a ‘proper movie’ when they’re really watching a brilliant cartoon. The problems is when the makers pick at this and try and make it more ‘proper’.
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In that way Bond has the same problem as Batman. Two very different audiences sharing the same character. No one can decide if they’re meant to be doing gritty violence or cartoon violence.
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If things had worked out slightly differently it could have been Argos making the next Bond film, and I think I would have preferred that.
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A cinematic classic!
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Burglars rewarded with cups of tea in Starmer’s woke Britain