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He shouted, "Max! Max!"
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Actually, the air quality in aeroplanes was a lot better when smoking was still allowed, because in those days, due to smoking, more fresh air was taken in, and more "used" air was vented out.
[url]http://www.traveller.com.au/reader-letters-visiting-parliament-a-shambles-gs3vds[/url]
[quote]On the subject of long-haul flights and jet lag, an ex-Qantas steward friend of mine explained why we seem to suffer so much more these days. In days gone by, when smokers were allowed on flights, the air in the cabin was a lot cleaner and had a greater percentage of oxygen.
Why? Because the visible smoke pollution forced the airlines to change the air on a regular basis. These days, with no visible pollution from smoking, airlines fly on what is called "half pack".
They don't change the air as regularly, as it costs money to bring fresh subzero air in from outside and heat it to cabin temperature. By the time you reach your destination the percentage of carbon dioxide in the cabin from breathing is much higher than it should be.
Ironic, isn't it? The air was cleaner when smokers were on board.[/quote]
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In the late 1980s, when Warlock was filmed, that kind of hair would not have been considered "awful and comical," but stylish and very hip for women in their late teens or in their twenties. I remember some older girls/young adults wearing that kind of hairstyles in the late 1980s/early 1990s as a part of their normal, every-day look. It makes Kassandra look as a woman who cares about style and her good looks very much, and makes it even more believable that growing old is one of her worst fears. There were some very weird and outlandish hairstyles in the 1980s (that were considered awful and comical by regular people even back then, and would have been featured only in films & TV, or on catwalks), but Kassandra's hair is nowhere near those styles.
So, simply put, the wig was used because when Warlock was filmed (and when the "modern" part of the film takes place), that kind of hair was considered as cool and stylish, and was a very likely hairstyle for a character like Kassandra. Actually, I think the hairstyle looks very good on Kassandra (and Lori Singer).
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Hitchcock's "The Birds" was inspired by Daphne du Maurier's novelette "The Birds", first published in 1952, i.e. three years prior to the film "The Beast with a Million Eyes".
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(story)[/url]
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[quote]Unfair....this movie is considered as a cult amongst South Asians. A true Sleeper Hit of our times...I myself dont understand why Half the films in top #250 are liked so much....but that doesn't mean my opinion becomes that of the majority. I am pretty sure that this film is strictly not meant for western audience....One have to be part of the system to understand some things and the concept is truly ridiculous if I see it from your eyes.[/quote]
I consider "strictly not meant for Western audience" to be somewhat unfair a generalisation. It might very well be true that Bollywood films are not many a Westerner's cup of tea, but I, a European with limited knowledge of India and Indian culture, liked "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S." a lot — and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only Westerner who liked it. I ended up rating this film 8 out of 10. I found it very heart-warming.
BTW, I had never seen even a single Bollywood film until this summer, but now I've watched a few Bollywood films. Some of them I've enjoyed, some not.
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[quote]Let me make a confession first. I never got past first 45 minutes. Later it may have turned from a predictable mess to a class masterpiece...but after first 45 minutes i was past care.
Movie NEVER moves up from its basics.[/quote]
Even though this is a new board, and it's very possible that skyscorpio has not migrated from IMDb message boards to moviechat.org, I'd still like to comment on this.
If skyscorpio really only watched the film for 45 minutes ("I never got past first 45 minutes."), he/she has no way of knowing what happened during the rest of this 2 h 14 mins film. Thus, his/her comment about the film [i]"NEVER mov[ing] up from its basics"[/i] has no leg to stand on. It's completely fine to stop watching a film if it just doesn't feel like one's cup of tea, but if one hasn't watched the whole film, one shouldn't make any claims in the style of "The film NEVER..."
There were some points where I found it hard to continue watching the film due to the father's abusiveness, but I decided to stick with it. At some points of the film, if I had stopped watching it, I would have ended up rating it 4 out of 10, or 5 out of 10. But, I watched the whole film, and it actually got better towards the end. And, after watching the whole film, I ended up rating it 7 out of 10.
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The film is set in the 1964. Selma had moved to the US as an adult, with her son, after having lived in Communist Czechoslovakia.
Many ordinary people did not trust banks in the former Eastern Bloc. The banking was controlled by the Communist governments of the countries. There was a risk that the money an ordinary citizen had placed in a bank might end up getting confiscated by the government for various reasons that would sound completely unreasonable to someone who has grown up in the Western world. That's why in the Eastern Bloc many people stored saved cash in some secret hiding places at home.
During the time she had lived under a Communist regime, Selma had learned that it was [i]putting money in a bank[/i] that carried a huge risk, and that it was much safer to hide large sums of money at home. Even though she had moved to the US, she obviously hadn't been able to get rid of her deep distrust of banks. Similar behaviour has been observed in people who have fled as refugees from a country with corrupt, extrajudicial police force and government officials — even after settling down in a country within the free world, with incorrupt and just legal system, it's very hard or even impossible for them to learn to trust the police or government officials.
So, the choice Selma had made was completely sensible regarding her background.
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Let's keep in mind that A Beautiful Mind is not a documentary, and it doesn't even try and pose as one (i.e. it's not a "mockumentary"). It's just a feature film dramatisation of John Nash's story, and doesn't claim to be anything else.
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"Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster."
—Unknown
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