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Where do they Shit and when do they Shower?!...
I miss the good ol' days of MovieChat!...
So, was I right about the ghosts?...
My random thoughts...
Does the technology disappoint you?...
Chigur's injury...book question & need recommendation...
Seen this in the theater, was wild...
Top 10 movie since the year 2000?
One of the more underrated "thinker" movies...
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LOL!
My response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRm-Rcm65SM
The only people deranged are the ones who storm the Capitol because of a whining crybaby who couldn't accept defeat.
I've been to quite a few movies where the crowd cheered at the end of the movie but nothing else quite like that.
There have been a thousand scenes in movies in which someone points a gun at someone at fires (a blank). According to you, then, thousands of arrests should have been made in Hollywood over the past 100 years for improper handling of a gun. A team of people are there to ensure that gun is not loaded with real ammo before it's used in a scene. If you're an actor, you walk onto a set, someone says we're shooting a scene where you point a gun at so and so and you fire a blank. You don't say "Well, you see, I don't have gun training and I'm not an expert on guns, and I feel that yada yada yada..." ... If someone hands you a prop breakaway chair, then SPECIFICALLY TELLS YOU that it's a prop breakaway chair, the actor himself doesn't need to take it to a Home Depot first to test it out...he can safely assume that if it was handed to him, and he was given those instructions, that it's a prop, and he can swing away as instructed. So if someone swapped that chair without anyone noticing, and the chair wasn't a breakaway prop after all...to then think the resulting injuries is somehow the actors fault...is just...odd. You'd be pointing the finger at the wrong guy in this scenario, wouldn't you agree?
Sorry but that's just not right. Like I said earlier...if a scene required you to swing a chair at someone...and prop chair passed a safety inspection through an Armorer and the Set Director and many others...then you are told to swing this chair at someone...I hardly see how it's your fault if the chair actually wasn't a prop after all and you broke someone's back. You think you should be charged in that scenario if you're an actor? Should you have not touched the chair because you aren't a prop master or a carpenter?
Your answer to the question "Maybe he doesn't know anything about guns" was "In which case he shouldn't have picked one up."...pffft. Sorry, but again you're confusing real life with a movie set. In real life, yes, what you said there was true. On a movie set...If you're in a scene where you have to pretend to knit a sweater, you don't actually need to know how to sew. As an actor, you are given all kinds of tools and objects that you know nothing about that you have to pretend you know how to use. If I'm in a scene where I have to point a gun at someone and pull the trigger (to eject a blank)...I can't tell the Director "Hey, you know what, I don't know much about guns in my personal life so I'm not going to touch it...why don't you just go ahead and remove this pivotal scene from the movie!"...I would be fired. He's not going to care that I don't know about guns off set. He's just going to want me to point the gun and fire it, like he hired me for as an actor. My personal knowledge of guns would be completely irrelevant to him or anyone on the set.
As far as the clothes go though...they were on the move. Somehow those clothes were traveling with them.
And the toilets...These guys were cave-monkeys! Nobody owned their own condo or anything. I didn't see even one public restroom. Didn't appear to be any electricity or plumbing. I'm just saying...I'm not sure these guys had a public sanitation system.
They didn't like someone wasting puke or even one teardrop of water...but if you have plumbing, you have a gray-water sanitation system at the very least. With a population as large as I seen in some scenes in the caves, lots and lots of water would be necessary for drinking, cooking, bathing and sanitation. It didn't seem that desert planet was capable of producing that much water...and if it was, what's the worry about losing a teardrop?!
I've got a couple...
-- At the end, Wonka gets stabbed in the side, then held a blade back with his bare hand, then got stabbed in the chest/shoulder...with the limited doctors/hospitals on Arrakis (and by limited, I'm thinking "none")...he should have died! Seemed like he just sort of "walked off" multiple stab wounds!
-- How did the Natives get the worms to drop them off where they wanted to go?! The worms usually burrowed under the sand...why not just go deep down into the sand if you're the worm and make it impossible for whatever is on your back to breathe?! Or just go back out into the deep desert. Seems like Wonka and the Natives just steered the worms like they were tamed horses. Then got the worms to drop him off without attempting to attack him again. Was a bit far-fetched.
-- So when Wonka and the clan is walking through the desert, they're wearing the water suits. Then when they're in the caves, they're wearing the Muslim-like garb. Exactly where are they keeping their change of clothes?! They have no suitcases, they're not wearing backpacks, they're not carrying them...the correct clothes just magically appear on them whenever they're in one environment or the other.
-- I understand the Muslim-like clothing in a desert setting, I get it. You're trying to keep the sun off you. But it seemed they sort of over-did it. Like they were dressed for winter rather than a nomad traversing the desert. Scarves. Multiple layers of clothing. What seemed like capes. Nobody ever seemed to break out a pair of shorts and a t-shirt at night time, still the same old stanky cloaks. I think they went overboard on the clothes.
-- So no showers for 20 years...and you're still gonna bang that girl?! No wayyyy! I'd need a clothespin for my nose in order to attack that! Not really sure how much toothpaste and mouthwash she was going through either but it didn't seem like much! And after the stinky sex, did they STILL not shower?! I don't think I seen any plumbing on Arrakis!
What do u want us all to do? Open up a "The Guy's Wife in Falling Down Fan Club"?! ;)
Here's my 3-second video response...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRm-Rcm65SM
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