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From: pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel)
Subject: Re: BLADE RUNNER FAQ Version 0.9
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:47:20 GMT

owens@cs.utk.edu (Stephen Owens) writes:
>>12. Why couldn't Tyrell afford a real owl?
>  DADOES takes place after a nuclear holocaust, where many species
>  of animals have been decimated.  Owls are especially rare and 
>  therefore especially costly.  Companies like Tyrell make much
>  of their profit by producing "replicant" animals for people 
>  to buy and take care of like regular pets (which raises questions
>  about what makes humans unique: Why do we like to take care of 
>  animals?  In the book, replicants were unable to care properly
>  for animals because they had no capability for empathy and they
>  would forget to feed them).

As discussed many times here, and hopefully as explained in the new faq, the
book is a poor guide to the film. The obvious differences in world population,
the fact that the movie replicants (replicant is a word not used in the book
btw) are capable of empathy and love, and the obvious differences in theme and
plot make the movie more an answer to the book than a recapitulation of it.

But I phrased this question poorly. It should have read, "Why couldn't Tyrell
afford a real owl when Sebastien has live doves in his attic?"

>  The question I have searched unsuccessfully for the answer to
>  concerns the origin of the poem Roy quotes when he and Leon
>  confront the genetic eye designer.  The quote, I believe,
>  begins:  "Fiery the angels fell . . ."   On a hunch, I checked
>  Milton's Paradise Lost, but to no avail.
>     Anyone have a clue?

It is not a quote. It is a paraphrase of lines in Blake's America.

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From: cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Nazi airplane in this movie...
Date: 1 Jan 1993 16:32:48 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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   What kind of Nazi airplane is in the movie Indiana Jones and the
Raiders of the Lost Ark?  It was the plane that was going to transport
the ark.  Please send any info directly to my email address.
Thanx.

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From: bobc@bobcpcSanDiego.NCR.com (Robert Crawford)
Subject: Re: New Zucker Brothers movie(rental)  "Brain Donors"..anyone see it?
Reply-To: bobc@styx.SanDiego.NCR.COM
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing, San Diego, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:55:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.170738.28947@ulysses.att.com>, jdt@ulysses.att.com
(Jonathan D. Trudel[ftd]) writes:
> In article <1h4ja8INNbdg@eagle.natinst.com>, darrenl@natinst.com
(Darren Lilie) writes:
> |> While renting another video this weekend I saw a preview for "Brain
Donors"
> |> which is now available on video.  It is a Zucker Bros. film(the
Airplane! guys)
> |> and was wondering if it was any good.  The preview looked like it
would be 
> |> a dumb movie but I have liked about every other movie they've produced. 
> 
> 
> NOOOOOOO!  Don'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Pluck your eyeballs and pour salt
in the open 
> sockets  before you consider renting this movie.
> 
> It's the Zucker Brothers' attempt to make a Marx Brothers film, right down
> to the copies of the brothers themselves.  The guy who played Barton Fink

"Brain Donors" was not a Zucker Brothers movie.  It was directed by Dennis
Dugan and written by Pat Proft.  Proft has worked with the Zuckers in the
past, and it was probably this connection that was being played up in the
previews.


Bob Crawford
bobc@styx.sandiego.ncr.com
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Gifted Child Stars Was: Re: The Culkinator!
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:40:51 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Jon Conrad writes:
>
>Timothy Hutton.  Maybe this is borderline, as he was an adolescent in
>it, but he sure was fine in Ordinary People.
>
While we're on the subject of adolescent actors....none better than
Emily Lloyd in "Wish You Were Here", "In Country", and "Cookie".
"Cookie" stank, but Lloyd was great. And no one -- not never, not no
how -- has done a better Kentucky accent than she managed in
"In Country." Plus, she had the perfect, hint of a pooched out belly in her
halter top which I'd always assumed was a kind of genetic marker
for local women.
-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> One never knows, do one?
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From: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner)
Subject: Re: Gifted Child Stars
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 09:40:05 GMT

In article <gratrix.724950449@spot.Colorado.EDU> gratrix@spot.Colorado.EDU (Jackie Gratrix) writes:
>After reading all these posts on Culkin's performances, and the lack
>of talent therein, I'm interested in what child actors people think
>turned in good performances.  The best performance I can think of
>off hand would be Ricky Schroeder in "The Champ".  Another gifted
>actor was Doug McKweon(sp?), who had a part in the "Centennial"
>series and also had a significant role in "On Golden Pond".

Lucas Haas, Charlie Korsmo, Ivan Yandl, children in "Il ladro di bambini",
Michalis Zeke (Topio stin omichli/sp?), Brigitte Fossey, J.-P. Leaud
								M.H.
From: ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffry L. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Extreme Aspect Ratio?
Date: 1 Jan 1993 23:09:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffry L. Johnson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott) says:

>up: Which U.S. theatrical release holds the record for the most
>extreme aspect ratio?
>
>       Three popular guesses:
>
>       -1) 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
>       -2) SPARTACUS
>       -3) THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
>
>       2001 was the most popular, but nobody could rember the
>exact aspect ratio. We know that SPARTACUS is up there at 2.6:1,
>and so is THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.

None of these. _2001_ and _Spartacus_ should be 2.2:1. _The Good..._
is standard anamorphic 2.40:1.

Films shot in Ultra Panavision have a projected aspect ratio of 2.76:1 (from 
Carr & Hayes). 
	The Big Fisherman
	Mutiny On the Bounty
	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	The Fall of the Roman Empire
	Battle of the Bulge
	The Greatest Story Ever Told
	The Hallelujah Trail
	Kartoum

Cinerama was shown at an aspect ratio of 2.72-2.77

If you count special venue presentations then Circlevision would be the most 
extreme.
-- 
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Technologist, HLA Lab, Institute of Pathology, CWRU/Univ. Hosp. of Cleveland
Projectionist, Centrum Theatre;      IATSE Local 160  Officer: Examining Board
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From: charles@capmkt.COM (Charles Neveu)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: FAT GUY GOES NUTZOID
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:30:29 GMT
Organization: Capital Market Technology

richh@netcom.com (richh) writes:
>[R. Ebert writes:]
>When we were told the truth I felt a little like Harrison Ford does
>when he discovers Rachel Ward is a fabricant.

Then she goes and shoots up the EE department.

cfn
From: phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Liam Neeson???
Date: 23 Dec 92 05:23:10 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

From article <1992Dec22.162540.212@scott.skidmore.edu>, by dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter):
> Thanks for the titles-  I also found out he starred in "Under
> Suspicion" with Laura Giacoma (SP?) Anyone seen this movie?


    its on this cristmas here in England, I'll watch it.
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From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Underrated Actor/Actress
Date: 29 Dec 92 19:55:45 GMT
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: The Bates Motel

jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH):
> 
> Underrated: Danny Glover, Andie McDowell

We saw "Green Card" and "Sex, Lies and Videotape" over the past couple
of weeks and Andie McDowell couldn't act her way out of a bag.  She
single-handedly garbaged "Green Card" by showing little range outside
of the uptight prig that she played in both films.  I'd say that she's
overrated.  Gerard Depardieu was obviously slumming in that film 'cos
he didn't have much to work with from his co-star, who should have 
played being driven to the edge of a nervous breakdown.

gld
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From: ziauddin@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Tasneem Ziauddin)
Subject: Re: Where is Tippi Hedren?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:03:32 GMT

whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

>I am interested to know if anyone knows whatever happened to Tippi Hedren who
>appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie.  I've read D. Spoto's
>biography so I am aware of Hedren's falling out with Hitchcock and his alledged
>advances and obsession with her.  Did she completely leave the film industry
>because I haven't seen anything that she's been in recently although every
>where I look I see her daughter, Melanie Griffith, but I can't stand her. 
>Incidentally, I liked The Birds but I thought Marnie was pretty hokey, even
>Sean Connery couldn't save this flick in my book.

>Winfield Han
>WHAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu

I'm not sure what movies she has been in recently, but a few years back she
appeared in the soap opera, _The Bold and the Beautiful_.  I haven't watched
this show in a while so I'm not sure if she's still on.
From: jhumkey@cup.portal.com (John K Humkey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: VIDEO posters
Date: Sat,  2 Jan 93 11:23:54 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1993Jan1.040647.9814@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>

I have posters from several movies.  But, all my normal sources
handle "movie" posters.  Several times I have seen nice VIDEO
release posters that are unavailable.  Any Idea if there is a 
source for Video release posters.

Probably the best two examples are "RECKLESS" and "PREY OF THE CAMELEON"
they are very nice video posters but, the movie versions are bland or non-
existant.

Any address's for Video posters out there?
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From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
Subject: Re: Problems with DieHard 2
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:10:56 GMT

In article <00965765.53414BE0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 9073hammesm@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.083229.12868@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, clueless@bradley.edu (Mark Kristie) writes:
>>Jorge Diaz (ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU) wrote:
>>: In article <1992Dec15.203113.4791@Virginia.EDU> rrb2x@Virginia.EDU (Richard Ramiaz Banks) writes:
>>
>>: >they did try to reroute the airplanes during the
>>: >movie.  The ones with the most fuel were sent elsewhere,
>>: >whereas those with little fuel flew in a circular pattern.
>>
>>: Sorry, dude, if you have enough fuel to circle for 2 hours, you can fly
>>: to another airbase.
>>
>>You don't if you're told by the airport to circle and wait cuz they're 
>>going to have their systems back up shortly.... By the time you realize
>>it's too late, you don't have enough fuel left....
>
>I think the point was that in real life the airport would NEVER have let
>the planes just circle for two hours in the hopes that they would have
>things fixed by then.  They would have been diverted immediately.
>But, of course, then there wouldn't have been a movie.

Sorry if this is a repeat.  I missed the beginning of the thread.
I thought the most glaring problem with the tower being out of
communication with the airplanes was that there must have been many
planes at the gates somebody could have boarded, switched on the radio,
and let all of the planes in the air know the facts along with
instructions to divert to an alternate airport immediately.

Nevertheless, I thought it was a great movie.  You just have to overlook
the implausabilities.

-- 
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From: dat91oto@ludat.lth.se (Ola Torstensson)
Subject: Re: The Coen Bros - Anybody know their next project?
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Lund, Sweden
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:42:16 GMT

In article <1TJ6VB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:
>Hiya, anyone have any idea what Joel and Ethan's next/current project is? 

It's "The Hudsucker Proxy", from a script by Joel & Ethan and their old pal Sam Raimi 
(he's the guy who made the "Evil Dead" films and "Darkman"; also, they wrote the 1985 
Raimi film "Crimewave" together).  The new movie is supposed to be some sort of business 
fairytale, set in the 50s.

...and according to an article by Peter Reiher in the "Miller's Crossing" thread, it has 
started shooting with Paul Newman in the leading role.

Ola

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From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Where is this russian movie?
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:32:23 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

jflood@iat.holonet.net (Jim Flood) wrote:
> Four years ago I saw a Russian movie in Paris (subtitled in French)
> which was called if I remember "Requiem Pour une Massacre" (direct
> translation: Requiem  for a massacre???). It was the story of a young
> Russian boy set during the german army's scorched-earth retreat in Russia
> during WWII, if I understood the subtitles! I remember it was a very
> powerful story and I have on occasion searched the Russian movie section
> of video rental outlets ever since hoping to see it again.

I think you may mean Elem Klimov's "Come and See" - it has a climactic scene
where a whole village is massacred by the Germans.  Extraordinary film.

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From: ehigh@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Egyirba High)
Subject: Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:33:09 GMT


JFK.  




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From: hatley@granite.pa.dec.com (Alan Hatley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: rancho deluxe
Date: 23 Dec 92 12:58:43 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
NNTP-Posting-Host: granite.pa.dec.com

does anyone remember a movie titled "rancho deluxe?  i thought it starred
jeff bridges and sam waterston as modern day cattle rustlers in montana.
this movie came out about 20 years ago.  in the film bio's of sam and
jeff, this movie does not show up.  any ideas why?

Alan-
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: spielberg
Date: 23 Dec 92 07:52:07 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

CTT>        I think Spielberg's going to make a JURASSIC PARK that will be
CTT>entertaining and pretty to look at, but (sadly) I don't think he's going to
CTT>inject with even a fraction of the suspense or energy he put into
CTT>JAWS.

This may seem like a silly idea, guys, but maybe we should wait until
JURASSIC PARK is actually released to theaters before we pass
judgement?
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: Don't Slam Godzilla! (Was: Re: NYT reports NBC likely to keep Letterman)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:44:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.043142.10896@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
[...]
>
>Hey, watch it, pal.  Don't go around insulting Godzilla.  I knew Godzilla.
>I've watched many Godzilla movies.  And let me tell you, pal: David
>Letterman is no Godzilla.
>
>Joel "Putting things in perspective" Furr
>jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
>

Well, I can certainly empathize with your feelings on this matter, but
I must caution you not to jump to conclusions.  Notice that you never
see Godzilla and David Letterman together, and also remember that
you aren't allowed to see Letterman pre-makeup, even if you're led
to believe that you are.  Coincidence, you say?  Conspiracy?  Hey,
I'm just sayin'...  think about it.

Hope this helps.

GM(a-t-t-s)S
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From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
Organization: QUAD Systems
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:41:09 GMT

bjones@denitqm.uswest.com (Brent Jones) writes:
: The town I live in (Boulder, CO) has this great video store called the
: Video Station. The people who work there love film and are very, very
: knowledgable about it. The have a huge selection of foreign movies.
: 
Actually, uncaring and personnel without any movie knowledge is the primary
reason I don't go to BB. I tried them once but soon found out that the 
kids working there are not particularly interested in movies, don't know
what they carry, don't care and are not interested in suggestions or
special requests. BB is the fast food version of video stores. The store
for the masses. Nough said.
-- 

Roland Besserer
QUAD Systems
roland@quadsys.com
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From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Subject: Re: Accents (Was: Re: Most Overrated Actor/Actress)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:44:12 GMT

On the subject of accents, I have to add my .02

See, they are a personal pet peeve of mine.  As an anglo-irish american (don't
ask.  I can't explain...) I am just annoyed by bad english and irish accents.

Oddly enough, I am not as perturbed by bad American accents.  The only 
major excpetion to this is of course Nicola Bryant of Doctor Who, but that's
anotehr subject for anotehr newsgroup.

I can't listen to Kevin C in PoT, I can't deal with keanu Reeves OR Winona
Ryder in Dracula, and I can't help it.

At least I was able to ignore Tom Cruise in Far and Away, after a fashion.


LJC
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From: danielw@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Wink)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:15:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Black Holes of Cinema
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, CCSY Messaging Centre, UK.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies


> Meg Tilly!!   inactive lately, thank god!

Meg Tilly is a Goddess. As Garth would say :
        SHE'S THE QUEEN OF BABYLONIA!
OH, she's also a fine actress: see "The Big Chill";
I thought she was just great, but then I like 
Michael Douglas too.

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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Emma Thompson a shoe-in for Best Actress??
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:55:14 GMT

In article <wood.724945821@jfred> wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood) writes:
>Does anyone know of any other possible Best Actress nominees this year?
>The only ones besides Thompson who come to mind are Shirley MacLaine in
>"Used People" (which is only just out) and Michelle Pfeiffer in "Love
>Fields" (not yet out).  Both actresses got very good reviews for these.

Mary McDonnell and Alfre Woodard have gotten excellent reviews in 
"Passion Fish", a John Sayles film that's been released in LA for
Academy Award consideration.  The young woman who played the lead role
in "One False Move" hasn't got the press campaign to manage it, but
did receive many excellent reviews in a film widely admired within the
industry and by critics.  If the small releasing company had the funds
to mount a campaign, the year's field is small enough to still give her
a good chance.  Earlier, Whoopi Goldberg was being talked about for
"Sister Act" - pure filler for the category, of course.  I don't remember
how the rules concerning foreign films work on this issue, but I think
that Gong Li is eligible for an acting award this year for "Raise the
Red Lantern", despite that film contending in the Best Foreign Language
Film category last year.  It didn't actually play in LA till this calendar
year, I believe.

Miranda Richardson can pretty much count on being nominated at least once,
and possibly twice, in the supporting actress category, for "The Crying
Game", "Enchanted April", "Damage", or two of the three.  They might even
elevate her "Enchanted April" performance into a best actress nomination,
given the thinness of the field, since her part was certainly as big
as anyone's in that film.

-- 
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From: fath@mbcrr.dfci.harvard.edu (Michael Fath)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Academy Awards
Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:13:34 GMT
Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: mbcrr.harvard.edu

So it's about time to think about the nominees.

My list:
Howard's End
A Few Good Men
Malcolm X
The Player
Unforgiven

Alternates:
Aladdin
The Crying Game
A League of Their Own

	Does this sound close?  What do others think?  How does this year's
list compare to other years?
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From: mlperkin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mildred l perkins)
Subject: Re: Highest gross movies
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:50:33 GMT

In <5388@othmar.lulea.trab.se> sture@lulea.trab.se (Sture Jonsson) writes:

>Nhan Tran (tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com) wrote:

>: When people talk about the highest grossing movie, do they take into
>: account of inflation?

>No they don't ! If they did there is only ONE movie that can be considered
>for highest grossing: Gone with the wind. According to one source (I'm afraid
>I forgot where I read it) it has grossed over 2 billion dollars to date, showing
>some 800 million dollars profit.

>That sure pushes that E.T. rubbish down from the no. 1 spot.

>: A more accurate measure would be listing 
>: of movies with largest number of sold tickets.

>Sure would, but it doesn't sound as impressive in a world where money counts
>the most.

Now wait a moment and think about it.  If you're going to tinker with
the statistics, don't forget to include major increases in both
population and number of screens.

>/Sture