My comment was directed at the casual dialectics of the thread, not your comment in particular - with which I agree. Apologies. It is odd to think that for the film/television audience the only precedents were the 1966 series and Warner Bros' Superman.

Some comments, including yours, incited me to re-watch the Burton,…

They are matte paintings

- Yeah but it was gritty for the time.
- Yeah but anything would have been.
- But it was gritty for the time.
- Yeah but anything would have been.
- Yeah but it was gritty for the time.
- But anything would have been.
- Still it was gritty for the time.
- Yeah but anything would have been.
- Yeah but it was gritty for the…

I don’t know what my question is.

It’s Judi Dench.

College friend’s sister was Slash’s Chicago girlfriend during the heyday. Per her, a superb human being even without the stardom.

Closer to home, have a David Byrne story too depressing to relate.

Actually muscle (meat) is naturally gray/deep purple. The purple color is an iron-binding protein called myoglobin, especially visible in freshly cut flesh. Myoglobin mutates into two subsidiary hemes, oxymyoglobin and metmyoglobin, when it's exposed to oxygen; this is why the hue can change. When myoglobin hits…

Just introduce yourself. Nobody knows how you feel. Believe me, after you do this four times, you’re ready for the Golden Globes. (Anyone will assume that anyone who is confident enough to do this must be someone worth talking to.)

"You people don't even seem to understand..." [King Jelly Bean]
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form..." [authors of the Preamble]

So the framing of people is a fun difference.

Another is our main characters' very names. The passionate defender of the "divine right" shared by all takes a stand against…

Looks like she wrote her own bio: the r is missing on reats.

"PLEASE COME HERE."

Talk about greedy.

Precisely. And that's how strong the system is. I've got a college buddy who's as bright as anybody, studied film, is as talented as anybody, moved to the big city. (Not a New Yorker, this one.) A quicker loss of innocence has never been recorded in all of literature: when he figured out what the value system is here…

Don't worry; they won't.

With all respect, I'm glad you're a visually oriented, because

I don't know where this image originates from but it's around the Internet right now and it shows a picture of a dress that is so very clearly white and gold to me but is black and blue to so many other people.

fucked with my eyes in a fashion any chromatic…

I agree, honestly. But I've split time between the US and Europe (France), and I know it sounds like a cliche, but it's different over there - gradations, context, psychology. After all, it's been keeping the French film industry alive since Jules et Jim.

The ex-roommate in question is very American; the sardonic…

I was in a similar situation with my ex (he was a pro tennis player, but you'd only know his name if you're really into tennis). It was worse for me, though, because his big thing was always saying that he never expected me to have to say that every time we met wasn't a date - even if it was a date; and usually it…

How much worse, though? Totally true that espionage should get the death penalty - but what if it's a guy cheating on his wife's daughter? That happened to my ex-roommate - but it's complex, because he was actually getting back at her for having cheated on him; but to be fair, she'd told him that if he wasn't making a…

What about the Tarkovsky references?

But Ryan Roy was the Mozart of this; Ashleigh is the Beethoven. She is post-Napoleonic.

It's a great movie. And Tarantino's a postmodernist, he's not even working in the same medium as these folks. Even if he were, he wouldn't qualify in terms of directing a shoot-out scene. *

If anything, Sydney Pollack's attempt at handling Schrader's Yakuza script would be another nomination, along with Melville. Nikit…