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"No matter how paranoid you are...you are not paranoid enough!"
Have no idea you said that, and to lazy to look it up!

Quote from: meekon5 on March 08, 2011, 01:03:07 PM
Did someone say flash mob:

http://www.break.com/index/funny-hammer-pants-flash-mob.html

Go on! Tell me that was NOT rehearsed!

wow. 

that's amazing. 

Somewhere, there's a very, very happy seller of gold lame Hammer pants (not "lame," "la-may" I gave up on my ability to write accented letters on here th' other day when I couldn't make the Irish "slainte" come out right  )

CC, it's a flash mob. Of COURSE it's rehearsed. The whole point is the _appearance_ of a spontaneous outpouring of "Stop! Hammer Time!" which you're never going to get without rehearsal.  Lots and lots of rehearsal.  What I want to know is, WHERE did these guys find a space to rehearse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k

... Must've had a football pitch (that's what you guys call a soccer field, right? ) to have enough room to do the blocking.  Regardless of that, I like to think the inspiration was the Grand Central Station scene in "The Fisher King," by expat American and director extrordinaire, Terry Gilliam. 

.. I still think he should have gotten the bid to do "Watchmen."  The movie version really didn't have to suck.  O, well.

Quote from: Banjo Dude on March 08, 2011, 02:25:55 PM
Somewhere, there's a very, very happy seller of gold lame Hammer pants (not "lame," "la-may" I gave up on my ability to write accented letters on here th' other day when I couldn't make the Irish "slainte" come out right  )

CC, it's a flash mob. Of COURSE it's rehearsed. The whole point is the _appearance_ of a spontaneous outpouring of "Stop! Hammer Time!" which you're never going to get without rehearsal.  Lots and lots of rehearsal.  What I want to know is, WHERE did these guys find a space to rehearse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k

... Must've had a football pitch (that's what you guys call a soccer field, right? ) to have enough room to do the blocking.  Regardless of that, I like to think the inspiration was the Grand Central Station scene in "The Fisher King," by expat American and director extrordinaire, Terry Gilliam. 

.. I still think he should have gotten the bid to do "Watchmen."  The movie version really didn't have to suck.  O, well.

Yeah, I'm such a noob! Just watched a video on organizing a flash mob in Vegas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829emSR7IMM
Duh! Performance Art!

Quote from: Banjo Dude on March 08, 2011, 02:25:55 PM
Regardless of that, I like to think the inspiration was the Grand Central Station scene in "The Fisher King," by expat American and director extrordinaire, Terry Gilliam.  

.. I still think he should have gotten the bid to do "Watchmen."  The movie version really didn't have to suck.  O, well.

I love that scene where all the commuters turn into ballroom dancers then turn back without anyone blinking an eye.

The only problem with Gilliam is he doesn't understand basic budgeting.

His part of "The Meaning of Life" (the pirate takeover office bit) cost as much as all the rest of the film put together. Also see the documentary "The problem With Hamsters" from the making of Twelve Monkeys.

The problems he caused himself with the Munchhausen film (whole regiment of the Russian army dressed as Turks as extras etc).

I really adore his films, but undertand how he doesn't help himself at times.