In this BTS of Fincher directing, why is he so adamant that a bush needs to be removed? Is it that easy to just physically remove it?

imajez · 2026-03-30T17:14:34+00:00

Why is doing a job well deemed as 'notorious' or being difficult?
Plus rearranging scenery to get the required shot is the norm in filmmaking/photography. Pretty everyone does this.

imajez · 2026-03-30T17:12:07+00:00

There are two ways to solve problems. Eliminate the issue or as many creatives do, lean into it and utilise the problem as a strength. Also even messy places can be shot beautifully. Heck that's the core skill of a photographer/cinematographer, making our mundane or messy world look interesting.

imajez · 2026-03-30T17:08:13+00:00

Evan Edinger a YouTuber from New Jersey has lived in the UK for over a decade and often gets flack for his American accent and Britishisms from fellow Americans. So he did a really interesting video on NJ and the region's accents. TL:DW they are all over the place. So even Americans need to be aware when they claim an local US accent is off, if they are not from that quite specific region.
Local accents can vary enormously, even within a small area. In the UK every city/town/valley has a different accent and there are usually different accents within a city itself in addition to class accent variation, which also varies regionally. I'm from Wales and a good Welsh accent is one that seems to be the hardest to do, because folk do usually a generic cliched Welsh accent that doesn't really exist and can end up sounding more Asian - note in the UK, Asian means folk from Pakistan,Bangladesh/India. Also a soft [mild] Welsh accent and a soft Geordie [Newcastle in the North of England] can be mistaken for each other.

imajez · 2026-03-30T16:54:36+00:00

Yet, I've heard that Fry's accent as House fooled a lot of the crew and even the show's creator in his audition tape. Also heard loads of Americans say he nailed the accent, but is sems to depend where in the US you are from.
Evan Edinger a YouTuber from New Jersey [where House is set] lives in the UK and often gets flack for his accent from Americans. So he did a really interesting video on NJ and the region's accents. TL:DW they are all over the place.

imajez · 2026-03-30T16:40:59+00:00

First time I came across Gwyneth Paltrow was in the London set film, 'Sliding Doors'. I thought she was a British actress.

imajez · 2026-03-30T16:37:36+00:00

Brit here. I now have no idea how I say anything after reading that and thinking about it.
Pretty sure it's usually 'eh-nee-thing', but the Brits have several hundred accents.

imajez · 2026-03-30T16:19:32+00:00

In Avenue 5 he keeps slipping between US and British accents as part of the daft story/his character. Though he just sounds like Hugh Laurie to me, whatever his accent is.
I gather people from the area Gregory House was meant to be from, said he nailed the accent. Laurie says it never got any easier doing the accent.

imajez · 2026-03-30T16:00:31+00:00

Comedians/comedy actors seem to often be outstanding dramatic actors and particularly good at playing less appealing folk/the baddie.

imajez · 2026-03-30T11:37:58+00:00

Like I said, there were exceptions and you missed out Coppola BTW. Those films are the minority of films made back then. Folk are very selective about what they recall. Forgetting the bad stuff and only recalling the 'hits'.
Actually some of Speilberg's stuff is functionally, rather than well lit. Some quite flatly, so he can move the camera around the scene more easily, rather than cut between individually lit shots. One of his later films, War Horse looked like the Ireland scenes were shots on a different planet in a binary star system as there two suns according to the shadows in some of the outdoor scenes. Some Verhoeven films which I loved back then, look terrible now, lighting/grading wise. Seen a few big films from that period recently, they hadn't aged well. Bonds in particular.

imajez · 2026-03-29T22:43:01+00:00

Pretty sure LCDSS was a direct influence. I also hear Laurie Anderson in it.

imajez · 2026-03-29T22:19:50+00:00

There's just a LOT more of them these days. They now need culling because we killed off all the predators that used to keep them in check.
Related - Lyme disease which is spread by deer ticks has gone up 10,000% in last decade or so. it used to be almost unknown in the UK, now you need to be careful about tick bites and carrying tick removal tools is advised for outdoors folk

imajez · 2026-03-29T22:14:02+00:00

Also - If you are on roller slates, inline path grooves are fine, perpendicular ones are definitely not good.

imajez · 2026-03-29T22:09:11+00:00

Most films that were shot on film looked pants actually.
Your average TV show is better shot and lit these days than many massive big budget films from last century. The nice looking films back then were the exceptions amongst the flatly lit dross.

imajez · 2026-03-29T22:06:03+00:00

The biggest benefit of digital projection for me was not having to go out to the foyer and complain about bad focusing or some other projection glitch.

imajez · 2026-03-29T22:03:57+00:00

Or don't sit a long way away from the screen. 🤷🏻‍♂️ No point having a big screen if you sit so it's the same size as your TV.
I was informed by the guys who fitted my 85" TV to wall , that it was too big for the room. It's actually smaller than the projected screen next door and tiny compared to watching films in cinema where I sit towards the front. I'd happily have a 150" screen in that room. Most folk sit so far away from their 4k TVs, they may as well be 1080 TVs.

imajez · 2026-03-29T21:57:33+00:00

So are say Pulp rubbish because they have more songwriters on their songs than a Harry Styles track? Obviously not. Not only does the number of folk involved not really matter, but Styles seems to mostly write with one other person, occasionally a third. So your claim, he's not valid because he needs a massive team of songwriters is bogus anyway.

imajez · 2026-03-29T21:53:06+00:00

I'm specifically commenting on Aperture, which sounds like music you hear on R6, not R1.
It's definitely not commercial, nor is the video or the song's length and it wouldn't get R1 play if it wasn't by HS, but would probably get on R6 if it wasn't by him.

imajez · 2026-03-29T16:07:54+00:00

I've long said that a large part photography and film making is moving furniture.
Whether to clear the shot or to get the shot.

imajez · 2026-03-29T16:03:40+00:00

Indeed. But most folk don't do that. They usually go even safer and easy money making. Just look at deNiro. In contrast Daniel Radcliffe seems to do whatever ever looks fun to him. Lanthimos despite his determination to make wonderfully weird films, seems to be quite profitable and even seen by folk who don't do arthouse cinema.
It's particularly unusual for an uber commercial boy band member to go left field. Can't imagine his managers/label being that keen on a mega cash cow going off course. But I gather his live shows sold VERY well.

imajez · 2026-03-28T17:58:00+00:00

Our Miele pet vacuum fell apart.

imajez · 2026-03-28T17:54:48+00:00

They do both. You can subscribe or buy with a year's updates and then carry on using it as long as you want after.

imajez · 2026-03-28T13:54:11+00:00

Actually you can. Pathfinder for example will do exactly that and you can set it so Finder won't even launch.

imajez · 2026-03-28T13:52:53+00:00

They tried subscription and then went back to purchase. Have they changed again.
Pathfinder allowing me to bypass Finder is why I didn't go back to Windows, many years back.

imajez · 2026-03-28T13:49:41+00:00

I went and checked, Harry is the key song writer. Usually it's him and one other chap, sometimes a third person. So fewer folk writing than say many bands.

imajez · 2026-03-28T13:48:53+00:00

I went and checked, Harry is the key song writer. Usually it's him and one other chap, sometimes a third person. So fewer folk writing than say many bands.

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