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At the same time, I can't think of a single Ellroy film adaptation that felt it necessary to remain as "intense with the language" as the original novel was.
"Keep your shoes on." -- Uma Thurman's advice to Maya Hawke, when the latter was approached about working with QT.
I'm torn between Samuel L Jackson saying he's completely ok with it, & the fact that Tarantino is possibly the most pretentious, douchebag egomaniac in the entire industry.
Brain fart... the album is called Another Green World...
This one played on Another Green Planet
And to be clear... I'm not talking about single campaigns with a 12% hit rate...
more about 12% of X's audience buying something based on what they've seen. Less spectacular, for sure, but probably way better than TV/Radio/print used to see.
that's true... my bad: I should be clearer that's really what I was talking about.
otoh, I still think the basic point holds, tho, for a push platform like X, unlike Google which people actively use to find things that they want to buy.
As platforms & the way they engage their audience TikTok & X are apples & oranges.
That said, even though my feeling is that the TikTok number's high, I'm not surprised it that would get far more traction.
Google Ads is far more targeted & it gets an overall hit rate of ~7.5%
Don't know what the muppet was expecting, but my understanding is that, from an advertsing POV, 11% is actually a pretty good hit rate.
"They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts."
3d desktop sw development for MCAD/FEA, etc... is why I originally moved to Mac, back in 2002. That & the fact I can get native MS Office on Mac.
But I do everything else on Linux (Rocky-10)
I have a pretty good idea: my ex-stepson's a habitual offender, who just got out from a 3 yr stretch in Nevada.
He did time in San Quentin, was in Corcoran same time as Charles Manson, & has the ink to prove it.
Truth is that US prisons are particularly brutal places, especially for the West.
I believe he meant the UK, not the US.
These incidents are not common in the UK.
This. imho, only David Lean comes close.
27 years ago, on March 7, 1999, Stanley Kubrick passed away. He left behind a legacy of iconic films, including "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "The Shining" (1980), and "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), just to name a few.
#StanleyKubrick #16mmInferno
The NCAA is by far the worst of all of them... in 40+ US states, the highest paid college employee in any state is almost always a football or basketball coach.
Here's my big new story on Pixar's “reluctant leader” Pete Docter and the radical changes he’s making to get the “Toy Story” studio back on track. And I've got lots of exclusive details, including about 2 unannounced films. 🧵 www.wsj.com/business/med...
“The facts of life do not penetrate the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them.” -- Proust
Raspberry jam...
Not going to shed a tear either.
But in reality this is genuinely shocking. For the simple reason that unlike the US, HM prisons are not intended to be "Lord Of The Flies" sandboxes.
and with prestige TV, the conversation has to start including showrunners like Tony Gilroy, Vince Gilligan/Peter Gould, Graham Yost, David Milch, Jonathan Nolan, etc...
I'd add David Simon to this list, but imho he's a fevered ego & a colossal dick.
Don't get me wrong, I love Billy Wilder movies, but I'm going for peak:
Towne wrote Chinatown, Goldman ushered in modern screenwriting, Walter Hill invented & crossed genres (48 Hrs, The Driver, Southern Comfort, Alien...) & Coppola had the greatest 4 picture writer/director span in movie history.
Despite starting out as an admirer, Dickens ended up hating America and bemoaning what he saw as the country's obsession with money.
p.s. I would have Towne, Goldman, peak Coppola & my hero Walter Hill over Wilder, if only because Billy always worked so closely with collaborators.
