From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V2 #242 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Tuesday, September 3 2002 Volume 02 : Number 242 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] <> [cr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 00:42:40 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] <> On Monday 02 September 2002 04:55, Sojourner wrote: > > Besides, anytime I see the jugular laid bare before me (pleas to not attack > don't sway me) I can't resist digging in the talons or fangs. Oooh I feel a quote coming on - "Have we sent the 'Don't shoot, we're pathetic' signal yet?" (Crichton, Farscape, sorry for the OT :) > And the pre-emptive assault! Brilliant! It was a pre-emptive defence, actually ;-) > Basically cr (my riposte involves condescension) we don't have enough > interesting traffic on the XWP lists as it is. Don't make us psychos and > sickos stop!! Gosh, that would be the last thing I ever want to do. Condescend away. What, you mean that *was* condescension? I hardly noticed. Wanna try harder? :) > I don't mind the implausible stunts - I reckon that often the technical > constraints of the screennsize has an impact. Like the leap in The > Deliveryboy - it goes just a couple of metres too far for the arc of the > trajectory (hyper? para? don't ask don't tell is my motto). Maybe it was a > trade-off for how much of the shot was seen all at once, how high the leap > could go etc. Just imagine the same leap, filmed in the style of a fung-ku > movie - multiple POVs, slo-mo mix, Lucy doing it herself..... We wouldn't > have seen that awkward extra 2 metres. > > Sojourner Well yes, true. If only they'd cut it slightly differently, to disguise the true trajectory (which was probably a stuntie swinging from a wire). cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V2 #242 **************************************