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WDT - July 4-July 9, 2010
jwhouk:
No.
There is another.
Mad Cat:
Okay, she had a line. that means she has to have her SAG card, so... what's the new character's name?
Heliphyneau:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 08 Jul 2010, 00:15 ---I said,
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES!!!
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"Whatcha got there, Joe?"
"Whores, Billy! Whores!"
"Well, where'd you get 'em?"
"I just found 'em! Lyin' around!"
:-D
And yes, an unfinishing school where they learn social disgraces (tip of hat to Rimwolf for that term) fits. As does the final blackboard "item" that says "We have way too many bananas" -- pretty sneaky metaphor, Jeph. :wink:
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: Akima on 08 Jul 2010, 02:47 ---
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 08 Jul 2010, 01:45 ---I wonder if that line's in the new Karate Kid movie, which, by the way, I cannot freaking believe they remade.
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Especially setting it in CHINA, and the kid learns kung-fu. But hey, no difference, right?
--- Quote from: akronnick on 08 Jul 2010, 01:57 ---Is forthwith a preposition?
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No.
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If it's set in China, chances are the 'Kid' isn't learning karate, but hey! let's slap the "Karate Kid" name on it anyway, then protest that "It's really different! Updated, even!" Pfui.
If the film is that different, the producers should've given it a different name; instead, they decide to cynically (ironic, since if it is like the 1984 KK, cynicism is a stake through its heart) 'cash in' on the original instead of letting this possibly different film stand on its own two (or one, carefully balanced) feet. Like the quote in my post says, you can't have it both ways. What I really see here is a hope by Daddy Smith that the KK 'magic'* that shot Macchio to stardom and the covers of Tiger Beat so girls he could get arrested for being involved with could swoon over him (Macchio was 23 at the time) will also work for Jaden. Again, better to have let it happen, or not, on it's own.
*Read: if it had been made two years earlier or two years later, The Karate Kid would've likely been a 'cult classic' (meaning nobody watched it on first release), but it happened to appear when it had no competition whatsoever—the year before, for example, it would've been up against The Outsiders (which also featured Macchio). Also they'd be calling the current film The Kung-Fu Kid in the U.S., too, and only admitting it owed some of its plot to The Karate Kid in interviews even while explaining how it wasn't that film, not at all—just has some homages.
Nightson:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 08 Jul 2010, 01:45 ---Cheers for Dora and Penelope calling Faye on her lame denial that there's something between her and Angus. "Nothing's been decided yet," my ass. Time to get out of the middle of the road, Faye, before you get squished like a grape. (I wonder if that line's in the new Karate Kid movie, which, by the way, I cannot freaking believe they remade.)
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Well middle of the road is pretty much the way things went with Marten and Sven so it's not surprising that she'd start to do it with Angus too.
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