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[bianconero]

I am "purchasing" Being There as we speak.

I guess it is a "buyers" market, not a "sellers"!

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[JCK]

I prefer "seeders" to "leechers"

And just to tease you a bit, I am enjoying a Cliff with a Spliff while waiting.

 

[bianconero]

That's why I call you

Double Barrel

 

[JCK]

I feel a bit insulted.

 

[bianconero]

I feel a bit insulted.

Would you prefer a Clif sobriquet?

 

[JCK]

Would you prefer a Clif sobriquet?

I don't mind a Dekker hors d'oeuvre at all.

 

[bianconero]

I don't mind a Dekker hors d'oeuvre at all.

How about The Israelite?

 

[bianconero]

Rude boy?

Desmond!

 

[swag]

Because I had three and a half hours to spare yesterday, and there are few things I find more tortuous than American collegiate sports on TV, I rewatched The Seven Samurai for the first time in a long time.

Who thought Mifune would have worked so well as the drunken wannabe in this?

 

[Fred]

Don't want to sound rude or anything, but you've got a pretty outdated and shitty taste in movies Greg

 

[swag]

I simply don't accept that. Being There is on of the smartest movies I've ever seen.

Its relevance to modern politics some 28 years after its release is still insanely high.

Don't want to sound rude or anything, but you've got a pretty outdated and shitty taste in movies Greg

Nah, don't worry about it. I have long been fed up with all the new trash parading itself as "movies" these days at £14-a-screening.

Sure, the new stuff is more timely with the culture. But cultural context is just holding up a mirror. I learn nothing from that.

Basically, I figure that if any given year there may be a handful of books, movies, etc., that will be worth reading/watching that year, that only means that the back catalog has hundreds if not thousands of examples that I would be better off spending my time reading/watching -- instead of lowering my standards to the huge volume of mediocre, forgettable dreck that comes out in a given year.

The Seven Samurai beats the pants off of a minimum of 97% of the movies that came out this last year.

 

[Fred]

Fair enough.

 

[swag]

Let me put it another way... five years from now, I won't remember that Speed Racer or Hancock even existed. But I'll remember The Seven Samurai.

 

[Red]

Basically, I figure that if any given year there may be a handful of books, movies, etc., that will be worth reading/watching that year, that only means that the back catalog has hundreds if not thousands of examples that I would be better off spending my time reading/watching -- instead of lowering my standards to the huge volume of mediocre, forgettable dreck that comes out in a given year.

Wise words.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Because I had three and a half hours to spare yesterday, and there are few things I find more tortuous than American collegiate sports on TV, I rewatched The Seven Samurai for the first time in a long time.

Who thought Mifune would have worked so well as the drunken wannabe in this?

Akira!

now if only you understood some japanese

 

[bianconero]

Let me put it another way... five years from now, I won't remember that Speed Racer or Hancock even existed. But I'll remember The Seven Samurai.

Have you seen Throne of blood?

I think it is his best.

 

[swag]

Akira!

now if only you understood some japanese

I wish.

But I knew enough to get some amusement out of the subtitles. Like when they translated "Sensei" to "Sir", I knew they were losing a lot of cultural context.

But my favorite subtitles included "sheeyit!" and (I am literally not making these up) "Fee-roh-shus!".

It was like the subtitlers of the original "Iron Chef" got a hold of Kurosawa.

 

[swag]

Have you seen Throne of blood?

I think it is his best.

I'll put it on the list. Thanks.

 

[swag]

I wish.

But I knew enough to get some amusement out of the subtitles. Like when they translated "Sensei" to "Sir", I knew they were losing a lot of cultural context.

But my favorite subtitles included "sheeyit!" and (I am literally not making these up) "Fee-roh-shus!".

It was like the subtitlers of the original "Iron Chef" got a hold of Kurosawa.

Here it is in the .srt file:

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/1683/shichinin-no-samurai-en

478
00:54:33,183 --> 00:54:35,947
Hey! I found a samurai!

479
00:54:36,153 --> 00:54:37,677
A real tough one!

480
00:54:38,422 --> 00:54:41,391
A fee-ro-shus one!
He is like a wild dog

481
00:54:41,592 --> 00:54:44,686
He drank with him later

745
01:34:14,429 --> 01:34:19,264
I can't imagine the mountains
being infested with bandits

746
01:34:21,369 --> 01:34:24,270
Sheeyit!
If I had woman now...

 

[GordoDeCentral]

whats funny is you know for a fact the translators were japanese