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Post by Cylinder on Feb 21, 2005 22:31:37 GMT
"Bows and Arrows against the Lightning" has a humourous context in case it went over your head. Just one example.
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Post by themotile on Feb 21, 2005 22:36:50 GMT
Go on then ...were is the supposed Humour in the book? ...I do have a good sense of humour ...but I cannot recall laughing, or even tittering whilst reading the book well maybe at the Thunderchild bit or when the narrator finds the inn keeper with his head at a funny angle GOD THEY WERE SOOO FUNNY, I nearly wet myself , neither do I do big belly laughs or even sblack person at the JW album, have I missed the Ali G section somewhere....he isn't listed in the credits. it is not the laugh out loud humour, like I said you have no concept of subtle humour. Wells humour was mostly irony. One example is the shop keeper who sends his son to sell apples and ginger beer on at the martian pitt, it was ironic humour. Then you have the whole cellar sequence, hes trapped with a curate, a holy man, in the pit of hell surronded bu deamons, again irony.
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Post by TOMAHAWK on Feb 21, 2005 22:37:40 GMT
It is not exactly humourous is it...it is a comparison, i cant see the audience rolling about when that line is said
You could say that the line "he's fell in" when the guy falls into the pit is humourous but I dare say it won't make the audience laugh
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Post by Anthony on Feb 21, 2005 22:38:30 GMT
Ha SS has ripped off another film then, if it's true about the crane arm .. anybody seen the Hammer version of Quatermass and the pit (the one in colour) at the end one of the scientists climbs onto one of the tall T shaped cranes and swings it into the Big baddy alien thing, to ground it and thereby dispercing/killing it Talk about rippin off ..SS is just a con man The ending of Quatermass and the pitt was crap, it ruined the film for me.
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Post by Cylinder on Feb 21, 2005 22:39:28 GMT
Humour is subjective like any emotional response.
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Post by themotile on Feb 21, 2005 22:44:10 GMT
It is not exactly humourous is it...it is a comparison, i cant see the audience rolling about when that line is said You could say that the line "he's fell in" when the guy falls into the pit is humourous but I dare say it won't make the audience laugh JESUS! Tom you have no idea what subtle humour is do you? It has nothing to do with laughter and it can be just as disturbing as horror. Its REALISM tom, black humour. Did you ever see boys from the black stuff? it was a drama on ITV, it had not one 'joke' in it and nobody laughed at all but it is atill one of the greatest black comedys on TV.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Feb 22, 2005 0:40:38 GMT
Hmm.. black humour is definately one of those things that is subjective. I didn't find the guy falling into the pit funny but ... I can, in all honesty , understand why people might. The portrayal of such an incident will no doubt act on people in a different way. Sometimes we can find a situation funny.. in a strange way.. But I would ask that people bear in mind other people's opinions in such matters. Such humour, although valid in it's way is very personal. You really shouldn't expect everyone to share your amusement and acknowledge any sensitivity to such if it comes up. It's basic human behaviour. Oh, I loved Quatermass and the Pit and won't have anything said against it. It is one of the best Brit SciFi films ever to emerge. Period.
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Post by Gerkinman on Feb 22, 2005 0:46:46 GMT
its like when you see a kids hand get slammed shut by a car door, you know you shouldnt laugh, but you end up rolling around in a fit of laughter
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Post by nervouspete on Feb 22, 2005 0:51:22 GMT
Oh, I loved Quatermass and the Pit and won't have anything said against it. It is one of the best Brit SciFi films ever to emerge. Period. Breaking my self imposed posting exile from the film boards for a minute here: I won't have anything said against Quatermass and the Pitt either. Nigel Kneale (the writer) was the closest thing SF television got to genuine science fiction concepts, and was to my mind a sort of J G Ballard, but on television. The ending was a neat puzzle on the old iron and water exorcism, which chimes in with a great deal of the old tales. It's also genuinely moving and heroic. And that old effect of the glowing devil over London still disturbs me. His science fiction was and is still relevant because it says something about the human conditon. In the above case: race wars, the final solution, Dresden, superstition, race memory and prejudice. All wrapped up in a sinister but compelling package. The TV version of the 1950's was ace, too, and can be got on DVD. He also did in the mid 1950's, with Peter Cushing and Andre Morrel, the best version of 1984 ever. Tomahawk; all the crane idea is is conjecture. It'll probably just mean some neat visual metaphors later on, if anything. Everyone: Stop whining, PLEASE. And stop knocking each other. I don't care who started it, it's getting a bit annoying. Just because Spielberg says that there's going to be some jokes in it, doesn't mean its going to be a slapstickathon. Neither does it mean that we're going to be treated with chilling Kubrick humour. It just means that there'll be some moments of humour for family drama amidst the horror. As bad as that may sound to some of you, I was expecting it, and feel that it won't detract much at all from the film. Pete P.S: Hang in there, Evilnerfherder.
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Post by Topaz on Feb 22, 2005 4:34:21 GMT
I don't mind some black humor, if that's what turns out to be the case. Dr. Strangelove was a comedy start to finish, and almost entirely the darkest of black humor.
If it's well done, I don't believe it'll detract from the story. If it turns slapstick, then I won't find it very amusing in this context. I'm a purist too, but since it's already evident that this won't be a 'pure' adaptation, I'm willing to cut it a little slack in that direction.
Far worse than some black humor will be if the movie turns maudlin - like the 'we all learn we have to unite' possibility mentioned in another thread.
As for Quatermass and the Pit, I'm another that owns the movie on DVD. Surely not a towering classic of SF, but a thoroughly fun movie with some really, really interesting ideas in it.
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Post by maniacs on Feb 22, 2005 20:10:07 GMT
I hope Tom Cruise isn't reading a bumber sticker on a tripod when hes saying
'nothing can touch me!'
That's a little worrying. Why is he saying it?
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Post by dudalb on Feb 23, 2005 4:59:24 GMT
Probably because at that point in the film he has just seen the Martians/Aliens wipe out the US Army...
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Post by maniacs on Feb 23, 2005 11:35:57 GMT
No, he says nothing can touch ME!!!
Not nothing can touch them.
Really seems like hes reading something.
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Post by themotile on Feb 23, 2005 12:18:50 GMT
No, he says nothing can touch ME!!! Not nothing can touch them. Really seems like hes reading something. Eh?
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Post by Tripod on Feb 23, 2005 20:02:18 GMT
Christopher Loyd (Back to the Future) would make a great Ogilvy.
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Post by Winky on Feb 23, 2005 20:05:25 GMT
Christopher Loyd (Back to the Future) would make a great Ogilvy. Has he ever done any serious-not-funny roles? But yes he really does looks the part.
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Post by Cylinder on Feb 23, 2005 22:48:17 GMT
Has he ever done any serious-not-funny roles? . Star Trek III
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Post by Winky on Feb 23, 2005 22:56:30 GMT
was he good? lol
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Post by themotile on Feb 24, 2005 0:54:21 GMT
Come on the bit were he strangles the puppet is pretty funny.
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