Bruce, Toochis, Tupy and fellow colleges in the study of art of motion
pictures...
A few years back I had some fun with a audio track answering tape wher i
did freddy Krueger
type voice-over and wrote a script that allowed the person to call the
phone and they were then in the script...
I wish i had it on a 900 pay per call as it rang and rang for weeks..
the idea was suspension of disbelief
concept and I recorded it on a 8-track analog Tascam recorder with
foley sounds/ I even Pitched the voice to sound lower and it was a
great concept and people loved it.
It was the same as Movie making as it suggested elements that are time
tested.
for instance as I write this.. I just grabbed a very fresh yellow- Lemon
and I will now take a BITE- crucnh ohhhhhhhh
how Tart and juicy this is... its making my saliva glands secrete
uncntrolable.- YYouzze..
wow.. Just to freak out Potokar Ill take another JUICY BITE........
wwwweeeeeeeeehheeeeeew man thats sour.. very very juicy and sour.. its
making me puker up like Yoda
OK... did I make a point?
Toochis Morin wrote:
I'm with you on this one Bruce. I actually loved KING KONG.
Cheers,
Toochis
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I think another good example of this was the recent King Kong. Some
reviewers had a problem with Naomi Watts defying the laws of physics
by standing waving her arms on the Empire State Building, but they had
the ability to accept the many other wacky aspects of the movie. For
some reason, just that one bothered them.
Personally, I am able to suspend disbelief quite well. All I ask is
that the movie be well paced, and that I am entertained. My own pet
peeve in an action movie or comedy is when the lead character or
villain stands still for a few minutes and gives a long explanation of
why all the characters did what they did. I never care about the
explanation, because it is almost always mumbo jumbo anyway. I much
prefer Hitchcock's type of explanation, where it is simply "something"
that everyone wants, and they don't explain it at all.
Bruce
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Patrick Michael Tupy
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Theater of the mind...a roller coaster for the grey matter, baby.
Intellectually, sure, as a glib statement, a ventriloquist on the
radio is absurd on it's face,
but is it any more absurd than when people complain that Lois Lane
can't see that Clarke Kent is Superman with his feeble pair of
glasses as
his only disguise? Fine, we can't make THAT leap but we easily
accept that the guy is able to leap tall buildings in a single
bound? We all pick and
choose to accept, picture in our minds, BELIEVE what we need to in
order to accept the story or not. If you can picture Edgar Bergen
with a wooden
dummy on his lap named Chuck McCarthy while listening on the
radio, you're already a 'believer.' That's the genius of great
storytelling and great radio.
The ability to suspend your disbelief (or suspend your reliance on
the sensible, the practical, the empirical) is what makes all
stories possible. Some folks are less inclined to believe unless
they see pictures. So movies are easier for them but still, a
suspension of disbelief is central for the success of film stories
just as for radio plays. For movies it's believing that Welles is
KANE, that Flynn is Robin Hood, that Nicholson and Morgan Freeman
are dying...suspend your disbelief and all stories are fact, and
anything is possible. And thus, by extension, the success of
Religion...and the wars fought over belief of which tales
occurred, which hero's existed...who's Obi Wan was actually wise,
who's wise man is a villain, who's 'right,' who's 'wrong' and
whether or not the dummy on this fellas lap is real or was made
of wood and whole cloth.
No disrespect to anyone's particular belief system, just an
observation of how the process of believing, of having faith and
accepting the incredible is absolutely central to the acceptance
of most any story.
Patrick
On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Jeff Potokar wrote:
roger,
-do a little reading on the duo and you will know why they were
so popular and loved--even on the radio.
it was also a different time and world.. simple ways to entertain
the masses.
jeff
On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Roger Kim wrote:
For some inexplicable reason, they had one of the most popular
radio shows during the golden age of radio. It makes no sense
that they let a ventriloquist on the radio. It's almost as bad
as putting a mime on the radio. I think it's one of the great
mysteries of the universe that the show worked.
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