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Gasero
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I think 'Tales of the Industry' is exactly the kind of spicy column that ANN readers would like. I hope not too much information is redacted though. At a certain point it might seem like some stories are made-up.
Sounds like my kind of person. I like that reaction. Also, it seems odd to me that people didn't do a test run of the reel to make sure everything during the screening went well. I'd never premiere something as the first time it is being tried. |
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leafy sea dragon
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The Indiana Jones movies are deliberate throwbacks to earlier movie poster styles, which DID have a lot of heads all floating about. The Lord of the Rings movies all have Frodo front and center, though the other characters being there are to indicate that the movies have a lot of important characters. In contrast, the promotion for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, both parts, despite having many characters, features no one at all, but simply Hogwarts on fire. As for Pikachu's Vacation, kids didn't like Pikachu much even during then. Pokémon appealed, at that time, mainly to boys, for whom cuteness would've been a turnoff. By contrast, Mewtwo was super-popular (and still is), and it'd make sense to feature Mewtwo. I knew some people who walked right out of the theater during Pikachu's Vacation because they could not stand that fluffy material (with some thinking the entire movie was going to be like that). |
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enurtsol
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Here's another point of debate now in Japan: "Japan’s poster for Academy Award-winning movie 'Birdman' raises eyebrows online" Guess which one had to be different from the US/European, Korean, and Chinese posters? Here's what Japanese have to say about the changes:
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EyeOfPain
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I wonder if he was even reprimanded beyond "Don't let it happen again." BAAF most likely rented out the theater space and services, with the con handling attendance. It's not like they would have lost money if customers had decided to leave midway through the movie, so unless the theater had actually damaged the film, I'd imagine they were still paid most, if not all, of what they were supposed to be paid for the use of the venue (if they hadn't been paid before the screening, for some reason). I do like these kinds of stories. I've noticed the blips in the top-right corner of frames, but beyond the scene in Fight Club, I guess I never put too much thought into them. I was in a group that acted as a second run theater in college, but the 3-platter, single projector system was never actually used while I was there. Now I can't help but think how a 2-projector system works: are alternating reels spliced together for each projector, or are reels just swapped out after the previous one finishes (I'm guessing this is the case). |
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GalicianNightmare
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@leafy sea dragon To say that Pikachu was not popular in the US back then is incorrect. Pikachu is the most popular Pokemon in the US by far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Game_Boy_video_games You can see that Pokemon Red sold 4.83 million in the US. The more popular of the two sold 5.02 million in the US. Pokemon Yellow sold 5.1 million. On its own, it is the best selling Pokemon game in the US. Don't act like Pikachu isn't popular in this country, because that is a blatant lie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachu#Promotion_and_legacy |
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Greg Capin
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I was there at the premiere. Its pretty funny my memory was of the projector only crashing once.
When my friend went up to get Satoshi's signature, he had him sign one of the festival flyers. If I remember right he drew a little something with it. When we were at the festival I guess we somehow mistakenly ended up hearing through the rumor mill that he wouldn't sign the poster because it was racist. Your guys' explanation makes a lot more sense. But we puzzled over why the poster was racist while there. Anyway, when the Tokyo Godfathers was finished rolling there were some real dumb audience member questions. After a few, my friend and I were talking to each other and we're like "We could come up with better questions than them!" "Terrible questions" "Why don't we ask him what is so racist about the promotional poster that he wouldn't sign? Yeah that's a good idea" So when the moderator asked "Are there any other audience member questions?" My friend raised his hand up high holding the large Millenium Actress promotional poster rolled up in hand. Needless to say the moderator didn't call on my friend. I guess we had our own ignorant question, though it was good from our perspective. Our favorite Satoshi Kon statement though was in response to one of the audience member's "questions". This guy starts going on and on about Tokyo Godfathers and gives a long drawn out personal analysis of the film. Our eyes are rolling after awhile as he yammers on and on. After awhile the moderator interrupts the audience member and asks "I'm sorry, do you have a question?" Audience member goes "Yeah, I'd like to hear what Satoshi Kon has to say about what I've been talking about. Now Satoshi doesn't know English so now the translator has to try and communicate what the audience member was trying to say. So after some time of the translator trying to puzzle out some meaning to the audience members talking, Satoshi Kon is ready to speak: Satoshi Kon: "My answer is.... nothing" The audience had a good laugh. |
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