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Comment on K2 theme unmaintained, looking for alternatives by Information Overload · My personal alternate style for Tarski

Information Overload · My personal alternate style for Tarski — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:21:19 +0000

[...] you regular visitors might have noticed, I’ve finally decided to switch themes. As I wrote almost a year ago, the K2 theme I used previously is unmaintained. I didn’t want to keep [...]

Comment on Favorite older films (black and white) and copyright by Everything is a Remix and politics « Information Overload

Everything is a Remix and politics « Information Overload — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:18:56 +0000

[...] is still possible for film studios to cash in for eternity on films under their copyright, even if they are more than half a century [...]

Comment on Volunteering in Nepal: last days in Pokhara by Why is there such a geographic variety in hospitality? « Information Overload

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:35:47 +0000

[...] to weddings and dinners often and I was even given a place to sleep for free in a private home by Uttam and Meena. But, being such a rational person I’m not going to trust my and other’s anecdotal [...]

Comment on Vacation in the USA’s west, the experience by Why is there such a geographic variety in hospitality? « Information Overload

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:57:58 +0000

[...] my personal experience I remember when I was on vacation with my family in the west of the USA, in Zion National Park. When we stopped our car along the [...]

Comment on Why you should not watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Alexander van Loon

Alexander van Loon — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:12:40 +0000

Thank you very much for your comment. I agree that I was wrong, I was primarily motivated to write this after reading [1] about Oplev’s (the director of the Swedish version) displeasure with the American version. Maybe because I sympathize with him as he is agonized to see that the American version rakes in more revenue than his version, even though he was first with a better adaptation (according to Metacritic).

Thank you for taking the time to write this interesting opinion to the contrary. As I already mentioned in my post I didn’t watch the film before writing this because I wanted to get it off my chest, but it wasn’t fair of me to judge it without watching it.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/09/girl-dragon-tattoo-american-remake

Comment on Why you should not watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by marc

marc — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:34:12 +0000

Quality of a film will always win out over smoke and mirror issues the writer here brings up. First, the 2011 Girl with a Dragon Tattoo is NOT a remake. In a press release dated February, 2009, an executive for Yellow Bird, Soren Starmose, stated that they were negotiations for a Hollywood adaptation of the bestseller. To say that Hollywood was looking to remake a film that hadn’t been released or hadn’t yet found an international distributor makes no sense. Hollywood was going to make an adaptation (not a remake)regardless of whether the films were ever made. It is worth noting that Yellow Bird originally produced the films for television and were pressured to release them in theaters. Hollywood can’t be the only for-profit-bad-guy as Swedish film industry was also milking their mini-series quality adaptations of Larsson’s work. These films are Swedish but they’re not Bergman.
In the end, regardless of timing, quality wins out. There are so many ways Hollywood could have cheapened the adaptation but Sony hired a talented screenwriter, put the project in the hands of a visionary director, gave him a budget and final cut. They fully developed one film in the time it took Yellow Bird to crank out three television quality movies. To write off a film under false assumption that it was a cheap Hollywood remake is as shallow as not seeing a film because of subtitles.

The added dimension I think Fincher brings to this story has to be pointed out especially the psychology of his frame.

For example: The office rape sequence contains an unusual high angle shot where a character appears upside down vertically. Fincher had a choice to plant the camera anywhere in that room — behind either of the characters, on the side, in the corner, etc. The choice brings a deeper psychology to the character in the event creating the effect that they are lying down and the act is happening willingly from a perspective of the perpetrator.

Another high angle shot soon follows with first reveal of the dragon tattoo: one of the characters own self scars perpetrated on herself. This shot that happens only one other time in the film but within the same visual passage and forms a visual melody. On second viewing, the film is full of them.

Kubrick once said, “How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.” Nothing is written on the bottom of the film or forced but it’s there for rediscovery. In that way, over the shoulder the close ups of the semi circular hook of an earring, to bloody water down the drain to an expensive earring tumbling of one down the drain in the film’s final act bring a poetry that only moving pictures have.

Comment on Problems with power saving on Kubuntu by zack24

zack24 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:16:22 +0000

It is not KDE specific bug at all !!!

Have same bug with Gnome.

Comment on Sadly, the Nokia N9 got canned by Alexander van Loon

Alexander van Loon — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:31:17 +0000

I do, and I probably should have written ‘some of the most important markets’. But still, the limited release shows that the N9 is now a second-rate product for Nokia.

Comment on Sadly, the Nokia N9 got canned by KT

KT — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:00:24 +0000

You don’t consider China to be a major market?

Comment on KDE and Linux are power hogs by Hiatus « This week in panospace

Hiatus « This week in panospace — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:18:35 +0000

[...] aware how bad KDE compares to other Linux desktops in terms of resource waste; and how bad they all compare to to [...]