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  1. MikeKardec

    The Man From UNCLE movie

    I've always found that smart, character based, humor tend to appear in any script as you perfect and perfect it. When it is really ready to go it just starts getting funny on it's own. Stupid humor probably shows up when lesser talents try to push it but, never actually trying to be funny, I...
  2. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    Norse anything would work, especially in relation to Nazis. I'm kind of over the faux religious stuff the Nazis were trying to create for themselves ... it seems too late in their trajectory and therefore pitiful. There is a story there but it's subtle and detailed rather than the a bunch of...
  3. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Waiting for the last pass of No Traveller Returns to hit the mailbox. The book is coming out in Oct. and it will be interesting to see the reaction. It's very different from the usual Louis L'Amour fare. Right up the alley for any Loungers, however. Here's the tentative jacket copy: Fate is...
  4. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    An interesting observation. I hate to think that anything is off limits but I wouldn't want to become Slaman Rushdie either. That said, I wonder if it can't be circumvented. There's a lot of pre islamic myth that probably could probably be utilized and the Sufi/Ismaili believers are less...
  5. MikeKardec

    The Man From UNCLE movie

    In my opinion the comedy or 'over the top remake' is an attempt to create some ironic distance from dated material. It's an indication of writers or executives afraid of being embarrassed by their efforts but who feel constrained by audience expectations. That or they are not talented enough...
  7. MikeKardec

    Magnum P.I. reboot

    If memory serves, Higgins was most effective when he was a wet blanket thrown over the other characters. It seems he was funny because he was the only real adult in the group, the teacher the kids were avoiding or "borrowing" from. He was cool because he was uncool. Somehow I fear it's beyond...
  8. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    There's a lot of benefit to creating a break out show ... if you are new to the TV world. Much of this vision of how to establish yourself was created by AMC doing Mad Men. It had been done before but that was sort of an "out of nowhere" arrival and it drew people to AMC who had never bothered...
  9. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    Re, The Man in the High Castle -- Amazon productions need to make more money per viewer than the cost of Amazon Prime per subscriber. I suspect that TMITHC is close to the limit. It's been very popular and gotten Amazon good publicity as both a piece of art and entertainment but they've been...
  10. MikeKardec

    What Sense Does A Cummerbund Make?

    In the days when I had to occasionally wear a tux I had a double breasted shawl collar jacket which did not reveal the cummerbund but, just to be ridiculously traditional, I'd wear a sash (basically a cummerbund I had to wrap and tie, and which was what cummerbunds evolved out of. I also had a...
  11. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    Some slight memory tells me that the show had a relationship to SKY in the production phase. Netflix may not be the distributor in all territories. Most of the old US cable distributors, HBO, TNT, etc. are full up with their own programming, so Netflix makes sense. SKY is not, I know this...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I keep hoping that adult line stem cell therapy will become more common for some of this. There are docs in the US that refer patients to an American run clinic in Panama who do a good deal of work on auto immune diseases but I don't know the cost or how the referral works --...
  14. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    Be sure you saw all 16 episodes ... Netflix, on my computer forced me to go to the menu to pull up all the episodes after #7! There is a series 3 that has been discussed.
  15. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    Yeah. What was wrong with that damn hat? It seemed as if it was lengthened as if he has a long oval head ... but he sure didn't look like it. Was it a super round size that was slightly stretched for a guy with a normal head? No idea but you do have to look at it a lot and it was unfortunate...
  16. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    Okay, into the last episode and still very, very, good. I do wonder if CPR was a thing in the '20s ... I sort of remember some old technique of working the arms back and forth on a drowned person. The rifle scope thing turned out to be a nonstarter, possibly even a translation issue. Nothing...
  17. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    Pushing farther into it the details, sets, set dressing, costumes, are really a cut above. Better than a lot of American films where there would be few mistakes but not such careful subtle stuff. Typically, the one potentially glaring error (depending on how they try to use it) was introducing...
  19. MikeKardec

    Do you own a Tux?

    I just dumped my old tux at the Goodwill. It had seen better days but it was a double breasted jacket with a shawl collar. Very Casablanca. The material on the collar eventually (after 30 years) went from shiny black to a strange burgundy color which was kind of cool but it revealed every...
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Done with the Audio script which turned into the finished manuscript for the print version too. I didn't think I would but I found a way to simplify the Audio elements so now they are pretty identical. This makes the publisher happy because they like to put "unabridged" on the box. It's a fun...
  21. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    Yeah, I just hit that Cabaret scene. I'd say ... maybe. Poetry was in in a way we don't see it today, except maybe as rap, so it kind of got a pass in my book. The poetry of the time might have been a bit more traditional though it was the age of the Modernist, industrial symphonies, Cubism...
  22. MikeKardec

    Babylon Berlin

    This is a Netflix offering with subtitles. I've just finished Episode One and, story-wise, it is intriguing (that's all it can be so far) but the atmosphere, sets (other than one typically European, too-clean, semi CG shot), costumes (other than one particularly bad hat) are first among firsts...
  23. MikeKardec

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    The "Me Decade" seems to keep getting updated, with ME in a larger and larger font as we approach the current moment!

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