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What Happened....
I've always thought that "over-qualified" was just a less insulting way of saying we don't want you. Having been an employer, though not in a giant-office sort of business, I would always want an "over qualified" employee and would think they were someone who was good for the company and could...- MikeKardec
- Post #275
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Men's Adventure Magazines
Do realize that I know exactly what you mean and agree ... I was just commenting on what you made me think. I had a vision or recognized a metaphor or something as I read Lizzie's post above of something emerging from underground; that is what was happening with aspects of our culture that were...- MikeKardec
- Post #26
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Men's Adventure Magazines
I know the point you are making and agree with it in a way but I'd also say that, from my own perspective and strictly related to the content, there was nothing innocent about the Men's Adventure genre (as opposed to the straight pulps) or that there is something disturbing in it's eroding...- MikeKardec
- Post #19
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
Well you're in good company. Lots of writers in the early part of the 20th century had to break their short story habits and write novels when the magazine fiction market collapsed. Some, while brilliant, never really succeeded (Ray Bradbury), some just interwove a bunch of short stories...- MikeKardec
- Post #279
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Happened....
Gosh, I see that "theory" issue in most of the college grads I run into, at least for the first few years. So much of what they are taught (this is particularly significant in contemporary liberal arts "studies" studies) centers on abstractions that getting them to focus on the real world is...- MikeKardec
- Post #213
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Cowwboy Cussin...
Yes, and reintarnation is when you are so evil you come back as a movie Hillbilly!- MikeKardec
- Post #12
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
It's odd, I FREEZE when given a close deadline, but I'll work like the devil was after me to get something done before a deadline is imposed or before someone starts pressuring me. I know that's a deadline of sorts but I'm just petrified of letting people down because I'm under pressure. To...- MikeKardec
- Post #271
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
I think that somewhere in between is good. Most of that structure by page number stuff is adapted from the movie business, where it's taken slightly too seriously and the TV business where it's pretty damn important because you have EXACTLY "X" amount of time and you have to break for...- MikeKardec
- Post #267
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
I really like the Weird West thing ... and the west is pretty weird in reality. When working on that Series bible I quoted a bit of earlier I ran into some VERY strange stories while talking to police officers. They are incredibly reticent to discuss supernatural stuff but they have often...- MikeKardec
- Post #259
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
Both you and Benz are doing better than me, I should be stockpiling blog posts for upcoming promo efforts but I'm currently having more fun wandering around in the Colorado sunshine. Theoretically I was going to do some research and model some new story structure elements on this trip but it's...- MikeKardec
- Post #255
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Is Band of Brothers any good?
"We" (if you are from the USA) tend to sort of be obsessed with the end of the war, Pearl Harbor movies and books exempted. I find myself drawn to its very chaotic beginnings: Japan v USSR, Japan v China, Japan v French Indochina (weren't they run by Vichy?), USSR v Finland, Soviet/Nazi proxy...- MikeKardec
- Post #44
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Is Band of Brothers any good?
A couple of thoughts - The Pacific was adapted from two books rather than one ... thus some of the dislocation and, possibly, some of the character issues. In Band of Brothers the characters are often defined in comparison to one another through their relationships with one another ...- MikeKardec
- Post #42
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Show us your photography
Obviously there is a hint of Van Gogh in there but I was immediately reminded of frequent Ray Bradbury illustrator Joe Mugnaini ... http://www.wildernessofthemind.com/ ... but without some of the menacing overtones.- MikeKardec
- Post #1,129
- Forum: The Display Case
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How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...
If you watch Bates Motel, the sound of Norma's Mercedes 280se is always that of a Mercedes diesel. I believe that is a choice to make it sound "old." In Post you generally try to use effects that are more emotionally correct than "real." It's part of the interpretive aspect to film making...- MikeKardec
- Post #74
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Men's Adventure Magazines
Anyone who hasn't enjoyed the exuberance of the classic pre war pulps owes it to themselves to dive in. There are lots of anthologies of pulp stories (often more identified with the magazines like Black Mask or Astounding Stories) but if you've read short stories by Chandler or Hammett or...- MikeKardec
- Post #13
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Ernest Hemingway Thread
I think Connery makes a good point but it's also true that many writers write to discover what they are writing about, to discover what the story wants to become. Sometimes they never get there. Sometimes they get there but what has meaning to them can't possibly translate to us. However...- MikeKardec
- Post #282
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Men's Adventure Magazines
There are a lot of good points made here, I especially like that one about the reality TV shows. My ever evolving opinion is that Men's Adventure morphed out of the prewar Adventure Pulps and morphed into Paperback Originals like the Micky Spillaines and, after many years stuff like "The...- MikeKardec
- Post #10
- Forum: The Golden Era
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How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...
I've always wanted to work with a 44 but, to tell the truth, I've never seen one outside of photographs. I'm a pop screen fanatic, always searching for the best. So far I'm happiest with Paulys but if I was to ever do a show again I'd experiment some more. The long term leader in the blimped...- MikeKardec
- Post #72
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...
It's very hard to do good drama with actors and mics facing an audience. I did a couple of staged readings of shows already in the can and never liked the results. It seems like you can have a performance for the audience or the mic, but not both. I remember those huge RCA figure 8 ribbon...- MikeKardec
- Post #67
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...
That was still true for me in the 1960s and '70s. I'm pretty sure one of the things that got me interested in film, other than growing up in Hollywood, was watching all those horribly chopped up yet still great old movies on the local stations. Even as a kid I'd much rather watch Bogart or...- MikeKardec
- Post #64
- Forum: The Observation Bar
