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Post by nmg »

_yb2s wrote: post #56
wisty wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The famous B52 cockpit - From wikipedia: > Lacking cooperation from the Pentagon in the making of the film, the set designers reconstructed the aircraft cockpit to the best of their ability by comparing the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress and a single photograph of the cockpit of a B-52 and relating this to the geometry of the B-52's fuselage. The B-52 was state-of-the-art in the 1960s, and its cockpit was off-limits…

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!”

"He'll see everything! ... He'll see the big board!"

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Post by nocoiner »

iancmceachern wrote: post #32
aidenn0 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me it's Sneakers "We are the US Government, we don't do that sort of thing"

Love this movie, it really holds up too. I live right near that plaza in SF where Sydney Poitier yells at Martin "its your Mother" with the Car phone in his hand. Great movie

I love that movie too. It’s amazing how well it holds up for it being, in many ways, a tech-focused movie - I mean, yeah, the tech is very much dated and completely a product of its time, but it doesn’t look at all ridiculous. Undoubtedly probably helps that it was pre-WWW/popular internet.

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by nocoiner »

geocrasher wrote: post #27
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #11

I know everyone is talking about how he voiced Vader, but when I think of him, I think of Strangelove and Hunt for Red October. I didn't spend a lot of time in the fleet, but what I did was rather boring and/or annoying; the idea that something exciting would happen in the CIC is probably why I often think of the line "Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I wa…

"I told you to speak your mind Jack, but Jesus!" I also am one who thinks of The Hunt For Red October. You already listed the best quote in the movie from him, but the above also makes me giggle every time.

Also in that scene when he slightly moves his hand to get Jack to back off from interrogating the admiral about whether he’d ever met Ramius - just terrific non-verbal acting that speaks volumes.

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Post by atmavatar »

packetslave wrote: post #81
runevault wrote: post #20

Such an iconic voice. And the fact he got to put voice to so many iconic lines that are hard to imagine coming from anyone else. His speech in Field of Dreams, obviously Vader's "I am your father". Basically all of his lines as Mufasa in Lion King. I just can't think of any voice from the newer generations of actors/VAs that stands up to what he brought. And while his voice was incredible, he clearly mastered it and…

If we're purely talking voice actors, there are SO many incredible talents to choose from: Mark Hamill as The Joker for sure, Kevin Conroy as Batman, Tara Strong as dozens of characters, etc.

Don't forget Clancy Brown, who voiced Lex Luthor, Mr. Krabs, and Red Death.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000317/

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by christophilus »

spaceribs wrote: post #63
christophilus wrote: post #45

I have a vague memory of him reading books on some PBS show in the 80s. Am I misremembering this? I can’t find it in his filmography, though it may have been Fairytale Theater.

This was a show called "Long Ago and Far Away"

Yes! That’s it.

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Post by runevault »

atmavatar wrote: post #94
packetslave wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we're purely talking voice actors, there are SO many incredible talents to choose from: Mark Hamill as The Joker for sure, Kevin Conroy as Batman, Tara Strong as dozens of characters, etc.

Don't forget Clancy Brown, who voiced Lex Luthor, Mr. Krabs, and Red Death. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000317/

Clancy is an incredible actor in his own right both voice and general. I'll always have a soft spot for him as Kurgan in the first Highlander movie. He was so... unsettling.

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Post by svat »

Here he is in 2009, performing Shakespeare at the (Obama) "White House Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJybA1emr_g (Othello's speech defending himself: [1])

(Incidentally, it was on the same occasion that Lin-Manuel Miranda first announced he was working on a hip-hop album about treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, to some laughter, before performing a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE — the musical came out six years later.)

[1]: https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translati....

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Post by breck »

> “The secret is never forgetting that you’re a journeyman actor and that nothing is your final thing, nothing is your greatest thing, nothing is your worst thing,” Jones said. “I still consider myself a novice.”

Beautiful advice.

One of my favorite scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SB16il97yw&t=16s

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Post by bovermyer »

iancmceachern wrote: post #31
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #11

I know everyone is talking about how he voiced Vader, but when I think of him, I think of Strangelove and Hunt for Red October. I didn't spend a lot of time in the fleet, but what I did was rather boring and/or annoying; the idea that something exciting would happen in the CIC is probably why I often think of the line "Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I wa…

I think of "Field of Dreams" and Patriot Games, and of course vader

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