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How much of Star Wars did George Lucas actually write?
I got into a semi-argument with a friend recently regarding how much credit to give George Lucas for Star Wars. She was commenting how he's an awful director and that's why the new Star Wars trilogy was so terrible and I countered Well I've read the…
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Why do movie directors use brown tint on Mexico cities?
Here is the satirical meme about Mexico cities in movies:
Movies like Traffic (2000), the plot took place in Mexico cities, also used brown tint a lot.
Why do movie directors use brown tint in Mexico cities?
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Where are Frodo, Gandalf and the others going at the end and why?
First of all, I haven't read the book (shame on me).
I remember one of the last scenes of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King shows Frodo, Gandalf, Bilbo and some others leave by ship.
Where are they going to, and why?
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Why have this character involved in Infinity War at all?
Taking this question from another perspective:
Since
[Out-of-universe] Hugo Weaving was not willing to take back his role as Red Skull
[In-universe] and it seems that any generic ominous figure with a black cloak dubbed by Max von Sydow would have…
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Why is the movie title "Blazing Saddles"?
The plot of "Blazing Saddles" is all about people who are shocked after a black man is appointed as the sheriff in their town.
So, why is the title "Blazing Saddles"?
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Why would a ship that is able to recycle all water consumed have trouble running out of water?
In battlestar galactica season 1 episode 2 their watertanks were sabotaged and they lost
Almost 60% of total potable water reserves.
The rest of the episode were them looking for more water. Their supplies were announced to last for a very limited…
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Is the 2016 movie Trolls about opium addiction?
I've watched the movie Trolls a few times now with my daughters. I've started to develop this idea that this children's movie was really about opium addiction.
Here's some of the things I've noticed:
The main character's name is Poppy. You get…
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What is the meaning of this poster for The Lobster?
In this poster for The Lobster we see Colin Farrell in an incomplete form, but in viewing the movie I don't remember seeing anything similar to what the poster is suggesting or related to it in any way.
What meaning is this poster trying to convey?
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How did the T-Rex reach the vehicles in Jurassic Park?
In the T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park, our hero eats the goat and then she breaks the wires on the passenger side of the vehicles.
However, when Dr. Grant and Lex rappel off the edge of the cement in the breakthrough, they are still on the same…
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How do they shoot binocular scenes?
How do they shoot binocular scenes? Do they put two cameras in binoculars?
See this binocular vision from Ronin (1998):
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What is this camera effect used in Hot Fuzz?
In this scene in Hot Fuzz (2007) the camera focuses on these two characters and rotates slowly, but the background rotates so fast. So what is this camera effect and how is it accomplished?
Timeline of this effect in the movie is around 97:46.
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Why is it Pet Sematary but not Pet Cemetery?
My question is about Stephen King's Pet Sematary (1989). Why is cemetery misspelled as sematary in the title? Is there a special reason which may be explained in the novel or in the movie?
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Why do Mickey's ears rotate and shift location when he is not facing the camera?
I thought about this the first time I visited Disney Land. There I saw a 3D model of Mickey in real life.
When he is not facing the camera, his ears are sideways, and appear as you'd expect them to appear if you look at them from that…
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Why are two of Riley's five emotions in Inside Out male?
In the movie Inside Out, I found that the personified emotions Anger and Fear inside the main character (Riley) are male whereas Joy, Disgust and Sadness are female. Is there any reason why it has been designed like that for a 11 year old girl?
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Why does Dr Mann act so stupidly?
When Cooper and Tars figure what Dr Mann is up to in Interstellar, he tries to escape with a shuttle and manually docks the Endurance but he doesn't manage to get a secure lock.
As a highly-trained astronaut he should know this is no good yet he…
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