question of the day: Who should play Higgs Boson in the movie?
I see Jeremy Renner as Higgs in an action drama about an elusive man on the run from pursuers who simply will not rest: perhaps they cannot rest, because they’re cyborgs…
questions
question of the day: Is there a place near where you live (or that you’re familiar with) that would make a great movie location?
I’m thinking of a place that hasn’t been on film much or at all, but you know how amazing it is and figure it would look great onscreen… and perhaps capture something of the local flavor of where you live.
question of the day: Which film directors would you like to see move to TV (as Soderbergh says he’s doing)?
And what would you like see to him/her do with TV that he/she isn’t doing with movies?
question of the weekend: Do you ever wonder if you’re sensory deprived?
Do you feel a loss of communing with nature or with the natural world? Do you make conscious decisions to reconnect with the world outside your home and your cyber life?
question of the day: What movie does your life feel like right now… and which movie would you rather it felt like?
Or maybe there’s a movie character you feel like, and one you’d rather be, or a movie location you feel stuck in and another you’d rather be living in…
question of the day: Are ethnic stereotypes in pop culture — such as the cartoonish Scots in Brave — ever defensible?
Is there a way to utilize such stereotypes in storytelling without being offensive?
question of the day: What part of a favorite movie do you refuse to watch?
Is there a movie (or movies) you can watch over and over again, except for just that one scene?
question of the day: Is it okay for female action heroes to use sex as a superpower?
Does it undermine their talents of brains and brawn if they utilize their sexuality? Is an insult to these characters to presume that they should not use whatever talent they may possess — including their sexuality — to do good, save the world, or whatever needs to be done?
question of the day: Could there ever be a detective film noir with a female lead and a homme fatale?
We see hardbitten woman detectives on TV a lot these days (though not so much in movies yet); it’s the homme fatale bit that’s harder to see working in a serious way…
question of the weekend: Has your handwriting gotten worse over the years?
If so, does it even matter if there’s no need to write much by hand? Should we worry, as a culture, about all of us losing a valuable skill? Or is it no different from how nobody today knows how to use a button hook?
