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What is the 21st Century?: Revising the Dictionary
Once little more than a tech buzzword, "workflow" has become an integral concept of contemporary filmmaking. Nuts-and-bolts film forums are thick with workflow tips, charts, and discussions. Industry sites run in-depth interviews with workflow gurus.
Workflow is, in short, a key part of the ongoing conversation—between filmmakers, studios, and filmmaking technology companies—about how movies can and should be made. The term—which has its origins in software and business—covers the process (or series of processes) a production uses to organize digital information and turn it into editable and then projectable material.
On a more philosophical level, "workflow" describes the relationship between production and post-production—shooting and editing. A workflow encompasses everything from the hard drives on which image data is recorded to the final delivery of the film for distribution. Workflow theories emphasize flexibility and maneuverability.
Whereas film stocks are prized for their distinctive characters, production-grade digital formats are prized for their range—their ability to produce many different images from the same information. High-end cameras like the Red and the Arri Alexa don't capture images in the conventional sense; instead, they record massive amounts of visual data which can then be used to produce images.
Red's HDRx technology—used on its Epic-X and Scarlet-X models—even goes so far as to produce two differently exposed video tracks from every shot. When blended together, they produce a composite image with a high dynamic range (HDR); this means that a dimly lit interior and a bright, sunny exterior can appear "properly exposed" in the same shot.
Digital imaging technicians (DITs)—the agents of workflow, in a sense—manage image data and advise cameramen. Sometimes characterized as "digital film loaders," they are effectively post-production technicians working on set. A good workflow is one that allows data to move quickly from the camera to an editor's computer, effectively integrating post-production into a production environment. Michael Cioni, a major figure in the workflow world, has gone so far as to predict that separate conventional post houses will become obsolete before the end of the decade.
Therefore, workflow—as both an idea and an ideal—extends beyond technology; it informs the way movies are made. Steven Soderbergh—himself something of a workflow guru—has repeatedly made the argument that his current style owes as much to digital workflow as it does to the distinctive aesthetics of digital imaging. I spoke with Soderbergh recently (the full interview will be published on this site), and he brought up a scene in his new film, Side Effects, which introduces the character played by Jude Law.
While Soderbergh's earliest films were edited only after production had finished, the workflow of digital shooting allows for rough cuts to be completed in the middle of a shoot. As a result, Soderbergh realized that Law's introductory scene was different tonally from the character's scenes from later on in the film—a quality that wouldn't have been noticed from watching disconnected dailies of the sequence. The scene was rewritten and reshot. Soderbergh described this process—where the line between decisions made in production and decisions made in editing is blurred—as "strategic reshooting."
One of the biggest problems facing film criticism and film culture is that that there is often very little relationship between how movies are written about and how they're actually made. Film is a medium that is inextricably linked to technology, but the language we use to talk about and evaluate films is by-and-large the language of antique or dying technologies or of environments (such as the old studio system, with its clear divisions of filmmaking labor) that no longer exist. While much of the old critical / cinephilic vocabulary—mise en scène, montage, etc.—still works, it's often not enough.
It's clear that the concept of workflow—and the creative environment it allows—is important. It's also clear that the switch to imaging and editing within a digital rather than a physical space has had a pronounced impact on film style. However, whether workflow is important to film culture—that is, whether it's one of those things that we should be talking about but aren't—is an altogether different question.
Workflow is in many ways akin to the old film theory notion of decoupage—the relationship between scripted action and how the action is organized into shots and scenes—but unlike decoupage, workflow is rarely visible. It's difficult to quantify, because it describes a process rather than a result.
This is where things become complicated. Films are the results of processes; therefore they are, in part, records of the conditions and environments that produced them. A process, however invisible, can become a style.
Modern film styles are the products of workflows. David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, for instance, was widely noted in the film tech sector for its innovative workflow. Footage was shot in 5K with a 2.1 aspect ratio but finished in 4k with a 2.4 aspect ratio. Only 70% of each shot frame was used in the finished film; this meant that Fincher could revise every shot—reframing, altering the speed of camera movements, adding zooms—during editing without any loss of image quality. Again, the line between decisions made in production and those made in editing is blurred.
Workflow therefore plays a clear role in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's precise aesthetic; every shot has been revised to fit within the movie's visual and editing rhythms. Like Soderbergh's "strategic reshooting," it's a fairly clear-cut case of digital workflow serving as a tool of expression and authorship—technology becoming technique.
By and large, film culture is built around a discussion of decisions that occur in physical spaces—directorial choices made on the set, editing choices made in the editing room, etc. As filmmaking shifts more and more into a digital space, talking about these decisions becomes more challenging. With a custom digital workflow like the one designed for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it's hard to be certain whether, say, a shot was framed on the set or months later in a post-production suite.
What does this mean for critics, cinephiles, and other people who want to talk about movies? It's still possible to note The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's mise en scène or Side Effects' narrative structure—that hasn't changed. What has changed is the notion of environment and intent.
When I asked Soderbergh about how digital technology had affected his approach to directing, he responded:
I can tell you now that if I had this technology earlier in my career, the work would have been better. I would've been able to see my ideas quicker and been able to respond and make adjustments faster. [...] Now I'm cutting scenes the same night they were shot and I can go back and make adjustments or do the whole thing over again. The ability to error-correct quickly is so much more pronounced.
The key idea—in both Soderbergh's narrative-structure-centric workflow, and in Fincher's visually-attuned one—is "error correction." Digital workflow and non-linear editing allow for decisions to be motile, maneuverable—cuts can be fine-tuned, shots can be re-framed, shaky camera movement can be smoothed out, exposures can be changed, anything can be recolored (REDCODE RAW—the format both Side Effects and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo were shot in—doesn't even store color temperature as a permanent value; is exists only as editable metadata).
Workflow as a concept is fairly easy to use in critical context, even for pre-digital films. For instance, part of what makes Jean Rouch's major documentaries so distinctive—that is, the way they integrate their subjects into the process—could be described in terms of workflow. But workflow as a technology and an environment is harder to get a critical grasp on.
Workflow-related processes like HDRx upset old orders; what happens to the idea of the shot when the shot no longer has integrity—that is, when an image doesn't represent a record of something but is instead a seamless composite of two sets of digital data? The only way to build a critical framework for workflow, it seems, is to exercise doubt while also assuming that everything has the potential for authorship and intent.
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Dear Ignatiy,
a great text. I always wondered why critics (mostly) know so little about how films are actually made. It has become a lazy standard to adress every achievement in a film as if it was designed by the director to be so, ignoring not only other collaborators but technology + chance.
I am not so sure (like Soderbergh seems to be) that the "correction of mistakes" would have made my earlier films for example so much "better". My experience is that the benefits of "wrestling with the given" (for example in a certain shot or performance) more often than not enrich a work, the "circumstances", the things beyond the director's control, re-write the script in ways the director would have never thought of. Great films are more than the sum of their (director designed) parts.
Any which way, the new means are fascinating. What you describe is only the beginning. Have you seen this: http://graphics.stanford.edu/talks/lightfields-UVa-oct05/lightfields-UVa-18oct05-san_files/v3_document.htm
Very soon, there will be NO focus pulling on set, and you will even be able to change not only your camera's viewpoint after the fact (and the framing and the movement) but also be able to seemlessly combine different takes in one frame …
I have written about this on my blog, but it's in German:
Keep up the good work,
Fincher's re-framing in post reminds me of what Jean-Pierre Beauviala calls "Bonnardising":
The thing that seems the most archaic in this whole technocratic "process is king" mystical priesthood is the idea of the film object. Auteurs (once upon a time) were raised to the status of gods by their supposed precognitive abilities; now for their post-cognitive structural delays. The last idea is the best one.
The hidden motif here is erotic delay of decisions, of extending the pleasurable interaction of formal choices with context (formerly the real, moneys, schedules, the photographic, etc) and now the infinitude of parameters. Let's take this fluidity to the next level. Why shouldn't you have a Heraclitean/Cronenbergian film that grows and decays organically every week?
Everything is becoming animation now.
Very interesting piece.
One would hope the camera Christoph describes would come to be known as the Deja Vu…
The more writing that talks about the work, irrespective of judgment, the better. Opinions distract; facts bring insight.
That said, art that strives for perfectionism sometimes feels frozen, in my opinion (not fact). What did Picasso say about unfinished work being alive and dangerous? Also, cf. Eno's Oblique Strategy: "honor thy error as a hidden intention."
"One of the biggest problems facing film criticism and film culture is that that there is often very little relationship between how movies are written about and how they're actually made."
Surely it's just as possible to argue that this is one of the biggest strengths of film criticism: that the work of the critic need not be defined by the methods of the director, that the critic can choose to be completely creative of his/her own work method when dealing with a finished filmic object?
"One of the biggest problems facing film criticism and film culture is that that there is often very little relationship between how movies are written about and how they're actually made."
Perhaps this does not come to define the 21st century, what with the proliferation of video criticism.
"I don't know, 99% of "video criticism" seems to be nothing more than a text read aloud and illustrated with clips. It's still written criticism, just put up in a video shape."
I have to agree with you there. Most video criticism is terrible and unimaginative. We're still waiting for a great audio-visual critic who can write with the camera-stylo. However, when it appears, I wonder if we will even call it "criticism"? We don't call Godard's video work criticism, and he was a working critic!
The piece also brings to mind how directors and producers have different "cuts" for different audience (festival, commercial release, foreign export, etc.) could also bring in different meanings and styles to the piece. Even though all different versions are under the same name for the film, they may not communicate the same ideas. In other words, even authorship and intent could change depending on temporal and geographical differences.
Wonderful piece I.V. You've done me a great favor by giving me a way to spit out an idea that's been rattling around my brain for a few months now: A Change Has Gotta Come.
One thing needs consideration: this workflow has particular results in the hands of an auteur (Soderbergh/Fincher), other, far less salutary ones in the studio system where decisions are made by committee. In a world where framing, focus and other previously director-led shot choices are postponed until post-production, what will be the role of the 'Harvey Scissorhands' style producer? What will happen – what's already happening – is an erosion in the role of the director. Directors become traffic cops, administrators, entrepreneurs, script interpreters, acting coaches – anything but the guy who decides, on the spot, the scope, duration, framing and emphasis of a particular shot.
A related technological development was the use of monitor and playback on set. Where the only people looking through the camera were the cameraperson, the director, and maybe the production designer, now we have everybody sitting there in front of the monitor watching the frame being shot. Not only during the shot, but even after the shot during playback. And so we have many crew and cast members being able to adjust the shot depending on this feedback system. That was a significant step towards the workflow we have today.
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I liked the episode, I'm guessing the narrative is going to all be in flashback this season? With Will and Mac recounting their experiences the past year to the panel? I think starting in mid-2011 was a mistake that's just "too long ago" to focus, they really should have started with the 2012 election cycle once things got started (not necessarily between Mitt and Obama but during the Republican fiasco.) But I guess they had to address the "American Taliban" comment from Will.
Speaking of couples that need to get over and just hook-up already that's the mindset I'm in with Will and Mac. Jim and Maggie I can deal with but Will and Mac are older adults and obviously want to be together. So just do it you two!
Love Oliva Munn in the series as well, she's really showing some good chops (among other things) in this series.
The new theme/opening I can go either way on. I think I prefer the old theme but I dunno. The visuals for last season where too sit-commy with the clips from past/upcoming episodes.
Should be an interesting season, though, once it really gets rolling.
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The first episode also seemed like the teeth had been taken out of the show. I suppose it was the story with Will backing down and pulling back after criticism of his comments. That's not the guy I liked in season one; he wouldn't have cared that much. Now he seems to be slipping back into the Jay Leno of network news, and that won't be nearly as interesting of a show to me.
Anyway, we'll see where it goes in week two.
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I have enjoyed the season thus far. As other media outlets have said, the dialogue and acting are more in the vein of West Wing than it was last season. I think the consequences of the "American Taliban" comments were necessary. We can't assume that a group of Republicans, especially this group, would just ignore that. The Genoa story fits into the greater arc of whether or not the Federal Government is overreaching in its power in the War on Terror and with an American citizen being targeted, Will makes a compelling case for why we shouldn't feel bad for a terrorist. Meanwhile, the counter-argument is just as strong when they say "it's not feeling sorry for a terrorist, but being concerned with what is legal." They've done a great job of explaining why Will is a Republican, and even though they are doing that, they show him looking at "Why we hate Will McAvoy" to show he may be full of it and just want to please his audience again. That's Sorkin doing what he does best--making a compelling argument and then giving us a reason for why someone would make it personally.
I think the Maggie-Jim-Don-Lisa story is much more interesting this year, less comedy, than it was last year. Again, showing the consequences of the first kiss is compelling. Last year, you knew where the story was going. They are showing these characters being ripped apart by the decisions they made in season 1. Jim going to New Hampshire, Maggie going to Uganda, etc. I think the Occupy Wall Street story did a nice bow on what was transpiring in the newsroom and Will's reaction to it. The cop asking Will "Are you okay?" etc. They don't know everything that happens in a single episode. These guys aren't always smarter than the news, and that is an improvement. For instance, Mac po-pooing Occupy, not knowing what to do about Genoa.
I do feel, as a criticism, that I knew too much in the first episode that informed the second. I know the Genoa story isn't going to work out, and I think it takes some of the fun out of learning about it. We know it's not true. And the theme of the season seems to be "Can we go too far?" and "What if we're wrong?" It goes further than the "should we do a great news program" and just assuming they know how and don't make mistakes.
That's a small complaint. Everyone has turned in nuanced performances. My favorite scenes thus far have been Will debating about killing an American and Lisa confronting Maggie about Jim. I have to get rid of cable so I have enough money to go back to school, so I won't know what happens in the next 7 episodes until it comes out on DVD. This will probably be my last post for awhile on this topic. But it's good to know the show, with all its potential, is finally realizing it.
*As for the credits, while I cringe when cars are shown in credits (it dates them terribly), I am happy with the new opening showing the everyday process of putting a news cast together, rather than seeing themselves as Edward R. Murrow. It really shows the tone of the show has changed, and I enjoy it much better than last season's credits.
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As a former Republican, now an independent/libertarian, I wouldn't actually consider Will a Republican. I wouldn't even consider him an old-school "Reagan Republican". There's no one thing that I can put my finger on, just the way his dialog has been written in the past season-and-some-change. IMO, he's being written more as a liberal claiming to be a Repulican, who's too embarrassed to really be called a Democrat because the other Democrats he's surrounded himself with are WAY too left for his taste. Maybe it's that most New York Republicans I've ever met would be considered Democrats everywhere else in the country (with the possible exceptions of Massachusetts and various locales on the "left coast"), or maybe it's that he's a Republican trying to work with and compromise with everyone else in the newsroom who appear to be very left-leaning in general and his own personal message sometimes gets a bit muddled. Don't really know, but there does sometimes feel like mixed messages there. That's the best way I can describe it, anyway.
I still enjoy the writing, and it's quite good overall. I just wish the Jim/Maggie thing would kind of go away, but that's just me.
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The people who took over the idea of the Tea Party and transformed it into some kind of Christian crusade are not true Republicans, but I disagree with Will that they are "American Taliban."... A better equivalent would be the ELF or half of the people here in Santa Fe... LOL..
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Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behaviours scientists previously thought was unique to larger animals. Honeybees, for example, can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand 'same' and 'different', and differentiate between shapes that are symmetrical and asymmetrical.
Differences in brain size between animals is extreme: a whale's brain can weigh up to 9 kg (with over 200 billion nerve cells), and human brains vary between 1.25 kg and 1.45 kg (with an estimated 85 billion nerve cells). A honeybee's brain weighs only 1 milligram and contains fewer than a million nerve cells.
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve agonized in 2008 over how far to go to stop a financial crisis that threatened to cause a recession and at times struggled to recognize its speed and magnitude.
"We're crossing certain lines. We're doing things we haven't done before," Chairman Ben Bernanke said as Fed officials met in an emergency session March 10 and implemented never-before-taken steps to lend to teetering Wall Street firms, among a series of unorthodox moves that year to calm investors and aid the economy.
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One thing that has always bothered me about the Warhammer RTS games is the TINY, TINY population cap where a vehicle is basically 20 pop -_-.
Infinite Pop Cap is definitely important, what other features would be important to you guys?
for single play...unlock all wargear and infinite attribute points?Maybe more...
I saw a video from the singleplayerversion of tpb. This options would do fine in singleplayer.
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Removing the population cap would be pretty pointless, what with there not being any population to cap.
Unlimited health, energy. Unlimited grenades, Demolition Charges.Adding deployment points (Only one at a time, though.)Adding Ability points. (Adding exp becomes redundant with this, as you get two ability points per level, no other changes)
That's all I can think about right now.
Have you played the beta? There IS a population cap (in skirmish only, however), so a removal of that would be sweet.
Also, your hit points and energy get increased by each level, so you're wrong in saying there are no other benefits to levelling as well
Addition of unlimited energy/requsition would be nice too.
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"The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them". This is a quote from the famous German writer, Rainer Maria Rilke from the beginning of the 1900's. It can seem that he wrote so long ago and we could question if his perspective applies all these years later. The relevance of his words shows how our human nature responds to messages throughout time. His words reflect back our humanness and the problems that plague us no matter in what era have a certain similarity. We are all in desire of desire—or many of us.
Rilke goes on to say the following. "But if we nevertheless hold out and take this love upon us as burden and apprenticeship, instead of losing ourselves in all the light and frivolous play, behind which people have hidden from the most earnest earnestness of their existence—then a little progress and an alleviation will perhaps be perceptible." In other words, love does not mean becoming one but becoming more. The nature of love is such that it fosters growth not being lost. It is a force and a need that we respond to at the beginning of life and if given enough and in the right manner we thrive. Love is a dynamic, an increase of consciousness and not a blind merger.
Too often people come to therapy upset that the partner and they differ. What do they have in common and where are the same interests. Isn't the question really one of how to we grow from being with each other? How do we touch each other's lives? How do we impact the one we love? How do we learn and pass on the information we know? And, how do we give and receive love in ways that will stretch us beyond our safe borders?
The complex nature of love requires conscious consideration of self and other. It merits and brings heightened awareness, a new regard for conscious existence and honoring the being rather than the doing. Love makes our individuality come forward—at least if it is the kind of love that challenges and is more than one person melding into the other. Often people have problems when they think they are to be like the partner. Who sets up this scenario? Do they both agree to it and why? Should they get out, make the relationship more viable and therefore more intriguing? This will bring out a type of discernment and interaction that makes love not the kind in the quick fix columns but the kind that is hewn from two conscious people who struggle to make themselves known and in the process better at love and loving. As Rilke acknowledges it is not easy "but they are difficult things with which we have been charged; almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious".
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Sukanya Verma feels Mere Brother Ki Dulhan is pretty ordinary fare. Post YOUR reviews here!
Seriously, triple cute sundae, anyone?
Ever noticed the similarities in Imran Khan [ Images ], Katrina Kaif [ Images ] and Ali Zafar [ Images ] personality? All three look younger than they are and bear an incredibly fresh, genuine and genteel disposition. They're easy on the eyes and pleasant enough to make the most banal look bearable.
First-time filmmaker Ali Abbas Zafar avails of these qualities to fashion a feel-good, melodrama-free, candy floss rom-com about two brothers and a mutual love interest. In dreaming a picture perfect visual, however, Abbas Zafar overlooks one rather critical technicality. Script.
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan tries hard to do a Hrishikesh Mukherjee in a Yash Raj set up but is held back by a middling script that banks excessively on charisma, camaraderie and a common malady among present-day aspiring filmmakers -- fanboyism. And while the references from RD's retro chartbusters to Dabangg's clout are all very nice, it's not novel any more.
But, here, since Imran Khan's character, Kush, is an assistant director in Bollywood films, Zafar has a convenient excuse to insert some gags and gimmicks that hat tip to Sholay [ Images ], Mughal-E-Azam, Dil Se and, sure enough, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge.
Odd then how it's Katrina's Dimple Dixit, perhaps a symbolic cross between two of Bollywood's most beautiful leading women -- Dimple Kapadia and Madhuri Dixit [ Images ], who emerges as the most 'filmi' protagonist of this mostly harmless fluff. As a happy-go-lucky, guitar-strumming rock chick in tattered jeans and tank tops, Dimple's no Joan Jett but an ideological cousin of Chaalbaaz's Sridevi. A high fashion jaanwar, according to Imran, her idea of liberation is getting sloshed and ambition translates to marrying an affluent, good-looking NRI.
And that's where London [ Images ] resident Luv (Ali Zafar) comes in. His reasoning behind asking kid brother Kush to bride pick is, 'We both loved Madhuri Dixit as kids. You know my choice.'
This awkward conviction sets the tone for a part-doddering, part-amusing premise, which works in bits and parts largely because of Katrina's endearing spontaneity. Although her Dimple is a decidedly more madcap extension of the girl she portrayed in Namaste London. The dainty star's free spirited delivery is akin to the gullibility and mischief of six-year-old mouthing inanities without knowing what it really means. That's one of the most rewarding aspects of being a success in Bollywood. It lets one's greatest disadvantage become their most defining characteristic.
As the maverick Dulhan-to-be, Katrina overshadows her co-stars and a lumpy screenplay by lending her uninhibited fervor to some of MBKD's funniest moments. Like when she breaks into an extempore shehnai rendition from Swades or plays a rapid fire round with a prospective suitor prompting him to remark, 'Shaadi ke interview mein mujhse Koffee with Karan khel kar chali gayi.'
She makes a cute pair with Imran and Ali but Abbas Zafar doesn't allow their chemistry to blossom fully, short changing it to insert some, too many in fact, gorgeously choreographed Sohail Sen compositions. You anticipate a hint of intimacy to show up but it never does. As for Kat's co-stars, Imran is in his comfort zone stepping out in yet another Mr Nice Guy suit, which is, more or less, identical to the one he wore in I Hate Luv Storys [ Images ] and Break Ke Baad. There's nothing to nitpick or admire.
On the other hand, the dashing discovery of Tere Bin Laden hams like his life was at stake. Ali's got lesser scenes than a recurring plate of samosas in the film and yet he manages to grate with his exaggerated exasperation and orgasmic groans.
At the end of the day, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan is a pretty ordinary effort. It's the kind of movie where everyone looks catalogue cool and beams with enthusiasm to make the going-ons appear droll and exciting. And though one's a sourpuss for not buying it, I'll take the risk of being one.
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan Takes Very Good OpeningMere Brother Ki Dulhan has taken a very good opening of 80% plus at multiplexes at most places in the country. Delhi NCR and Punjab were super strong as was Ahmedabad.
Places like Delhi, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Ahmedabad saw full houses at some of the shows. The opening was bit lower in places like Nagpur and Jodhpur but still at 70% which is good.The fresh promos, hit music and very entertaining look of the film did the trick and got Mere Brother Ki Dulhan a very good start and it is all set to have a very good weekend at the box office http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=3418&nCat=
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan: Movie Review
Gaurav MalaniGaurav Malani, TNN | Sep 9, 2011, 04.50PM IST
It's more than obvious with a self-explanatory title like Mere Brother Ki Dulhan that
the story of the film would be about a guy falling for his brother's
bride-to-be. Predictability seeps in this Yash Raj romantic comedy from the
title itself!
When Imran Khan does a takeoff on the three ruling Khans of Bollywood in the opening credits, you somehow sense that the film has defined its domain. And it isn't long before you realize that the narrative is taking the route of Shah Rukh Khan's Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge . By the time the boy comprehends his love for the girl, she is already engaged to someone else. Only this time it's the boy's brother - so it's more of an inhouse affair!
The only advancement that the film shows in its storytelling is that Katrina Kaif, who holds the record of playing a Bollywood bride who runs away on her wedding day from one hero to another in the climax ( Humko Deewana Kar Gaye, Namastey London, Singh is Kinng, Ajab Prem Ki Ghajab Kahani ), for a change, makes the shift on her engagement day itself by interval point.
Like SRK from DDLJ , the boy refuses to elope with the girl. So the two have to device ways to ward off the wedding now. While an imaginative screenplay could have helped the second half sail through in such situation, the film resorts to conventional conflicts like bringing back the brother's ex-flame in the plot to bhaang -based confessions.
What still makes the film watchable is Katrina's live-wire energy wherein she never goes overboard and keeps bustling with vivacity through the runtime. With Imran Khan restricted in his range and the immensely talented Ali Zafar being reduced to a second fiddle, it's left up to Katrina to save the ship, which she ably does as far as the average script allows her to. Also despite the familial cross-connection, the overall spirit of the film remains lighthearted throughout and never gets into the high-voltage family drama mode.
The screenplay fails to tap the little potential that the story offers (esp. in the second half) pretty much like the film fails to exploit the talent of Ali Zafar. The writing is shallow and resorts to a convenient climax. The continual spoof on Shah Rukh Khan's My Name is Khan act is neither amusing nor caustic.
Like any Yash Raj film, the music is peppy, the styling is uber-cool and the cinematography is striking (despite the repetitive shots of Taj Mahal).
Imran Khan is decent in his role and absolutely funny at some instances. Ali Zafar shows good comic timing whenever he gets a chance though he remains underused. Katrina Kaif looks gorgeous and her free-spirited act makes you sit through the film. John Abraham's cameo is so pointless that one wonders why he was there in the film. Arfeen Khan's spoof on Shah Rukh Khan is as much pointless.
Mere Brother ki Dulhan is relatively old and familiar entertainment.
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A elderly Connellsville man was the target of a scam that offered him a large cash prize in a lottery he had not entered, and city police are warning residents to be on guard.
Tim Schomer said on Wednesday that he received a phone call on Tuesday afternoon from a man saying Schomer had won a New York lottery for $2.5 million.
The man, who claimed his name was James Benjamin, left a phone number of 408-274-0103, which is an area code for San Jose, Calif., and said they will deliver the prize money the next day.
"He called me about four times yesterday," Schomer said. "He said he needed to get the paperwork right with the IRS."
Between the phone calls to "Benjamin" and the Connellsville Police Department, Schomer learned he was the target of a lottery scam.
"I told him I didn't enter any lottery, and he asked if I shopped at Wal-Mart and mentioned some other stores. I told him I did, and he said they automatically entered me," Schomer said. "I called Wal-Mart, and they didn't know about it."
Bentley University professor and author Steve Weisman, founder of Scamicide.com, a website dedicated to informing the public on the dangers of scams, said Schomer was smart to call the police and Wal-Mart.
"It's difficult to win a lottery," Weisman said. "It's impossible to win one you never entered."
City police Detective Kenneth Jaynes said the two times of the year when scams seem to be on the rise are whenever people have a little extra income, such as income tax refund time, and in the fall, when they start to go Christmas shopping.
"People need to be on guard," Jaynes said, adding that because of the Internet, even the slightest personal information could be enough to steal someone's identity or scam them. "Never give out any information."
Schomer said "Benjamin" never asked for any personal information and said he would contact him on the following day.
Weisman said if the scammers don't ask for money or personal information right away, those being targeted should know that before the claimed money is said to be delivered, the scammers will call to say they need a Social Security number for tax purposes or money wired to them to help them move the process along.
Jaynes recalled a similar scam in which a resident received a phone call from someone in Las Vegas about winning a couple of million dollars and a luxury car, but a couple of hundred dollars was needed to cover taxes. After being wired the money, they then called the resident again to say they were at a local airport where there was a mix-up and they would need a couple of thousand dollars so they could deliver the car and money to the resident, who then called police.
"The bottom line is it's always a scam," Weisman said, adding that an entity that's giving away prize money normally takes out the taxable amount. "The entity never collects anything."
The phone lottery scam is a very common one that targets the elderly, Weisman said. The reason: Many elderly people are more trusting, he said, citing a study from The University of Iowa that reports the part of the brain that controls skepticism becomes less efficient as people age.
"So seniors are more susceptible to scams," he said.
People need to be aware of other scams committed on the young, the old and the middle-aged, Jaynes said.
This time of year brings out groups of people who will make shoddy repairs on houses and overcharge residents and then leave the area, he said.
Even residents who do yardwork can be the victim of a robbery as one person distracts the resident while another sneaks into the house.
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CommitmentNow.com: Your book of poetry, Take What You Want, won the 2006 Beatrice Hawley Award. How has that honor affected your career?
Henrietta Goodman: Winning the Beatrice Hawley Award and having my book published validated the work I had been doing for more than fifteen years, both inwardly and outwardly. It didn't result in immediate large career developments, but it led to my being asked to do some readings and craft lectures (and interviews like this one), and it gave me the confidence I needed to re-direct my long-term path. This fall, I began the PhD program in English/Creative Writing at Texas Tech University, a program I learned of when Jacqueline Kolosov-Wenthe, a poetry professor at TTU, reviewed my book for Iron Horse Literary Review. Moving to Lubbock, TX after living in Missoula, MT for my entire adult life was very difficult, but it's wonderful to be back in school and to be able to devote myself to poetry more fully than ever before. I may seem to be doing things backward by publishing the book and then returning to school, but I don't think I would have had the courage to leave my job in Missoula and uproot my family if my book hadn't been published.
CommitmentNow.com: Have any other poets influenced your own poetry?
Henrietta: I read the Confessional poets in high school and college, and they left indelible impressions on me in terms of what the subject matter of poetry could be and how to transmute one's own experiences into poetry without too much self-indulgence or subjectivity. I believe that if a poet writes from personal experience, then his/her task is to scrutinize the self, rather than excuse the self. I derived this perspective from the influence of poems like Anne Sexton's "The Abortion," and I try in my own work to be at least as analytical toward myself as I am toward the other people who populate my poems.
Other influences, of course, have been my teachers, particularly Mark Levine, who taught at the University of Montana in the early 1990s, when I was earning the MFA. In a way, Mark's teaching extended the lessons I had already begun to learn from Confessional poetry, in that he insisted I rid my poems of sentimentality and self-conscious prettiness. And then when I did so, he said something like, "Henrietta, you can't keep writing these poems in which a strange, detached woman meets a strange, detached man and strange things happen forever," meaning that now that I had learned to strip my poems of excess emotion and flowery language, I had to figure out how to put genuine feeling and authentic (rather than contrived) strangeness in them.
CommitmentNow.com: You have two sons; does motherhood affect your poetry?
Henrietta: I have two wonderful sons, one ten and one five, and they have affected my poetry in ways I never could have imagined. Before my older son was born, I insisted that becoming a mother wouldn't change anything, and I felt disillusioned, of course, when I realized that caring for a baby took a lot of time and energy I had previously devoted to reading and writing. But it also took a lot of time and energy that I had previously wasted, and this was one of the most important lessons that motherhood taught me: I didn't have unlimited time.
In my poems, I've tried to explore some of my ambivalence toward motherhood. I think many people have complicated feelings about becoming parents that they hesitate to express out of fear of what people will think. It's very, very strange to let another person inhabit you for nine months and then leave your body in an incredibly painful way and start requiring things of you. As miraculous as becoming a parent is, it is also sometimes terrifying and miserable.
I'm so grateful to my children for providing me with fresh ways of thinking about language. When my younger son was two, we were driving home one night and I said "look, the moon is full!" and he said emphatically "no, hungry moon." One of my most recent poems, titled "Hungry Moon," begins with this scene. My poem "After Birth" derived from an evening when my older son, who was seven at the time, asked "what's a placenta?" I never could have written these poems without my children.
CommitmentNow.com: In Take What You Want, you have several "Gretel" poems. What does Gretel represent to you?
Henrietta: I began writing the Gretel poems at a time when I had chosen to divorce my first husband. He had been a close friend, but I was naïve enough to mistake this friendship for romantic passion, and we were both unhappy in our marriage. When I fell in love with someone else, fully and passionately and joyously for the first time in my life, I felt very guilty. My older son was only a year old, and from the outside we looked like a perfect family. I received a lot of criticism from people who thought I had done something horrible by leaving my husband, and I thought so too, except that I was also deliriously happy. I began the Gretel poems as a way of trying to address the feeling that what we were doing was somehow both illicit and innocent.
In spring of 2002, I moved to southwestern Oregon to attend the Marjorie Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. This residency allowed me to live in a cabin on a very remote, very beautiful piece of property on the Rogue River for four months. My older son, who was three, spent half the time with me, and this was both idyllic and terrifying, since I worried a lot about what I would do if one of us got attacked by a mountain lion, or got appendicitis, or, or, or. No other experience, aside from becoming a mother, has ever had such life-changing impact on me. The poems "Gretel Alone" and "Gretel and the Bat" came from the Boyden residency. I identified with Gretel, and yet when I considered my location—a little cabin in the woods—I was in the role of the witch. And so the lines between child and adult, between good and bad, between vulnerability and threat, began to blur, and this was a good thing, both for the poems and for my understanding of who and what I was.
CommitmentNow.com: Many of your poems feature beautiful outdoor images. "The sun moves behind brown clouds in a sky full of crows and yellow leaves, the smell of rotting fruit" from "Bear #1", and tree bark "in wine-colored strips that peel back as if burst from within" from "Madrones" are two that come to mind,. How does nature inspire your poetry?
Henrietta: In writing poetry, it's sometimes tempting to make assertions, to philosophize, but poetry has to reach its conclusions through concrete, precise images and the discovery of likeness or unlikeness that metaphor can bring. I love the otherness, the amorality of nature. Metaphor can link the human and the natural worlds, but it can also illustrate the vast gap that sometimes exists between the two (and which always feels that it shouldn't exist, since we are after all part of nature). To say I love nature would be to oversimplify. I love the precise image, no matter what it's of. To me, imagery in poetry has tremendous seductive power. I strive for this power in my own work and appreciate it in the work of others. This love of image is complicated, though, in that image is never pure outward observation. You can't have an image without an eye to see it. So maybe it's just another way of loving the self, or of prioritizing the human over the natural world, or of trying to even things out a little, since the natural world rules the human one, whether we want to admit it or not.
CommitmentNow.com: What advice do you have for aspiring poets?
Henrietta: You have to be self-motivated and patient. If you're easily discouraged, you won't write. If you aren't internally motivated, you'll write only when you're a student and your grade depends on it. I waited a long time to publish Take What You Want, and I started to believe that my book might never be published. I kept on trying because I wanted to be able to feel that I had done my best, that I hadn't given up. Not giving up meant more to me than publishing, and that's why the book was published.
Henrietta Goodman has received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Montana Arts Council and the Marjorie Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Hubbub, Northwest Review, and other journals. Originally from North Carolina, she currently teaches at the Writing Center at the University of Montana.
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She was preceded in death by her parents, Virgil and Lessie Reynolds, her husband, Jones Emil Walker and four brothers, Goebel, J.D, Keither and Charles Moody Reynolds. Three sisters, Mary Larkins, Junaita Sapp and Jean Brown.
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- There should be a painted letter 'L' in red, or a plate/card affixed with the letter 'L' in red in the front and rear of the car.
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ALBANY - Friedson "Frick" Lee Odom, 88, of Leesburg, GA, died Friday, August 16, 2013 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, August 19, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Charlie Brown and Rev. Kevin Clotfelter will officiate and Sylvia Spraggins will interpret. Interment will follow in Red Oak Cemetery, Worth Co., GA.
A native of Worth Co., GA, Mr. Odom had resided in Lee Co. most all of his life. He was retired from Albany Lincoln Mercury after sixty five years of service. He was an avid hunter, a member of the Albany Men's Bowling Scratch League and a member of Byne Memorial Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Gennell (Nell) Spivey Odom, Leesburg, GA, a daughter, Debbie Odom Hajek (Phillip), Albany, GA, two sons, James Don Odom (Susan) and Eddie Scott Odom ( Donna) all of Leesburg, GA, a sister, Carolee Smith, Atlanta, GA, four grandchildren, Summer Lorraine Odom, Abby Laine Odom, Morgan Scott Odom, Taylor Lee Deen, three great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends Sunday from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home.
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