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Vadivelu Comedy Dialogues

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 04:19:24 +0000

Here are some famous funny dialogues by Tamil comedian Vadivelu. Can you guess which movie they’re from?

Don’t worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green.

Top 10 films of 2006

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:00:00 +0000

Kevin Smith’s top 10 films of 2006.

Comments

Dhar 4 Feb 2007 4:26 am: Anand, have you seen any of Kevin Smith’s movies? Dogma is excellent, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Chasing Amy, Clerks and Mallrats are pretty decent…
Subir Chakma 2 Feb 2007 12:00 pm: I want to have a look on those 10 films.
manoj pant 5 Nov 2008 7:02 am: thanku very much for giving me idea to select films. i m going to buy these films tomarrow

Sound effects

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:00:00 +0000

It’s interesting how Steven Spielberg created his sound effects in movies. For example, in Raiders of the Lost Ark,

Indy’s whip is the treated sound of a jet taking off; the punches in fist fights are the result of bashing leather jackets with baseball bats; and the rolling boulder rumble is a Honda station wagon coasting down a gravel road mixed with a rocket blast-off.

… or in E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

… the bulk of E.T.’s utterances were delivered by Pat Welsh, a 65-year-old Marin County housewife. The sound designer, Ben Burtt, overheard her distinctive vocals in a camera store and cheekily asked the retured elocution teacher to remove her dentures and talk without her teeth. Convinved that her screechy voice was ideal for the role, Burtt paid her $350 to spend a day recording E.T.’s minimal dialogue. Subsequently her voice was enriched by watery textures.

… or in Jurassic Park

… many raptor screams were taken from dolphins recorded at Marine World. The call of the brachiosaurus came from both whale songs and donkey brays slowed down with added echo. The dilophosaurus had its sound broken into two types: for the early, playful spitter, Rudstrom employed a variety of swan calls; yet as it turns nasty, and egret sound is mixed with Rydstrom’s own voice (to add a sense of weight) to suggest venom. The rattling noice produced by an exotic insect doubled for the sound of the spitter’s vibrating cowl.

Yet the most complex-sounding character was the mighty tyrannosaurus. The vocal effects came from a diversity of sources – elephant, alligator, penguin, tiger and dog sounds – all mixed together to create a rich, naturalistic dinosaur vocabulary. Whale blowholes repeated into a regular rythm created tyrannosaurus breathing patterns. For his world-shattering road, a blast from a baby elephant created the high end of the frequency, while the low end was provided by alligator growls and tigher shrieks.

Comments

Dhar 29 Jun 2005 2:33 am: Anand, can you put up the link from where you got this info?
S Anand 29 Jun 2005 8:01 am: Typed it in from The Complete Spielberg
jayant 30 Jun 2005 4:14 am: Will not mobile theft be very high in London given this door security system? Guess they must have some other system too, like some door code other than pressing just 0…may be ppl dont do such things there…
jayant 30 Jun 2005 4:29 am: huh..had put something on mobile phone and door security…where did it disappear?
S Anand 30 Jun 2005 6:40 am: Mobile theft is pretty high, but not because of the door security system, I think. That’s only for new constructions, and they are not too common.

Writing screenplays

Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Writing screenplays. Interesting: modern murder-movies are based on Three Little Pigs, Psycho is based on Little Red Riding Hood, Pretty Woman on Cinderella, …

Suku on movies

Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Suku on movies. Beautiful. Says what I feel.

Physics in movies

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Good and bad physics in movies.

Films selected for preservation

Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Of the films selected by the National Film Registry for preservation in 2000, I haven’t seen a single one! Not even read the script of any, for that matter.

IMDb top 10

Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:00:00 +0000

It turns out that I’ve seen 9 out of the top 10 movies according to the Internet Movie Database. As of today, the list read: Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Schindler’s List, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Star Wars, Godfather: Part II, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Dr. Strangelove (which I haven’t seen).