Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

On 6/5/2025 4:50 AM, Xocyll wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
 

On 04/06/2025 21:12, Xocyll wrote:

Apparently, you've never heard of "head canon." It's impossible*not* to
stimulate some imaginations.

Far from it, that's exactly the point.
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It's the main criticism of many people when their favorite book/series
is turned into movie(s)/TV series, that the cast does not look like they
imagined them to look when they read the book(s).
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When the movie or TV is the original, you don't run into that, you are
presented with a fait accompli of the casting director/script
writer/producer/directors idea of what they should look like.
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Some people might want to mentally re-cast the show to suit their own
preferences, but most just accept what they're given (unless an
actor/actress is terrible at acting and practically forces them to
imagine someone competent in the role.)

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I think there's also the problem when they the sort of stick to the book
but not really. Where it does work for me is at one end Good Omens, very
much to the book, and at the other end Bladerunner which just uses the
themes.

 Yeah all too much of "Hollywood" (and I use that term to refer to the
entire world-wide movie and TV industry) feel the need to option a best
selling book, and then fuck with it, removing scenes and making up their
own.
 

The problem here is EGO.  The entire industry is full of people who are convinced that they can "improve" any pre-existing story.  And most of them can't write a decent original story to save their lives.

The other problem I have is if I've watched the film/TV series then when
I read the book the characters voices get into my reading.

 Yeah I've had that too.
All about which you encountered first I guess.
 It's like when you hear a good cover version of a song before you hear
the original artist's version, and the original just sounds wrong.
 

Bob Dylan has been quoted as saying that he didn't know he was writing a Jimi Hendrix song when he wrote 'All Along the Watchtower'.  ;)
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