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04 August 2010 @ 10:01 pm

California sucks less!

I'm sure most people have heard the news by now, but still: YAAAAY! At last, I can be proud of my state again! I know there's still a lot left to go and marriages aren't technically legal again yet, but a step in the right direction is still a step!

Just had to glee about that! And for today's movie...

King Kong (1933 version)
The version I could find was colorized, so I think it might've been a little better in black and white (you really have to think differently when you lay out for black and white), but it was still good. Also, for some reason someone injected the Wilhelm scream a ton of times throughout the movie, even though the Wilhelm scream wasn't around until the 50s. 8|

Otherwise! This was definitely a good movie to watch from a VFX perspective, and a movie that anyone going into VFX or related stuff should see. It's really interesting how they were able to get so many complex, believable shots with the effects they had back then, and the climatic scene on the top of the Empire State Building had a surprising amount of emotion. The T-Rex fight was also pretty awesome.

Really, the best characters were Kong and Anne...Driscoll was a jerk who pretty much went around making sexist remarks, and then somehow this led to a romance. And everyone else was give or take. There was some consistent sexism/racism, but THE THIRTIES and all, so that's not surprising. The non-human characters were much more interesting than the humans anyway, what with how much time and care went into them.

Drawing: Not time for much today

Writing: Finished one treatment; two left to go

Days until BBS release: 34

Tags: movie month, politics

Current Mood:

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princealia.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 06:35 am (UTC)

California? Four for you, California! You go, California! AndNoneForArizona,Bye.

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lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 06:54 am (UTC)

PREZACTLY.

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daisy-the-mage1.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 09:09 am (UTC)

As someone who is conservative (although more fiscially than socially), I approve! (I don’t get why people say legalising it interferes in people’s lives. Um...isn’t it more the other way round?)

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lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 06:08 pm (UTC)

Yeah, even from a religious perspective, it's really not the business of the church(es) to pass legislation that affects everyone.

(And I would be down with fiscal conservatism, but at least in my experience in the US, fiscal conservatives are a myth...both Republicans and Democrats spend a ton of money, the only difference is what they spend it on. 8|)

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daisy-the-mage1.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 07:15 pm (UTC)

Agreed.

I'm not exactly familiar with how things are run in the US, so I can't exactly judge with how they spend money (although when I hear about the Democrats, I sometimes feel far more partial to them than I do with our main left-wing party - although I hear that the Democrats are more right-wing than the Labour Party and that the Republicans are more right-wing than the Conservative party. I can't give a complete opinion on this, though).

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lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 09:28 pm (UTC)

Democrats tend to put a lot of money into social programs while Republicans tend to spend on national defense. (A broad overview, but that's the basic gist of it.) And Republicans like to tout the belief that they're better with money, but if you actually look at the numbers, the years that we've had a Republican or mainly right-leaning office have also created times of greatest national debt. 8| (Yeeeah, from my understanding, American liberals are more conservative than British or European liberals, if that makes sense. America as a whole is more right-leaning than most people realize.)

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andromeda-2.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 12:08 pm (UTC)

*after reading the article* Huh, so that's what the post on F!S last night was about. Welp, I'm glad it seems that the proposition got overruled. Still a'ways to go, but it's a start :)

Hm, I've only watched the Peter Jackson version and the 1976 version of King Kong(I kinda loled at the ´76 version of Kong, since it was oh so obvious that it was a dude in a gorilla suit XD my father didn't believe me at first when I said it).

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lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 06:12 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I saw people talking about it on RPS, too. XD

Ohhh man I heard the 76 version was just terrible. I suppose it could be worth some laughs, but yeah. XD

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ghettopeach.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 03:04 pm (UTC)

Huzzah!

Note to self, though: never read comments to news articles. It will just make you depressed about the state of the world. UGH.

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lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2010 06:09 pm (UTC)

I know, I need to learn to stay away from comments, they're an exercise in stupidity. D:

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lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2010 01:39 am (UTC)

*applauds with!*

There's a bunch of different books, some of them really good, a lot of them bad. It depends on what you're trying to draw. My best advice to practice is to just draw stuff you see in real life...other people, animals, buildings, whatever. Don't try and puzzle out how it's put together, just draw it as you see it...it'll force you to observe a lot, and close observation will carry over into imagination drawings, too. Also, look at the styles of artists that you like, and try to do drawings imitating their style. Don't just pick one artist and copy them, though...learn different things from different artists, and see what works best for you. It's another way to do observation.

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