You Ever Notice...and What's the Deal...

[Mo Frackle]

What's interesting is that PD material is also being taken down because of "copyright issues". A friend of mine compiled together uncut versions of some rare films (it was confirmed that all of the material he used was in the public domain). In the end, his videos were removed by the Copyright Nazis.

 

[D'Snowth]

Sometimes even content that's been made available to the public domain may contain ONE little element that's still protected by copyright.

 

[robodog]

I just had this pointed out to me by another site...

Here's something to notice if you watch The Lion King then Hercules...

Zazu makes a passing joke about turning Scar into a Throw Rug...

Then in Hercules, Herc is wearing a certain dead animal skin in one scene...

Scar. Not quite a throw rug, but the same idea.

What did they do? Did someone sort through hyena poop in order to find Scar's remains and stitch them together in order to make a cloak for Hercules? That must have been an unpleasant experience for whoever had that task. Then again Zazu did seem like the vindictive type. I wouldn't put it past him.

 

[minor muppetz]

Sometimes even content that's been made available to the public domain may contain ONE little element that's still protected by copyright.

I wonder if any public domain programs have ever been taken down from YouTube because of video companies that released them. Which would be a big blow... They paid nothing to release the videos, and then prevent people from seeing them online for free.

 

[D'Snowth]

What's the deal with elevator music? Everybody always makes a big deal out of so-called "elevator music"... whenever I get into an elevator, I never hear any music... what elevators play music? And so exactly is so bad about elevator music that everybody makes a big deal out of it? From what I've gathered from people's complaints, it sounds like "elevator music" is similar to easy listening, or smooth jazz... so what's so bad about that? I like smooth jazz occasionally, I don't think hearing smooth jazz in an elevator is going to tick me off.

On a side related note, those of you here who follow my work on YT, you hear that little scoring I use for Easter Egg's Tip of the Day inserts? I've used that music before (it's a production track from FreePlayMusic) in the past, and some people were actually like, "Dude, WHY are you using this? It sounds like elevator music!" I dunno.

 

[CensoredAlso]

What's the deal with elevator music? Everybody always makes a big deal out of so-called "elevator music"... whenever I get into an elevator, I never hear any music... what elevators play music? And so exactly is so bad about elevator music that everybody makes a big deal out of it? From what I've gathered from people's complaints, it sounds like "elevator music" is similar to easy listening, or smooth jazz... so what's so bad about that? I like smooth jazz occasionally, I don't think hearing smooth jazz in an elevator is going to tick me off.

Well elevator music just means like bland, filler music like the kind you hear on the phone when you're put on hold.

 

[D'Snowth]

I don't know about that... admittedly, Comcast actually has a pretty rockin' tune playing whenever you're on hold with them.

 

[minor muppetz]

How come on the audio commentary for Date Movie, whenever they mention the titles of movies that get parodied in the film, the titles get bleeped? I think that's the only commentary track I've ever seen where they bleeped out any mention of other movie titles. Besides, they were able to spoof the movies in the film, and in most cases it's obvious what movie the scene is a parody of, so what's the big deal that they mention the title?

 

[minor muppetz]

There's a meme on facebook where various photos are shown representing something, with captions like "what my friends think I do", "what my family thinks I do", "what society thinks I do", etc. but in most (if not all) of these, two of the captions are "what I think I do" and "what I really do".... So one can acknowledge what they think they do AND what they really do? They don't think that what they think is the truth?

 

[minor muppetz]

Anybody ever notice how whenever an actor known for comedy does a drama, the movie has the kind of plot that would work very well for comedy? I wonder if this might be to trick the audience into thinking it's a comedy (even though they make a big deal out of comedians doing drama).

I'll use Jim Carrey's dramas as an example. The Truman Show is about a guy whose unaware that his whole life is a TV show, The Majestic is about a man who gets amnesia (and was a blacklisted screenwriter), and The Number 23 is about a man obsessed with the number 23... Those all sound like comedy plots.

I also find it ironic how Tom Hanks was previously known for comedy but later on became better known for drama, with one dramatic example being Forrest Gump. I thought that was a comedy, it has many funny scenes, it was the first Tom Hanks film I saw, and if it is more dramatic then it's ironic how the first film I saw with a former comedy actor was more drama than comedy while I thought it was a comedy (I know, that last sentence is confusing).

And on the topic of movies with comedy-sounding premises, I'd like to point out that the plot of Meet Joe Black (Death spends time as a mortal in society) sounds like a comedy, though the main actors aren't known for comedy.