@ZhiZhenZi@thetamarisktree@LucasBotkin Wild that the guy who built the submarine went down with the second crew and they still went in for round 3.
They sunk a US ship, and the Union lost fewer men that the rebs in the sinking.
@thetamarisktree@LucasBotkin Shoutout to the second and especially the third crews of the Hunley that went
“Oh no survivors? None at all? I call dibs on the next shift”
The shot from Wings is interesting because, as the camera moves through the room, you see all kinds of strange and/or interesting mini-scenarios playing out: a gigolo apparently accepting money from a female client, what appear to be two lesbians in male clothing engaged in a tender caress, a man and a woman looking around nervously as if in an illicit tryst, another couple in a vicious fight that ends with a woman throwing a drink in the man's face, and then finally our hero Jack, drunk out of his mind.
Now compare this to the cantina scene from A New Hope. We see a pair of malformed lovers sharing an intimate moment, an adorable squeaking alcoholic begging for a drink, a lone watcher with roving eyes and a sinister aura, two almond-eyed alien astronauts engaged in a heated argument with each other, and a great variety of other brief yet bizarre snapshots into the lives of strangers. And to top it all off, these shots feature some of the most inspired creature and character designs ever put to film.
But in the Last Jedi shot, the aliens and people in the shot are not nearly as compelling in their behavior or appearances as either the nightclub patrons in the Wings shot or the cantina patrons in A New Hope. They don't look as interesting, and they all seem to be mostly doing similar things, except at the very end when we see an apparently frustrated gambler whose place Finn then takes.
The cantina sequence from A New Hope is much more similar in both spirit and level of quality to the Wings shot than is the shot from The Last Jedi. The only notable thing Rian Johnson did was ape the basic concept of a better shot from a better movie. Otherwise, there's nothing of remotely comparable artistic interest happening. But it's the kind of ostentatious shot that the audience will surely notice, and which superficial viewers will mistake for virtuosity. And of course, in that moment, it will make them think of the person behind the camera directing the movie, which is clearly exactly what the director wants. That's what Rian Johnson always wants.
@WilsonChambers@Clint_Davey1 But unlike Lucas, the name is stupid and it sucks. Snoke is such a dogshit name compared to Darth Vader, or Palpatine, or Lord Sideous, or Maul.
Snoke as a name does not inspire fear. It sounds like a time of shitty ice cream.