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Jet
Altar Boy of Jabootu
Australia
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 Posted - 03/28/2006 : 05:06:15 AM
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Hi, Jet the Resident Plague Rat from the Agony Booth here. I've only posted on the forums here once before, but I come here a lot to read the recaps. I like the glossary page in particular.
I know it's a bit presumptuous of me, but I've come up with two new rules that could go there. If you're interested. As follows:
Jet's First Rule of Rodents: This rule states that rats in movies will always be seen sitting together in clumps in the middle of the floor, even though wild rats will never sit around in the open like that if they can help it.
Jet's Second Rule of Rodents: This rule states that, whenever rats appear onscreen, loud squeaking and chittering noises will always be dubbed in. This is despite the fact that real rats make very few audible sounds. Interesting fact: the noise made by the improbably large rat hoarde in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was actually produced by a recording of some agitated chickens raised several octaves.
I could add a third rule which states that movie rats always have grease smeared on their fur to make them look dirty, even though real rats are scrupulously clean, but that would be just too anal.
Anyway, I was just wondering what you guys would think. |
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Asta Kask
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Sweden
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Posted - 03/28/2006 : 05:28:59 AM
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Third rule of Rodents: Rats in movies are generally rather chubby, and frequently multi-colored. This is not the case with wild rats...
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Cannon Fodder
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
176 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 05:47:39 AM
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| I don't recall seeing much in the way of multi coloured rats in movies. Any examples? |
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MikeC
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 03/28/2006 : 07:17:27 AM
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WILLARD, ISTR, had many different coloured rats.
What about the appearance of white rats in natural
settings where they would never be seen otherwise?
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Jet
Altar Boy of Jabootu
Australia
8 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 09:29:39 AM
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That's another good one. Albinos are rare in the wild because they tend to be easily spotted and eaten by something. Generally wild rats come in three colours: grey, black and tawny brown, with the third one being most common. Oh yeah, and they never swarm all over someone and eat them, although they might have a taste of you if you're dead or incapacitated. They'll eat anything, the little buggers. I've just been watching Last Crusade. Amusingly, many of the rats seen in the catacombs section are busily grooming themselves, obviously trying to clean off whatever was put in their fur to make them look dirty. Turns out Harrison Ford kept pet rats as a kid. Suddenly, I like him even more than I did before.
"Seagulls, as the film stresses, subsist on garbage. And, I guess, you are what you eat"
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 7:53:44 PM
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But isn't it just a given that any rat in a movie is, and more importanly, should be, a giant, mutant, rabid, uh, multi-colored, man-eating rat?? I think in this case if the movies diverge from reality it's reality that has it wrong.
Anyway, I support the Glossary addendum. |
Edited by - Sardu on 03/28/2006 7:56:25 PM |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 9:37:10 PM
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Where is the glossary? I can't find the link.
Jet's second law of rodents could be applied to most movie animals in general. Remember the growling Spider General in Arachnophobia or the roaring worms in Squirm? |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 11:50:30 PM
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| Actually, the Second Law of Rodents strikes me as a variant on the law (there must be one) that large moving objects in space do, in fact, make whooshing sounds. There must be some all-encompassing Law involving things that shouldn't make noise but do anyway for dramatic purposes. |
Edited by - Sardu on 03/28/2006 11:52:00 PM |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2006 : 06:51:39 AM
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I have another, unrelated to all the above: the dirty cop rule, which states that in any noirish-movie with some aspirations, corrupt cops always work and appear in pairs.
Although that sort of makes some sense, since a single dirty cop wouldn't be able to do much with a legal partner, I always found hilarious that the entire dirty cop population of the city / town / village where the action takes place is reduced to two. I mean, where are the rest of dirty cop pairs?
Main ofenders: Payback, Strange Days, Carlito's way - Rise to power, and a long, long list.
Notable exceptions: L.A. Confidential, Last Man Standing or any other film where almost every cahracter is a dirty cop, plus the Patrick Dempsey vehicle Run, where surprisingly we get a mixed pair of dirty and clean cop. |
Edited by - Neville on 03/29/2006 06:53:19 AM |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2006 : 11:55:07 AM
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| Don't forget Training Day- dirty unit!! |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 03/29/2006 : 12:26:14 PM
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| Uhm... Another interesting exeption. Not only it has a dirty / clean cop duo, but also almost every other cop in the movie is corrupt. |
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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jedimom
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1239 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2006 : 6:30:18 PM
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I agree about the noisemaking rule applying to most animals. Horses in particular are not nearly as "chatty" in real life as on film. Neither are dogs (with occasional exceptions).
"Oh, that is so lame! You will pay for your use of inappropriate dialogue!" --Mojo Jojo, "Power Prof" |
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Gristle McThornbody
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Germany
186 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2006 : 8:01:45 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Sardu
Don't forget Training Day- dirty unit!!
Too late; I forgot that movie about seven minutes after I first watched it.
:)
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