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Author Topic: Dumb Newscasters... Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-21-2004 10:22 PM                        Yesterday morning I was watching the local Fox 13 morning show as they were discussing how difficult it has been for chinese officials to edit out sex talk of Friends episodes for broadcast in China... As they came back from the videotaped story, the male newscaster says to the female newscaster the following... "You know I bet the Chinese see us the same way that we see them in Godzilla movies". She gave him this bewildered look and just went on with the next story. GODZILLA IS NOT CHINESE YOU MORON!!! Asian people must look all alike to this redneck idiot. Dave  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-21-2004 10:25 PM                        quote: GODZILLA IS NOT CHINESE YOU MORON!!! Duh! He is obviously a dinosaur of some kind.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-22-2004 02:45 AM                        I thought he was Kinaidean?!  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-22-2004 09:19 AM                     I thought he was a lizard that happend to be a nuclear test site and was mutated. I didn't know he was a dinosaur.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2004 09:33 AM                        That's pretty funny, but what did you expect from a Fox station?  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2004 09:48 AM                     I like the term the British give their newscasters: "News Reader". Yes, I understand that in British circles the term connotes a certain level of intelligence that allows one to read and comment on the news in a clear and concice manner but I'm going for the idea that means the person simply reads what has been handed to him. I don't know about other contries but, in America, the news media is certainly going in that direction. On-Air personalities are becoming less able to digest and understand the information they are reading. They are becoming nothing more than a bunch of "Talking Heads". Furthermore, in Japan, Godzilla (Pronnounced in Japanese: "Go-Jee-Rah") movies fall into a genre of fiction where the simplistic and even silly actions/mannerisms of the characters are part of the screenplay. It is expected that characters will act in a certain way. It's a kind of satire on modern culture, a lot like the way characters behave in American "Slasher" flicks... The scantily clad young girl goes down to the basement to her certain death while the audience screams (to themselves), "Don't go down the stairs!" Thus, I'm saying, that Japanese (or Chinese) people see themselves in Godzilla movies (or Kung-Fu movies) in as silly a light as we do. They just understand the cultural underpinnings of them in a way we don't. People in other cultures might not understand the moral undertones in Slasher Flicks (only immoral characters get "offed") as we do but I can certainly imagine that there are some Japanese (Chinese) people watching Halloween, et. al. and inwardly screaming to themselves, "Don't go down the stairs!"  |  IP: Logged Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-22-2004 02:29 PM                     I've never been a fan of news programs, especially TV networks. The beautiful talking heads are far more important than the news they read, if you can call 10-to-20 seconds of soundbyte "news." Far more important to have Dirk Squarejaw and his gorgeous sidekick ALMOST tell you the news of the day. Equally sad are the required jolly comic-relief weather guys/gals, who show us the lighter side of a typhoon in the Far East that killed hundreds. "Gee Jim, sure glad we weren't over there, huh?" Yuk yuk yuk. Bias and all, I'd still rather read the paper every day. At least you can read a few more words that what they fire off at you in the time the newscasts use between commercials. "A comet is about to impact the Earth! We'll be right back with an update after we hear from our sponsors..."  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-22-2004 07:50 PM                       Fox has the best news babes. Ooooh, Laurie Dhue, Dari Alexander, E.D. Hill... hubba, hubba!  |  IP: Logged Webster Colcord Film Handler Posts: 23 From: Alameda, California Registered: Oct 2003 posted 01-22-2004 08:30 PM                        I think that a lot of the talking heads on broadcast news are just failed or wannabe actors.  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-23-2004 01:42 AM                     www.nakednews.com  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 01-23-2004 01:20 PM                     I thought that godzilla was a giant iguana.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-23-2004 01:27 PM                     Godzilla, c'mon. Everybody knows that was Raymond Burr.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-23-2004 07:58 PM                        quote: Furthermore, in Japan, Godzilla (Pronnounced in Japanese: "Go-Jee-Rah") Why do the Japanese always get the L's and the R's pronunciations switched? There is no excuse for this. It makes me angry. If they don't shape up quick, I will stop spending all of my money on their superiorly designed and manufactured products and put my money into inferior American products!  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-23-2004 09:17 PM                        Because the Japanese R is very close to L and D. It is not a rolled R as in Spanish, but a single quick attack of the tongue in the same place where the tongue tips for L. In fact, you will hear that at the beginning of words, many Japanese actually say L instead of R. So the "Rahmen" noodles sound more like "Lahmen". If you want to practice the Japanese R, say and repeat "Eddie" very quickly until the D becomes so short that it comes out as R. But only with a single attack, not "Errrie".  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-23-2004 10:08 PM                     One of my professors worked at a news station and I got to help out. What's funny is that it actually says, "Hello. My name is [reporters name] and this is actionwitness news live..." According to a grip, if it's not on there, they really do forget to say it. The worst is when they try to ad-lib or fill extra time. It never works. Oh, and their faces really do stay that way once they get off camera. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged

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