Making movies is difficult enough, but this guy painstakingly combined technology and raw talent to make this astounding piece. Enjoy.
Category: Movies
And now, a message from the gods of grammar
I’ve been editing this video for the better part of the evening, and my eyes are about to start ignoring neural transmitters. Before I lose control of certain automatic functions, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on one of the reasons I’m glad to be an English major.
Namely, it’s nice to laugh at something like this. Enjoy.
Haven’t the blues always been existential?
If people like this actually existed (and I suppose some do), they’d be murderous. But I’m still fascinated with characters who think in maths like Dr. Manhattan.
I can’t say for sure if his character is written realistically, but I love the fact that someone’s bothered to imagine how anyone who exists outside of linear time would experience reality. They would certainly become detached, and as The Watchmen suggests, a little bored. Which begs the question, how interesting are our lives, anyway?
I’m not saying our lives are insignificant, but I do enjoy those real-life moments when I’m suddenly humbled by the awesome largess or excellence of something else. I often get that feeling when flying over the Rockies, or more recently, when I saw the Grand Canyon. Of course my life matters, as does everybody else’s, but life is also randomly unfair and nature is utterly imbalanced. The odds of surviving should be nil, but here we are. That’s certainly meaningful, but the fact that we all have the ability to die suddenly, and in a second, also makes it all seem so arbitrary.
And if we occupied ourselves with that sort of thinking all the time, wouldn’t we turn blue as well?
The 5 types of irony
One Christmas holiday, 3 English majors en route to New Brunswick discussed the following…
There are 5 types of verbal irony, and they are the following:
- Ironic
- Sarcastic
- Sardonic
- Cynical
- Facetious
What distinguishes each? In my opinion: tone.
Fight amongst yourselves.
The French do it better
Those who’ve done even an ounce of translation in their lives know that there’s really only one thing that can’t be translated. Unfortunately, it’s practically the spirit of a language.
Humour.
What’s funny in one language is seldom, if ever, funny in exactly the same way in another. In translation, your best bet is to try to be funny in some other way.
Being half-francophone (the other half being Italo-canadian), I’m so grateful to be able to understand humour in more than one language. Humour has more personalities than Truddi Chase, and as many varieties as wine.
There’s British dry, American slapstick, French lightening, Quebec caustic, German irony, and so forth. Some people marvel at the fact that we’ve been able to adapt different cultures to so many religions. Me, I’m just impressed that we found so many different ways to laugh, and for different reasons.
On that topic, I’ve decided to share some of the things that have made me laugh the most. They’re all in French, but that’s just an accident. Enjoy.
The Revolution of the Crabs
3 hommes et un couffin (the original French version of Three Men and a Baby)
Anne Roumanoff on Infidelity
OLIVIA COLLETTE 