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RIP thread for people involved in film

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Danny leiner director of Harold and Kumar, dude where's my car and other comedies has died aged 57

    https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/danny-leiner-dead-dies-dude-wheres-my-car-director-harold-and-kumar-1202986804/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Diana Sowle who played charlie buckets mother in willy wonka and the chocolate factory has died

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45938584


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,716 ✭✭✭blue note


    peteeeed wrote: »
    Danny leiner director of Harold and Kumar, dude where's my car and other comedies has died aged 57

    https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/danny-leiner-dead-dies-dude-wheres-my-car-director-harold-and-kumar-1202986804/

    Dude, where's my car? Is a massively underrated comedy. Sad to hear he went so young.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,144 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Raymond Chow has died at 91: through Shaw Brothers and (after 1970), his Golden Harvest company, he masterminded the modern martial arts movie. Bruce Lee followed Chow to Golden Harvest on the promise of more artistic freedom, culminating in Enter The Dragon. Jackie Chan also got his start under Chow.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Absolute legend of Asian cinema and indeed cinema (along with Sir Run Run Shaw) - the Hong Kong Roger Corman.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,144 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Here's a short video of Chow talking about Bruce Lee:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Mookie Blaylock


    Ken Swofford has passed away, he was in Annie the movie and numerous TV series, incl Baywatch, Simon & Simon , Fame amongst many many others, he was 85


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,743 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Sgt Apone from Aliens has died


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Sgt Apone from Aliens has died
    He's wonderful in that. I was surprised looking him up once that he hadn't gotten more work off the back of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Douglas rain the voice of HAL 9000 from 2001 : a space Odyssey has died aged 90

    https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/11/r-i-p-douglas-rain-2001-a-space-odyssey/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,530 ✭✭✭OldRio


    peteeeed wrote: »
    Douglas rain the voice of HAL 9000 from 2001 : a space Odyssey has died aged 90

    https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/11/r-i-p-douglas-rain-2001-a-space-odyssey/

    That voice. Quiet, Deliberately slow reassuring and yet unnerving.
    RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Movie Maestro




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed



    He's not for this thread , LEGEND


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    peteeeed wrote: »
    Douglas rain the voice of HAL 9000 from 2001 : a space Odyssey has died aged 90

    https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/11/r-i-p-douglas-rain-2001-a-space-odyssey/

    ah wtf :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    OldRio wrote: »
    That voice. Quiet, Deliberately slow reassuring and yet unnerving.
    RIP.

    Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭Skyknight


    Wish he had done a voice samples for Amazon Echo (and similar products). :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,936 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    Probably more known as being a partner of Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, Kim Porter, has died at 47:

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692198/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,669 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    William Goldman died last night. Huge legacy - some great scripts in his portfolio. RIP.
    He was 87. Goldman, who twice won screenwriting Oscars for All The President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, passed away last night in his Manhattan home, surrounded by family and friends. His health had been failing for some time, and over the summer his condition deteriorated.

    While his greatest hits were the indelible pairing of Robert Redford with Paul Newman in the George Roy Hill-directed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Redford and Dustin Hoffman in the Alan Pakula-directed toppling of President Richard Nixon drama All The President’s Men, he wrote the scripts for many other great movies. The list includes the Hoffman-starrer Marathon Man, as well as The Princess Bride, Flowers For Algernon, The Stepford Wives, The Great Waldo Pepper, A Bridge Too Far, Chaplin and Misery. He also did a lot of behind the scenes script doctoring without taking a screen credit, as on films that included A Few Good Men and Indecent Proposal.

    https://deadline.com/2018/11/william-goldman-dies-oscar-writer-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-all-the-presidents-men-1202503283/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,932 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    That is some serious screenwriting resume


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Nobody Knows Anything!

    Goldman was my cinematic youth really.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,603 ✭✭✭valoren


    Was just reading the Wiki on Home Alone yesterday and it mentions he coined the industry term 'to get Home Aloned' i.e. for an unexpected hit to impact box office takings for other releases because people instead do repeat viewings of the unexpected hit instead. And then to read he passed away today. RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Mr E wrote: »
    William Goldman died last night. Huge legacy - some great scripts in his portfolio. RIP.
    There are some great anecdotes from him in the book Tales from the Script, and probably elsewhere. These were many and varied, but one that comes to mind was when they were filming the scene in the fire swamp in Princess Bride. Goldman cried out in surprise "Oh, her dress is on fire". They stopped filming, he having ruined the take, and reminded him that yes, his script indeed called for her dress to catch fire here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭Halloween Jack


    Its a while since I read adventures in the screen trade, but I’m fairly sure he accurately predicted the future state of the movie industry, he looked at the top 10 films in 83 and compared them to the top ten five years before and noted the drop in quality. He extrapolated that forward and reckoned in a few years time studios would be exclusively making dumb movies about superheroes etc, which is exactly where we are now.

    Would highly recommend both books in any case, aside from the anecdotes and movie industry wisdom it’s the love of stories that really illuminates them

    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,373 ✭✭✭p to the e


    Katherine MacGregor

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_MacGregor

    Had some small film roles but most famously known for her role as Harriet Olsen in "Little House on the Prairie". As a kid this and the Waltons was a major part of my Sunday, after mass. My mam was a fan.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,658 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Mr E wrote: »
    William Goldman died last night. Huge legacy - some great scripts in his portfolio. RIP.



    https://deadline.com/2018/11/william-goldman-dies-oscar-writer-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-all-the-presidents-men-1202503283/

    Thank you for posting this.
    I came here to do likewise, to remember him, he was such a genius.
    And for those who merely know the films and aren't familiar with his writing, he had a way with words that too few have.

    "Death cannot stop true love, all it can do is delay it for a while"

    I'm genuinely very very sad today, but happy for all the funny quotes and memories he has given us.

    Requiescat In Pace.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,392 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Awwww Inconceivable

    Have fun storming the castle Mr Goldman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,658 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,144 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Pablo Ferro died over the weekend; best known as an animator and graphic designer, he also made small films and movie trailers.

    Probably his most famous movie works are the quick-edit trailer and hand-lettered title sequence for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, where he came up with the idea to use the B-52 ... refuelling. :o

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    We did a test and it worked! Stanley filled the screen with my lettering. It was perfect! You could see the plane and you could see the lettering at the same time.

    The challenge was that I had to do everything, all the layout, and then when I had just done the last layout, he asked me: “Where’s your name?” I didn’t know I was supposed to put my name! The only open space was between two parts so I did it there, very little. You have to look for it.

    That style was often imitated and Pablo was asked to work on titles for The Addams Family, Stop Making Sense, Men In Black and more.

    Pablo was also responsible for the trailer for A Clockwork Orange, the split-screen montages in The Thomas Crown Affair, the "porno" scenes in Midnight Cowboy, and was even supervising editor on Michael Jackson's Beat It video.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Director Nicolas Roeg, whose films include Don't Look Now and Performance, has died aged 90

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46329949


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Some of us would regard that as massive!

    One of the great if idiosyncratic talents of post war British cinema for me


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