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| 16 MAR 2010 at 9:47pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Hey, well done Traveller. [smiley=clap.gif]
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| 17 MAR 2010 at 3:23am |
ArkadiaPrivate Detective
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Joined: 1 JUN 2008
Status : Online | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (16 MAR 2010 4:55pm)
I just wanted to mention that in the end I chose Gladiator, and I just got my marks back, saying that I'd managed to get a distincion for the essay. [smiley=happy.gif]
Thanks again for everybody's help. It was an interesting foray into cinematics and movie-dom. 8-)
Congrats! That is awesome
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| 17 MAR 2010 at 2:37pm |
| Deleted User | Thanks guys, yes - so the panic and the last minute rush was worth it. I'm very glad I chose this specific course. It's the most enjoyable course I've ever done.
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| 17 MAR 2010 at 5:09pm |
AShadowWalkerPrivate Detective
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Joined: 6 AUG 2009
Status : Online | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (16 MAR 2010 4:55pm)
I just wanted to mention that in the end I chose Gladiator, and I just got my marks back, saying that I'd managed to get a distincion for the essay. [smiley=happy.gif]
Thanks again for everybody's help. It was an interesting foray into cinematics and movie-dom. 8-)
SOOOO! After everything that you read through and considered.....it all came down to the same thing! SEX!
Yes....it did!
You had to choose a movie with scantily clad men....with bulging biceps......sweaty chests........showing powerful and muscled and rippling bodies!!! [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
You couldnt keep away could you!!
You went for the beefy...manly.....masculine.....testosterone riddled men!
Who will take women....ravage them....and show them who is the boss! [smiley=beer_buds.gif]
Typical....typical.....typical! [smiley=cool.gif]
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| 17 MAR 2010 at 6:05pm |
| Deleted User | Aaaw, don't be sore that I didn't choose one of yours, Shadow! :-*
FWIW, I ordered almost all of the movies that you had recommended -honest - I can show you if you like. In fact, I took all of your recommendations very seriously. I got Citizen Kane, I got that Wages of Fear, I got The Conversation, I got City of God, etc.
Problem was that they took a while to arrive and I ran out of time. Since I had already viewed Gladiator previously, and had it on hand, and since it had won Oscars for most of the elements I had to discuss, I just panicked and grabbed it, and luckily it turned out well.
Your reccommendations certainly were not wasted, though. They were very valuable insofar as rounding out one's education goes, and I think this thread brought up some interesting little discussions about cinematics in general, don't you?
(Ok, ok, all of that might just be a smokescreen to hide the fact that I just cannot resist wild men in loincloths... ) [smiley=evil.gif]
...but do you really have to shout it out so loudly? :
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| 17 MAR 2010 at 6:31pm |
AShadowWalkerPrivate Detective
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Joined: 6 AUG 2009
Status : Online | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (17 MAR 2010 6:05pm)
(Ok, ok, all of that might just be a smokescreen to hide the fact that I just cannot resist wild men in loincloths... ) [smiley=evil.gif]
...but do you really have to shout it out so loudly? :
Now, now Traveller, there is nothing wrong with getting all warm....hot.....sweaty......feverish.....WILD!
by imagining all the bad things you could do with the beefy....hardbodied.....mesmerizing.....wild-eyed men who lead women to a life of debauched pleasures and naughty sinful secret desires!
nothing wrong with your hot-blood getting your wily desires of your dark and passionate imaginings from seeping through to the light of day.....to make you giddy and flustered for the needs and demands of the flesh! [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
men should know how to put women in their place!!
LORDING OVER THEM! AND MEN BEING OBIDIENT TO THEIR NEEDS AND DESIRES!!![smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
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| 17 MAR 2010 at 7:29pm |
| Deleted User | Nah... if I had lived back then (perhaps I did, who knows? ) I would have been a lady from the aristocracy, so I would be [s]lording[/s] ladying it over those lowly gladiators... I probably would have preferred some gentleman from the senate.
I only fancied Maximus because he was a general.
I'm a snob, I am..
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| 17 MAR 2010 at 7:41pm |
AShadowWalkerPrivate Detective
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Joined: 6 AUG 2009
Status : Online | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (17 MAR 2010 7:29pm)
Nah... if I had lived back then (perhaps I did, who knows? I would have been a lady from the aristocracy, so I would be [s]lording[/s] ladying it over those lowly gladiators... I probably would have preferred some gentleman from the senate.
I only fancied Maximus because he was a general.
I'm a snob, I am..
nothing wrong with being a snob for quality goods!! [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
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| 17 MAR 2010 at 7:41pm |
| Deleted User | Actually.. - I really would not like to class myself as a "snob"; - was just joking a bit there. Let's just say : "I have my standards"
When the word snob comes up I always remember that my mother used to remark that the word derives from the term : "Sine Nobilite"
( “without nobility" ). I've read somewhere since that the word did indeed not derive from that Latin term, but simply meant "shoemaker"?
snob
Strangely enough, snob originally meant nothing more than “shoemaker,” a sense that isn’t used in the United States, of course, but still persists in certain parts of England. Students at Cambridge University in the 18th century then used snob as a slang equivalent of our word townie (a person from a town where a college or university is located but who is unaffiliated with it). This Cambridge usage probably prompted development of yet another meaning, “a member of the lower classes,” in the 1930s.
Our modern meaning, “a person who admires and cultivates social superiors,” probably got a boost when Thackeray used it in his Book of Snobs, published in 1848.
The theory that it comes from s.nob., short for the Latin sine nobilite “without nobility,” is ingenious but ignores the word’s known early history. Beyond that, the word’s ultimate origin is yet another language mystery.
http://wordadvisory.com/language.asp
:-? [smiley=shrug.gif]
Whichever way you look at it, 'snob' is not a nice thing to be, it seems. :-/
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| 19 MAR 2010 at 7:27pm |
Mr Innocent.Journeyman
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Location: GR
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (17 MAR 2010 7:41pm)
Whichever way you look at it, 'snob' is not a nice thing to be, it seems. :-/
You got something against shoemakers ?
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