HARRY POTTER I: THE SORCERER'S PHILOSOPHER

Below goes off iPod chaptering times from Ch. 10:
13:00 - 15:04 Going into source material and laying groundwork without the whole worked out in the beginning; choosing what to keep/toss for the screenplay with limited visibility. (M)
15:05 - 16:03 : Sean Biggerstaff's role believability. *
21:07 -22:10 (1:21:25) HP Films as history of VFX, rise of London's industry, and collabs. The Mill DNeg, Framestore, ILM cameo.

Normal timecodes:

1:10:03 - 1:11:45  "Actual" [since it's relative] witches' broomstick riding etiquette. Superman, recumbent, and pontoon brooms.

1:17:04 - 1:18:24  Warwick Davis is in everything, multiple times in multiple roles in multiple incarnations. Ahmed Best makes a referential cameo.

1:18:53 - 1:19:45 Not an Easy World, folks! Strap yo'selves in, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!

1:19:46 - 1:21:03 Christopher Lee as Almost!Dumbledore, still alive, damn it, world rejoices, Lee waves from therapy.

1:22:14: Trey on tracking as a Breakthrough.

1:22:24: Anthony: "That troll...is very retarded." Mike: "Well, that's the thing about trolls..."
1:22:41: Trey: "Trolls are not known for being bright. If you've been on the Internet...you realize."

1:23:12- 1:23:27 Troll doll for the ickle kiddies.
1:24:16- 1:26:27 Bad guy in FRIGHTENERS, Brad Dourif as Snape, Alan as Snape
1:26:28- 1:32:00  Quidditch
1:27:09  Teague: "They walk through the Gimbal Door!", etc

1:27:55 -1:29:19 The Dumbledore Trope [Yoda vs. Dumbledore, "Do they have a Senate?"]
1:30:23 Mike: "Sports games don't make sense!" Quidditch as satire.
1:30:54 Squiggly_P: Quidditch is Calvinball.
1:31:22 - 57 Teague: BLAST FROM THE PAST Illustration and "I GET IT! BECAUSE HE MUST!"

1:32:00 - 1:32:57 Trey on Robin Williams.
1:33:39 Snape as MJ, Alan as Johnny Depp.
1:34:14 Snitch as a sex term, Mike: "It's not THAT new, its just a mispronunciation."
1:34:40 - 1:35:12 Unsuccessful shots, "The greenscreen loves you! You are in my soul tormenting me."

1:35:15 - 1:35:49 Columbus!Hogwarts not actually so close, spread out over countryside, many extras were confused, then later directors get tired of finding them and build cohesive sets at Leavesden. NO MATTE PAINTINGS FOR YOU!

1:35:50- 1:37:24 Trey on working on the Universal Orlando Simpsons ride while Wizarding World was being built, new sets seen while doing research on WW in London.

1:38:32 - 1:38:53 Brainstorming for Back to the Future replacement ride.
1:39:00 - 1:40:00 Invisibility Cloak tattoo, "That was quite a stretch. I think I pulled something."
1:40:40 - 1:46:40 Wonderland definition. [Magic Bean on Steroids, must be cohesive]

1:49:00 - 1:50:00 Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone verbal scene re-shoot and history of the Thing Itself. British-American conversions

1:50:40 1:52:30 Norbert, sub-surface scattering, plasticky wings
1:52:24 Teague: "My mom's plastic wings are SAINTS!"
1:52:35 Filch, Charlie Chaplin analogue
1:53:00 "Neville was actually a part of many of these adventures...Oh, he got WHITEWASHED out of this!"
1:53:15 Quidditch progressively lessens throughout

1:53:45 - 2:02:01 Scorsese/Tarantino/Nolan on P/SS, Americanizing, Britishness, Movie AUs, branching out into directorial String theory. Sequels.

2:02:03 - 2:03:44 Re-shoots.
2:04:00- 2:05:41 Damnyouautocorrect.com / Passiveagressivenotes.com

2:06:02 Mike: "This is Wizard 'Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?'" / Trey: "Encyclopedia Brown: The Wizard", Kobiyashi Maru: Hogwarts Edition.

2:08:00 - 2:08:48 Parents-are-dead, IS IT A TROPE?
2:09:18 Mike : "Oh, magic! Sure, why not?"
2:10:47 Trey : "The more you knowwww!" "You can't just go, 'MAGIC!'"
2:11:57 Anthony: "Chinese is harder than magic."

2:13:00 Ron is a victim of editing
2:15:27 Trey: "I will sacrifice myself so you can go on!"/ hits the Series Theme
2:16:43 Mike: "We are going to throw the kid...while his parents are at Craft Services."
2:18:22 Unused shot example, different angles
2:19:34 Evil Wizard Arabian Nights Johnny Quest Monologue.
2:20:37 "There's more Quirrell in the book!"

2:21:00 - 2:21:53 Mild Horcrux explanation.
2:22:43 Legacy VFX
2:23:20 Erised Internal Magic Bean
2:24:00 Thestral Derailed Retcon, Death Comprehension (is that going to be a class later?)
2:25:12 Voldemort going 'See ya, Potter! Mwahahaha!'
2:25:46 Richard Harris isn't quite invested in the role of Dumbles. Time-Turner needed. Requisition one from Dept. of Mysteries- OotP hadn't happened yet. Don Knotts! Whitney Houston!

2:27:23 Secret detection books, LOVE (needs moar explanation, Dumbles!) Denzel as Dumbles.
2:28:37- 2:30:00  "Potter, LET ME READ MY PAPER!" Christopher Walken as Voldie, Dumbles, Snape. Full Walken

2:30:47 - 2:32:48 Mike: "Harry Potter always wins for showing up." / Methods of Rationality (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/H … ationality) by LessWrong on fanfiction.net (and the profile page with extras/fanart/chronology/backstory is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/~lesswrong

2:34:58 "I'M PUTTING THE BABY IN!"
2:35:30 Tighten the movie up!
2:37:18 Masterful execution of literary almost-retcon.
2:38:23 Director is not the end-all-be-all, neither author. Editiiiiiiing!
2:39:47 I AM JK ROWLING, I CAN OWN YOU, I WRITE THINGS, AND EVERYONE SHALL DIE! So there.

Last edited by Anodreth (2011-08-29 09:06:01)

Inception

• 0:07:49 - 0:11:29 Trey on Nolan's treatment of character and his impeccable craft

• 0:11:37 - 0:11:49 BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

• 0:11:53 - 0:12:10 Teague's short film about punching Hans Zimmer

• 0:15:11 - 0:15:32 "Pay attention to everything"

• 0:18:15 - 0:18:22 "Michael Caine has to be in every Nolan movie"

• 0:27:39 - 0:27:51 "Why not just start shooting them with buildings?"

• 0:28:10 - 0:29:20 "...Oh, wait, was it Cobb's dream?"

• 0:29:24 - 0:29:41 It's Shinzon from Star Trek: Nemesis!

• 0:29:42 - 0:30:20 Limbo

• 0:30:20 - 0:30:27 "Yet another Heisenberg plot point..."

• 0:31:03 - 0:31:36 "Bigger than Avatar in terms of effects"

• 0:32:22 - 0:34:20 How corporate espionage is not film noir

• 0:34:21 - 0:34:41 The Caine Scrutiny, part one

• 0:35:43 - 0:36:52 "A strange mix of talky and blowy-uppy", or how the movie is built on an unengaging foundation

• 0:36:53 - 0:38:34 The Maze 'montage' has high-quality editing

• 0:39:26 - 0:39:47 "Why aren't they bending the city like this in the third act?"

• 0:45:33 - 0:46:31 The logic of totems

• 0:51:51 - 0:52:21 "Mythologically, Ariadne is...?" "Brian...?" "Whut?"

• 0:52:21 - 0:53:10 The trope of arc words

• 0:55:13 - 0:55:45 "In a dream, how do you know you've been shot in the back?"

• 0:56:17 - 0:56:48 "His totem is actually his wedding ring"

• 1:03:53 - 1:04:16 "Too much marzipan -- black vet!"

• 1:04:16 - 1:04:53 How an actor prepares for his chair to fall backwards

• 1:10:35 - 1:10:59 "If science worked like punditry..."

• 1:11:25 - 1:12:17 How dream acceleration can't be compounded, but can make your brain hurt

• 1:14:18 - 1:14:47 "How does he not know what his main competitor looks like?"

• 1:17:01 - 1:17:49 The Inception Bible

• 1:22:09 - 1:22:26 "We'll just say the next part twenty times slower"

• 1:22:26 - 1:22:48 What Dakota Fanning's voice sounds like

• 1:22:48 - 1:24:26 Hans Zimmer's genius for slowing down Edith Piaf

• 1:24:24 - 1:27:21 Over-intellectualization of music, food and art

• 1:27:21 - 1:28:10 Trey's eighties nightmare of sleeping with performance artists

• 1:28:15 - 1:29:51 The inception of memes

• 1:30:34 - 1:31:40 The Matrix: Reincepted

• 1:34:22 - 1:34:52 "Don't put Cillian in a bag"

• 1:38:47 - 1:39:13 LeO RLY?

• 1:39:14 - 1:40:09 "BONG! And we have a winner, complete with Hanna-Barbera sound effects!"

• 1:40:36 - 1:41:03 "Joseph Gordon-Levitt has one face per shot"

• 1:41:03 - 1:41:31 The Fighting Eyebrow!

• 1:43:49 - 1:44:11 "Can we edit Inception and Sucker Punch together into one coherent movie?"

• 1:44:58 - 1:48:05 "Why are the kicks synchronized?"

• 1:50:16 - 1:54:50 The Oscar-worthiness of the effects in the hallway Levitt-ation scene

• 1:54:55 - 1:56:18 Hoops, bars, and Trey's most useful book

• 1:56:23 - 1:57:20 "How do I drop you without gravity?"

• 1:59:48 - 2:00:31 Teague is bored by the snow set-piece

• 2:02:37 - 2:02:57 "Spielberg couldn't get a James Bond movie"

• 2:04:49 - 2:07:17 DiF totems, part one

• 2:07:17 - 2:08:06 Doing weightless door-forcing right

• 2:08:06 - 2:11:43 DiF totems, part two

• 2:12:48 - 2:14:24 Editing climaxes; or, Inception group sex

• 2:14:24 - 2:14:52 The tuba player's party trick

• 2:14:52 - 2:15:11 What goes through Billy Joel's mind on the way to a party where there's a piano?

• 2:15:11 - 2:16:55 "You're a puppeteer, maybe you'll bring a puppet"

• 2:18:01 - 2:18:28 "A MOUse...falls into a thing of BUTTah..."

• 2:18:28 - 2:18:48 The Caine Scrutiny, part two

• 2:18:48 - 2:19:26 Cellar Door

• 2:21:41 - 2:22:22 Remembering a phone number after 90 years in Limbo

• 2:22:20 - 2:23:01 Teague's magnificently broken memory

• 2:23:08 - 2:23:48 KLondike numbers

• 2:23:49 - 2:28:02 Cillian's pinwheel

• 2:28:02 - 2:28:54 "How does the Heisenberg compensator work?"

• 2:28:56 - 2:30:09 Movie stars who look like DiFers

• 2:36:10 - 2:37:34 Stories as cultural algorithms: "E=mc2 is genius, Inception is not"

• 2:41:03 - 2:43:18 "Nolan and Fincher make these incredibly crafted movies, most of which I don't enjoy watching"

• 2:43:18 - 2:43:48 Teague agrees with himself. Twice.

I'm sorry I didn't get through anything else, started University today, spent all yesterday moving.

Alien

6ish Joseph Conrad references (ship names)
6.30 Narcissus Joke
11.50 Ripley's gender
12.50 Bleeping Keyboard
14.30 British film crew cultural differences ->15.40
16.10 Trey's Disney exec on why a film works ->17.00
18.30ish Minature spaceships ->21.20
26.00 Looping and continunity not important in Murchian editing->26.55
28ish Spacesuits ->29.40
     Lighting -30.30
32.30 Magicians who were early film pioneers ->32.50
34.35 Brian wishes to forget cliches spawned by Alien ->35.35
37ish   Rigging the Egg-puppets and such ->38.10
     Scream in the theater ->39.00
        Gieger ->40ish
45.12 "Better than midichlorians"
46.10  Trek Tech manual ->48.20
47.45  Alien vulva violation ->48.35
49.10 Alien queen -Egg
51.00 Face hugger off, smalltalk humor
52.00 Fire doors at Pixar will kill you ->52.45
52.45 Alien puppet ->54.10
56.50ish model building
57.30 Wake up after sex crime
58.30 Lunch
59.10 R.Scott freaked out Veronica Cartwright ->60.15
           baby alien ->61.15
67.00 Eulogy for Kane ->62.30
63.30 Smokng on spaceships ->64.15
65.10 Cat impressions ->66ish
   Ron Pearlman ->67.30
71.20 How Trey got a Real cat hiss->72.05
72.50 Survivors of brain injuries ->74.05
     Intelligent Computer Trope humor ->74.45
78.00 Rides and attractions, Simpsons ride ->78.20
   Ultraslime ->78.40
79.55 Lovecraftian (imagine the horror)
81.00  Love Story vs Horror Pacing ->81.52
83.30 Trey's  Japanese accent ->83.50
84.45 Meg Ryan acting in Courage Under Fire ->85.10
83.50 Android Murder/Throat Rape
86.45 Head-thru table gag ('cut' at 88.16)
    Reverse "footprint in the snow"  ->89.10
90-91ish  What Ashe knew about the crashed ship
93ish Saceship design
95 Chinese fleet..."Suck it!"
97.10 Guy the the Alien suit ->98.30
98.45 Self destruct trope
99.00 Doty's "The Rock" chemical weapon story ->100.50
     Editing ->102.40
  Smart Actors ->103.50
104.20  Renee Oconoor donning spacesuit
     VO's for Jones as Ripley leaves him  ->106.05
106.30  Hard Acting work, long hours etc.  ->107.10
    Fix the opticals  ->107.40
110.30  "I want to put a penny in" Ripley's glutecleft.
111.00 Re-make from the Alien's POV ->111.30
113ish Lucky Star memorabilia
115.20 Sigourney's notes on Cameron's screenplay
116.20 Rocket effect
117.40 "Punch in the nuts"
118.50 Perfect movie?
119.10 Trey ""This was made by a time traveller."
121.00 Perfect according to Brian
121.50 outro

Last edited by drewjmore (2011-09-01 17:01:07)

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