I didn't realize it was based on a true story.Excellent movie. The other characters and the rest of the movie seem to fade to the background. Pacino's acting drives the whole movie.
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I didn't realize it was based on a true story.Excellent movie. The other characters and the rest of the movie seem to fade to the background. Pacino's acting drives the whole movie.
I did not know that either. Wow.I didn't realize it was based on a true story.
While Pacino owned that screen, each player did a great job supporting him.I did not know that either. Wow.
Yes, but humans are visual. Visual is our most stong sense. We like to see what is about to eat us. Being in the dark not knowing what is going to kill you isn't an option. Also, it is the best chance for escape. I get your point but unless we can see in the dark like cats or something, we need light. Also, it is a film, so the audience needs to see the menace. For instance, when Tom Skerritt, is in the tunnel things in Alien and he swings the light around and the alien is right next to him. I think I would drop a load of poo in my pants at that instance. I trying to think of the different movies I've watched where they have been in a dark place and they swing the flashlight around and there is the killer/monster.
Supposedly this is why pirates wore eye patches. One eye would be ready for night fighting and one was for that daytime look. Kinda free, kinda wow, Charlie. (anyone gets that reference, you are old.)I think it's mostly done, because in a film you always need a light source, it's the essence of the medium. In reality there aren't so many places that are pitch dark, our eyes get used to most forms of darkness and adapt and after a while we can nearly always see something in the dark.
....yep, old-so I am....and I have sudden hankering for creamed corn.....Supposedly this is why pirates wore eye patches. One eye would be ready for night fighting and one was for that daytime look. Kinda free, kinda wow, Charlie. (anyone gets that reference, you are old.)
It wasn't necessarily because of injury or loss that they sported a patch. The myth busters did a segment on the pirate and his patch.
The problem with flashlights in films is adressed in Jurassic Park, with the 'Turn the light off' bit. But it's not often adressed directly in movies. In reality I wouldn't use a flashlight when I knew something dangerous was near, I would stay in darkness and let my eyes get used to it. If there isn't time to let your eyes get used to the darkness, because the monster/killer already knows your location, it's another matter of course. Then I might use it to see better where I'm running.
Or turn around, go home, have a cup of tea and read a book.
Or night vision goggles. I watched the movie Wolfen about a week ago as a tribute to Albert Finney, and in the scene where he and Gregory Hines are staking out the wolves, they have infared scopes on the rifles, but i don't get where the light source is coming from when they are in the derelict buildings in the Bronx, because there's no electricity.The problem with flashlights in films is adressed in Jurassic Park, with the 'Turn the light off' bit. But it's not often adressed directly in movies. In reality I wouldn't use a flashlight when I knew something dangerous was near, I would stay in darkness and let my eyes get used to it. If there isn't time to let your eyes get used to the darkness, because the monster/killer already knows your location, it's another matter of course. Then I might use it to see better where I'm running.
I haven’t seen that movie in a long time, I enjoyeed the movie a lot as a kid. I may be wrong but if memory serves I think infrared scopes use the target’s body heat to form a thermographic image. I’m not sure if ambient light is necessary for them to work.Or night vision goggles. I watched the movie Wolfen about a week ago as a tribute to Albert Finney, and in the scene where he and Gregory Hines are staking out the wolves, they have infared scopes on the rifles, but i don't get where the light source is coming from when they are in the derelict buildings in the Bronx, because there's no electricity.
I think your right, infrared scopes pick up body-heat, but I don't know how come there was so much light inside the derelict buildings they were hiding in because there was no lights in the buildings. I don't even think there were street lights outside because all the buildings were earmarked for destruction. You can buy night vision stuff for fairly cheap now at electronic stores.I haven’t seen that movie in a long time, I enjoyeed the movie a lot as a kid. I may be wrong but if memory serves I think infrared scopes use the target’s body heat to form a thermographic image. I’m not sure if ambient light is necessary for them to work.
I think your right, infrared scopes pick up body-heat, but I don't know how come there was so much light inside the derelict buildings they were hiding in because there was no lights in the buildings. I don't even think there were street lights outside because all the buildings were earmarked for destruction. You can buy night vision stuff for fairly cheap now at electronic stores.