Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Errors of fact can really get in the way of any film. I had a real problem with K-19 because of the ludicrous way in which the reactor accident was portrayed. Just having a loss of coolant accident wasn't enough - nope, a nuclear explosion would have to happen. Sigh. Of course such a thing isn't possible but that didn't stop the writers from taking a disaster and hyping it up into something it wasn't. There were heros aplenty on that boat without the garbage. Adam On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 02:07 PM, SthRosner@aol.com wrote: > P.S. The Sting had one technical mistake that jumped off the screen at > me > when I first saw it: remember how each segment of the film was > introduced by > a Saturday Evening Post magazine cover? The one that preceded the > poker game > on the 20th Century Limited was a drawing of the first streamlined > "Century" > pulled by a New York Central 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive. That > rendition of > the train was designed by a well-known industrial designer, Henry > Dreyfuss > and first went into service in 1938. But the film opens with a man > climbing > a set of exterior stairs with superimposed titles setting place and > time as - > I recollect - Cicero Illinois, September 1934. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html