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Music in Film: Iron Man (2008) dir. Jon Favreau Original score by Ramin Djawadi, “Damn Kid” by DJ Boborobo

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apparentlyeverything

The idea that propaganda is always bad if used by capitalists/governments that support a capitalist system, but always good when used by socialists and communists/governments that purport to be socialist or communist is one of the more interesting positions of the left, because it basically boils down to “lying is good, actually, if it’s for the right reasons”

karpad

propaganda is not lying. You can lie in propaganda, but fundamentally, propaganda is simply persuasive writing.

why does this matter? Because a common tactic is to dismiss any persuasive argument as propaganda (technically true) with the included implication that it is false because of this. It also is used for a golden mean fallacy, where because “both sides” have propaganda, the truth must be in the middle, where one side reports true facts and the other just makes up lies.

an example: “Every ounce of Socialism is such a threat to entrenched power in the West that the CIA tried to assassinate Castro, president of an already poor and isolated country, dozens of times.” which is inarguably socialist propaganda, but true. this is responded to with “No they didn’t. the US doesn’t fail operations. If we tried to kill Castro, he’d be dead.” objectively false. But by calling both propaganda, it gives the false impression that both are equally valid, despite being mutually contradictory and one being objectively true.

apparentlyeverything

Not to pull out the dictionary or anything but nope:

Propaganda is not just “simply persuasive writing.” Propaganda is very specifically meant to mislead people, using information generally devoid of context or details. You’re providing an interesting example of a variation on what I’m arguing here, because you’ve accepted a massaged, reworked definition of propaganda that suggests it’s not *really* about lying, just being really persuasive! I’ve seen this argument a lot lately, I think it definitely has provided a space for those who are uncomfortable with the idea of “propaganda” on the left.

Your example is curious because you provided two statements, one a mix of opinion and fact, and the other just opinion. I’m taking it to mean that you believe if you mix in some facts, the opinion doesn’t really *count* anymore and the statement is now “objectively true.” I’d argue that mixing fact and opinion is how people make ideological arguments more palatable and persuasive to people who fancy themselves generally *smarter* than average, which includes a lot of the left. And look, I’d be more inclined to believe the first statement over the second as well, but I can also identify what you did and find it odd that you aren’t acknowledging it.

Also, your description of the Golden Mean fallacy is partly wrong, since it doesn’t posit that “one side reports true facts and the other just makes up lies”. But as for the part that you did get right, that the fallacy posits that the truth lies “in the middle,” it’s being very poorly applied here. I’m not arguing that because the right and left both use propaganda, only the center (however defined) is the *true and factual* position. I’m pointing out that the left regularly castigates right wing propaganda while believing whatever propaganda comes from leftist sources is either a) not propaganda at all, but the objective “truth” or b) an ends-justify-the-means kind of scenario where it’s fine to exaggerate or lie if you’re convincing people to support a just cause.

apeshotz

catchymemes

beesmygod

“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”

it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing

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what the hell

ashwilliamsrighthand

This makes me really chuffed

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This post is quite egregious

cornflakepizza

Well I’m nonplussed by this whole post.

fixyourwritinghabits

goddamnit.

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mattsunsthighs

all of you go to hell

divagonzo

And you wonder why i am boggled at times

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These are called contronyms! A word that is its own opposite.

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Why the fuck do these exist

operativesurprise

One theory is that the sarcastic use of the word became exceedingly prevalent and because another dictionary definition.

sufferingsappho-deactivated2017

Are you telling me that we were such sarcastic shits it literally changed our language.

summonerxi

Literally is another example now.

saltrat88

killin-the-machine

These people went from lifting chips to pulling off some action movie shit

summer-rose-isms

Chaotic good

arrghigiveup

Chinese Kids Are Getting Their Parents, Their Parents’ Parents, And Their Parents’ Parents’ Parents Involved In A Meme

There’s a new meme in China, and it’s very wholesome. The challenge, called “four generations,” includes four generations of family members making an appearance, from youngest to oldest. A son would call his dad, who then calls his dad, who then calls his dad. And a daughter would call her mom, who calls her mom, who calls her mom. The results are super cute.

The videos are being shared on video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, under the challenge name, “Four generations under one roof.”

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This is legit the cutest and most wholesome meme omg

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This is so cute and I’m amazed at how many older generations they have

sweedishcoochiemeatballs

This so adorable 😩

theoriginalpanamajack

Oh this is so pure 😭😭😭

shefloatsblack

HUGGGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

fat-internet-h00chie

omg my heart ❤️

chrissongzzz

I agree sis

what-strange-lives-we-live

“She’s a mess of gorgeous chaos and you can see it in her eyes.”

— Charles Bukowski

hjartasalt

Mods are asleep post forbidden tits

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Perfectly balanced as all things should be…

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fruitloopghosty

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Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

suicunesrider

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

drtanner-dickery

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man.

fanboyingoverdemigods

fucking look at this shit though

mauridianhallow

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

mizushimo

amazing

shadowthorne

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

mad-dyspunktional

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

datneeks

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

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(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

alessariel

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

brainsforbabyjesus

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

alessariel

This is getting better and better.

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I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

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I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

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@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

myloverhammurabi

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

gorsime

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

myloverhammurabi

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

flamingbluepanda

Old movies had the best special effects

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The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

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@jurassicparkandrecreation

senkirowolf

@shepfax

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Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time. They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers. Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before. It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them. Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass. They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that. And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that. One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking. Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent. Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.