Renaissance

July 4th, it is independence time.

Watching the Independence day made a riot of laughter on that day! The hero writes/creates a virus that infects the alien computers. Beautiful. I wonder how he knew the machine architecture, operating systems another other mundane information about the alien computers. This is one amazing piece of artistic liberty.

Meanwhile, I here people are uneasy to believe the logic in Rajini’s Shivaji!

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• Only Rajini can come unscathed after acting in a movie like Shivaji.
• Some body missed the big advertising opportunity. Mouth fresher or is it chewing gum ?
• One more reason for me think Shankar is hyped.
• All laws break when it comes to Rajini. Rajini is a singularity!
• Rajini can speak English and the heroine has no chance to play pun on him. Kool!
• There is no pathos song when Rajini is bankrupt.
• Rajini again uses the color of Black to gain sympathy ?
• Rajini is surprised to know about CPR from Raghuvaran. I was wondering why CPR stuff suddenly popping up, to educate the audience of course!
• Rajini is Shivaji, MGR and Kamal. (Vijay and Ajith has to wait for a very long time!)
• ARR is loosing his charm.
• Once again proves my theory that Illayaraaja and Deva can score good music for Rajini.
• Rajin’s introduction song falls flat.
• Only Rajini’s movie can get such a hype.
• The Villan is pretty ordinary.
• Missed Senthil, Vinu Chakravarthy, Radharavi and Sarathbabu!

I think the list will be endless….

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It is good to have confidence but it is a sin to be overconfident. I wonder what was in TR’s mind when he did all in one role in Veerasamy?

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The movie The Constant Gardner showcased in HBO was a treat to watch. This had an excellent direction, cinematography and editing. There are no steadycam at places and the jerky motion of the camera along with different views builds tension.

Cinema is a visual medium and this movie pays tribute to it. One has watch the movie to fell the difference. At places the directors shows less to show more.

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Usability in the Movies — Top 10 Bloopers  @ useit.com

Few geeks/nerds that I could recollect from Tamil cinema.

1. Annan Goundamani for his typing skills in Kadalar Dinam
2. Director Kathir for telling us how emails are sent across internet and get us familiarlize with IM and email.
3. The nameless secretary in Ramana who tells the query on database will take 5 minutes. phew..
4. Aravind swamy gazing at command line in Roja
5. Aravind swamy again doing a mission impossible in …
6. Kamal Hassan using a photoshop filters in Anbae Sivam
7. Countless others who stare at the oldest monitors in movies and serials…

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Figure these facts…

• Research shows that 95 per cent of people do not use 90 per cent of the features on their vedio recorders because they are too complicated.
• In one country small businessmen have to cope with 16,000 laws in order to carry on their business.
• In another country the tax law run t0 40,000 pages.
• In another country the farmers rioted because they could not understand the new laws they were supposed to obey.
• It is said that Ken Olsen, the founder of DEC, once complained that at home he had microwave oven that was so complex that he could not use it.
• An old women spent a week in a shopping mall in Holland. She could not find her way out. She bought during the day and slept on bench at night.

Points from the book Simplicity by De Bono.

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The big Bullywood! My views are same as that of the author.

At any given time, a south indian director/musician/lyricst/actor/actress/… are far better than any of the north indian counter part. This is the truth. How can the north indians be so ignorant, God help them! Unless the mainstream media really brings south india in picture to change the attitude of the northies.

Now some friday humor (from New Scientist)

It is one of those questions that had never occured to us, but now we’ve heard it we can’t stop worrying about it. Ron Phillip asks how the concepts of clockwise and anticlockwise will be taught when all analogue clocks have been replaced with digital ones.