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Here’s a news bite that seemed to slip under the radar last week: Quentin Tarantino released his official Top 20 Spaghetti Westerns of All Time list. We could put it here, but in the interest of saving space (also, precious reading time), let’s just say it starts with Sergio Leone‘s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and ends with Machine Gun Killers by Paolo Bianchini. There are also several films in between. Read ‘em all here at Open Culture (via Thompson on Hollywood).

It’s that number one spot I’m most interested in. And so is Tarantino, who not infrequently goes on the record to shower The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with compliments like “the best directed film of all time” or “the greatest achievement in the history of cinema” (technically, that was for the whole Dollars Trilogy).

So let’s twist this from “Tarantino loves The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (and 19 others)” into “here’s how much Tarantino loves The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (sans 19 others, that might be too time-consuming). Because Tarantino’s soft spot for Blondie, Angel Eyes and Tuco is a planet-sized, career-spanning thing. Whether you realize it or not, every Tarantino film, save one (sorry, Jackie Brown), has at least one scene that was cribbed with love from Tarantino’s favorite Italian-style western.

The opening credits are like the trailer for The Hateful Eight

The first (and only) teaser trailer for Tarantino’s in-development The Hateful Eight ran with Sin City: A Dame to Kill For last year but was never released online in any official capacity. You can watch it, but only in the form of an off-kilter handheld video captured by immoral means by some guy in a multiplex. That would be wrong. And certainly not easily viewable using YouTube and a few common sense search keywords.

But were you to do all those things, you’d notice that first Hateful Eight teaser has clearly lifted a few style cues from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly‘s opening credits. Cowboy-themed fonts images on bright primary color backgrounds (Hateful Eight sticks with red, black and white; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly cycles through those with occasional swatches of green or blue). Violence, too. The Hateful Eight begins and ends by spattering the screen with blood, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly transitions from credit to credit with explosions, gunfire, actual fire, cuts (knife cuts, not film ones) and a drip of something that might be blood but could also be paint.

“Il Tramanto” on horseback is like “Il Tramanto” before the Bride’s wedding

This one doesn’t require much unpacking. “Il Tramonto,” one of Ennio Morricone‘s compositions for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly‘s soundtrack, can also be heard in Kill Bill: Volume 2. In Leone’s film, “Il Tramonto” plucks its dreamy-yet-ominous guitar melody while Angel Eyes advances towards the home of Stevens, the unfortunate fellow he’s about to gun down. In Tarantino’s, we hear “Il Tramonto” during a flashback to the Bride’s wedding. She hears the pipings of a bamboo flute and leaves the chapel to investigate, knowing full well it’s Bill just outside the door (how many guys does she know who can ominously pipe a bamboo flute?). Morricone’s music makes her short walk into an equally grim death march.

Check the clip above for Angel Eyes’ evil villain stare and “Il Tramonto’s” last few guitar flourish-y seconds.

Angel Eyes killing Stevens is like Hanz Landa killing Perrier LaPadite (also, Big Kahuna Burger)

“Il Tramonto” ends and Angel Eyes is actually inside the house, and the scene that ensues is so organ-rupturingly tense that Tarantino swiped it for two separate scenes in two separate movies (iconic ones, too). Most recently is Inglorious Basterds, when Hans Landa has lunch with (and then executes) a dairy farmer with Jewish refugees stowed away under the floorboards. Same thing in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, when Angel Eyes and Stevens munch bread and stew and the conversation drips with you know he’s here to murder you, right? until Stevens gets blown away. The two scenes are practically identical- something illustrated quite well by a random YouTuber (thanks, timothian 17!) who spliced them together.

Oh, and Pulp Fiction‘s whole “Mmm-mmmm! That is a tasty burger!” scene? Same deal. Killer(s) enter, eat victim’s snacks, make victim noticeably uncomfortable, riddle victim with bullet holes.

Blondie’s water bucket foible is like the Bride’s inability to eat rice

This one’s a little bit of a stretch, but I still think it fits. After Tuco’s tormented Blondie with miles of hot, parched desert (Tuco, hilariously, slurps from his canteen in the shade of a tutu-pink parasol), he finally lets Blondie have a drink… from the water bucket he’s been using to scrub his foot fungus. But not even that, because in like the fourth dick move in a row he kicks it over before Blondie can take a sip. Meanwhile, a century and a half later on an entirely different continent, the Bride- equally beaten to shit- is so desperate for plain white rice that she tosses aside her chopsticks and digs her hands into the bowl. Her sensei Pai Mei pulls the same stunt and empties all that rice on the floor.

The outcome’s not the same, as Blondie continues to wither while the Bride gets a second bowl of rice and the fortitude to put two chopsticks together. But the situation is. Sandy blonde hero struggles to get even basic nourishment, jerkoff guy throws it on the ground before he/she can.

Tuco almost headshotting Blondie is like Bill actually headshotting the Bride

This time, Tarantino pushes the envelope just a bit further than his favorite movie. In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco levels a pistol at a mostly-dead Blondie, only for fate to intervene in the form of a runaway wagon full of corpses. In Kill Bill (Vol 1 this time), fate intervenes for the Bride, too. But not soon enough, because Bill still shoots her in the head at point-blank range. Either way, it’s a neat shot.

“There are two kinds of people in this world…” is like “there are two kinds of people in this world…”

The “there are two kinds of people in this world” idiom predates The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by at least a couple of decades (Mark Twain once cracked a “there are two kinds of people” joke, which is a pretty dependable baseline). So it’s possible that Pulp Fiction‘s own population split- “there are only two kinds of people in the world: Beatles people and Elvis people” (found in a deleted scene, also found above) is just an idiom for idiom’s sake. Or it could be because the characters of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly beat that particular idiom to death, out in the middle of the desert.

Blondie: You see in this world there’s two kinds of people my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

Tuco: There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those who have a rope around their neck, and those who have the job of doing the cutting.

Tuco: There are two kinds of spurs, my friend. Those that come in by the door, those that come in by the window.

Tuco: The world is divided into two kinds of people. Those who have friends, and those who are lonely like poor Tuco.

I’d say that the latter option is more likely, but I’d rather not split everything so evenly down the middle.

Angel Eyes torturing Tuco is like Mr. Blonde torturing Officer Nash

There’s one very specific thread linking the torture sequences in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Reservoir Dogs. Beyond the not-as-gory-as-you-first-think quality to the violence (Tarantino obscures the camera while Nash’s ear is lopped off; Angel Eyes’ thug mercifully pulls back before popping Tuco’s eyeballs). Beyond the music being wildly out of place while watching someone get beaten to all hell, because presumably there are other movies out there that blend torture with wacky soundtrack choices. It’s that in both movies, the torturer specifically cues up the frontier orchestra/Stealers Wheel, and asks his intended victim about it.

Angel Eyes: Like a little music with your meal, Tuco?

Mr. Blonde: You ever listen to K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the ’70s? It’s my personal favorite.

Adds an extra layer of off-putting, doesn’t it? That little acknowledgement that yes, this is about to get very unsettling and yes, Angel Eyes/Mr. Blonde is going to enjoy it way too much.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly‘s Mexican standoff is like Reservoir Dogs’ Mexican standoff

The one caveat here is that the Mexican standoff at the end of Reservoir Dogs isn’t preluded with a good five minutes where the combatants do nothing but make slight position shifts and stare at each other (not that I’m knocking the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ending quickdraw- there’s nothing that hammers in the who the hell am I supposed to shoot at? chaos of a three-way duel better than everyone’s agonized faces beforehand). Oh, and also Reservoir Dogs‘ gunfight is actually four-way, but the prone Mr. Orange is kind of tucked out of the way in the above shot. The outcome’s the same in both battles. Anyone overtly evil is gunned down, and anyone overtly good avoids a bullet (or a second one, for Mr. Orange). Tuco and Mr. White, who’re stranded somewhere in the middle? Kind of a toss-up.

Tuco’s “Son of a B-!” is like Stephen’s “Son of a B-“

Here’s an obvious one. The very last spoken sentence in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly comes from Tuco, who’s been double-crossed and then un-double-crossed by Blondie. Or something. Whatever the official terms are in playground rules, Tuco’s alive and he’s just gained a substantial amount of material wealth. But the stress of all this double-crossing means he ends the film calling Blondie a “dirty son of a b-,” with the soundtrack cutting him off just before things get inappropriate. It’s the same thing with Stephen in Django Unchained, only swap out “material wealth” for “shot in the kneecap,” “dirty” for “uppity,” and “soundtrack” with “exploding death.” Eli Wallach and Samuel L. Jackson even manage to have near-matching facial expressions (although that could be the default way your face looks when screaming YOU SON OF A B-… I should investigate further in a mirror). As far as Tarantino’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly homages go, this one might be the most blatant of all.

Anyone wanna guess which The Good, the Bad and the Ugly tidbit he’ll put in The Hateful Eight? I’m guessing one character will twirl an ironic, tutu-pink umbrella at some point.

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It's interesting what we can glean about people by certain choices they make. In the case of this business card collection, we can see who (at least, at the time in which they carried the card shown) is into simplicity, who tends to be flamboyant and who may have an ego. We can make educated guesses as to how they feel about or the significance they attach to their work by the size, shape, color, fonts and information on the cards. Business cards are the windows to the marketing soul — even American Psychos know that. 

See the full card collectionhere. 




Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick's card doubled as a lock picking set

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Boom Island Brewing Company will sell limited supplies of bottles, posters and glassware of Willingham's design starting May 1.

Every other Monday, AWE’s team of blacksmiths and craftsman will be building some of your favorite weapons, and some weapons that you’ve never seen before. This week, they’re recreating Link’s Hylian Shield from Zelda!

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Before they were Saul Goodman and Tobias Funke, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross co-created one of the funniest shows ever. It was called Mr. Show (or, more fully, Mr. Show With Bob and David) and it ran four seasons on HBO, from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Show helped give the comedians a huge cult following and major pop culture cachet. Since then, each has gone off on their own, becoming very successful in different ways. Now they’re coming back together.

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross have just sold a brand new sketch comedy series called With Bob and David to Netflix. It’s just started production and will consist of four half hour episodes and a one hour “making of.” There’s more on this pseudo-Mr Show reunion below.

Deadline broke the news of the new show. As of now, Odenkirk and Cross are the only series regulars, but you can expect lots of their famous comedy friends to show up. Remember this image from December?

Eight men out… of the 1990s. Maybe something new coming from the Mr. Show gang in the new year? #MrShow pic.twitter.com/gBy8CQ49nv

— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) December 31, 2014

It’s almost certain Paul F. Tompkins and others were working on this new show. Here’s how they described it to Deadline:

After being dishonorably discharged from the Navy SEAL, Bob and David are back serving our country the way they do best: making sketch comedy. Four half-hours of brand-new comedy featuring all new characters, all new scenes and, most importantly, all new wigs.

I think bringing a short, sketch comedy series like this to Netflix is interesting. It’s basically like you’re just getting a really long Mr Show reunion movie. Four half-hours and a one-hour special can easily be digested in one sitting, unlike most of the other shows that come to Netflix. I’m curious if this series length will be something people gravitate to, or if they’ll put it off because it’s a shorter series.

Are you going to check out With Bob and David when it hits Netflix?

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Production hasn’t even started on Ash vs. Evil Dead, but there’s already a teaser for the upcoming Starz show. This first promo is a brief animated video that uses some familiar typography, sounds, and visual concepts to prime audiences for the return of Bruce Campbell as Sam Raimi’s often-bludgeoned hero Ash. Check out the first Ash vs Evil Dead promo below.

This is set to air on Saturday with the return of Outlander, but thanks to Starz and THR you can see it online now.

Sam Raimi is directing the pilot, which he wrote with his brother Ivan Raimi and Tom Spezialy. The long-time Evil Dead producing team of Raimi, Campbell, and Robert Tapert are behind the show; Craig DiGregorio will serve as showrunner.

There’s no premiere date for Ash vs Evil Dead at this point, but expect to see it in Fall 2015. Here’s how Starz describes the show.

Bruce Campbell will be reprising his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead.  When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons –personal and literal.  Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil” grip.

The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”) in the role of Ash Williams, Lucy Lawless (“Salem,” “Spartacus”) as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks, Jill Marie Jones (“Sleepy Hollow”) as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner, Ray Santiago (“Touch,” Meet the Fockers) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick and Dana DeLorenzo (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past.

The post First ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ Promo Is a Graphic Tease appeared first on /Film.

Andrew Dice Clay, the comedian and actor from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, best known for his controversial and super politically incorrect stand-up of the '80s and '90s, will star in Dice, a six-episode series, set to air on Showtime in 2016.

The show will be fictionalized reality based on Dice Clay's real life in Vegas, about trying to make a comeback from megastar to has-been to who knows? What we do know is that he keeps trying to claw his way back to where he once was.

Showtime will also air the comedy special Andrew Dice Clay Presents the Blue Show, on April 24th at 11pm, which you can see a trailer for along with some other Dice Clay videos below. [...]

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I'm usually fond of most holidays and celebrating them and being festive and such. April Fools' Day is not one of those holidays. In fact, one could consider me the Scrooge McDuck of that particular holiday (or regular Scrooge, if you want to be less awesome). I would delete it from existence if I had the god powers to do so.

Anyway! One thing great that did happen among the mess of trickery and pranks yesterday you likely rolled your eyes or shook your head at (while still chuckling at one or two of the smarter efforts, hopefully) was the one and only Bob Barker returning to The Price is Right in a surprise appearance when current host Drew Carey was announced. And as you might have guessed, the place went totally nuts.

You can check out a video of Barker's return to hosting duties below, as well as a cool behind the scenes with Barker and Carey taking some questions from the audience. [...]

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IT’S FUCKING WEDNESDAY. DID YOU KNOW THE LONGEST PRISON SENTENCE EVER GIVEN WAS 384,912 YEARS LONG FOR FAILING TO DELIVER MAIL?

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As you might know, one of the many new additions Universal Studios Hollywood is an expansion of The Simpsons themed land. Previously The Simpsons Ride was just an overlay of the old Back To The Future Ride building, bringing a bit of Krustyland to the park. But now the ride is surrounded by an elaborate recreation of The Simpsons‘ hometown of Springfield.

Universal Studios Hollywood has now soft opened the new Springfield expansion. After the jump you can view a three and a half minute video walking tour of the newly completed The Simpsons expansion at Universal Studios Hollywood, which includes an interactive version of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and much more.

The Simpsons expansion borrows a lot from The Simpsons land at Universal Studios Hollywood, with a few interesting changes and improvements. The new land includes signature eateries Krusty Burger, Luigi’s Pizza and Phineas Q. Butterfat’s 5600 Flavors Ice Cream Parlor as well as Moe’s Tavern and Duff’s Brewery. A ton of locations from the animated show appear on the Upper Lot (most in the form of facades), including Barney’s Bowlarama, Springfield Police Station, Dr. Nick Riviera’s “office,” the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, King Toot’s Music Store, Springfield Penitentiary, Springfield Elementary School, Herman’s Military Antiques, and Mr. Burns’ mansion.

ParksandCons.com posted the following walkthrough video (found via InsideTheMagic):

Every time I get to The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood, I find myself disappointed that Back to the Future: The Ride is gone. But now with Doc Brown’s Fried Chicken completely removed and a whole Simpsons land added to the area, it might be a little harder to remember the days when Doc and his time machine ruled that area of the park. I’m still hopeful that the upcoming nighttime version of the Studio Tram Tour will include a Back to the Future stunt moment at the Clocktower square, but that would just make too much sense, right?

And just for the fun of it, here is a photo of me in front of what use to be Back to the Future: The Ride in a much different time and just about 15 years ago.

My god has it been that long. Things have certainly changed around here. I remember when this was all farmland as far as the eye could see. Old man Peabody, owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees.

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IT’S FUCKING SATURDAY. DID YOU KNOW THE FIRST OFFICIAL CENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAD THE MESSAGE “MIND YOUR BUSINESS” PRINTED ON IT?

WORDS OF WISDOM OF THE FUCKING DAY:

LIFE WOULD BE BORING IF IT WASN’T SO DIFFICULT.

PERSON OF THE FUCKING DAY:

CRAZY-ASS MAGICIAN/PROPHET MOTHERFUCKER. more>>

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BE A FUCKING MAN. more>>

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CHECK YOUR DAMN MEAT. more>>

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Max Landis isn’t writing Ghostbusters 3. Ghostbusters 3 doesn’t even exist, really. Sony is, in fact, moving head with a rebooted Ghostbusters directed by Paul Feig and are trying to do a second film in that universe, starring Channing Tatum. And while the minds behind the original franchise (Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman) have their hands on these films, each will pretend 1984’s Ghostbusters and 1989’s Ghostbusters 2 never happened.

To some fans, not seeing a satisfying return of those characters trumps any good feelings about the franchise returning. Max Landis speaks to those people. The screenwriter and director took the fake news of him writing a sequel seriously, so he actually did. He never pitched it or showed it to anyone, but instead just used it as an exercise in creating a sequel, building mythology and more.

After all that, Landis has now put his Ghostbusters 3 treatment online for anyone to read. Find out more below.

The full Max Landis Ghostbusters pitch is at this link. It’s pretty long, so we won’t publish the whole thing here, just a quick excerpt to suck you in:

We start in the 1920s, where we witness cult leader Ivo Shandor proclaim the prophecy of the two comings of Gozer, one a failure, and the second thirty years later, to destroy the world. One of his followers speaks out, and is killed for his insubordination…becoming the spirit who is eventually known to us as Slimer.

Slam to 2016.

Ghostbusters was a national franchise, privately owned and government subsidized. But the lack of extradimensional invaders meant that there was ultimately a very limited amount of ghosts to bust, and the very optimistic national expansion slowly depleted the Buster’s funds (“Did the Atlanta chapter really need a helicopter?”). The Ghostbusters remain iconic, but despite the merchandise, cartoon show, etc, the company itself is bankrupt, on the verge of collapse.

Only two houses remain open; there hasn’t been a legitimate call in more than ten years. The original Busters are for the most part long gone; Venkman took the money and disappeared into seclusion, Winston Zeddemore quit the busters in 1991 and has since become a Richard Branson style billionaire, and Egon Spengler accidentally ascended to a higher plane of existence, leaving only the increasingly delusional Ray Stantz, who has run the company into the ground.

The New York Team is now comprised of Ted Becker, an earnest sweetheart living a dream born as he watched the Busters defeat Gozer as a little boy in 1985, Veronica Spengler, Egon’s Very Egon-Like daughter who feels in turns respectful and resentful of the hole left in her world, Brian Quaid, a fast talking breezily confident self-proclaimed psychic with a chip on his shoulder, and Irwin Oberstein, a gearhead MIT kick-out metalhead who sees the Ghostbusters as the ultimate way to explore his punk rock ideas about quantum physics.

Landis takes his idea all the way through the conclusion. He says the idea follows “my own beliefs about trilogies. It is a completion of the cycle and themes started in the first film, updated for modern film standards. As such, it features a heightening of the first film’s threat, as well as multiple action sequences, and deeper emotional through-lines for the characters.”

Also cool, Landis has been on Twitter answering questions and doing some fan casting. Here who he’d cast for his LA and NY new teams:

Becker: @sethrogen Spengler: @jennyslate Oberstein: @kumailn Quaid: @joelmchale Dante: @DustinWMilligan Reiser: Jon Hamm

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) March 25, 2015

LA Team: Edmunds: @glennhowerton Starr: Randall Park Cruise: @oliviamunn

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) March 25, 2015

What do you think of the Max Landis Ghostbusters pitch?

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If you have no basketball knowledge and pick your bracket by flipping a coin, the odds go up to 1 in 9.2 quintillion. Unless you actually are Brian Williams.

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Between Star Wars: Rogue One and now Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, I worry for the future of X-Men solo ventures for the character Rogue. I also assume we’re eventually going to get some franchise with a subtitled sequel of “Rise of the Dark Rogue.” Maybe that can actually be the X-Men movie name. Anyway, the new Mission: Impossible movie now has an official full title and a teaser trailer, which you can watch above. And any worries that this series can’t keep the excitement going are squashed. Like the Fast and the Furious movies, the M:I movies are aging well, and while I don’t believe this installment can truly top Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, I have a newfound hope that it could.

The first teaser begins with Alec Baldwin, which is a good way to start us off. Then there’s Tom Cruise in a Far and Away hairdo, which is more of the good stuff. Then action, action, action and Cruise hanging on to a plane as it takes off — and knowing him, even without the reports on the stunt from last fall, we’d know it’s really the actor hanging on to a plane as it takes off. Finally the Top Gun star is really getting into the glory of golden age aerial action movies. Howard Hughes would be proud and probably jealous. But is it too old fashioned? Can we expect him to, in one take, climb inside the plane, hop on a motorcycle or in a sports car and drive out of the plane, like is more the trend these days?

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation also brings back Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames and adds Rebecca Ferguson (Hercules). The director this time around is Christopher McQuarrie, who previously directed Cruise in Jack Reacher and had a hand in the script for Edge of Tomorrow. The highly anticipated sequel arrives in US theaters on July 31, 2015.

Check out the poster showing off the money shot stunt below.

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A new species of catfish has been named after Greedo from Star Wars. When trying to name the fish, a scientist looked at it and said “that looks like the guy from Star Wars,” so it was officially named Peckoltia greedoi after the bounty hunter killed by Han Solo in Episode IV - A New Hope. Source

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