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What's on your fall must-watch movie list?
Front-Ranger:
Interesting!! Did you stop going to movies after Brokeback Mountain?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 27, 2010, 08:47:02 am ---Of course, I never go to movies anymore ::) but I should see Black Swan.
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LOL, when I first heard of Black Swan, I thought it was based on the book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (from Wikipedia):
The Black Swan Theory or "Theory of Black Swan Events" was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain: 1) the disproportionate role of high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance and technology, 2) the non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to their very nature of small probabilities) and 3) the psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to uncertainty and unaware of the massive role of the rare event in historical affairs. Unlike the earlier philosophical "black swan problem", the "Black Swan Theory" (capitalized) refers only to unexpected events of large magnitude and consequence and their dominant role in history. Such events, considered extreme outliers, collectively play vastly larger roles than regular occurrences.
Admittedly, it doesn't sound all that cinematic.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 28, 2010, 08:40:44 pm ---Interesting!! Did you stop going to movies after Brokeback Mountain?
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No. I have no time for movies anymore. Waste of time to sit in a theater and do nothing but stare at a big screen for two hours.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 28, 2010, 09:51:14 pm ---LOL, when I first heard of Black Swan, I thought it was based on the book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Interesting the differences in frames of reference. When I first heard of the title, my first thought was:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034522/
(Old Tyrone Power movie--which I've enver seen, BTW.)
Then I read that the plot has to do with a ballerina and realized it's clearly a reference to Swan Lake.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 29, 2010, 11:29:36 am ---Waste of time to sit in a theater and do nothing but stare at a big screen for two hours.
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What would you be doing instead?
I'm the opposite -- movies are my escape. Maybe because when I'm in a theater, I don't feel obliged to do anything but stare at a big screen for two hours.
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