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great-axepectations · 1 year

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My idea for a twist on the life series is to have a little more outside input: the players each receive a box with items that will help them in their journey. Kind of a lean-in to the ‘Hunger Games’ they have going on, with players receiving supplies to help in their survival. But it can also eliminate some of that early-game grind so that the players can get right to interacting with each other.

Perhaps a shulker box could be filled with building materials so the builders don't have to grind them out. Ones that are difficult/impossible to obtain, like oxidized copper, prismarine, concrete, or quartz. If Grian’s 3rd Life Christmas sweater is any indication, having a pretty and iconic build is a huge plus in this series.

No enchanting table this time: the boxes sometimes have enchanted books in them, and that’s the only way to upgrade weapons. If it's not possible to get blaze rods on the map, the boxes will have brewing stands and blaze powder. Different players could get parts of a set, so if you have a brewing stand you would need to trade for powder or netherwart. But by requesting items in a trade, you reveal what items you already have and may become a target for theft.

The boxes could have other items and weapons that are difficult/impossible to obtain on the map, like tree saplings or end crystals (even shulker boxes themselves are game-changing). I can imagine a lot of dramatic fanart if someone managed to get channeling on a trident during a thunderstorm. Elytra is probably a step too far, but on the other hand, rockets are not easy to come by and kinetic energy is a killer. And if 100 hours hardcore taught us anything, you'd rather have a chestplate!

As the series goes on, the boxes go from tools and food to weapons and armor, redstone components and TNT, and then stop spawning items at all. Instead there’s some kind of server-spawned mid-game crisis. 30 minutes into the session there's a server message: a warden has spawned on the server. A wither has spawned on the server. A respawning swarm of zombies has spawned on the server. An ender dragon is in the overworld. [Famous PvPer] has joined the server and has been instructed to kill. More mayhem, and gradually more dangerous until the players need to put their differences aside to face the common enemy.

How do the boxes get delivered to the players? Their bases are an obvious answer but you can't guarantee a player will log off at home. Maybe a better solution would be a hunger games-like cornucopia, with each chest labelled with a player’s name. Players would have to risk returning to a central location to get personalized supplies and chance encountering another player that wants them dead.

Hold on... have I seen something like this before?

[For those that don't recognize this image, it's from EVO smp, notable for being the origin of Watchers lore that has been made canon to the Life series.]

...Okay, let’s lean into that. These boxes are personalized and delivered by The Watchers, making their lore explicit for every player. Perhaps they could spawn their challenge towers again so players could conquer them for better loot. But as the series goes on, the challenges are more deadly, but have better loot - high risk, high reward. With a week between sessions, that’s plenty of time for an outside party to log on and build some ominous angel statues and make up some spooky rhymes.

Boxes would start to contain callbacks to previous seasons. A clock; a poppy; a goat horn; a spyglass. Four specific players each receive a dark oak sapling named ‘FANTASTICO!’, and together they can introduce dark oak trees to the server (but watch out for the player who received the flint and steel!). A netherite sword named ‘The Skizz Blade’, shields with very specific banner patterns, a diamond axe named '💀💀💀 RED WINTER IS COMING 💀💀💀'. Watchers love nostalgia!

But they’re not always so benign. Sometimes there’s a renamed piece of paper with phrases that intend to inflict hurtful memories: “YOU KILLED HER” “HE TRUSTED YOU” “IT’S YOUR FAULT”. Some notes are intended to sow discord in the present, with secrets only a Watcher would know: “[ally] intends to betray you” “[partner] is hiding something from you”. True or not, it sows the discord the Watchers crave.

Being in better standing with the Watchers get you better loot, as established in EVO. With Martyn being the ‘chosen one’ favorite to win, allying with him gets you better loot! I just think it’d be funny to start a cult with Martyn as the figurehead and Ren as the head preacher. no I’m not trying to recreate Dogwarts don’t look at me

Watchers are demanding by nature, and the boxes start to contain books that contain orders. They start out as helpful guidance, but they devolve into violent commands. Complying with the orders gets you better loot the next week, but is that worth selling your soul? The players have a choice to make: comply and be rewarded, or cut the puppet strings and endure the consequences?

Jimmy dies first for the meme. In a comical, act-of-god way, like getting struck by lightning.

As long as I’m dreaming, let’s go all the way. This season has a semi-scripted plot where the Listeners help the players finally escape the Life series loop, thus ending the series. In order to escape the series, the players have to break out of the world border, find the stronghold, and defeat the ender dragon. [EVO players look knowingly at each other]. Perhaps it’s a group event, or it can be a callback to EVO where they all get split up upon entering and have to fight the dragon alone. Those that survive are assumed to have escaped the loop, but those that die/fail are still trapped in the Life series for the Watchers to feed on.

TL;DR: The players receive items to help them survive and create a unique experience! Then I fall down a Watcher lore rabbit hole.

#3rd life smp #3rd life #Last Life smp #last life #double life smp #double life #life series #evo smp #the watchers #watcher lore #fuck it I'm tagging martyn too #itlw #trafficblr

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writer59january13 · 2 months

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Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog

just me and mine dark shadow

slinking along outer limits of

the edge of night doth blog

passivity, the path

of least resistance ohm my dog,

shocking voltage amply

surges an emphatic YES,

verboten fruit adrip

with succulent juices as eggnog,

a legitimately valid

reason and rhyme to flog

reprobate yours truly

figuratively doth emasculate, thee catchword to extricate

being emotionally hogtied warrants immediate attention, regarding consummating series

of prurient disadvantageous

née self destructive events.

The best idea to expound upon, while attempting creative

exuding genital intonations to jog

all mein kampf,

I felt like a bump on a log

please... don't be hesitant

not to reserve judgement towards this miscreant husband

whom identifies himself

as a dirt Poe imp of the pervert

analogous to rumpelstiltskin fable

whereby Lothario wannabe boasts stud deed fallaciousness,

whose noggin of mine

shaped as an egghead

topped off with pinhead blocked nog,

one aging long haired pencil neck geek

never reached maturity forever a pollywog

until froggy went a courtin' into marital quagmire

woody peckerhead did slog.

More clearly, plainly and succinctly,

one groveling, non-feeling, and sniveling

poor excuse for masculinity, (and upstanding laughingstock

regarding spindleshanks), I continually experience

unrepentant (unforgivable) humility, futility, and disrepectability hence lame justification Matthew Scott Harris sought adultery, cuckoldry, effrontery...,

which unwise choices attempted (pun intended) to fill a void

sexual propensity linkedin with precepts

attributed courtesy Sigmund Freud,

though skepticism skirted

shirked getting caught red handed

sneaky shenanigans employed

barenaked lady hardcore psychoanalysis

downplayed, or Oedipus complex

shrugged off Fountainhead (heavier imposition versus Atlas shrugged) fails to bridge (do not as Kwai)

any heavy mettle alloyed

within me psyche,

and windmills of my mind.

Handy dandy blues clues

existential mid life crisis

lacked absolute zero justification why yours truly fraught

with hormonal secretion

embarked on warpath for concupiscence

gallivanting, frolicking, engineering

foot loose and fancy free

sabotaged matrimonial covenant, whereby I regularly posted and answered

personal classified advertisement

with popular Craigslist website,

thus no surprise when presto digitation,

I met gal headquartered in Coatesville or Downingtown;

she drove to Evansburg State Park

rearing to tame bucking bronco (me)

quashing, invalidating, contravening...

conjugal contractual obligation

renting asunder mine vocalized vow

to remain faithful thru thick and/or thin

seeking alternative orgasmic opportunity

feeble minded excuse

regarding irreconcilable differences

a vague catchall phrase

antithetical contrary to pledged troth,

embarking on maiden voyage

nsync with barenaked lady

partaking moist and meaty tender vittles.

I feebly attempted to compensate

for dearth of absent teenage

Ninja mutant turtles

reptile brain and brawn bravado

investigated dating app experiences,

thus violated wedded vow think tryst I yearned, trended and jump/kick started

Casanova paramour wannabe years later subsequently

regretted quintessentially philandering

utterly disgusted at my illicit behavior

and negligence neglecting

attentiveness to offspring and spouse

forswore doting upon then

high school age daughters,

rightfully thee eldest one

(born 12/22/1996) still pissed

and compromised, jeopardized, and undermined paternal priority spawning

selfish prurient dalliances,

I das scribe, how now

brown cow objectionable frolicking courtesy Sly

And The Family Stone

payback a bitch, cuz I feel in funky (flunky) mood,

verses when scads of Earth orbitz ago, (round about January two thousand and ten)

he profusely kissed

mouth of other voluptuous (zoftig) older women (consensually, flatteringly, indiscriminately)

and amazingly, kindly, thankfully... enough

in due time spouse did willingly insist

to forgive, boot never forget

long since discounting

divorce from wife

nevertheless, remaining thermally uncoupled mandated unconditional armistice

eventually note hissed

matter of fact I dreamt at time these lines penned (then earlier today that May twenty ninth two thousand and twenty two), the gist

regarding soldier of self made misfortune

toying and tinkering harming self

casually eyed sharp pointed objects offered especial attraction

pondering hoop fully connive fist

(cuffed) around handles of cutlery

at primal, gonadal,

and brutal predilections

now... finding very little reason to exist,

hence understandably dissed

(until death do me part)

unbridled love and apology

toward thee missus and progeny,

who forever did blacklist

writ blood ginned curses

with will.i.am blackened barbs.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder,

thus very little paternal

(filial) love expressed

and she chose to live yonder Oakland, California

her then temporary dwelling

no matter, her papa

blatantly confessed depravity

YES, more'n his eye did wonder.

At present petty coated junction

non petty irreparable schism

doth rank as horrendous on par me adopting fascism

forever sullied image ("daddy's girl"), who once thought the world of me

selfish misdeeds done dirt cheap

buzzfeeding swelling egoism

no more how enlightened I became

ex post facto, pure unconditional acceptance

refracted light risqué behavior thru prism

where primary parental accountability not satisfactorily explained away courtesy

Darwinism (to con seed genes), nor chauvinism,

whereby ever since time immemorial repentance will forever be belabored

by me flagrantly disregarding monogamy

courtesy hardened libido

making mockery and travesty marital covenant.

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screamingreek · 3 years

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If you're in Montreal or the area, come check out my band Vulgar Deli and others at my Annual Fuck Christmas Show....

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my-random-mdzs-thoughts · 3 years

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Wei Wuxian can cook. Most people just can't appreciate his cooking because of his hardcore love for spices.

So what if he learns to cook the dishes of the GusuLan. You know because he kinda lives there now...so he wants to learn how it is made to get used to it or improve it. Through that he learns to control how much seasoning he can use and add spice's in a way that even the Lan's can handle.

At one point he even gets to cook dinner for them and they do notice a difference in the food but eat it anyway. One; because it is against the rules to not finish your plate and two; it tastes good! It is a bit more sweet then normal, hiding the pitter taste than it normally has but not a bad improvement. Even Lan Qiren likes it!

And yes, he has a mid-life crisis over the fact that he liked Wei Wuxian's cooking and that the brat can cook in the first place and the GusuLan dishes no less!

(Lan Sizhui taste testing so Wei Wuxian can surprise Lan Wangji with it.)

#mo dao su zhi #mdzs #mdzs wwx #mdzs headcanons #wei wuxian #wwx can cook #mdzs lan sizhui #lan shizui #mdzs lan wangji #lan wangji #lan qiren #gusu lan

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makerofmadness · 2 years

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sorry for flooding the tags with these but I can’t resist they’re just too good. under the cut once again.

Andy: Ok, maybe playing ‘whose family is most dysfunctional’ wasn’t the best idea we’ve had. Felix's been crying in the bathroom for an hour. We can’t get them out...

Andy: Felix was banned from the chicken shack, so we had to go out of town to get some. Felix: Well, they shouldn’t say “all you can eat” if they don’t mean it. Andy: Felix, you ate a chair.

Andy: I slept for almost 12 hours but I might still be tired so lets go for 12 more just incase. Melody: Andy, that's a coma. Andy: Sounds festive.

Andy: Am I going too far? Melody: No, no, no. You went too far about seven hours ago. Now you're going to prison.

Andy: *Kicks the door down looking panicked* Margret: What did you do? Andy: Nobody died. Margret: WHAT KIND OF ANSWER IS THAT?!

Andy: Welcome, fellow idiots Margret: Hello, Andy Andy: No, no, not you, you're not an idiot Margret: You underestimate me

Andy: Whaddya call a fish with no eye? Claus, not looking up: Myxine Circifrons Andy: Andy: fsh

Andy: A theif. Claus: Thief? Andy: Theif. Claus: I before E, except after C. Andy: Thceif. Andy: No.

Andy: You saved me. I owe you my life. Peter: No thanks. I’ve seen it and I’m not very impressed.

Andy: Okay. I get it. You've had a really hard time lately, you're stressed out, seven people died- Peter: Twelve, actually. Andy: Not the point. Look, they're dead now and really whose fault is that? Peter: Yours! Andy: That's right: no one's.

Andy: 'Person of interest' is almost too flattering. Andy: Like, if the police were to pound on my door and go, 'A man has been murdered in your building and you are a person of interest,' I'd be like, 'Moi? Oh, do go on.'

Andy: I’m going to defeat you with the power of friendship! ... And this knife I found.

Felix: You seem familiar, have I threatened you before?

Felix: Goodnight moon. Felix: Goodnight tree. Felix: Goodnight ghosts that only I can see.

Melody: If you can’t beat them, dress better than them

Melody: Physically, yes, I could fight a bird. But emotionally? Imagine the toll.

Melody: BEHOLD, the field in which I grow my fucks! Lay thine eyes upon it, and thou shalt see that it is barren!

Margret: Fool me once, I’m gonna kill you

Margret: You can de-escalate any situation by simply saying, 'Are we about to kiss?' Margret: Doesn't work for getting out of speeding tickets, by the way.

Claus: You wanna see how hardcore I am? Claus: *punches wall* Claus: Claus: Take me to the hospital.

Claus: I’m sick and tired of being called 'mortal' like, you don’t know that. Neither do I. I have never died even ONCE. Nothing has been proven yet. Stop making assumptions. It’s rude.

Peter: With great power comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

Peter, motioning to a Halloween display: All these ghosts! All these ghosts! I still can’t find a boo.

Felix: Lol heads up if you try to make a candle with food coloring, the food coloring will just sink to the bottom of the glass, and when the flame eventually reaches the bottom all the food coloring will catch fire and become one giant tall flame that you cannot possibly blow out and the glass will start to crack and then you'll throw your tea on it in a panic and then the extremely hot food coloring will boil and sizzle horribly and then the glass will shatter. Please take my word on this lmfao Melody: What did you do op? Felix: A MISTAKE

Felix: I know you’re deflecting by making jokes about how hot you are. Margret: It’s not a joke. Margret: *sniffles* Margret: I’m a legit snack.

Felix, in a meeting: My policy is if you see something, say something. Claus: I saw a squirrel in a tree today! Felix, with the tone of someone who is used to Claus: Outstanding. Felix: This is what I’m talking about people.

Felix: I think I'm having a mid-life crisis. Peter: You're like 15 years old Felix: I MIGHT DIE AT 30!

Melody: How many kids do you have? Margret: Biologically, emotionally, or legally?

Melody: I prevented a murder today. Claus: Really? How’d you do that? Melody: self control.

Melody: petition to remove the 'd' from Wednesday Peter: Wednesay Melody: Not what I had in mind, but I'm flexible

Margret: This is a mistake Claus, enthusiastically: A mistake we're going to laugh about one day! Margret: But not today Claus, still enthusiastic: Oh, no. Today's going to be a mess

Margret, tending to Peter's wounds: How would you rate your pain? Peter: Zero stars. Would NOT recommend.

Claus: .. .----. -- / ... --- .-. .-. -.-- [translation: I’M SORRY] Peter: What's that? Claus: Remorse code. Peter: I'm even angrier now.

Andy: I know you snuck out last night, Margret. Claus: Play dumb! Margret: Who's Margret? Claus: NOT THAT DUMB!!!

Andy: Are you the big spoon or the little spoon? Felix: I'm a knife. Melody, from across the room: They're the little spoon.

Margret: So, what, now I’m just supposed to do anything that Felix does? I mean, what if they jumped off a cliff? Melody: If Felix were to jump off a cliff, they would’ve done their due diligence regarding the height of the cliff, the depth of the water, and the angle of entry, so yes. If you see Felix jump off a cliff, by all means, jump off a cliff. Margret: You jump off a cliff! Melody: Gladly. Provided Felix did first.

The squad is trying to con some random guy Andy: Um, Claus, why are you pretending I'm this guy's family? Claus: We need money! Andy: You're scamming him? Claus: I was thinking more like flat-out stealing from him? Andy: What?! No way! Claus: Why not? We already stole Peter! Peter: Hey guys Andy: No, we didn't. Peter can think and talk for themself, they can do whatever they want! Peter: I wanna steal

Andy, texting Margret: Margret! Help I’m being kidnapped Peter: Where are you? Andy: I’m with some strange person. In a car. Help. Margret: I’ll call Peter. Peter, answering their cell: Y’ello? Margret: Where’s Andy? They texted me that they were being kidnapped. Peter: Andy? Whaddya mean, they're right next to me- Peter: Peter: I’ll call you back. *hangs up* Peter: THE NEW HAIRCUT ISN’T THAT BAD! Andy: WHO ARE YOU?!

Melody: What do you think Felix will do for a distraction? Peter: They’ll probably, like, make a noise or throw a rock. That’s what I would do. *Building explodes and several car alarms go off* Peter: ... or they could do that.

Andy: Listen, I can explain... Melody: You’re making $500,000 and you’re only gonna pay me $30,000? Felix: You’re getting 30 grand? I’m getting $1,000! Margret: You guys are getting paid?

Cop: You’re receiving a ticket for having three people on one motorcycle. Andy: Shit. Margret: Wait, three? Cop: Yeah? Claus: OH MY GOD PETER FELL OFF!!!

#incorrect aaf quotes #incorrect quotes #andy's apple farm #claus you liar you've died at least once

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uomo-accattivante · 4 years

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This is a great article about how The Card Counter managed to finish principal photography after getting shut down mid-March due to COVID-19.

Also, it includes this interesting description from Paul Schrader about Oscar Isaac’s character, William Tell -- “So now I have a character and he’s in his room, he’s alone. And he has a mask on. And the mask he wears is a professional poker player. And the problem that runs alongside him is that he is a former torturer for the U.S. government. So it’s a mix of the World Series of Poker and Abu Ghraib.”

Having somehow weathered his way from enfant terrible to wizened survivor, Paul Schrader is a filmmaker who is simply not finished yet. Every time it might seem his career is on the wane, he resets, revitalizes and comes back again.

Just a few years after his 2014 film “Dying of the Light” starring Nicolas Cage was taken away from him by financiers — leading Schrader to disavow the movie — he received his first Oscar nomination (for original screenplay) after directing “First Reformed,” which was released in 2018 and starred Ethan Hawke as a troubled small-town minister.

Schrader’s work is marked by emotional intensity, intellectual vitality and an aesthete’s appreciation of style. His filmography is full of unusual corners that are still being discovered. The 1979 film “Old Boyfriends,” directed by Joan Tewkesbury with a screenplay by Schrader and his brother Leonard, was recently rereleased on home video. As was the 1990 film “The Comfort of Strangers,” directed by Schrader from a screenplay by Harold Pinter.

He’s been directing films from his own scripts since 1978’s “Blue Collar” starring Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. He went on to write and direct such films as “Hardcore,” “American Gigolo,” “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” “Light Sleeper” and “Affliction.” His celebrated work as a screenwriter for director Martin Scorsese includes “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “Bringing Out the Dead.”

Never one to shy from controversy onscreen or off, he directed Lindsay Lohan in the 2013 Hollywood-set thriller “The Canyons,” written by Bret Easton Ellis.

In March, Schrader was about three-quarters through the shoot for his next film, “The Card Counter,” in Mississippi — with a cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe — when the production was shut down due to the growing pandemic. In July, Schrader was able to shoot for an additional five days to complete production.

During the break in shooting, “The Card Counter” was picked up for distribution by Focus Features.

Schrader recently got on the phone to talk about the unusual circumstances of the film’s production and completion. A film critic before he became a filmmaker, Schrader not only had startling insights into his work, but also thoughts about what filmmaking and exhibition might be like in a post-COVID world.

Before we start talking about the production on the movie, could you just describe the story? What is “The Card Counter” about?

Well, I don’t want to get too deeply involved in the plot, but what I will say is over the years I’ve kind of developed my own little genre of films. And they usually involve a man alone in a room, wearing a mask, and the mask is his occupation. So it could be a taxi driver, a drug dealer, a gigolo, a reverend, whatever. And I take that character and run it alongside a larger problem, personal or social. It could be debilitating loneliness like in “Taxi Driver.” It could be a midlife crisis like in “Light Sleeper.” It could be an environmental crisis like in “First Reformed.”

So now I have a character and he’s in his room, he’s alone. And he has a mask on. And the mask he wears is a professional poker player. And the problem that runs alongside him is that he is a former torturer for the U.S. government. So it’s a mix of the World Series of Poker and Abu Ghraib.

How did you come to put those two things together?

I’m always looking for that. I’m looking for deep-seated problems, either personal or societal, and some kind of oddball metaphor. The more you get closer, you run these two wires next to each other, the more sparks you see flying across. And it’s in the sparks that the viewer comes alive. If the wires ever touch, there’s nothing left for the viewer to do. But if you keep these two wires really close to each other, the viewer will start to spark from one wire to the other. And that’s the greatest thing you can give a viewer or a reader, an opportunity to be part of the creation.

Let’s talk about the production and everything you’ve been through. Take me back to March. What was it like for you when the production had to shut down?

I have learned in my dotage how to make a quality film on a low budget. So the film I used to make in 40 days I now make in 20. And so “First Reformed” was 20. I had shot in Biloxi 15 days. Now I knew coronavirus was going to be rising, because when I heard that Macau shut down, I said, you know, it’s just a matter of time. Macau is the wealthiest gambling center in the world and I’m here in the gambling center of the Gulf. If Macau shuts down, it’ll reach Vegas, it’ll reach here. And we were doing a scene, a poker tournament with 500 extras. And I remember I said to the A.D., “We can’t put 500 people in a room without one of them being positive.” And sure enough, one of them was. Two days later, we not only closed down, all of the Gulf was closed down.

Fortunately, when I went back, I had shot my big crowd scenes. And also I had shot my sex scenes, which I would have hated to try to do under these restrictions. So all I had left when I went back was a number of scenes in the prisons, and four more scenes in the casinos, some driving scenes. So I was in pretty good shape. But I really wanted to finish the film.

And Oscar Isaac, he was on his way to Hungary to do reshoots for “Dune.” And he wanted to put off this reshoot till after “Dune” — to do it in September because he has a big beard and he didn’t want to shave off his beard. I said to him, “Oscar, there’s a window open right now in Mississippi.” I said, “If we don’t jump into this window while it’s open, this will become one of those famous films that never got finished, and we’ve got to exploit this moment.”

So I talked him off the ledge and he agreed to do it. And we were able to put everybody back together and do our week of prep and five days of shooting. It was very strange, and in a way it was kind of fun, in a summer camp sort of way. But I would hate, hate to make a whole film this way. It was an adventure for five days, it’s a nightmare for five weeks.

In the break from March to July, were you on high alert that you could come back at any moment? Were you editing the footage you already had?

Here’s what happened. I was editing. My editor is in New Jersey and my assistant editor is in Tennessee, so we’re all editing virtually. And I had four major dialogue scenes between my principal characters that I had not shot. Then I was able to screen virtually the film for a number of people I respect, like Scorsese, who is the executive producer, like [filmmaker and programmer] Kent Jones and other people. And what I asked them all is, “I have four more scenes to shoot. I can rewrite them. What am I missing? What do I need to add? How should I write these four scenes?”

And I started getting feedback about what they felt was missing. So I was able to rewrite these scenes and make these relationships much better. And not all productions get to do that. It’s a very expensive reshoot, but it was built-in that three-quarters of the way through, I have an opportunity to rewrite one-quarter of the meaningful character scenes. So I did, I rewrote it. And I realized what was missing. And I wouldn’t have realized that if I was shooting at the top. I would have only realized that in post. And I would have walked around the room kicking myself in the ass, saying, “I wish I had the opportunity to reshoot some scenes.”

How was getting everything back together?

As soon as Mississippi allowed us to come back, we came back. And of course nobody’s working, so everybody’s eager to come back. They are hyper-conscientious because they know they are only being allowed to work by the grace of God. And so the masks and the PPE and the hands and the distancing, you don’t need to tell any of the people this. They’re so happy to be at work. They have no problem with any of that.

You can only have one person within six feet of your actor at a time. That person could be hair, it could be makeup, it could be props, it can be the director, it could be another actor. And you kind of queue up. And a thing that I realized, we had a warehouse. So we did rehearsals for every scene in this warehouse. And I told the actors that when we get to the location, to the casino, the prop people will be in there, the lighting people will be there and then you will walk there with your mask on, and you will take the positions that you took in rehearsal. Then I will roll camera and you will take your masks off and we’ll play the scenes. So that’s how we did it.

Given everything that it takes to get to shooting, once you were back on set with the actors, did you still feel like they could give you the performances that you needed? Was it difficult to get to a place of artistic creation given all the other concerns that everyone has?

Because they had done the rehearsals, they had gone through the permutations of their performances before. So the only thing different for them was that they were in a real space rather than a fake space. As I explained to them, there would be no time for exploration on set. All the exploration you are going to do, we’re going to do here in the warehouse. I don’t want to hear one peep from you about changing anything once we get into this hothouse environment. So however many hours we have to spend in the warehouse, let’s spend it.

How close to finished are you with the movie now, considering you had a lot of it already cut together?

Basically, I’m finished, down to an hour and 49 minutes, which is where I think it should be. Obviously, I have to do the score, there’s the post-prod and the special effects, but the thing is that there’s no pressure to finish the film anymore at this time. I was talking to Focus, and I could give them the film in a month. They don’t want the film in a month because they don’t know what to do with it in a month. They said, you just take whatever time you need, which is the opposite of the way studios usually talk. I also have final cut, so it doesn’t really matter. What I deliver, I deliver.

When you made “The Canyons” you talked a lot about your feelings regarding the theatrical experience, VOD and streaming and contemporary filmmaking. What impact do you think the COVID shutdowns will have on movie theaters?

There’s a certain kind of film like “The Canyons,” which should be made for VOD, which is a kind of exploitation film. And there’s another kind of film like “First Reformed” that has to be mounted by film festivals and art-house cinemas, so that it has an identity prior to VOD. So if you’re on VOD and you see an Ethan Hawke film about a minister, you’re not going to say, “Oh, let’s watch that.” No, what you’re going to say is, “Oh, I heard about that film. I heard it was good.” Well, how did they hear it was good? They heard that from film festival reportage and they heard from their friends who have seen it at theaters. So that sets up VOD.

The opposite case is a film like “First Cow,” a film that was crushed by not having a theatrical window. And everybody is, “Should I watch ‘First Cow’?” They have no context. So what’s important for a film like “The Card Counter” is we have to give it context. We have to go to the festivals and we have to go to the art cinemas to tell people what we have in our hands. Then we can go to VOD, where the real money is. So “First Reformed” went to Telluride, Toronto, Venice and New York. That set the table. I would love to set the table for this one. I can go to all those festivals. That’s not a problem for me anymore. The problem is: Are festivals going to happen?

Do you think theaters are going to come back?

Not in the way they did. There are only four reasons for theaters to exist anymore. And this situation has accelerated these trends. Like symphonies and operas and live theater, concerts, they need a reason to exist. One reason is family cinema, because parents love to see their kids interacting with other kids. Animation films will always have an audience. Another is extraordinary spectacle. IMAX, virtual, whatever they come up with. Something you can’t see at home. The third is date movies for high schoolers, which is horror and rom-coms. Or rather, dirty rom-coms.

And then the fourth is club cinema. Which used to be called art cinema. But with these new institutions that are a combination of social institutions and cinematic institutions. So the Metrograph in New York has one restaurants and two bars. There’s more square footage devoted to eating and drinking than there is to watching movies. And yet it’s always full because people want to be in that environment. So then alcohol’s become the new popcorn. And those club cinemas, which were pioneered by Alamo, they will continue to exist because people want to be part of the club, people want to buy a membership. They want to eat and hang out, and they want to know which films have been approved by the club. Which is something you cannot get from VOD.

When “First Reformed” was coming out, you spoke about how you had made it thinking it could be your last film. And yet you seem so reenergized over the last few years. Do you feel that way? Have you been able to hit the reset button in some way?

Oddly, yes. I’m in the middle of a new script, which is about a horticulturalist. And what has happened in my case, following the disastrous situation I went through with “Dying of the Light,” I said, I would no longer work unless I had final cut. And once I got final cut, I was free. When I began, you didn’t really need final cut. When I was working in the studio system, all those other films, you were working with people who knew movies, who liked movies. Who you can talk to, you could disagree with — things would get changed, sometimes they’d get better, sometimes for worse in your mind, but you were working with people who liked movies, who watched movies. In the last 15 years, I’m dealing mainly with financiers, who not only don’t watch movies, don’t even particularly like them. And how can you have discussions with these people? And that’s what final cut freed me from, because I realized I couldn’t talk to these people. I wasn’t talking to [studio executives like] Barry Diller and Thom Mount and Ned Tanen anymore. I was talking to Joe Schmo from some hedge fund and I couldn’t talk to Joe Schmo. The only way I could talk to him was to have final cut.

I’m certainly excited to see what becomes of “The Card Counter.”

The new one is quite good. Focus told me not to hump it too much because that’s their job down the line. But you can take my word for it, it’s quite good.

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#paul schrader had to convince oscar isaac to shave off his dune beard 😂#oscar isaac #william tell #the card counter #paul schrader #tye sheridan #willem dafoe #tiffany haddish #covid-19 #coronavirus #focus features #dune #dune 2020 #first reformed #the canyons #taxi driver #interview #los angeles times #la times

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I’m imagining myself in 2025, and thinking of Coronavirus as this weird era from the past that we’ve finally moved beyond, and that I’m finally free of. (E.g. due to a vaccine or whatever.)

But also, I’m imagining myself in 2025, and finding myself still in the Coronavirus era, and reconciling myself more or less to the idea that this is just what life is for the long-term future.

And here I am in mid 2020, and I don’t know which of these two scenarios, if either, is closer to the reality of what 2025 will be like. Surely Coronavirus will have a huge impact on 2025. But will we still be in hardcore virus crisis mode, or will we be free of it? And either way, will we be in economic and/or political chaos as an aftereffect, or not? I have no idea. It’s fucking me up.

#coronavirus cw

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I think Jared was never a good actor, though I think his acting was definitely better when he was younger. I thought acting was something that's supposed to get better over the time? For some reason it's the opposite for Jared it seems. His acting is trippling and regressing more. I think it also was the case in SPN If I am being honest. His acting was better in the earlier seasons, but then it gradually started to become worse. It's just my opinion. Most of the time he seems like he's about to crack and is in a hardcore mid-life crisis. They are right about saying that Jensen carried the show. And Sam/Jared was supposed to be the only protagonist in the series at the start. Jensen's character was planned as a secondary character. The fact that Dean has become like the protagonist over the course of the series says something. As much as I don't want to admit, Misha's acting also saved the show. The guy was supposed to die in 2 episodes but the audience kept his character around for so long because they liked his character.

Honestly, at this point, I don't know what to say anymore. Jared is becoming more illogical and unprofessional each day. And the fact that Lindsey is starting to become more likable and interesting in Walker says something as well. It's like we are watching a SPN situation.

I didn’t know about Sam being the protagonist! I’m really glad that they made Dean just as important.

I don’t know if it speaks to Misha’s acting, but as much as I don’t like Cas fans and Misha fans, they really liked Castiel and it says a lot that they changed a guest role into a fairly big character. I think that Jared does well when he has people to play off of, but alone, he’s not as great as he thinks he is.

It is pretty telling that now this is the second show where Jared was supposed to be the star, but someone else outshined him. It’s really petty of me, but part of me wishes they’d kick Jared and Gen off the show and then the show takes off and thrives.

#grumpy answers #anti walker #jared padalecki #Anonymous

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moonwalker101 · 3 years

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Friend: why are we always in a state of midlife crisis? We ain't even midlife yet-

Me: excuse me but I like to call it unending torture-anxiety-panic attack- depressed life crisis, cause we can just cut out the mid prefix and jump to being in a constant state of crisis all the time hahaha :,3 (softly dying on the inside)

Friend: same (hardcore dying on the inside)

#dark humor?#it ain't funny tho #wheezes #my attempt at humor #i failed #oh well #my friend is goin to hunt me down now #better start running

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Body Count asks: 1, 3, 10, 17, 26, 38!

thank you, Meggers!! Sorry this took a mo (not me getting sucked down a character-development rabbit hole 🥴🤡)

1. What made them apply for Body Count & what are they hoping to get out of the experience?

Simply put, Audie was bored out of her mind and thought it would at least be good for a laugh when she got home. She’s not really hoping for anything except a change of scenery -- though she’s not opposed to trying for some of that prize money, either!

3. How regularly do they swear?

Not *quite* as much as Florrie, but enough that “fuckitty fuck!” has made it into her vernacular! In uni, when she was studying linguistics, Audie liked to make the argument that learning all the swears in different languages “totally counts!” as legitimate studying (and, you know what, she is valid).

10. What did they wear on the first day in the villa?

almost certainly something like this romper, styled with these shoes probably, and maybe a gauzy duster/kimono.

17. How did they end up in Manchester?

Went there for university and stuck around, honestly. She didn’t want to go back home, and she didn’t have a reason to go anywhere else in particular, so she figured staying on in Manchester for a bit wouldn’t be the worst thing. Of course, she didn’t anticipate staying for four years...

26. Where do they fit on the Jock-Nerd vs. Goth-Prep alignment chart?

Audie is...kind of a bimbo? lmaooo She’s the least nerdy oc I have BY FAR

38. Give us a few funky facts about their family background!

Audie’s full first name is actually “Auden,” chosen by her dad, who’s a poetry scholar (and, because she loves her dad despite hardcore judging his choice of names, he’s the only person allowed to call her “Auden” rather than “Audie”). She’s the middle child of 4 kids: one older sister (Caro, 30) and two much-younger, adopted twin brothers (Joel & Asher, 12), whom she theorizes were her mother’s mid-life crisis once she realized she was fully an empty-nester. She loves the bones of ‘em, though.

body count mc asks

#thank you again for the ask!#bc mc #body count #oc: audie honeycutt #dwead-piwate-meggers #answered

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choi jaeho , 32 , president of jangsu pharmaceuticals , single dad . . . and someone with very questionable hobbies and ways of forming contracts . born with a silver spoon , jaeho could have had anything he wanted . . . and that was what people told him , yet he could never have what he wanted . his life planned , marriage arranged , things all handed to him , but it’s never what he WANTED . he married young because his parents forced it , had a child young because his parents wanted grandchildren . . . but the moment he took over the company , he made sure to shatter their plans to pieces . he divorced his wife ( he’s always known that he liked men and his ex-wife knew , everyone knew . . . it did result in a beating from his father ) , willingly taking on the twins born between them , he scrapped the plans his father had set and began his own journey . a MID-LIFE CRISIS he calls it . with scrapped plans and old contracts thrown out , people called him STUPID , but he calls it a revolution . he’s going to make it so that JANGSU PHARMA is his company . . . not the company that was handed to him . employing tactics as old as time ( sex and money ) , jaeho slowly built the company back to it’s glory . . . new and all the efforts attributed to himself . it was definitely through this period that jaeho developed his questionable hobbies of one night stands and well , delving into hardcore sex . his home life is just as exciting as it is mundane ; jaeho is a doting father to the twins and does everything he can for them ( yes , he’s banned the grandparents from visiting ) . he clears his schedule on days that he’s needed at their school or for trips needing chaperones , he hired a live-in nanny to care for them when he can’t . . . he’s a bit of a fool for them , and while he has little to no skill in parenting . . . he wanted to give them a good life , so as much as he can . . . he spends as much time as he can with them during their waking hours , even if it tires him out or puts him slightly behind schedule .

#( updates. )

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Movies and the Tracking Shot

In the language of film, there are many ways to place actors, props, or cameras in a way that conveys a message to the audience. The tracking shot is a specific way to include the audience into a situation on film and it really intensifies the experience. Some of the most anxiety inducing horror shots as well as introductions to a new world have happened with the tracking shot. Technically, any shot with camera movement could be described as tracking, but the really good ones tend to follow a character or group through a situation or world that is realistic but in some way other worldly because of the circumstances. Our current film under review for the AFI top 100, Goodfellas, has one of the most famous tracking shots, so I wanted to highlight it along with some other great tracking shots in film history:

THIS IS PRETTY SPOILER FREE, BUT SOME OF THE CLIPS ARE VERY VIOLENT AND INTENSE SO DON’T FOLLOW THE LINK IF YOU THINK IT WILL TRIGGER ANXIETY!!!

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Paths of Glory (1957)

This is one of the first real tracking shots and the camera is literally on a track. You can actually see the track along the ground as you are lead through a trench in WWI along with Kirk Douglas. It is horrifying in that it really displays the British idea of keeping a “stiff upper lip” as hundreds of men who are obviously terrified, as they are surely about to get slaughtered, make way for their commanding officer to lead them over the trench wall. This film was a favorite of Winston Churchill how complemented the realistic depiction of officers in trench warfare. The film was directed by Stanley Kubrick, who later showed his affinity for this type of shot. Here is a link to the clip which also shows the raiding run after the trench tracking shot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyyGHHXfck

The Shining (1980)

The initial lack of sound and the steady cam shot by operator Garret Brown that follows Danny Torrance through the halls of the empty hotel is haunting. As the boy pedals his tricycle, creepy music slowly builds until he finally runs into the infamous twins. It establishes the loneliness and the inability to escape. There is nothing for this child to do but explore alone, an activity which will only lead to danger. It is not an intense scene per se, but there are few better ways to establish the world of the Overlook Hotel. Here is a clip that shows the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy7ztJ3NUMI

Goodfellas (1990)

I love this scene because it goes from a dirty alley back through the kitchen/ backroom and into a fancy club. It shows the lead character progressing from the streets and through the life of a working stiff (paying off people as he goes) and ending at a table prepared just for him at the front. He basically walked his new girlfriend through his life in a single 2 minute shot through the club. An absolute masterpiece of cinematography by Martin Scorsese. Here is a link to the clip as well as a link to the deep dive discussion with the steady cam operator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYwcObxl78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVDC95rprFs

The Russian Ark (2002)

I have seen this film a couple of times and it is more of a technical accomplishment than a great story. The film is made up of a single study cam shot with almost 1000 actors and 3 orchestras all filmed in a single museum in Russia. It is the story of a French aristocrat dreaming about 200 years of Russian history and the constant movement does make it all feel dreamlike. The producers could only manage one day to use the museum and they could not damage anything or add structures to set up cameras so the entire 96 minutes was done with a single shot in a single take. The amount of rehearsals and planning that were needed for this is mind boggling and it is worth a watch to give respect to the effort along. Here is a link to the trailer if you want to get an idea of what the film is like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV1kphEEXn8

Children of Men (2006)

This is the most constantly intense movie that I have ever experience and I do not rewatch it because even individual scenes cause me great anxiety. I have seen it once all the way through without pausing and that was enough for me. There are actually many tracking shot scenes throughout this film that last from 5-10 minutes at a time, and this is including my personal most panicky shot that I remember experiencing in the theater. There is a car ambush scene that has the camera in the place of someone in the car swiveling around to try and keep up with what is coming. It is active in that you feel like you are being attacked, yet it is passive in the way that there is nothing the audience can do to help or protect themselves. Straight out of a nightmare. I kind of a hate the scene for how bad I felt afterwards, but I love it because I recognize how good the cinematography was to affect me so strongly. I have a link for the clip below and, although it does not affect me the same since I have watched it many times, I want to give a quick warning to watch at your own risk because it is violent and intense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVg66ndzfpU

Birdman (2014)

This film won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Cinematography as the entire film is made up tracking shots. The lead character is suffering through a mid life crisis as the character he played as a young man has almost become his identity and haunts him as he tries to re-establish himself as a serious actor director and not “the guy the used to be Birdman.” There are many great tracking scenes, but I think my favorite is one in which he gets trapped outside the theater and he has to run through time square in his underwear to get back around to his dressing room. Here is a link to that scene, but I recommend checking out the movie and try to count how many cuts you can actually see. There aren’t many:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O8wiwu0elA

The Revenant (2015)

I also saw this film in the theater and it is extremely intense, but I was ready for it because a friend of mine compared the opening to Children of Men. That put me on guard and I am glad because it is brutal and unforgiving like the situation. DiCaprio plays maybe the toughest character ever based on a real person and the man suffers greatly all in the name of vengeance. He is with a group of fur traders and they are attacked by Arikara warriors. Walking along as a bystander as the horrors unfold for six minutes is an amazing way to introduce the savagery and pain of a fur trader’s life in the new world. These men did not belong there and those tribes who did belong were not welcoming to outsiders destroying the food source. There is also a bear attack sequence in this film, but the computer graphic additions kind of ruined it for me. Here is a link to the opening attack scene and, again, it very violent and intense so watch at your own risk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x0oa0zyC4A

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There are many other films that utilize this kind of tracking cam and often the effect makes it end up like a first person shooter video game. This is a perfectly viable way to have a tracking shot, but I don’t feel like it gives the same intensity as the above examples. I movie that was done completely in first person was Hardcore Henry (2015) and it is fun to watch; Doom (2005) has an extended first person scene as well. Chase scenes in horror films will have this first person view as well, although a with a prime example being Halloween (2018) does a fantastic job of this during the trick or treating home invasion scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy2kMtJa2q8 (warning! very violent)

The tracking shot is a great tool to bring the audience into the director’s world and it can be used to great effect. Are there other examples not listed that exemplify the technique?

#film technique #tracking shot #film #director of photography #movie production #goodfellas #the revenant #Stanley Kubrick #the shining #children of men #movie critique #introvert #introverts

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The Resilient Roadster: Why the Miata continues to reign for over 30 years.

The Mazda MX-5, known in the States as the Miata, was first introduced in 1989. Since then, Mazda has blessed us with four generations of the MX-5. I remember the first time I ever began to appreciate this roadster. It was in the late 90’s as a kid playing the video game Gran Turismo. The Miata was one of the first cars you got to choose. It wasn’t flashy, but it was cool that it was in one of the most prestigious video games at the time. Fast forward over 20 years later and the Miata continues to be the best affordable sports car on the market.

I must admit, during my entire life I never thought about owning a Miata. It’s tiny, it’s not that fast and most of their owners are going through a mid life crisis. I found myself always desiring something practical yet fun to drive. The Miata is defined by the latter, however it is far from practical. I never had money to blow on a weekend driver; two seater sports car. So I always resorted to purchasing Sport Utility Vehicles, or four door sport sedans. After I sold my Acura TL type S, I was in desperate need of a vehicle. I visited an Alfa Romeo dealer with my heart set on purchasing a Giulia. I’ve always wanted an Alfa Romeo ever since I was a kid. My dad owned a late 80’s Alfa Romeo Milano and that was the family car throughout my childhood. When my dad drove by, I would brag to my friends that the Alfa would one day be mine. They would all laugh and clown on me because it was old and weird looking. But I loved it because it was Italian and different. I guess I felt like it represented me welI. I love having things that nobody knows about. Since I was a kid I always had to buy Nike’s that no one in school had. I mean it would seriously ruin my day if I saw someone else wearing my sneakers. I didn’t care if someone else liked what I had. I just preferred to stand out and I’ve carried that mentality into my adulthood. As far as the Alfa Romeo goes, I never got a chance to call it my own. My dad sold it to his mechanic a few years before I got my license. Bummer.

Back at the dealership, I couldn’t score a decent deal on a Giulia. Instead, I noticed an automatic Fiat 124 Spider Abarth. I remember when the 124 Abarth came out, it was only offered with a manual transmission. Rightfully so, a car like that should only be offered with a standard 6 speed. However, I didn’t want my daily driver to have a manual gearbox. At the time I lived in Los Angeles, and I’m sure you all heard about LA’s traffic. So a stick shift wasn’t going to cut it in bumper to bumper. So here I am in front of the next best thing, an Italian sports car with a scorpion for a badge. It checked all the right boxes. It was different, sporty, fun, and most importantly Italian. It could fill that void of always wanting to own a unique, Italian automobile. But there was a problem, it wasn’t practical. I’ve never owned a two seater sports car with enough cargo capacity to squeeze in my toiletry bag. So I passed on the Spider and ended up leasing a crossover; how original. Recently, I had the luxury of temporarily owning both the 124 Abarth and Mazda Miata. After driving both cars for a few weeks, I could definitively say the Miata is the better sports car. Although I’ve grown to be biased towards Italian manufacturing, I must admit the Japanese roadster is without question the better option.

The Miata featured in this article is a 2019 base model with 181 horsepower, an increase from 155 in the previous year. The 2.0 naturally aspirated inline 4 engine boasts 151 pound feet of torque with a curb weight less than 2400 pounds. It comes standard with a 6 speed manual gearbox and redlines at 7500 RPM’s. Combine this with the Miata’s fantastic handling and it’s enough to make you feel like you’re in a Formula 1 race car. The naturally aspirated engine makes the throttle feel extremely responsive. The gearbox shifts like butter and urges you to rev it all the way up to its redline. This Miata was by far the most fun I’ve ever had in a modern day roadster. It’s so light that you can just throw it into turns and still trust that it will remain in control. There is nothing in this world that is more fun than going through the gears in this car. The dual overhead cam engine is refined and appeals to many car enthusiasts for its simplistic design. The engine doesn’t have any plastic covers over it, rather it appears to look simple and easily accessible under the hood. This is something that is becoming more and more rare to find in the auto industry. Nowadays, engines come completely covered and require special tools to access. Automakers are discouraging people to work on their own cars. Not Mazda, just look at that engine, it looks like something straight from the past. As clichè as it may sound, Mazda knows if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Unlike Toyota with their Supra, Mazda will never offer their Miata without a standard transmission. They understand that the car is designed to operate with a manual. Going through the gears and hitting the perfect shift is what brings out the fun in a sports car. When BMW introduced the new Z4 last year, it did not offer a manual transmission. Same goes for Porsche with their latest 911. Dedicated fans were appalled when they found out a manual was not an option. BMW and Porsche listened to their supporters and released a manual transmission for both those models. These automakers paid attention to the feedback and understood that there is still a large enough market for manual transmission owners. Now automakers don’t want to make the same mistake. Look at Ford with their new Bronco, they offer a stick shift for the 4 cylinder model with a crawling gear! These stories are a true testament to the value us car enthusiasts bring to the table. Car companies are beginning to listen. Mazda however has been listening for decades and this latest Miata is the perfect example. A new and improved engine, handling that you can trust and of course the buttery smooth 6 speed transmission. Everything you want in a high revving sports car.

Yes it isn’t practical and maybe it shouldn’t be your daily driver. But the Mazda Miata is still around because Mazda continues to put love into manufacturing their beloved roadster. What do I mean by putting love into it? Well think about your mom or grandma’s cooking. You know when they make your favorite comfort food with love. You can tell when you get the same dish at a restaurant and it’s not made with love. Mazda does the same with their Miata. They are consistent and refrain from cutting corners to save money. And if they do find themselves not pleasing their hardcore followers, they make adjustments with the following model. The improvements Mazda continues to make on the Miata is a testament to the roadster’s longevity. It still continues to thrive in an automobile market that finds companies reinventing new crossover SUV’s. Mazda in particular wasn’t satisfied with their lineup of crossovers. The CX-7 was one of the early pioneers of the vehicle class. Now Mazda offers four options, including the new CX-30. Like the CX-3 wasn’t enough, they had to confuse us with a slightly larger CX-30? Mazda could easily shift all their attention towards their SUV lineup and stop focusing on their tiny sports car. The Miata has never been Mazda’s bread and butter or volume vehicle; but it will always define their brand. In a world full of crossovers, props to Mazda for not neglecting their pride and joy, their roadster, the Mazda MX-5.

#mazda miata #sports cars

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