The South African movie Tsotsi recently won an Oscar. But back home, a pirated version of the movie features a different ending. “While the theatrical version ends ambiguously, with the fate of the young tsotsi left unknown, the pirated version ends in violence.” The director “believes that the pirated DVD was created from an early, rough version of Tsotsi stolen while the film was being edited. The version lacks sound and technical refinements found in the completed feature.”
Tag: 03.20.06
Bollywood Director Recruits Criminals For Movie
The director says “he has tried to portray the reality of crime and therefore chose actors who were familiar with it. ‘If real criminals or people who have had personal experiences with crime and law come forward and act in such a movie, then it is not acting for them, it becomes real. All the characters become themselves in the movie and dialogues will not seem like dialogues but actual conversation’.”
The Rise Of Clip Culture
“Major broadcasters are emphasising the need to deliver their content across multiple platforms including conventional television, downloads and streaming services, as well as wireless devices. Based on pilot projects and other small-scale initiatives, it is fair to say that this future is already here.”
Just What, Is The Virginia Quarterly Review?
“To the astonishment of glossy magazine types everywhere, a small journal in Virginia garnered not one nomination, as is sometimes politely handed down to such journals, but six. This made the Virginia Quarterly Review the second-most-nominated magazine, behind the Atlantic, which received eight, and ahead of The New Yorker, Harper’s, New York, and National Geographic, all of which received five. It was as if a scrappy farm team had demolished the Yankees in an exhibition game.”
London Bombs Scared Off Museum-Goers
Last summer’s bombs in London caused a big drop in museum attendance. “Total UK museum visitor numbers were down by almost two million in 2005. Visits to the capital’s museums in August 2005 were down 24% on the same month the previous year, according to government figures. But attendance numbers are now rising again, the Department for Media, Culture and Sport has said.”
Tivo Glitch Irritates Fans
“Because of a software glitch in some machines, TiVo customers have been discovering over the last few months that some of the shows they had set to record were cut off before the programs ended.”
Art Of Conversation
“Conversation is one of those acts that require subtle forms of social imagination: an ability to listen and interpret and imagine, an attentiveness to someone whose perspective is always essentially different, a responsiveness that both makes oneself known and allows the other to feel known — or else does none of this, but just keeps up appearances. It may be, then, one of the most fundamental political and social acts, indispensable to negotiating allegiances, establishing common ground, clearing tangled paths. Conversation may reflect not just the state of our selves, but the state of society.”