Word: d2
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...local; the details and pentatonic scale may come from Chinese folk music, but the playful melodies are rooted in pop. The fluttering female voices on "Heavenly Peach Banquet" resolve as the la-la-la-la-las from Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You." "Iron Rod" sounds like R2-D2 rapping on a dance floor. "The Living Sea" is a ballad of such delicacy that it feels like a love song in any language. The music does a fair job of telling Monkey's story, but that's far less interesting than the ambition on display and the effortless integration of different...
...dialogue. Nor does it offer a Star Wars--like print crawl to inform viewers that this is Earth 800 years from now. The mechanical critter who is the film's hero can speak only in electronic grunts and sighs, or in one-word bursts, like a chattier R2-D2. The movie's other main creature, a robot named EVE, also can speak only a few words. Yet it's Pixar's big, bold belief that the mass audience will be astute enough to follow the visual clues and game enough to play along. So confident is the studio...
...didn’t want you to think it was a cartoon character,” Stanton says. “That made me think it shouldn’t speak.”Wall•E, he said, is in many ways influenced by R2-D2 from the “Star Wars” series. “It was clearly a machine. There was nothing anthropomorphic about it, and it just did a lot of beeping.” Stanton recruited Ben Burtt, who designed R2-D2’s “voice?...
Other fantasy worlds have presented gay (or at least gay-seeming) characters, but usually they are, literally, inhuman. George Lucas gave us the epicene C-3PO and the little butch R2-D2, and their Felix-Oscar dialogue suggests the banter of a couple of old queens who have been keeping intergalactic house for millenniums. But their implied homosexuality is quite safe. There is no real flesh that could actually entangle. Similarly, there was a girl-on-girl plot in 1995 on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but let me spare you a fanboy summary by noting merely that...
...D2, which comes in Feel, Distance and Straight versions, now outsells the Titleist and Callaway balls Freeman sells. Maybe that's not exactly what Callaway had in mind, but at least Top-Flite is in a better position to face Pinnacle, which plans to launch eight new balls starting this fall. As Top-Flite's ad says, "There are scarier things than losing your ball. Like your reputation." Bring...