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Saturday Night Live: Ariana DeBose/Bleachers (2022)
I Wish Pete Davidson's Appearance on Weekend Update Didn't Get Cut
My friend got picked and took me to the dress rehearsal this week, we watched like 2+hrs of sketches, pre-tapes and musical performances, some of them got cut and I could see why (audience not too impressed). Among all the things that got cut I liked Pete Davidson's commentary on WU the best, actually I think it was better than some of the contents that actually got aired.
In that bit, Pete was himself (which he has done several times before and I love them all), making commentaries on why many people are quitting their jobs looking for new ways of making money like doing NFTs etc and he specially mentioned a woman selling "fart box", a small transparent box containing her fart. He also commented on the weird time we are living in rn: every time when you see some hope, things just get worse and provided several examples:
1.we thought pandemic would be over last year but it became worse after the new variant comes
2.we freed Britney but we also freed Bill Cosby
3.we sent a billionaire to the space, but dude returned to the earth afterwards
4.(there might be some other examples, but I cannot remember)
then Collin Jost tried to lead this topic to weird celebrity gossips, which we all know is trying to make him talk about his own gossip, and Pete said yeah, for example Bennifer is coming back, but Taliban is also coming back.
Near the end, he mentioned the "fart box" lady again, praising her dedication because she worked so hard that she has to go to the hospital.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)
Ang Lee's Presentation Before World Premiere Screening
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Ang Lee: "As a New Yorker it is always a great honor to come here, and thank you. I know this is not easy to put out the new technology - it is not just a new technology, a new habit in watching movies - the way you engage in it, I hope it is different. It is a big effort to convert the theater, so we can project in the way I was shooting this. Right after the making of the movie Life of Pi , which I have a different reason in shooting digital and 3D, one answer I found ... I discover to have more questions: this is just closer to what I see and my eye was cramming for more details, more clarity, more lights, more performance , more ways of studying human faces, more drama, so I am in the curve of searching for the new answers in what digital film can offer us and two years ago Tom Rothman came to me with this wonderful book, it is a coming of age story, of a young solider , he did something heroic, and been brought back to celebrated it in a climax in a Dellas thanksgiving football halftime show. I thought to my self half time into movie if I could put the half time show and over the top half time show and where the soldiers are at the center of it with the sensation of the battle scene that he actually fire fight the experience, it will be quit a movie so I decide to go this terrifying journey, it's a long journey cuz most of the time I feel like I don't know how to make movies, that's very insecure. I am a honest person, so I let all my crew know that you are not good enough for the job and I constantly reminded them and they are okay with that, it's been a very brave, and heartfelt brilliant cast and crew to work with, the experience has been precious, cuz with that clarity what comes along is the freshest of devotion to the new dream we are creating.
I often asked myself can you dream with clarity, no. But reality is the first thing we exam, so we can do... this is kind of experimental movie, I hope you keep an open mind. Now I just survived the first show ever, I know where I am survived, I was there wrecking(?), I've done a lot of premieres, but nothing like this, cuz I am launching a new medium (applause), so you are the second group of the first one ever to see this image at 120 frames per second both eyes, at 4K which is eight times more the resolution than the 2K regular movie in 3D and 28 foot-lamberts which is about 8 or 9 times more brightness than the regular 3D movie you see, I wanna thank Real D and Christie, those two projectors, the server company who holds 40 times the data of the regular movie and the studio who allows us really experiment and everybody who works with me cast and crew alike which is go for and see what happened. It is a humbling experiment, let's wait and see what happen with the movie I hope you enjoy it, that's an understate, I hope you open your mind to the new way we can make movies, thank you!"
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World Premiere, NYFF 54 Special Event, New York, New York. <> Oct 14, 2016.