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Post by tannis on Aug 2, 2008 20:24:03 GMT
1. voice: "Columbia now at nine times the speed of sound." 2. voice: "Roger that, Dan, I've got a solid TACAN locked on, uh, TACAN two and three.[?]"...Assuming that the recordings are legitimate clips of communications with the NASA Space Shuttle, they must derive from mission STS-8, launched August 30, 1983, which was the only flight sufficiently prior to the 1985 release of the album including anyone onboard named "Dan" -- namely Daniel Brandenstein, who as pilot of the mission would be the person most likely to report flight data to the ground. That mission was flown on the orbiter Challenger, not Columbia... I can answer this riddle. As well as the seven astronauts on the shuttle, there is also a "support crew" of astronauts who stay on the ground. One of these astronauts will be designated "CAPCOM" (or Capsule Communicator) for the mission. The CAPCOM is generally the only person on the ground who talks to the shuttle crew. Consequently the comments by CAPCOM will appear in any communications with the shuttle. Was Daniel Brandenstein ever CAPCOM for a Columbia mission? Yes, he was. Here is his CV: www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/brandenstein-dc.htmlHe was CAPCOM for the second shuttle mission, STS-2, which was a Columbia mission in 1981. --Paul-- Thank you, Paul. That's great information! Dan was also CAPCOM for STS-1, the first mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. So the Hello Earth message could be segments of Mission Control/air-to-ground commentary and conversation from Columbia STS-1 or STS-2.
Daniel C. Brandenstein: NASA Astronaut (Former) Selected by NASA in January 1978, Brandenstein became an astronaut in August 1979. He was ascent spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) and a member of the astronaut support crew for STS-1 (the first flight of the Space Shuttle). He was subsequently assigned to the STS-2 astronaut support crew and was the ascent CAPCOM for the second Space Shuttle flight.www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/brandenstein-dc.htmlSTS-1 (April 12-14, 1981) The first Space Shuttle mission. April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. The song "Countdown" by Rush from the 1982 album Signals was written about STS-1 and the inaugural Space Shuttle flight of Columbia. The song was "dedicated with thanks to astronauts Young and Crippen and all the people of NASA for their inspiration and cooperation". The song "Red Sector A" from their 1984 album Grace Under Pressure was named for the area where the band witnessed the launch.
"Hello Earth!" SC: You're missing one fantastic sight. Here comes the right door and boy that is really beautiful out there. CAPCOM: We appreciate the great view updates. ~ STS-1 (Columbia) April 12-14, 1981
STS-2 (November 12-14, 1981) This was the second space shuttle mission, and was also the second mission for Columbia. It was thus the first time ever that a manned reusable spacecraft left the earth for its second mission and returned to space.
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Post by tannis on Aug 3, 2008 15:12:08 GMT
Days That Shook the World...
If the Hello Earth message comes from Mission Control conversation during Columbia STS-1 or STS-2, can we then date The Ninth Wave tragedy to between April 12-14, 1981 or between November 12-14, 1981? Probably not! ... ;D
But what spacey, icy, or watery events did take place on those days in history?
April 12 1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1). 1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
April 13 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon
April 14 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,503 lives. 1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. Sputnik 2 was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, on November 3, 1957, and the first to carry a living being, a dog named Laika. 1961 - Yuri Gagarin is greeted by mass crowds and Khrushchev in Red Square following his historic first space flight on 12th April 1981 - STS-1 - The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
November 12 1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. 1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes first images of its rings. 1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first spacecraft to be launched twice.
November 13 1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
November 14 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
[1979 Fastnet race: The 605-mile race started on 11 August 1979. Over 13–14 August, 25 of the 306 yachts taking part were sunk or disabled due to high winds and "mountainous seas".]
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Post by tannis on Aug 3, 2008 15:13:15 GMT
Days That Shook the World...If the Hello Earth message comes from Mission Control conversation during Columbia STS-1 or STS-2, can we then date The Ninth Wave tragedy to between April 12-14...THE NINTH WAVE: A Night to Remember... April 14 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,503 lives.
RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. The ship began her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, bound for New York City, New York, on Wednesday, 10 April 1912. After crossing the English Channel, Titanic stopped at Cherbourg, France, to board additional passengers and stopped again the next day at Queenstown (known today as Cobh), Ireland, before continuing towards New York with 2,240 people aboard. On the night of 14 April 1912, Titanic struck an iceberg, and sank two hours and forty minutes later. The temperature had dropped to near freezing. The ocean was absolutely calm. There was no moon and the sky was clear...Titanic - A Night to remember trailer 1958www.youtube.com/watch?v=okgLvnAh8GgSo does the protagonist of The Ninth Wave Suite "go down" with RMS Titanic? And come up with Kate Winslet? ... The Unsinkable Kate Bushgaffa.org/wow/k275.jpggaffa.org/The Back Cover... This was in many ways much simpler to organise, but a lot harder to take. Because it relates very specifically in image to The Ninth Wave, Kate had to be in water. To be comfortable in the right clothes--in this case a Victorian nightgown--the water had to be warm. To get the feeling of night, sea, the proximity of a large ship, etc.,* studio lighting was essential. We found some big tanks used in the film business, but they weren't right visually--and they would pose the problem of filling them with a couple of hundred gallons of warm water and then getting rid of it. We eventually located a large but shallow paddling-pool, and adapted this so as to minimise the quantity of water we would have to deal with while allowing enough to suggest deep sea and cold night around Kate. Because of the large amount of electricity being used in the lights, leaks of water or big splashes could have been dangerous, and someone was standing by the mains throughout the session. I threw some pond weed into the now steaming water and added the flowers to hint at the debris from a shipwreck. The logistics involved in setting up and blending with Kate's work in the studio had left no time for rehearsals, so Kate went straight in and I hovered around, first on a ladder, then on the ground, looking for the right angle. And it's in these cases that polaroid is so useful: I was able to take polaroids and show them to Kate, and in this way we decided that I had to get in the water too in order to get the best angle. It was while I was printing up the best shots that I noticed that the viewer's perception of the scene changed dramatically when I altered the natural horizon by printing the photo slightly out of true. So actually, in the original negative, she is obviously lying on her back in water, but in the final print she appears to be standing or floating or running or flying. Also, this change of perspective made the "sea" into a very surreal backcloth, so that you wonder is she part of it, is she in it or what? John Carder Bush's KBC Newsletter contributions 3: Some of the Photographs gaffa.org/garden/jcb3.htmlThe allusion to Ophelia's insane self-immersion is plain to see in the photo for The Ninth Wave: the flowers. These were explained away almost flippantly by (if IED remembers correctly -- Doug, will you confirm or deny, since you were there too?) John Carder Bush as being intended to show the chaos and damage on board the ship during its sinking (or whatever ultimately forced the heroine into the ocean). The idea was supposed to be that commercially cultivated flowers, perhaps in the hands of the heroine at the time of the disaster, perhaps thrown by happenstance into the water from a dining table flower arrangement during the commotion and sinking, have happened to end up floating in the very same waves in which the heroine finds herself engulfed.* The Ninth Wave: General Thoughtsgaffa.org/dreaming/tnw_gen.htmlTitanic- Under Ice www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvwQx3kzt3Y
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV) - Part Fourteen www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO7nx-f21tw&feature=related * 9:10 - shows flotsam flowers
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Post by tannis on Aug 3, 2008 20:59:40 GMT
SOS Titanic ~ And Dream of SheepOoh, their breath is warm And they smell like sleep, And they say they take me home. Like poppies heavy with seed They take me deeper and deeper...Of a total of 2,223 people, only 706 survived; 1,517 perished. The majority of deaths were caused by victims succumbing to hypothermia. Out of the 18 lifeboats launched only two rescued people out of the water after the ship sank. Lifeboat 4 was close by and picked up five people, two of whom later died. Close to an hour later Lifeboat 14 went back and rescued four people, one of whom died afterwards. A total of 328 bodies were eventually recovered. SOS Titanic ~ Under IceThere's something moving Under, under the ice, Moving under ice, Through water...April 14, 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic.SOS Titanic ~ Waking The Witch"Red, red roses" "Pinks and posies" "Red, red roses, Go down"In Waking The Witch, Kate B. draws on a halyard sea shanty, Blood Red Roses.
Blood Red Roses www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WwC4fTLqog
Frankie Goldsmith, a third class Titanic passenger, is quoted as saying that he snuck down to one of the boiler rooms and saw the stokers and firemen singing and banging their shovels on the grates to keep time.
Titanic Documentary part 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jwwAtpr5o 0:57 ~ We young boys spent time watching the stokers and firemen at work. They were singing songs, rattling their coal shovels, keeping time with their singing...SOS Titanic ~ Watching You Without Me"Titanic... the first ocean liner ever to use the code signal S.O.S..." ~ S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)At about 2:06 into Watching You Without Me, we hear the SOS Morse code distress signal some three times.Famous SOS calls: RMS Titanic First Wireless Operator Jack Phillips began transmitting CQD until Second Wireless Operator Harold Bride suggested half jokingly, "Send SOS; it's the new call, and this may be your last chance to send it." Phillips then began to intersperse SOS with the traditional CQD call, until shortly before the sinking when Captain Smith visited the wireless room to release them from their duties. It is not known how Jack left the ship but one way or another he found himself clinging to the same collapsible as Bride and Second Officer Lightoller. Sources say he was conversing with the latter into the small hours about the various ships that could be on the way. Exhausted after a heavy day transmitting traffic and repairing equipment, Jack Phillips died sometime before dawn.RMS Titanic "SOS"www.youtube.com/watch?v=snkwsU98QlQThe final radiotelegraph transmissions from the Titanic. This recording is in all likelihood a simulation, but its exact origin is not known. It is notable for the authentic-sounding rotary spark gap tone and also for the code speed-- rather quick for a hand key! A video of the keying waveform is provided for further analysis.Kate Bush - Watching You Without Mewww.youtube.com/watch?v=MZusTZ1g0QsSOS Titanic ~ Jig Of LifeAll Titanic films feature traditional Irish music in steerage.The history of the Titanic and Ireland begins in 1911 with the ship's construction in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Titanic completed sea trials in Belfast Lough during 1912. One hundred twenty-three Irish men, women and children boarded the Titanic at Cobh, or Queenstown, County Cork. Most of them were embarking on a new life in America. Most of them did not make it. However, Anna Kelly who had gone up on deck to investigate what had happened, survived in lifeboat 16. She later became a nun. Musicians on board included Eugene Daly who brought his uilleann pipes aboard and was heard playing "Erin's Lament" and "A Nation Once Again" as the ship left Cobh.
"The fiddle and accordion music down in steerage is right on the money, a fine old Irish ballad and then a jig. Men and women dance together, and that's a tad odd; mostly bachelors danced with other battlers and spinsters danced with other spinsters in the Ireland of the 'teens. Given that the style's changed, and by 1958, most people wouldn't have understood the cultural meaning in Irish dancing, it's understandable that mixed dancing occurs below decks." A Night to Remember (1958) ~ Review www.culturecartel.com/review.php?rid=10002990
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV) - Part Five www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_gmeNjP4g&NR=1 S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV) - Part Nine www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3vBNE8mzg&feature=related
Jack & Rose dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BE-Vafuaxo An Irish Party in Third Class ~ Titanic (1997)
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Post by tannis on Aug 3, 2008 22:03:46 GMT
THE NINTH WAVE: The Motion PictureI: Certain of the new songs, like And Dream of Sheep and Hello Earth, strike me rather like Hollywood show-tunes: they're rather cinematic. KB: "I think in a way they're, umm, probably the most visual songs I've written in that, when I was writing them, I had in mind what potentially might be done with them, visually, which isn't normally the sort of way you go about writing a song. So it'll be interesting if we can ever actually turn it into a film, which is what I'd like to do, and to see if it takes to it well." Musician (unedited), by Peter Swales, Fall 1985 gaffa.org/reaching/i85_swa.html
KB: "This point in time is really a decision as to what to do next, whether it's a tour, or what I'd like to do next, if I could, which is to put the whole of The Ninth Wave, which is the second side of the album, onto film, but I just don't know how feasible or practical that is, with timing and whatever. So I suppose really it's, um...at the beginning of next year, I first have to decide what comes next, but I don't think there's time for both." I: How far have you got in putting The Ninth Wave into film form, would you say? How far have you got with that? KB: "Not very far, because since the album was finished there's just been so much work surrounding the singles that come out, the videos and the promotion, that I've really had no serious time to approach people and start seriously thinking about it." The Tony Myatt interview, Nov. 1985gaffa.org/reaching/im85_tm.htmlKaTe's plan to turn The Ninth Wave into a film was later abandoned. But that didn't stop Love-Hounds coming up with an exceedingly good script...THE NINTH WAVE or Die Hard in a Shipwreck... Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 22:07:58 -0700 Subject: The Ninth Wave: The Motion Picture
THE NINTH WAVE Or: Die Hard in a Shipwreck
Opening Scene: MAN (Keanu Reeves) and WOMAN (Julia Roberts) are making love in what is obviously a ship's cabin. Background music: AND DREAM OF SHEEP.
Suddenly MANIAC BAD GUY (Dennis Hopper) bursts in the cabin in a blaze of gunfire. BIG GUN FIGHT with LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS Background music: UNDER ICE
(MANIAC BAD GUY comes right after the word "Wonderful" in the first line). Song ends, MANIAC BAD GUY blows huge wall in cabin, escapes with WOMAN under arm. MAN pulls out Uzi from under coat, wings MANIAC BAD GUY who drops WOMAN in water. MANIAC BAD GUY escapes in waiting speed boat without WOMAN. MAN is knocked unconcious by a COMICAL BUT ANNOYING HENCHMAN (Gilbert Gotfried).
Scene II MAN wakes up to WAKING THE WITCH. Everything is spinning and blurry. During the line "Look who's here to see you!", MAN realizes he's in a roomful of HENCHMEN. Big gunfight ensues, MAN kills everyone except COMICAL BUT ANNOYING HENCHMAN who escapes.
Scene III: Cut between SLOW MOTION SHOTS of MAN having FLASHBACKS of wonderful suburban life with WOMAN (running in park laughing, etc.) and shots of WOMAN in water clutching onto a crate (NOTE TO DIRECTOR: This would be a good place for product placement). Background music: Watching You Without Me
Scene IV: MAN fights his way in smoke-filled ship to main cabin with backround music THE JIG OF LIFE. Just before the jig part, MAN bursts into main cabin. During the jig part, he has HAND TO HAND COMBAT with COMICAL YET ANNOYING HENCHMAN. During the "I put this moment here" part, MAN suddenly pushes COMICAL YET ANNOYING HENCHMAN into something large and pointy. COMICAL YET ANNOYING HENCHMAN dies. During the "Poetry" part, MAN has HAND TO HAND COMBAT with MANIAC BAD GUY. At the end, MANIAC BAD GUY has MAN pinned down and is about to slit MAN's throat. Suddenly, WOMAN bursts through the door, shoots MANIAC BAD GUY with bazooka she's holding. MANIAC BAD GUY dies(?), MAN and WOMAN hug each other, panting. He is a bruised, bloodied, sweaty mess. Her hair is slightly mussed. Background music: Hello Earth
Scene V: MAN and WOMAN escape in speedboat WOMAN had beside ship. Suddenly, MANIAC BAD GUY leaps up from under the water into the boat. Then a shark swallows MANIAC BAD GUY, and MAN shoves oxygen tank in shark's mouth, sails quickly away, and shoots the oxygen tank with a grappling hook. SHARK and MANIAC BAD GUY blow up real good.
MAN and WOMAN sail off to the sunset. Start to roll credits with THE MORNING FOG.
THE END
The Ninth Wave Screenplay gaffa.org/dreaming/tnw_scpl.htmlAnd then there's Titanic (1997), a romance film directed, written, produced and edited by James Cameron. It features Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater...Titanic - This Woman's Workwww.youtube.com/watch?v=oyS6TDDK-yE
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Post by tannis on Aug 4, 2008 16:38:58 GMT
SOS Titanic ~ Lead, Kindly LightLead, Kindly Light
Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom, lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home; lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me.
I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now lead Thou me on! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years!
So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still will lead me on. O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till the night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile, which I Have loved long since, and lost awhile!
Meantime, along the narrow rugged path, Thyself hast trod, Lead, Savior, lead me home in childlike faith, home to my God. To rest forever after earthly strife In the calm light of everlasting life.
"Lead, Kindly Light" is a hymn written in 1833 by John Henry Newman and 4th verse by Edward H. Bickersteth, Jr. Lead, Kindly Light was sung by a soloist on the RMS Titanic during a hymn-singing gathering led by Rev. Ernest C. Carter, shortly before the ocean liner struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912.
Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco: Dodge said that when the boats were drawing away from the ship they could hear the orchestra playing “Lead, Kindly Light,” and rockets were going up from the Titanic in the wonderfully clear night. The Bulletin, San Francisco, April 19, 1912 www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/dodge.htmlKindlight: The photography studio of John Carder Bush. GAFFAWEB DICTIONARY gaffa.org/diction/list.html"Kindlight are pleased to announce the first of a planned series of three books featuring photographs of Kate Bush taken by John Carder Bush. John has been photographing Kate since she was a child, and his work in more recent years for her record covers is known worldwide."
THE DREAMING: Photos and toning - Kindlight THE SENSUAL WORLD: Photography: John Carder Bush / Kindlight THE RED SHOES: Photography: John Carder Bush / Kindlight
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Post by tannis on Aug 4, 2008 17:25:41 GMT
SOS Titanic ~ Uilleann pipesUilleann pipes (originally known as the "Union pipes") are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. The uilleann pipes bag is inflated by means of a small set of bellows strapped around the waist and the right arm. The Uilleann pipes are played by Liam O'Flynn on the songs Jig Of Life and Hello Earth.Mr Eugene Patrick Daly, 29, from Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland, was travelling to New York City. He boarded the Titanic at Queenstown (ticket number 382651, £7, 15s). Daly was heard playing "Erin's Lament" and "A Nation Once Again" on his Uilleann (elbow) pipes (a traditional Irish instrument) for his fellow steerage passengers, as the Titanic steamed away from Queenstown (known today as Cobh), bound for the new world. He would later file a claim for $50 for their loss. Similar pipes, possibly Daly's, were recently salvaged from the wreck.Titanic Documentary part 20 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Wjpki4BEs 1:25 ~ Daly's Uilleann pipes...Hannah Bush (nee Daly) from County Waterford, Ireland. Kate's mother can be heard in The Ninth Wave, saying the line "Come here with me now" in the song And Dream Of Sheep, and among the many voices calling to the heroine between the tracks Under Ice and Waking The Witch. Titanic Soundtrack- Never an Absolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqnSvEa_RM The soundtrack CD for Titanic was the highest-selling primarily orchestral film score in history. The soundtrack opens with the uilleann pipes...Jack & Rose dancewww.youtube.com/watch?v=8BE-Vafuaxo
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Aug 4, 2008 17:50:19 GMT
THE NINTH WAVE: The Motion PictureI: Certain of the new songs, like And Dream of Sheep and Hello Earth, strike me rather like Hollywood show-tunes: they're rather cinematic. KB: "I think in a way they're, umm, probably the most visual songs I've written in that, when I was writing them, I had in mind what potentially might be done with them, visually, which isn't normally the sort of way you go about writing a song. So it'll be interesting if we can ever actually turn it into a film, which is what I'd like to do, and to see if it takes to it well." Musician (unedited), by Peter Swales, Fall 1985 gaffa.org/reaching/i85_swa.html
KB: "This point in time is really a decision as to what to do next, whether it's a tour, or what I'd like to do next, if I could, which is to put the whole of The Ninth Wave, which is the second side of the album, onto film, but I just don't know how feasible or practical that is, with timing and whatever. So I suppose really it's, um...at the beginning of next year, I first have to decide what comes next, but I don't think there's time for both." I: How far have you got in putting The Ninth Wave into film form, would you say? How far have you got with that? KB: "Not very far, because since the album was finished there's just been so much work surrounding the singles that come out, the videos and the promotion, that I've really had no serious time to approach people and start seriously thinking about it." The Tony Myatt interview, Nov. 1985gaffa.org/reaching/im85_tm.htmlKaTe's plan to turn The Ninth Wave into a film was later abandoned. But that didn't stop Love-Hounds coming up with an exceedingly good script...THE NINTH WAVE or Die Hard in a Shipwreck... Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 22:07:58 -0700 Subject: The Ninth Wave: The Motion Picture
THE NINTH WAVE Or: Die Hard in a Shipwreck
Opening Scene: MAN (Keanu Reeves) and WOMAN (Julia Roberts) are making love in what is obviously a ship's cabin. Background music: AND DREAM OF SHEEP.
Suddenly MANIAC BAD GUY (Dennis Hopper) bursts in the cabin in a blaze of gunfire. BIG GUN FIGHT with LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS Background music: UNDER ICE
(MANIAC BAD GUY comes right after the word "Wonderful" in the first line). Song ends, MANIAC BAD GUY blows huge wall in cabin, escapes with WOMAN under arm. MAN pulls out Uzi from under coat, wings MANIAC BAD GUY who drops WOMAN in water. MANIAC BAD GUY escapes in waiting speed boat without WOMAN. MAN is knocked unconcious by a COMICAL BUT ANNOYING HENCHMAN (Gilbert Gotfried).
Scene II MAN wakes up to WAKING THE WITCH. Everything is spinning and blurry. During the line "Look who's here to see you!", MAN realizes he's in a roomful of HENCHMEN. Big gunfight ensues, MAN kills everyone except COMICAL BUT ANNOYING HENCHMAN who escapes.
Scene III: Cut between SLOW MOTION SHOTS of MAN having FLASHBACKS of wonderful suburban life with WOMAN (running in park laughing, etc.) and shots of WOMAN in water clutching onto a crate (NOTE TO DIRECTOR: This would be a good place for product placement). Background music: Watching You Without Me
Scene IV: MAN fights his way in smoke-filled ship to main cabin with backround music THE JIG OF LIFE. Just before the jig part, MAN bursts into main cabin. During the jig part, he has HAND TO HAND COMBAT with COMICAL YET ANNOYING HENCHMAN. During the "I put this moment here" part, MAN suddenly pushes COMICAL YET ANNOYING HENCHMAN into something large and pointy. COMICAL YET ANNOYING HENCHMAN dies. During the "Poetry" part, MAN has HAND TO HAND COMBAT with MANIAC BAD GUY. At the end, MANIAC BAD GUY has MAN pinned down and is about to slit MAN's throat. Suddenly, WOMAN bursts through the door, shoots MANIAC BAD GUY with bazooka she's holding. MANIAC BAD GUY dies(?), MAN and WOMAN hug each other, panting. He is a bruised, bloodied, sweaty mess. Her hair is slightly mussed. Background music: Hello Earth
Scene V: MAN and WOMAN escape in speedboat WOMAN had beside ship. Suddenly, MANIAC BAD GUY leaps up from under the water into the boat. Then a shark swallows MANIAC BAD GUY, and MAN shoves oxygen tank in shark's mouth, sails quickly away, and shoots the oxygen tank with a grappling hook. SHARK and MANIAC BAD GUY blow up real good.
MAN and WOMAN sail off to the sunset. Start to roll credits with THE MORNING FOG.
THE END
The Ninth Wave Screenplay gaffa.org/dreaming/tnw_scpl.htmlAnd then there's Titanic (1997), a romance film directed, written, produced and edited by James Cameron. It features Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater...Titanic - This Woman's Workwww.youtube.com/watch?v=oyS6TDDK-yE ROTFL! ;D I can just imagine those events set to THe ninth Wave.
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Post by tannis on Aug 4, 2008 21:47:48 GMT
"THE NINTH WAVE or Die Hard in a Shipwreck" film pitch is great! (NOTE TO DIRECTOR: This would be a good place for product placement)... ;D
And I wonder if it inspired Cameron's Titanic (1997)...
MAN (Keanu Reeves) ... (Jack Dawson) WOMAN (Julia Roberts) ... (Rose DeWitt Bukater) MANIAC BAD GUY (Dennis Hopper) ... (Caledon "Cal" Hockley) COMICAL BUT ANNOYING HENCHMAN (Gilbert Gotfried) ... (Spicer Lovejoy) ;D
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Post by tannis on Aug 4, 2008 23:07:19 GMT
Miss Anna Sophia Turja, Third Class Passenger Survivor: "There were six of us in the one room," she said, "when the big boat struck the iceberg. I did not know what was the matter. I thought some thing must be wrong with the engines. I got up and slowly dressed myself and went on deck. The other ladies did the same thing. There was one real old lady, and another who had only been married a short time. Her husband was making the trip over with her. "I was not a bit scared, but most of the others seemed to be, and there were many who fainted. It was very cold. None of us hurried. We were not told what had happened, and had to do our own thinking. When we got dressed, we went out on deck. I did not want to get in the life boat. I wanted to wait for the big boat which would come to get us. "It was the husband of the young woman in our room and an old Finnish lady who insisted on my getting in the life boat. I can't remember their names, but if it had not been for them, I would not be here, for I did want to stay right on the Titanic. I did not know the ship was sinking, but when we dropped over the side of the steamer, I could see that she was going down. Our boat was next to last to be put in the water. "I heard the band playing before I stepped into the boat, but don't remember after that. There was so much confusion and yelling, it was hard to distinguish other sounds. Our little boat was not very far away when the big one went to the bottom of the ocean. The ocean was as smooth as glass at the time, and it was not until early morning that a wind came up, and the ocean started to get rough. By that time, the other big boat had come up and was picking up the people in the life boats. I did not notice the ice around us at all.
"After we left our ship, it was so dark that the men and women had to burn their hats, coats, or anything else they could spare so that the other boats could see and keep together. As it was, when the other big boat came, she had to wait for some of the life boats, which were a great distance away from her.
"I did not seem to be a bit afraid, through it all, but the worst part of the thing was the moaning and calling for help as we floated around the water in our boat. This continued for two or three hours from the place where the Titanic sank. It was terrible to hear, but I was told we could not help because we had about forty in our own boat. "One Finnish man who had been in the water for six hours was picked up by one of the life boats. He told us when we got aboard the Carpathia that there had been some shooting, and that he had just escaped being shot for trying to get in a life boat when there was plenty of room for him and others. "We were well taken care of on the steamer Carpathia, and also in the hospital in New York, but they would not let us talk there, and we were kept in our different rooms. I wanted to go around the hospital and see if I knew the others who were there, and just who had been saved and who had not been saved. But they would not let me do this. I lost all I had in the ship except the clothes I wore, but the company paid for my way here, and also paid for my care in the hospital. There must be others in the hospital who have not left yet. "I am glad to get here to be with my brother and sister. It never seemed as though I would reach here, but I can see now that I, too, might have been taken as so many brave men and women were." Ashtabula Beacon (Ohio), 22 April 1912www.titanic-nautical.com/Titanic-Anna-Turja-ASB1.html"But when you're talking about the Titanic, well, she's one great, huge lifeboat herself, ain't she?" ~ S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)TITANIC
Titanic sinks to a lifeboat no bigger than a grave
Here, the crowd roar Hitting a home run And I am fixed to this craft
I drift back and forth among the dead stingless beads of memory
I burn hats, masks, pieces of cloth Flotsam from frozen sleepers marking my oars
I rock, I rock, in the glassy chill back and forth under pyrite stars Dreaming of sheep and of the dearest silk in Ireland
Then with mighty oars I begin rowing Rowing with every breath Not going home Not getting away But closer Rowing to God
~ Anon...Nearer My God To Thee www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-1b1Yvep8&feature=related The "Nearer My God To Thee" scene from the movie "A Night To Remember" (1958).
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Post by tannis on Aug 5, 2008 19:15:01 GMT
THE NINTH WAVE: The Motion PictureHello, old lady I know your face well I know it well
She says "Ooh-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na! I'll be sitting in your mirror Now is the place where the crossroads meet Will you look into the future..."Titanic (1997) begins with Old Rose Calvert, now nearly 101, recalling her memories as 17-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater aboard RMS Titanic. The 'old lady' lived, and the 'young Rose' is written in her palm as an old memory...
Titanic (1997) tops the Worldwide list of highest-grossing films. And commercially, Hounds of Love (1985) has been Bush's most successful album. I wonder if RMS Titanic inspired The Ninth Wave, and if The Ninth Wave (1985) inspired Titanic (1997)... JACK: You're going to get out of this... you're going to go on and you're going to make babies and watch them grow and you're going to die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here. Not this night. Do you understand me? ... You must do me this honor... promise me you will survive... that you will never give up... no matter what happens... no matter how hopeless... promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise... Never let go!
ROSE: I'll never let go. I promise."Never, never say goodbye To my part of your life Oh no, no, no, no, no! Never, never, never! Never, never let me go!"Titanic: Never Let Go www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5L7lTcy6Iw&feature=related 1:25: A SHOOTING STAR flares, a line of light across the heavens. We see that Rose's hair is dusted with frost crystals. Her eyes track down from the stars to the water. The image recalls the Hounds Of Love album cover...Kate Bush - Jig Of Lifewww.youtube.com/watch?v=RtBZSIrmgiUThe idea of finding the wreck of Titanic, and even raising the ship from the ocean floor, had been around since shortly after the ship sank. No attempts were successful until 1 September 1985, when a joint American-French expedition, led by Jean-Louis Michel and Dr. Robert Ballard, located the wreck. Ballard had in 1982 requested funding for the project from the US Navy, but this was provided only on the condition that the first priority was the search for the sunken US submarines Thresher and Scorpion. Only when these had been discovered and photographed did the search for Titanic begin.
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Aug 5, 2008 22:12:23 GMT
The connections between the dialogue and the lyrics do indeed suggest TNW being an influence I've never seen 'Titanic', but this instance at least shows a similarity.
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Post by tannis on Aug 5, 2008 23:48:05 GMT
"TITANIC will go down as one of the greatest recreations of an actual event ever attempted on screen--masterful in all departments. The performances, from leads to bit players, are uniformly excellent--but no one has given enough credit to Billy Zane [Waking the Witchfinder General!]. He's the perfect villain and plays his juicy role with incredible skill and zest. All those protesting that this film is a disaster are simply mouthing hollow words, all sound and fury signifying nothing. If it's cool to knock this movie, so be it. But their appraisal of it is far from the truth and they are quite clearly in denial. The Jack/Rose love affair is the weakest development in the script but at least it does point up the class distinction that played a large part in this human tragedy." IMDb user comments for Titanic (1997)www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/usercommentsBEST MAKEUP: Tina EarnshawFebruary 10th 1998: The nominations for this years Academy Awards have been announced in Hollywood. Titanic has received 14 nominations including Best Make-Up. The Kate connection? One of the three make-up people nominated for James Cameron's epic is Tina Earnshaw, a make-up artist who has worked very closely with Kate through the years.
Tina Earnshaw A leading makeup artist who has worked with Kate on many occasions, among them the videos for Cloudbusting and Experiment IV as well as the film The Line The Cross And The Curve. Earnshaw has become a very high-profile makeup designer in Hollywood, showcasing her skills in such recent films as Hamlet, Cinderella, Sliding Doors, Emma, Surviving Picasso, Othello, Feast of July, Jefferson in Paris, and Titanic. Her Oscar-winning accomplishments in the latter have catapulted Earnshaw to a level of celebrity, such that she now appears in commercials for Revlon cosmetics. In the course of working on James Cameron's epic film, Earnshaw not only researched the makeup styles of the period, but worked with physicians to study the effects of hypothermia on the human body for the post-disaster sequences. Should she be reunited with Kate in any future projects, this research may well serve her in good stead. The Gaffaweb Dictionary gaffa.org/diction/list.htmlCLOUDBUSTING VIDEO QUOTES KATE: "The first move was to check that I'd be able to look boy-like or tom-boyish, so we pulled "The Team" together. This consists of Tina Earnshaw on make-up--she set about with foundation and stick-on freckles..." Kate's KBC article, Issue 19 (Spring 1987), Even More Hounds Of Lovegaffa.org/garden/kate21.htmlThe connections between the dialogue and the lyrics do indeed suggest TNW being an influence I've never seen 'Titanic', but this instance at least shows a similarity. Yes, Rosa, I thought so too. And since you've never seen 'Titanic', here it is on Youtube... ;D French and Saunders - Titanic part 1of 3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFmIFGuJY9g The Making of the Filming of the Making of Titanic
French and Saunders - Titanic part 2 of 3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHACADKxI6o&feature=related
French and Saunders - Titanic part 3 of 3www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9gkjN79NBk&feature=relatedDawn French (b. 11 October 1957) A British comedian best known as half of the comedy team French and Saunders, and for her work in the Comic Strip series, for which she has written several scripts. Dawn French appears as the ill-fated assistant to Dr. Jerry Coe in the video for Experiment IV. Dawn French is married to Lenny Henry, another contributor to Kate's work [TRS]; they have an adopted daughter named Billie. The Gaffaweb Dictionary gaffa.org/diction/index.htmlKate Bush - Experiment IV www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DVvrcFi4M0 0:26 ~ Dawn French...
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Post by tannis on Aug 6, 2008 21:02:20 GMT
SOS Titanic ~ Watching You Without Me"Titanic... the first ocean liner ever to use the code signal S.O.S..." ~ S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)At about 2:06 into Watching You Without Me, we hear the SOS Morse code distress signal some three times.You watch the clock Move the slow hand.Thomas Andrews, the head of Harland & Wolff design department, designed the Titanic. During the liner's final hours Andrews wandered the decks encouraging passengers to wear their lifebelts and to make their way to the boats. According to John Stewart, a steward on the ship, Andrews was last seen staring at a painting, "The Approach To Plymouth Harbor", above the fireplace in the first–class smoking room. The painting depicted the entrance to Plymouth Sound, which Titanic had been expected to visit on her return voyage. The painting is often incorrectly shown on television and in movies as depicting the entrance to New York Harbor. In A Night To Remember (1958) and Titanic (1997), Andrews is shown with mantle clock and pocketwatch.
A Night To Remember (1958) titanic sinking a night to remember clip3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhFRtMOCMI&feature=related 6:04/7:20: Andrews watches the clock move the slow hand.
Titanic (1997) Nearer My God To Thee www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5iCkYKLleE 1:02-18: IN THE FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM Andrews stands like a statue. He pulls out his pocketwatch and checks the time. Then he opens the face of the mantle clock and adjusts it to the correct time: 2:12 a.m.
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Post by tannis on Aug 15, 2008 14:54:53 GMT
Columbia now at nine times the speed of sound... Roger... Roger that, Dan, I've got a solid TACAN locked on... pre-planned trajectory... pre-planned trajectory... Roger... Roger... The Prodigy - Hyperspeed (G-Force Part 2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NESX7R5gThe Prodigy are an electronic music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990, in Braintree, Essex, England. They were pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre. Their debut album, Experience, was released on 28 September 1992. On 19 June 2001, an expanded edition of the album was released in the United States, featuring a bonus disc of remixes and b-sides. It was released in the United Kingdom seven years later on 4 August 2008, with a gold cover and two extra tracks. If you are familiar with the music of The Prodigy you should know that Liam uses a lot of samples from other songs and movies when he writes the music. Hyperspeed (G-Force Part 2) samples the CAPCOM introduction to Kate Bush - Hello Earth ( Hounds of Love). I did not know that. But I am familiar with some of their music .e.g. the controversial and ironic 'Smack My Bitch Up" Madonna signed them did she not?
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