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Peeves Rule
SP function (fx) is f:[(1...5)3]comb]=7//out[B-P(1,2,3)]=x
Peeves Rule
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* Also a Haiku using only 3 words would be interesting, I am collecting 5 and 7 syllable words:
(5)
perfunctionary
analytical
disciplinary
simplification
(7)
interdisciplinary
oversimplification
Reworking this to be 500 words, my first story posted to GR.Love is Aloft
by Mark Reeves
470 words
He so liked this girl. She was the reason he went to work each day, just for that small chance of a daily interaction. He was polite and stammered slightly in her presence. He would bring her small gifts and put them on her desk or show her a simple magic trick he had stayed up all night practicing just to impress her. Deep inside he knew that he was just a minor detail in this great tapestry that was becoming her life.
She was tiny, diminutive, shy but very beautiful. That was her pain against the world, being so small, but working in this job she was gaining confidence and her shyness was slipping away. He felt he may lose what he had never had.
He wanted to proclaim his love for her. But he was old, paunchy, a fool's lust. And she was young and blooming, the oyster yet opens and inside her precious pearl awaited the world.
So he made a plan, devised and studied. Scoured old books and the Interweb. Thus he came upon it, so simple. He declared his love on a single sheet of paper, followed the directions he had found. Folded and creased according to plan and his declaration had become something else. An object. A paper plane.
Faith and love and magic sometimes combine and the strangest of things become possible. The butterfly effect is real. A tiny act is causation for wonder somewhere else.
He found the highest point in town and launched his love. It fluttered in the breeze and soared. This plane was like no other, the slightest breeze would send it soaring high. It defied all physics and for days on end it flew. Twice it climbed so high as to reach the levels where air barely existed. Sun and wind had taken a toll and it became weathered and after much time began to descend.
A minute island, a single speck of land, remote and inhabited only by a small tribe. A young boy and girl, alone on the beach, laying in the sand and wondering what all young wonder. Looking up they see a tiny object in the sky, slowly sailing down and landing at their feet. They open it up and on the paper they saw drawings of two very beautiful people, cryptic symbols, hearts and stars and unknown words. It was an object of wonder and must be a gift from the great being that sees all.
They kept the object, even after they married. It held a special place in their lives. They would tell their children of the day they found it, and how that day they knew they would be together. He was a good husband, he gave his wife small gifts and did silly magic tricks to amuse her.
******************Topo Chica Loco
She nursed upon a Topo Chico,
And scissor-crossed flamingo legs,
Her favorite word apparently neeto,
And lack of conversation begs.
She had a flaming incense burner,
And she could throw a mean Tarot,
She splayed the cards like a Paige Turner,
And told me all I need to know.
She had a wrecked Corvette,
Two tattoos of her pet,
She was reading a book,
But she wasn't done yet.
She named me Mister Right,
But I couldn't come in...
She said her house was a crime scene, ha ha ha.
She heard that I pursued another,
And called to try and change that tack,
I arrived, she changed haircolor,
And stabbed me right into my back.
She nursed an ice-cold Topo Chico,
And poured it slowly into a bowl.
I died to Apple Jacks and neeto,
And watched her kill her cereal.
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The Fifth Element
Producer: Luc Besson
Written by: Luc Besson
Released: 1997
Details:
Cast:
Plot:
Trapped on a desert island with a solar-powered DVD player and only one movie...
It would not be Castaway
I would choose 5E....
my favorite director...when it comes on i try to watch 5 min and watch whole thing
Perfect casting..explain main choice
How besson got idea, besson movies
Story flow
Character development, based on,
The real history of 5th element.....
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Luc Besson wrote the original screenplay when he was in high school.
Jean Reno was the original choice for the part of Korben Dallas.
The language spoken by Leeloo was invented by director Luc Besson and further refined by Milla Jovovich, who had little trouble learning and developing it, as she was already fluent in 4 languages. By the end of filming they were able to have full conversations in this language.
In most shots of Gary Oldman, there is a circle around his head. In fact, a circle in the middle of the frame is a near-constant motif in this film. Bruce Willis, on the other hand, is more often framed by a rectangle or doorway behind him.
When the Mondoshawan aliens appear in 1914 Egypt, the Professor, panicking, says, "A... A... Are you German?" In the German version he says "Sind Sie... hier von der Erde?" which roughly translates as "Are you from here... Earth?"
Zorg's monologue about destruction creating productivity is actually a classic economics fallacy exposed in "The Parable of the Broken Window" written by French economist Frederic Bastiat in 1850. The full essay is called "Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas" ("That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen").
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Revealing her total ignorance of the 1997 science-fiction classic, local resident Erin Marshall, a corporate consultant who has clearly never seen the film The Fifth Element, reportedly complained Monday about Hollywood’s lack of good acting roles for women. “When it comes to big-budget movies, women are always forced to play either a one-dimensional heroine or a bland, forgettable love interest for a male protagonist,” said Marshall, who is doubtlessly unfamiliar with Milla Jovovich’s star-making turn as super-powered extraterrestrial humanoid Leeloo, a complex and compelling character exhibiting emotional vulnerability, extreme intelligence, and a wide range of martial arts talents. “There’s an unsettling scarcity of parts that celebrate and challenge the female actor, and it’s just really disappointing [that I’ve never seen the cinematic tour de force that is The Fifth Element, and still remain unaware of Jovovich learning an entire fictional language to prepare for the film].” At press time, Marshall’s argument that there are also no good roles for African-American actors was thoroughly disproved by Chris Tucker’s iconic portrayal of flamboyant talk show host Ruby Rhod.