Shutters Inc – episode 175
This week, Bruce is doing the whole seachange thing and leaving Sydney,
Breaking Bad,
Shelton’s TV show idea,
part 2 of the series on composition,
a correction re: The Beatles (Thanks, Richard),
plus e-mail from Rob, Steve and Michael.
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Hey guys, good to hear your voices. I was looking for the movie you were talking about with Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman. I’m guessing you’re getting two mixed up. Just wanted to share these. They are both about photographers.
Under Fire, 1983
Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy play journalists caught up in Nicaragua’s 1979 civil war.
“Watch here for Nolte’s authentic photojournalist. They must have hired a consultant for this one. The equipment is period and authentically beaten to a pulp. They even dubbed over the correct motor drive sound effect for the Nikon F2 he uses — as opposed to most films which feel the need to use a motor drive sound on a hand-wound camera. Nolte faces several ethical questions about taking sides in his work.”
Then there’s another one called “Salvador”
James Woods
James Belushi
Michael Murphy
John Savage
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091886/
“A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. Meanwhile he has to find a way of protecting his Salvadorean girlfriend and getting her out of the country.”
I too was looking at Nick Nolte’s IMDB page and not finding the movie title, eventually found Under Fire. Will have to check them both out.
I just spotted this and knowing how much of a Nikon lover Shelton is thought he might find it amusing – http://gizmodo.com/#!5766065/nikons-limited-edition-lens-box-another-reason-to-wish-you-were-swedish
I also was going to nit-pick about the movie reference, only because I was working at a movie theatre when Under Fire was new and that’s why I remembered it. A funny thing about that movie… there’s a scene in which Nolte speaks some Spanish and someone tells him his Spanish is great. But I spent some quality time in South America in the 1980s and, I’m sorry to say, I thought Nolte’s Spanish in that scene was NOT impressive. And that made the movie kinda dumb.
Another one I’ve recently seen is Bill Nighy in People Like Us – The Photographer. It’s a bit of a mockumentary – amusing to watch.
Under Fire is a good movie, as is Pecker. I own both DVDs.
Another photographer movie I’m looking forward to, being South African and having read the book, is The Bang Bang Club. See the trailer on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxLrdzvGQE4
Anyone notice that the PayPal link to donate just displays the image?
Bruce needs to get someone to update the site again cause also the email address on the contact-us page is out of date. Will have to listen to the tail end of a pod cast again to find the email address to drop the boys a line.
Tony,
I just went to the site and clicked on the “Donate” link, and it loaded the Paypal page just fine.
What happened when you clicked on it?
As for the e-mail address, no, I’m not going to change that one.
That’s there for the benefit of the spam bots.
Real people (like you) are always capable of finding the proper e-mail address on the tail end of the podcast! 🙂
Hi Bruce
The link I am referring to is the one on each ep “Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal.”. It appears that the one on the right hand side works correctly.
As for the email address, see if your web guy can replace it with a form so that your email address is not revealed and add a captcha on to help block bots from using it.
I did send an email to that address, had been listening to the archive so didn’t know better, will have to dig through my sent box and resend it… I do wonder how many legit email’s get lost in that inbox.
Thanks for the podcasts, but hurry up and get the next one up 😉 I have listened to the last ~50, not sure I am game enough to go back further 😉
Tony.
Mate, thanks for the heads up re: the donation link. I never picked that up (obviously).
Another ep, you say?
Mmmmm, I’ll see what I can muster up. 🙂