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The Hustler
1961 · Film · 134 min
Part of The Hustler Collection
Directed by Robert Rossen
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
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Somehow I swirled around for a minute or so and didn't see anything I would want to watch.
"This gallery features a collection of the 50,000 most popular* movies according to TMDB"
Yeah, there's the problem. I went to the TMDB site and tried sorting by popularity, rating … all I got was a whole bunch of recent films that look like all the reasons the film industry is crashing (you know, the kind of stuff you would see in a Red Box when they were still a thing).
If you really don't know what to watch you could do a lot worse than checking off films on this list (the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die):
https://1001films.fandom.com/wiki/The_List
(And you have already seen a number of them I expect.)
Elitist? Maybe. But if you can actually get through the list (I've been at it, casually, for several years now) you'll feel like you have acquired a film school degree.
I think it's fine to watch "8 ½" and hate it — at least you'll know that you hate it now. But it would be sad if you never saw "La Strada" because you thought all of Fellini's films were impenetrable.
"Marty", "Stella Dallas", "The Hustler" — just a few great American films that came to mind that I would have otherwise missed…
But if the latest Guardian of the Pirate's of the Marvel Universe movie are your cup of tea you probably have no problem finding something to watch anyway and can pass on "The List".
Who owns your voice? Well, who owns your face? Such things are covered by copyright law. You dont have total control over your face. I can use Fry's face in a parody film or critisism of him as a person. Even the cited article uses an image of his face (the embedded youtube clip). The rules for parody, critisim and nominative uses go far.
Deepfakes have already been to the supreme court (see Hustler v. Falwell). Cutting back on such uses risks cutting deeply into freedom of speech. As with Falwell, the answers involve educating the public so that they can tell fake from real, not giving famous people the ability to blackball every work they feel too similar to themselves. Lots of people talk like Stephen Fry. He doesnt get to own that accent or mode of speech just because he is the most famous any more than Lindsay Lohan can own blonde valley girl (she sued gta V over that image).
Indeed. And all noir films. American cinema is a lot more than just its best picture nominees. Why is OP ignoring films like Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, The Defiant Ones, Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, Paths of Glory?
I love French New Wave and Breathless is one of my favorite films, but OP overstates their case.
I hired some movers once, these guys really 'hustled'; they moved quickly and worked efficiently. You can say this of a sports team as well. It is a colloquialism with good and bad connotations. Someone who has hustles can be seen as getting things done. The negative is a 'hustler' someone who gambles on games of skill pretending they're worse than they are to draw people in[1] ie crooks or con artists.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/
there is also a very good movie (the hustler, paul newman + jackie gleason) concerning these two characters.
however, the movie connections aside -- i am not buying this "sw-engineering" equals "it's a paycheck"-mentality. IMHO, the two disciplines are not easily comparable, this mostly stems from the fact that CS deals with "computing in the small", while SWE deals with "computing in the large" (actually, more "programming" than "computing"). i think this is also a major reason that research areas in both disciplines are not overlapping (aside from code generation which obviously uses theory from compilers, i am mostly thinking in terms of product-lines and variability-handling; please post if you have other areas in mind that i fail to remember ad hoc)
also please note: the mutual disregard for CS towards SWE and vice versa is actually counterproductive and i am sure that some interdisciplinary efforts could be mutually beneficial...