• solrize@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    36
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    RIP. I’m no film buff but I have a soft spot from remembering her movies that I saw as a kid.

      • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 days ago

        I find some of Gandhi’s quotes to be deeply insightful and personally life-changing.

        That doesn’t meam I approve of his disgusting racism.

        Some of Hitler’s paintings were pretty good; a lot better than I could do. Doesn’t in any way justify his hideous adult life.

        • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          going into a Hitler art tangent.

          his art was objectively bad.

          he wasn’t going into art for aesthetics, the art he was trying to get into was the equivalent of modern autocad renders.

          and his perspective lines didn’t even converge, which is so basic he might as well present his work in crayons.

          wether or not it was “pretty” was irrelevant.

          it’s interesting that before computers, all “cad renders” were done by artist. Before photography, expeditions would bring painters to faithfully take “pictures”. You could take creative liberties in your work, but it was meant as a technical representation for work, not a pretty thing for someone to hang in their living room.

          • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            2 days ago

            Ofc I was making a polemical point more than an aesthetic analysis.

            Side fact: all the “computer animation” in the original BBC Hitch-Hiker’s Guide was in fact drawn by hand by humans

            • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              2 days ago

              when cgi started it was mostly wireframe animation. and a company came out which made incredibly smooth cgi wireframe animation.

              it was eventually revealed that their cgi were actually painted models they filmed.

              scene from escape from new York

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    79 seems a bit young, does anyone know what happened? Wikipedia just says “her health was in decline.”

    • Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      79 is not that young. Life expectancy for women in the US seems to be ~82 (I thought it would be higher considering how rich the US is). And at that age even somewhat minor medical issues tend be more demanding and impactful.