Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2014 April 3

= April 3 =

Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character in the Hunger Games franchise
Did his death really mess up their plans for a third movie? Would his character have played a big part in the proposed next film? 75.75.42.89 (talk) 04:00, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * It wasn't a "proposed" third movie, they were already well into making it by the time he died. From our article on Philip Seymour Hoffman: "At the time of his death, Hoffman was filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, the final Hunger Games movie, and had already completed the majority of his scenes.  Lionsgate Films have announced that Hoffman will be digitally recreated for a major scene that he had left to shoot." --Viennese Waltz 05:25, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Stringing a B.C. Rich KKV with Kahler Hybrid bridge
Hi everyone,

I currently own a B.C. Rich Kerry King Signature V and wonder that if I'm stringing it in the right way so the strings won't damage the Kahler Hybrid bridge installed on the guitar.

As you may know, every brand of bridges require it's own way to string the guitar; For example, Floid Roise bridges require the bottom of the string to be removed to hold the strings by kind of punching it.

So my question is that should I do the same thing with Kahler bridges or is there a specific way to do it?

Thank you for your time. 2.146.230.165 (talk) 09:57, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I see some links here that may be helpful. Maybe the first one?  -- Jayron  32  11:12, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Movies where you see bombs falling on the ground
I've noticed that most war movies featuring gravity bombs only show explosions where the bombs supposedly hit, with no attempt to show the dropping bombs themselves (except maybe when released at the plane). Unlike bullets, bombs are large enough and slow enough that I'd expect to see them falling. Presumably this was traditionally omitted due to the difficulty in showing falling bombs safely on the set. However, with CGI, it ought to now be possible to add them in. So, have they started doing so in modern war movies ? How about adding them retroactively to old movies ? StuRat (talk) 17:21, 3 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I believe you see some of this in the 100% historically accurate and well acted documentary Pearl Harbor. Both during the attack on the harbor and the Doolittle raid. But it's not so much a war movie as it as a Michael Bay movie that includes a war. Matt Deres (talk) 18:28, 3 April 2014 (UTC)


 * (*Cough*) April Fools Day has come and gone. --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  18:32, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Cough choke...barf. LOL! 100% accurate documentary well acted? Please, a documentary isn't acted and some of the acting in this "film" could have been done by robots and the only depiction of Hawaiians were prostitutes. The one thing that was was accurate and many hundreds of hours were dedicated into replicating it in exacting measures was the smoke plumes. In Tora! Tora! Tora! many veteran's complained because the smoke plumes did not look anything like the disaster of the original attack, but the newer film made a lot of mistakes as well as being pretty offensive to Japanese and Hawaiian U.S. citizens. But I digress. The answer to this question is pretty simple, sure...CGI is now being used to depict bombs dropping but perhaps not to the ground itself. There may or may not be films that do show this but I really doubt studios are going to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars to add cgi to older, more classic films. Some things are sacred.--Mark Miller (talk) 20:34, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeed so, but my memory is good at least. If you Google for pearl harbor bomb drop, a YouTube clip (not linked since it's a copyright vio) will be among the first hits and you see a bomb from attachment on the plane (should be Nakajima B5N, but doesn't look quite right) directly into the ship below at about the 2 minute mark. Matt Deres (talk) 21:42, 3 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Doctor Strangelove certainly showed a bomb falling. Rather famously, I might add.  -- Jayron  32  01:36, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * LOL@ Jayron! Good scene actually!--Mark Miller (talk) 23:00, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't believe it showed it hitting though, either with or without Slim Pickens riding it, only dropping from the plane. And nuclear bombs don't necessarily even hit the ground, in the case of an air burst. StuRat (talk) 03:43, 4 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Not technically a movie, but from a time when cartoons were shown in cinemas. And not technically a bomb, but the box of dynamite the kangaroo is seen falling with is responsible (we can also blame rabbits) for a bombing of Tokyo. See Hop and Go. If you'd rather see it, it's on YouTube, uncensored. InedibleHulk (talk) 20:03, 4 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Retroactively to old movies?!?! Colorization and pan and scan weren't enough? Clarityfiend (talk) 22:57, 4 April 2014 (UTC)