Alessandro Algardi
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"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad” and that's important you know.
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Ghostbusters Afterlife: Is nostalgia killing cinema?
That Hollywood is becoming lazier, and artistry ever-more sacrificed for maximum profitability, is an often-heard refrain. In 2019, all of the top 10 highest grossing films at the US box office were based on existing intellectual properties; just two decades ago, it was five. And in a lot of cases, these big-grossers – be they remakes of, spin-offs from, or long-awaited sequels to classics – play on one emotion in particular: nostalgia. They offer audiences the pleasure of past cinematic experiences, and the comfort of ensconcing themselves in something familiar.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Geeks
Five stars for The Lost Daughter
middle-aged professor who once abandoned her family, a little girl who wanders off on a beach and even that girl's missing doll, which when found spurts filthy water from her mouth – there are many lost daughters in this eloquent adaptation of Elena Ferrante's 2008 novel, along with one eye-opening find: Maggie Gyllenhaal as a filmmaker with a true artist's vision.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Geeks
The iconic Hollywood films transformed by test audiences
The joyous musical number on a traffic-jammed freeway in La La Land. The decomposing head popping out of a sunken boat in Jaws. Julia Roberts dancing with Rupert Everett at the end of My Best Friend's Wedding; Anne Archer shooting Glenn Close at the end of Fatal Attraction. They're all much-loved parts of much-loved films, and they all have something else in common: they made it into cinemas thanks to you – or somebody like you, anyway. The films' directors didn't put these sequences in their initial edits, but after audiences at test screenings had had their say, new scenes were shot, or old ones were rescued from the cutting-room floor.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Geeks
36 light years away, scientists have discovered a "super-Earth".
Some time ago, scientists reportedly discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 36 light-years away from Earth, with a mass about three times that of Earth and a rotation period of about 2.4 days.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Futurism
6 Unexplained Strange Phenomena Captured in the Sky
We live on a planet that is very beautiful and has many amazing natural phenomena, such as waterfalls, the sea, and even volcanoes. These phenomena are often understood by us. To a large extent, we understand the sea and we know why waterfalls make thunderous sounds. But some natural phenomena are difficult for us to explain, and sometimes when we look up at the sky, we see certain strange phenomena. The following are six kinds of sky phenomena captured by the camera that ordinary people can not explain.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Futurism
How much do you know about the dangers of a trip to Mars?
Astronauts to Mars journey is not like tourists to Switzerland so easy, relaxed, and comfortable, but a journey full of uncertainties and unknown risks of adventure. Astronauts on Mars exploration missions will have to fight for a long time against the stresses of deep space radiation, microgravity, claustrophobic space, and isolation.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Futurism
The Earth is carrying mankind through the universe?
Modern science believes that our Earth was born 13.8 billion years ago, there was a singularity explosion, the singularity is an infinite mass, infinite energy, infinite heat, infinite density, and infinitely small volume of the point, after the explosion of this point, the rapid expansion of the universe around, after 13.8 billion years, the universe has expanded into what we see now, now we know In the universe, there are many celestial bodies, like stars, planets, comets, asteroids, neutron stars, etc. These are produced after the Big Bang, and our Earth is a planet in the solar system, there are a total of eight planets in the solar system, they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Futurism
The three most cunning signs of the zodiac
We all like to interact with sincere people, but in fact, the reality is that there is never a shortage of those who are hypocritical, and even cunning class of people. And especially for this feature, in some people are often the most obvious. They are obviously very deep, but they have to pretend to be simple, and even not be found by anyone. And after that, let's look together, at which signs are such.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Futurism
How scary is the universe level civilization
In 1964 the Russian astrophysicist Haberdasher divided the cosmic civilization hierarchy into four classes according to the utilization of energy in the universe, and at a later stage, scientists made three additional classes.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Futurism
How does the Earth get its water resources?
I don't know if you have noticed, but the Earth is a little bit wet compared to the planets. How the Earth gets all its water has been a major mystery in the formation of the solar system, and recently a team of Japanese researchers found an important clue - the answer is hidden in Mercury.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Futurism
Mysterious ghostly circles found in Earth's night sky
It's a shocking discovery! A group of researchers at the University of Western Sydney in Australia have discovered mysterious smoke ring-like strange circles invisible in visible light in the night sky, appearing like ghosts in space, unmeasured distance, unknown size and distance, unexplained by any currently known physical phenomenon, and two Russian scientists even believe that it could be the throat of the legendary wormhole.
By Alessandro Algardi2 years ago in Futurism