02. July 2014, 11:00:16

#0

KolyaQuote

http://www.givingbacktothefuture.com/

Originally Eric Stoltz (Some kind of wonderful) was cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future. After 4 weeks of filming he was replaced by Michael J. Fox who had been the first choice for the role but initially was tied with another project (the series "Family Ties"). Along with Eric Stoltz Melora Hardin was replaced by Claudia Wells, because Hardin was considered too tall to play Fox’s love interest.
Producer Bob Gale said that conversation with Hardin was “the hardest thing I ever had to do, I was sick about it for days.”
Righting that wrong(?) David Guy Levy created a comic that imagines the producers going back in time to prevent Stoltz from ever getting replaced...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_7izQQQiSM

02. July 2014, 13:55:28

#1

KolyaQuote

The ancient Greeks had no specific word for Blue.
In fact their whole color perception must have been very different than ours. Not for biological reasons but because of how language influences our perception and minds. This excellent article by Erin Hoffman on Clarkesworld goes far beyond this curiosity and makes enlightening points about the relations of such diverse phenomena as synesthesia, metaphors, onomatopoeia and our perception of the world.


Quote by Erin Hoffman:

To a certain extent, we are all synesthetes, and [...] this inherent interconnection between our cognitive functions is intrinsic to the most beloved traits of humanity: compassion, creativity, ingenuity. What, after all, is an idea, but one flash of thought leaping across the mind to suggest novel possibility?

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hoffman_01_13/

Attachments:

🃏 wine-dark-sea.jpg 63.75 kB, 800 x 600 px

02. July 2014, 14:41:45

#2

APQuote

So... is anyone free to leave their interesting facts here? (within reason of course)

02. July 2014, 15:02:04

#3

The ManyQuote

 Obviously

02. July 2014, 16:30:59

#4

xdiespQuote

I think it's debatable, that the greeks had no word for blue: they were people of the sea, weren't color blind and also generally smarter than us. It is true that in the Iliad, the sea is always livind or as wine; but an epic poem isn't a good place to hunt for the mundane. We have lost so much information about the ancient times (think of Pompei: every new building introduces amazing discoveries about roman life), down to literature which was routinely selected and purged, that I would sooner believe in our ignorance than in the greek being so otherwordly bizarre.