I would love her to be a con-artist and to see Greg get played. It's very convenient that she mentions she gives money to environmental charities, since that's sure to strike a chord with him. Also, his very self-aware line about folks on "LackySlack" discussing the problem with hard pillows was my favorite chuckle of the episode.
Hello! Reddit spam bot deleted my first attempt at posting this, obv it hates my writing. Anyway here's attempt #2 at posting a Hero Story.
Title is Dirty Rotten Thieves.
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Sceotkald Plaingroom is a thief, and con man who is known to always travel with his two criminal cohorts, Habriel Oakenglow - once a priest now a devious wizard - and Osbert Downrock, a greenhorn Paladin who is as brawny and imposing as he is dense, and easily manipulated by the likes of Sceotkald.
This band of rotten scoundrels usually earns their bread in the middle of the night, stealing priceless heirlooms from the homes unsuspecting wealthy victims... however they have recently taken to crime in all hours of the day, with a profitable new con...
These outlaws pose as traveling 'merchant suppliers', who offer discounts to local merchants for taking large 'bulk' orders of goods and wares like precious metals, skins, and spices... meanwhile during the negotiations with Habriel and Osbert, Sceotkald robs the merchants home... the crew takes half the pay up front with promises of returning the following day with the large shipment of whatever items these poor merchants think they have paid for... And of course the men never return.
And the men are armed in case of physical encounters... Osbert in his shiny, barely scuffed Paladin army and Habriel with his fireball casting and rune protection spells... and Sceotkald, quick and dangerous... Sceotkald carries only one weapon with him, a glass dagger forged in the heat of the Lut desert and cooled in the ice of Oymyakon... some say the dagger moves and shifts like water, taking whatever shape is most needed at the time, but when the dagger takes it shape, it is among the sharpest blades ever known.
I write this as a warning: if you encounter Sceotkald and his crew on your travels, I recommend you best avoid them entirely... for the sake of your purse and your skin.
I’m looking for a romance book with a love triangle. Specifically between:
An older, mentor like person who’s expert at what they do (they could be a thief, assassin, doctor, they could be a chef or even a bloody office cleric)
A younger brazen ‘hero formula’ person who wants to be expert in the same thing but isn’t as great (has a competitive rivalry with the older person),
And the person stuck in the middle to be more expert than the older person and younger person put together, but looks green and naive as heck.
(The conclusion would be interesting if it just turned into a ménage because why not?)
But if it’s just two people coming out of that mess, could you please make it the expert older person and the ‘naive’ expert person 🥺
(Okay yup the end of weird recs will never come with me 😅)
(I haven’t used pronouns because this three way could be between anyone— I’m into and older expert being dubbed by the naive person, and having a hot head in between)
My wife swears that was a song called Once A Month by DRS (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) but we can't find anything about the song by anyone. It would have been around 94/95. The lyric that she remembers are: "She ain't nothin' but a once a month bleeding birth control eating..." We have searched for it any way that we can think of. Does anyone else remember a song like this?
As requested. 7'-day link.
There are few things I feel qualified to talk about in this world but the topic of con artist movies is one of them. I wrote a novel on the topic a few years ago and have picked apart any swindler film you care to name. Here's my initial, still solidifying thoughts on The Hustle based solely on the trailer.
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I love when movies take a classic story and give it a twist. Westside Story is Romeo and Juliet in 1950's New York, Clueless is Emma is an LA high school and Helen Mirren as Prospera in The Tempest. The films all work despite making major changes the source material. I am still waiting for Donald Glover's Shaft starring Micheal Cera in the lead role.
They all succeed because of what that change says about both the source material and the new world in which the new work exists. These types of changes fail when the motivation for the change is impure. Ghost In The Shell cast a white woman to play a Japanese character because Scarlet Johannson sells more tickets. Audiences saw through the ruse. Much COULD have been said with a black Annie in the 2014 film but the film was somehow less politically aware than the whiter than white (often racist) source material.
Which brings me to The Hustle, the new remake starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson in the lead roles.
The original film, Bedtime Story is a misogynistic tale in which women are the butt of the joke. Of the two warring con artist, "the loser" is the one who gets the girl. In the 1989 remake, the major change is that the woman IS a con artist and men are punished financially for their toxic misogyny. The change makes for a better film. We're laughing at Freddy and Lawrence being put through the wringer for their treatment of women.
Crucially, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels also relies on putting the men in the role of "seductress". The con men act like the stereotype of manipulative women. They are gold diggers. They are Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The women give THEM jewelry and buy THEM dinner. We get a satire about the power dynamics between men and women.
By placing women in the previously male roles in The Hustle, little is added to the existing story. Ocean's 8 worked because it explores female friendship in the same way Ocean's 11 explores male friendship. But placing women back in the gold digger role isn't a twist so much as an untwisting. It is defaulting back to the existing, tired trope of women being only after one thin
... keep reading on reddit ➡After the success of their "Dancing in the Street" video in 1985, studio bosses were anxious to put them in a movie together.
Dale Launer was brought in, based on the success of Ruthless People (1986), and asked to submit ideas. Jagger had previously written the title song to Ruthless People (1986), based on his enthusiasm for Launer's script. Launer had seen the original movie, Bedtime Story (1964), on television once before, and suggested a remake, and acquired the remake rights from one of the original writers, Stanley Shapiro.
During development, Jagger and Bowie dropped out of the project, and Steve Martin and Sir Michael Caine were brought in as replacements. According to Bowie, he and Jagger were "a bit tweezed that we lost out on a script that could have been reasonably good."
What a hilarious movie. Steve Martin and Michael Caine have great chemistry while they go through all of their shenanigans.
I heard a broadway play was made and they’re making a remake next year but I don’t think anything can top that. It’s on amazon prime and I highly highly recommend!
I’m trying to design 3 windows in a train. In each window I want to make the scenery go by. The setup is basically 2’ window 3’ wall 2’ window 3’ wall 2’ window. I was thinking of connecting three lcd monitors to a PC. I tried using the VLC video wall functionality but I can’t get it to work right. It just divides the video into 5 equal splits.
Is there any other software solutions you’d recommend. I can’t afford a hardware solution. No budget.
Ocean's 8 isn't a complete remake, obviously - but it falls in a similar spectrum.
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(Dirty Rotten Scoundrels trailer) Freddy Benson, a con man, lives off women by waking their compassion with shocking stories about his fake fate. One day in beautiful Beaumont-sur-Mer, he meets Lawrence Jamieson, who shares the same passion, works the rich ladies with the same scheme, but in quite a different league. With the knowledge of his profession, Freddy forces Lawrence to teach him high-society behavior, so that he himself can earn a major living. When time comes to say goodbye, Freddy decides to stay a little longer. As there is no way two con men can work a town that small at the same time, Lawrence and Freddy agree on a settlement: The first one to extract fifty thousand dollars from a young female target wins, the other leaves town. The sum is no match for Lawrence, the age of the lady no match for Freddy. Let the games begin.
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My wife swears that was a song called Once A Month by DRS (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) but we can't find anything about the song by anyone. It would have been around 94/95. The lyric that she remembers are: "She ain't nothin' but a once a month bleeding birth control eating..." We have searched for it any way that we can think of. Does anyone else remember a song like this?
