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<blockquote data-quote="sdh3" data-source="post: 574473" data-attributes="member: 17784"><p><strong>Re: Back to the Future</strong></p><p></p><p>In my email I saw only the first few lines of your message and thought, My guess would the 7th five-pointed star...the same one I thought was applicable to MegaMind. Then I logged in and saw you reached the same conclusion. I'm travelling and so only have a few moments but, in short, I agree with your symbol choices and comments. Concerning the latter one (Cap 25), the wording used by Marc Jones was only "An oriental-rug dealer." That said, think of how remarkable it is that they even included Middle Easterners in the film at all. Of all the regions and nations of the world to choose from...and they choose that. And one thing I've noted is that artists do take "artistic license" with the symbols and rarely, if ever, do you see them all used in a perfectly literal sense. Usually, the key symbol is the one that stands out the most or seems to be taken most literally. Here I thought of Scorpio 13. In Megamind it was Virgo 1 which in Jones' wording was just "A man's head."</p><p></p><p>Got to run. But thanks for sharing this one and thanks for the kidn remarks on the thread. There are so few comments I wasn't sure who, if any oen, was reading them ;-) I've almost got a set of examples for all 72 stars, at which point I may pause posting and write all that up.</p><p></p><p>--sdh3</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sdh3, post: 574473, member: 17784"] [b]Re: Back to the Future[/b] In my email I saw only the first few lines of your message and thought, My guess would the 7th five-pointed star...the same one I thought was applicable to MegaMind. Then I logged in and saw you reached the same conclusion. I'm travelling and so only have a few moments but, in short, I agree with your symbol choices and comments. Concerning the latter one (Cap 25), the wording used by Marc Jones was only "An oriental-rug dealer." That said, think of how remarkable it is that they even included Middle Easterners in the film at all. Of all the regions and nations of the world to choose from...and they choose that. And one thing I've noted is that artists do take "artistic license" with the symbols and rarely, if ever, do you see them all used in a perfectly literal sense. Usually, the key symbol is the one that stands out the most or seems to be taken most literally. Here I thought of Scorpio 13. In Megamind it was Virgo 1 which in Jones' wording was just "A man's head." Got to run. But thanks for sharing this one and thanks for the kidn remarks on the thread. There are so few comments I wasn't sure who, if any oen, was reading them ;-) I've almost got a set of examples for all 72 stars, at which point I may pause posting and write all that up. --sdh3 [/QUOTE]
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