Maybe it’s just the telly I happen to be watching, but it has come to my attention that a lot of the actors are crying out of just one eye. How can this be? I don’t know.
Any other ‘Strange’ things you’ve noticed recently?
The One Eye Cry (and other ‘Strange’ things)
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Watching the execrable Murder On The Orient Express the other day made me think how in film and telly people talking in English to a person of the French (or in that particular case, Belgian) pursuasion will always use the title “Monsieur”. As in “How dare you, Monsieur! I never touched your halibut!”. Does anybody ever really do this in real life?
Sir, you try my patience!
Sigñor The Mooche, you’ve changed your cover photo to croquette potatoes! I can’t say I don’t approve.
Not so, Bwana Gary. ‘Tis a bed of les Wotsits du Fromage.
I’m not the first person to have made that mistake, I’ll wager.
The One-Eye Cry?
hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I cry with one eye, but only in public.
Everything makes me blubber these days, so I always watch TV and films armed with a big box of Kleenex beside me to dry my tears and blow my nose (yes, Moose – it can be used for these purposes as well! 😉 ) Even comedies makes me cry, mainly because my imagination always add subtext and even virtual plot lines, that only exist in my head, to anything I’m watching!
But I really hate crying in public, so when I watch something “live” as part of an audience, I try to stop it from happening, usually by looking at something else than the stage/screen, or thinking about something else for a while to get over the emotional moment. At gigs (yes, gigs make me cry as well…it’s embarrassing) I take photos whenever I feel tears coming on, and that usually distracts me enough to stop the waterworks.
But sometimes I can’t stop it completely, and that’s when the one tear thing happens. I steel myself, I think about which day I have to do the laundry, but the power of the art is just too strong, and I crack just enough for one single tear to fall. It’s usually my right eye that leaks.
Fantastic. The part about you taking photos to stop the tears – you realise you tempt the wrath of the concert/phone/camera police don’t you? Perhaps that’s what everyone else is doing it for too? I love that idea 😃😢
A good observation on a twitter post recently was that actors tend to enter the shower, stand under the unit – *and then* turn on the water. No-one (sane) does that.
That’s brilliant – but how do they know? Actually, who cares, it’s a fact now
Just to clarify, I mean when they are onscreen – not when they are at home. I assume they do what everyone else does – turn it on from outside the cubicle and only venture in when one’s hand determines the temperature is just right.
Risk my own soft and milky white hands? I could end up on the scrap heap like Ray McKigney:
Much better to get an intern to pass their worthless paw into the stream. They’re also worth keeping around for that tricky bit just below the shoulder blades..
Ha! I’m an idiot! In my defence I was at the tail end of a night shift and as any Lee Child kno, 4am is the best time to launch an attack on your enemy due to it being the point of lowest functionality – or summfink
I used to work in fillums. To answer the question in the OP, actors use a Kryolan tear stick (which is menthol and camphor) to make their eyes water. You know how, when you have a cold and you inhale Vicks in hot water, your eyes water? That’s the menthol. If they only have tears in one eye, they’ve only put the tear stick in one eye. I’ve also seen glycerine used to make fake tear drops.
In a recent episode of Endeavour (junior Morse) he drove away from a big house in the rain – we knew it was raining as he had the Jag’s wipers on and the windscreen was wet. Yet, when we cut to outside shot of the Jag going down the driveway, it was dry and the sun was out. Don’t these people have continuity any more?
Is the weather in Oxford that changeable? I’m not going there to find out, it is far too dangerous – have you seen how many elaborate murders of middle-class academics there are?
Are you an elaborate middle-class academic, steve? I think I’m safe.
I am middle-class but I’m not an academic, unless you count the time I spend in schools trying to promote careers in Science & Engineering. And I’m anything but elaborate – a cup of tea and a record are all it takes to make me happy. Morse would conclude I’m thoroughly boring*, although he might appreciate the love of records (I don’t listen to much opera though, so I’d be too low-brow for him).
Those murdered Oxford types all seem to have some kinky secret, so I’m probably safe.
(*) To be fair, he’s not wrong. White male middle-class engineer. Yawn.
Would sticking Opal Fruits in your eyes do the trick? I’m no scientist.
I think Mint Imperials would work better.
Opal Fruits? – they’re called Starbursts now, Grrrandad!
Honestly, sometimes I think I’m the only one around here who’s with-it.
Nyerrr, shurrup and pass me a Marathon!
🤦♂️ I’ve only just got that joke. They make your mouth water!
(I don’t believe they use that slogan now that they are ‘Burst. Possibly just as well – when I was a kid I wasn’t familiar with the expression and it sounded terrifying – like Guantanamo for kids..)
PS. “I used to work in fillums” – we know yer did, big feller.
Hurrrrrrr
I was there simply to operate my large equipment.
Oh flaming ‘eck.
The strangest thing I noticed the other week was putting together 4 pieces of flat-pack furniture in around 4 hours without once losing my temper or effing and jeffing at the kids like it’s their fault I can’t get the final drill hole in the wall deep enough for the rawl plug I need to use.
Pictorial instructions (tmftl)
Don’t ya just love ‘em!
Hurrr
What was it this time, luv? Drill, hole, deep or plug?
I’ve answered my own question haven’t I?
It can take over an hour to get a Billy up.
And if you don’t do the screwing tight enough, it can collapse and leave a mess on the floor.
I have to say, I wasn’t expecting to do any drilling, but Mrs Moose wanted it up against the wall.