My own favorite TV/Movie silliness was an early episode of CSI where William Petersen's character chases a bad guy into a rail yard. An end-cab diesel switcher is rolling slowly by with a very rough looking old passenger car (heavyweight as I recall, very dirty, peeling paint) and the bad guy jumps on, followed a short time later by Petersen. I assume there'll be no one else inside because they're obviously moving the car somewhere to be scrapped or perhaps handing it off to a railroad museum for restoration - but no, it's filled with people. Apparently that's TV-land's idea of what an Amtrak (or commuter?) train looks like.
That just might be what an Amtrak train looks like if "Delta Dick" has his way.
He doesn't seem interested in making too many friends or attracting new business.
And speaking of exaggerated steering wheel movements...
Ever a see a film called "Strategic Air Command" starring James Stewart?
Good movie, but there's a sequence toward the end of the film where Jimmy's trying to land a B-47 under trying conditions. His control column and rudder pedal movements are so exaggerated that airplane would have been wallowing all over the sky like a drunk!
Now of all people Jimmy should have known what it should have looked like, he was an Air Force reservist and bomber pilot himself. My conclusion is he was giving the director what he (the director) wanted. "Look like you're doing something!"
Sometimes for an actor in a gig it's easier just to go along than argue with the director.
Flintlock76Now of all people Jimmy should have known what it should have looked like, he was an Air Force reservist and bomber pilot himself. My conclusion is he was giving the director what he (the director) wanted. "Look like you're doing something!" Sometimes for an actor in a gig it's easier just to go along than argue with the director.
People working 'thought positions', frequently have the same problems with their supervisors - when trying to 'plot out solutions' to the problems in ones mind - supervision does think you are working because you are not hammering the keyboard.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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