Vertigo-ing Is the New Swedeing
USA Today‘s Brian Triutt alerted to the above video, and thus the fad of Vertigo-ing movies. Basically, the idea is that Bernard Herrman’s Vertigo score is some fantastic that it works with, if not improves upon, any movie scene it’s inserted into; case in point, the final battle in Star Wars: A New Hope. As a bit of film snob and a douchebag, I approve of this wholeheartedly, although I’d like to see someone try something a bit more difficult than the original Star Wars trilogy. Maybe some kind of Michael Bay film, or possibly January Jones’ scenes as Emma Frost from X-Men: First Class. Hell, if this score could make me think January Jones had some kind of emotion in that movie, it would truly be greatest piece of music ever written. (Via Press Play)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.