TIL: Today I Learned... (7 Viewers)

[Madmarsha]

Mostly bc I hear my wife tell it to my son every time we see Mads on screen
(She will point out any and every ‘began training as a dancer’ actor there is)

Ah, very cool!

But it makes sense - you can start developing applicable performer skill as a dancer early (5yr old?) - applicable actor training doesn’t really kick in until high school usually

Oh, I certainly see the general performing connection. Just curious, do you know of anything he's been in where his dancing/gymnastics background would have been more evident? I mean, Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing was, Ah, of course.

 

[zeetes]

Mostly bc I hear my wife tell it to my son every time we see Mads on screen
(She will point out any and every ‘began training as a dancer’ actor there is)

But it makes sense - you can start developing applicable performer skill as a dancer early (5yr old?) - applicable actor training doesn’t really kick in until high school usually

til that mads mikkelsen trained as a gymnast and then a ballet dancer which is how he met his choreographer wife before becoming an actor.

did you know that @guidomerkinsrules ?

 

[Madmarsha]

til that mads mikkelsen trained as a gymnast and then a ballet dancer which is how he met his choreographer wife before becoming an actor.

did you know that @guidomerkinsrules ?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Ah, very cool!


Oh, I certainly see the general performing connection. Just curious, do you know of anything he's been in where his dancing/gymnastics background would have been more evident? I mean, Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing was, Ah, of course.

One important, but understated skill in screen acting, is muscle memory/remembering where/what you were doing
A scene is going to have multiple takes and the director/editor prefer if you repeat your actions as precisely as possible each time without losing expression or energy level
So dancers, gymnasts, et al have the physical training for that - but also the emotional training not to get bored out of your gourd repeating the same dang thing over and over

 

[Madmarsha]

One important, but understated skill in screen acting, is muscle memory/remembering where/what you were doing
A scene is going to have multiple takes and the director/editor prefer if you repeat your actions as precisely as possible each time without losing expression or energy level
So dancers, gymnasts, et al have the physical training for that - but also the emotional training not to get bored out of your gourd repeating the same dang thing over and over

Is that the answer to the question I asked, though?

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

One important, but understated skill in screen acting, is muscle memory/remembering where/what you were doing
A scene is going to have multiple takes and the director/editor prefer if you repeat your actions as precisely as possible each time without losing expression or energy level
So dancers, gymnasts, et al have the physical training for that - but also the emotional training not to get bored out of your gourd repeating the same dang thing over and over

If they want you to do it exactly the same way, then why reshoot it?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

If they want you to do it exactly the same way, then why reshoot it?

fir a 2 person scene, you’ll have 3 basic setups: ‘coverage’ which captures both characters, then pov fir each character
But you’ll also have maybe 3-5 additional cameras capturing different frames
So you’re going to shoot any scene 3 times - coverage and 2 povs
Each of those shoots might have 3-5 takes for any number of reasons (forgot lines, extras did something weird, didn’t ‘quite’ get the acting right

So when that scene gets to editing, the editor has maybe 20-40 versions of the same thing
If both actors perform the same actions throughout, it makes it much easier to edit

 

[Eeyore]

TIL... That the most common cause of testicular damage in the U.S. is due to gun shot.

National analysis of testicular and scrotal trauma in the USA

To provide a descriptive analysis of scrotal and testicular trauma in the USA. Additionally, we hypothesized that motorcycle collision would have a higher association with scrotal or testicular trauma and subsequent scrotal or testicular operation, compared ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

TIL... That the most common cause of testicular damage in the U.S. is due to gun shot.

National analysis of testicular and scrotal trauma in the USA

To provide a descriptive analysis of scrotal and testicular trauma in the USA. Additionally, we hypothesized that motorcycle collision would have a higher association with scrotal or testicular trauma and subsequent scrotal or testicular operation, compared ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

That fits so well I’m not even sure it can be seen as ironic

 

[DaveXA]

That fits so well I’m not even sure it can be seen as ironic

I thought it would be a knee.

 

[Dago]

 

[GW93]

Pretty funny considering how the Nazis fell for this trick.

Ghost Army - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Sailorsaint]

That’s high level trolling right there.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

I feel like i knew at one point and just forgot.

 

[Dago]

TIL that it is HIGHLY likely that in all the times on our planet someone has randomly shuffled a standard deck of cards (52), there has never been a case of the cards ending up in the same order as a previous shuffle

There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth

Think of your last card game – euchre, poker, Go Fish, whatever it was. Would you believe every time you gave the whole deck a proper shuffle, you were holding a sequence of cards which had never before existed in all of history? Consider how many card games must have taken place across the...

www.mcgill.ca

It seems unbelievable, but there are somewhere in the range of 8x1067 ways to sort a deck of cards. That’s an 8 followed by 67 zeros. To put that in perspective, even if someone could rearrange a deck of cards every second of the universe’s total existence, the universe would end before they would get even one billionth of the way to finding a repeat.

From another source:

Wild Explanation Of How Many 52-Card Deck Combinations There Are Just Crushed My Brain

A deck of playing cards includes 4 sets and 52 cards. The total combination of cards is such a large number it's hard to comprehend but this explanation

brobible.com

If you were to shuffle a deck of 52 cards and lay them out the possible order combinations are practically endless. The total number of combinations is a factorial of 52, or 52!, which translates to 8.06e+67, a number that means absolutely nothing to me.

I’ve seen a really good explanation of how big 52! actually is.
Set a timer to count down 52! seconds (that’s 8.0658×1067 seconds)
Stand on the equator, and take a step forward every billion years

When you’ve circled the earth once, take a drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, and keep going
When the Pacific Ocean is empty, lay a sheet of paper down, refill the ocean and carry on.
When your stack of paper reaches the sun, take a look at the timer.

The 3 left-most digits won’t have changed. 8.063×1067 seconds left to go. You have to repeat the whole process 1000 times to get 1/3 of the way through that time. 5.385×1067 seconds left to go.
So to kill that time you try something else.
Shuffle a deck of cards, deal yourself 5 cards every billion years

Each time you get a royal flush, buy a lottery ticket
Each time that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand in the grand canyon

When the grand canyon’s full, take 1oz of rock off Mount Everest, empty the canyon and carry on.
When Everest has been leveled, check the timer.
There’s barely any change. 5.364×1067 seconds left. You’d have to repeat this process 256 times to have run out the timer.