What's wrong with this picture

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Mmmmm stupid.  I just HATE it when people make films for, sometimes, oodles 
and oodles of cash, and don´t have the wisdom to consult anyone on anything.

I also really really hate the lid prop dilemma.  It´s so ugly (and 
inconceivably dangerous) to put it in the wrong place.

On Sunday I saw a show, a documentary almost, about the Well Tempered 
Klavier.  They played every single P&F in different settings, with 
different grands and pianists.
There was this great scene, inside a convent or a castle.  There was a 
woman (quite a scary one actually, not ugly, just scary) playing one 
P&F.  There was definitely a lot of work done for the appearance of that 
scene.  But the lid prop...

Did you see the Soprano´s episode when Puzzi was suspected of being a 
snitch?  Well, they were going to move a grand that had the prop in the 
wrong place.  I was so glad that they at least closed it before.

And one of my favorites.  In the "Talented Mr. Ripley".  In the scene 
before he bashes his friend, with a statue I think, there are multiple 
shots of them talking in a room with a grand piano.  If you look at the 
grand all the time in that scene you will see that in one moment the prop 
is incorrectly placed... and in the other it´s just right.  This goes on 
for some shots. It´s really funny!

There was also that lid prop problem in "The Avengers" , on a Richard 
Clayderman CD cover (where the grand was also inverted so it opened on the 
left!) and even in some catalogs from piano manufacturers.




Fight ignorance, kill it with a howitzer.


Kristinn Leifsson






At 00:01 12.12.2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Did anyone watch the Natalie Cole biography movie on NBC Sunday
>night?  I don't typically watch TV movies, in fact I've grown to
>hate network television, but the wife wanted to see it so I sat
>through part of it.
>
>There is a major scene set in the 1970s where Natalie and her
>band are in a rehearsal.  Problem:  The piano was a black
>polyester finish Boston.  Poly finishes were not used in the
>1970s and Boston pianos did not exist in the 1970s!!!
>
>What topped it off and got us laughing for five minutes was that
>in the very same scene half way through the piano suddenly
>changed into a light walnut!!!  Is this some new trick finish
>that Steinway is using on their Bostons???  I'd sure like to see
>one!
>
>Rob Goodale, RPT
>Las Vegas, NV