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Anyone have a really old copy of Sneakers (like on laserdisc)? I noticed in the background of the bluray transfer https://files.catbox.moe/nnywzq.jpg https://f
by nullc 4y ago
Anyone have a really old copy of Sneakers (like on laserdisc)? I noticed in the background of the bluray transfer https://files.catbox.moe/nnywzq.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/nnywzq.jpg there is this asiacrypt poster and I wondered if it was composited in later transfers over something else, as I think the conference would have been too late for the movie production.
I think sneakers still holds the record for the best number theory jargon in movie history:
"While the number-field sieve is the best method currently known, there exists an intriguing possibility for a far more elegant approach. Here we would find a composition of extensions, each Abelian over the rationals, and hence contained in a single cyclotomic field. Using the Artin map, we might induce homomorphisms from the principal orders in each of these fields that z by f z. These maps could then be used to combine splitting information from all the fields... this in turn would require the standard Kummer extensions that nontorsion form of the Jacobians of the Fermat curves gives rise to. It would be a breakthrough of Gaussian proportions and allow us to acquire the solution in a dramatically more efficient manner. Now, I should emphasize that such an approach is purely theoretical. So far, no one has been able to accomplish such constructions, yet."
- cscheid 4y ago1) Then Donald Logue got famous, and I'd be the idiot yelling "that's Gunter Janek!" at every episode of Grounded for Life. 2) I can't look at that screenshot and not hear "I leave message here on service but you do not call" 3) RSA's Adleman was the science advisor for the movie, so I'd guess he snuck in the Asiacrypt poster from the beginning
- droidist2 4y agoDonal Logue also played Kevin Mitnick's friend in Takedown. https://i.redd.it/s884e47lejv41.png https://i.redd.it/s884e47lejv41.png (Also in that scene, a cameo by the real Tsutomu Shimomura)
- hamburglar 4y agoDonal Logue was also Jimmy the Cab driver in a bizarre series of MTV commercials. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d3o_N6r-wZ0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d3o_N6r-wZ0
- schwartzworld 4y agoDonal Logue was also the guy from The Dao of Steve. What are we doing?
- hamburglar 4y agoThis is officially a Donal Logue obscure role observation subthread.
- W-Stool 4y agoThis word salad from Janek and Harry Dean Stanton's recitation of "The Repo Code" in Repo Man are some of the two best rifs on word play I've heard in my lifetime. I've never seen the full text of Janek's speech - thank you!
- nullc 4y agoI went to quote it at one point and the only copies I found online were truncated and wrong... So I rewatched the movie just to transcribe it. :)
- tempodox 4y agoI've got Sneakers on DVD and the asiacrypt '91 poster is there.
- codepoet80 4y agoI have it on Laserdisc and will definitely look for this next time I watch! Edit: had to check. Yup, its there on LaserDisc... https://files.catbox.moe/l031en.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/l031en.jpg
- nullc 4y agoAWESOME! Thank you!