Not necessarily. I mean it's pretty obvious that this isn't Tom Selleck writing this, especially not Magnum P.I. Selleck but yeah I get where you're coming. - I'd put money on the whole "snap judgement" thing though.

I mean, you actually assess people by what you see and maybe what associations you can make unconsciously every day probably a shitload of times without being aware of it. Even the ones you're not the slightest bit interested in, attracted to or anything of the like. In such cases our brains are like the fucking LHC considering how much 'data' analyze.

I mean it's pretty obvious that this isn't Tom Selleck writing this

I mean, you actually assess people by what you see and maybe what associations you can make unconsciously every day probably a shitload of times without being aware of it. Even the ones you're not the slightest bit interested in, attracted to or anything of the like. In such cases our brains are like the fucking LHC considering how much 'data' analyze.

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I am imagining you as Tom Selleck

this is why I generally don't like seeing sputnik users on facebook. ruins the mystique"
Modern day Tom Selleck or Magnum Selleck? Also heh, Idk - I can't do that. Also, I have no idea how Melanie Laurent sounds in English - at least I don't remember it. Also, you'd probably never see "me" as "me" on Facebook. (I'm rather cautious about what information I make 'public')

"Yeah, it's kinda awesome and scary at the same time. Although I don't get those figures that get handed out about how you take a liking/disliking towards a person 10 seconds after you first meet them, or whatever, cos I know lots of people of whom my opinions have changed a lot as I've grown to know them."
Oh, I'm not talking about that. Also, I'd always be skeptical about figures & overly generalized hypotheses.
I mean you judge those people subconsciously mostly - it might surface sometimes or even a few times but that doesn't necessarily imply that you're going to like or dislike that person if that person opens his mouth. Because that's largely dependant on your conscious perspective and mood at that moment.

But you can be quite certain that "looks" and I'm not saying whether "good or "bad" - or let's say visuals (actually also scents and such fi you know the person) about a person can definitely influence your relationship with that person or whether you actually would/want to get to know them or anything of the like. As to the extent? It probably differs.

Modern day Tom Selleck or Magnum Selleck?

Also, I have no idea how Melanie Laurent sounds in English - at least I don't remember it.

Swell. Loved Magnum. Also, Tom Selleck is just THE man for the mustache.

"Apparently she speaks English with a strong accent but I've never heard her speak it."
Wait, does that mean she didn't do her own voice in Inglourious Basterds? Or do you just not remember as well or haven't seen it?

I thought she never speaks english in Inglourious Basterds? I saw it a while back and the other day I
had it on in the background but if she does speak english at some point it must've been brief and I
must've forgotten/missed it

Damn, I don't remember. I know that there's a lot of with subtitles going on but I'm not sure whether she actually speaks English. Also, last time I watched in English is a even more back since I often can't watch movies in English if I do so with pals.
I'd at least be surprised if she was 'bad' at English.

Album Rating: 2.5

The title song alone is worth at least a 2. Leaving is one of the best songs he's made since the More Monsters album.

there's a lot of french, some german and a little bit of italian. I'm pretty sure Mélanie's character never came into contact with any of the english speaking characters and so just spoke french throughout

Ah right, there were a few languages included in the original synchronisation - I always forget that since I'm used to having awful syncs in German - but there are some exceptions. Guess I need to see the movie again, but while we're already at it - do you know any other movies she's in?

I think for the most part she's been in French shows and films, naturally. That's something that the casting team did really well for that movie. Waltz went from being in exclusively foreign productions to an Oscar winner in the space of like a year.

I think the only other film I've seen her in is La Rafle/The Round Up. French film (most of hers are)
about an event during ww2 where all these jews were rounded up in a velodrome in Paris before being
deported to concentration camps. Decent film but I'm currently looking up her profile in rotten
tomatoes to see what else she's been in.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/melanie-laurent/

I think my picture is from the film Paris

Eva Green is my other french-actress-crush but she's more hollywoodised

As German I'll have to say I mostly think German movies, German actors and German TV are huge piles of dog vomit.

But damn, Waltz did a fucking great job in Basterds. He's just such an "enjoyable" villain, even more so he's really hard to actually dislike I think.

Well, both Laurent & Green don't solely have to rely on their looks (for the former at least from what I can gather) which is something that generally bugs me about actresses, partly also actors but it feels like it's stronger with the females.

I'm a fan of French films. I really need to watch more but they speak so fast I have trouble
understanding. Even my mother does

Anarchist, I assume that's about La Rafle du Vel D'Hiv yeah? We studied quite a bit of French history during the occupation recently. Terrible business.

Didn't realise there was a film on the subject, might look into it. I guess that's where she was spotted as (I'm assuming) a candidate to play a Jewish woman during wartime France in IB.

Waltz was incredible in that film, thoroughly deserving of the Oscar. Watching him is so tense and unsettling.
Really looking forward to seeing him again in Django.

France has a history with cinema if I remember correctly, they also had their fingers in some swell stuff. (there are actually also some nice locations to shoot, some of the spots my uncled showed me in the South were fucking sweet)

Haha, also just discovered that he's in Django. Fucking sweet.
Also, apparently he's Austrian but that's basically the same thing. (Austria was basically a part of us anyway until Prussia went all full hegemony)

France love their own films. Generally they try to convey a certain meaning or depth too, more so
than cinema industries from other countries. Or maybe that's just my bias

Anarchist, I assume that's about La Rafle du Vel D'Hiv yeah?

The manner in which Petain was condemned post-liberation was completely unnecessary in my opinion: he'd only been
in office a matter of days before the surrender. There was literally nothing he could've done to solve things. Collaborate
with the Vichy regime or be threatened with the destruction of the country.

I haven't seen many French films: Amelie, un long dimanche de fiancailles, naissance des pieuvres, entre les murs, Paris
je t'aime, hotel du nord, la bataille d'algiers, les roseaux sauvages, la vie en rose.. I can't think of any more. A friend
told me la haine was pretty good. I need to see more.

"France love their own films. Generally they try to convey a certain meaning or depth too, more so
than cinema industries from other countries. Or maybe that's just my bias"
Well, it wouldn't be surprising - not like it's uncommon. There's probably also people over here that do, I'm just generally pretty nitpicky and critical.

"She's jewish irl though as far as I know"
Pretty sure I also I heard/read that somewhere.

"And yeah Christoph Waltz was amazing in that film. I really liked Brad Pitt too (love that scene
where he speaks Italian). Probably one of the few A list actors I enjoy. I don't understand those
who think Quentin Tarantino is losing his edge.
Then I talked to my friend about him and she didn't even know who he was or what Reservoir Dogs was.
I mentioned Inglourious Basterds and she said she had seen it but had found it boring. Shame"
I've heard some people actually say they found Tarantino to be monotonous, that he would basically just repeat himself as of now but I don't really think so. (especially how is something like IB repeating something like Pulp Fiction?)
Yeah, Brad Pitt actually did a good job in some pretty damn swell movies he was in. I don't think he deserves the hate he sometimes gets for being this "stereotypical pretty face".

Also, pretty sure my grandparents actually had some French stuff - also some older stuff. My nan's family was actually from Alsace-Lorraine and she loved French despite never actually having had an opportunity to learn it. And one of her sons/my uncle lives in Southern France now.