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November 24

Disney+

Would it make sense for Disney to stop releasing their new movies in the theaters to focus on an early release on Disney+? Ericdec85 (talk) 12:37, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It might, or it might not. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:00, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That answer was useless. -- Ericdec85 11:40, 25 November 2019‎ (UTC)

You got something better? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:41, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but your question asks for opinions, which we're not supposed to do here. Whatever you think of Disney, there is 100% agreement that they know how to make money; you can rest assured that they'll do whatever they think will help them do that. But consider this: their movies have high replay value (as you can see by their DVD/BD sales), so there would seem to be little to gain by not having films release to theatres and then grabbing the replay dollars via Disney+ (while still grabbing some via physical media sales due to their continued use of the dreaded Disney vault). Matt Deres (talk) 18:05, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oscars

I am a big fan of films, and would like to know where to get the best Oscar predictions. Who has, historically, been the best at predicting Oscar winners and nominations?68.129.97.180 (talk) 19:42, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

YouTube rumors

I was watching some videos on YouTube. There were quite a few indicating it'll be history in 2020. Are any of them true or are they rumors?2604:2000:1281:4B3:54E4:510A:625:39E2 (talk) 23:18, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What's the exact wording? Or can you post an example? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:28, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Some channels which were intended to make money for their creators haven't been making enough. (Mine wasn't intended to make money.) There are also rumors people plan to storm the YouTube headquarters. Their intentions are to prevent the company from demonetizing some stuff.2604:2000:1281:4B3:54E4:510A:625:39E2 (talk) 00:30, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Where did you get this story of someone "storming the YouTube headquarters"? Is that the same source that talked about storming Area 51? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:32, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's on the internet so it must be true. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 07:48, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this stems in part from YouTube saying something along the lines of if you get a certain number of subscribers you will get paid X. However they are now saying that if you simply re-post other people's material without substantially changing this or adding to it, you will not get paid. This has caused many popular channels to no longer be economically viable. I doubt any action will be taken against YouTube but suspect that many will move to Patreon. Thanks Anton 81.131.40.58 (talk) 10:38, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fairly sure YouTube has never paid people simply for having a high subscriber count, at least not in a consistent fashion. Youtube only ever pays people for ad views on their videos, along with whatever they do for Youtube Red or whatever the heck it's called now, and channel membership. You do need to meet some subscriber and other requirements to become a partner so you can even be eligible for payment/monetisation [1] [2], but that's a different point. Likewise creating content for Youtube Red also requires Youtube/Google to let you. And being able to join the channel membership programme has its own requirements [3]. The last is I guess the closest thing to being paid simply for having subscribers (and on Twitch etc they tend to be called subscriptions), but in this case people are paying Youtube to pay the person, it's not really that different from Patreon except may with different eligibility requirements and features. Youtube can and does change their rules for joining and staying in the partner programme (and other programmes), as well the which videos are eligible for monetisation etc. And this can have quite a significant effect on those relying on them. But again, this isn't the same thing as Youtube promosing to pay people simply for having subscribers. Nil Einne (talk) 12:45, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I think Anton's comment may be some further confusion over [4]. I'd note that according to that source, it was simply some confusion over an update T&C. And second, even if Youtube did start to regularly terminate channels for not being "commercially viable" it doesn't change the fact channels only got paid for ad views etc on their videos rather than simply for having a certain number of subscribers. As I said above, joining the partner programme is only the start of the monetisation process. Nil Einne (talk) 12:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said before, my channel on YouTube wasn't intended to make money. I joined to explore and be creative, that's it.2604:2000:1281:4B3:68CD:3578:16B:24DB (talk) 23:43, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

So are you going to be among those "storming the headquarters"? The building seems to have fairly narrow entrances, so you might have to storm it in shifts. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:42, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm in New York. YouTube headquarters is in the San Francisco Bay Area.2604:2000:1281:4B3:5509:1B0A:1E61:D8E3 (talk) 23:23, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well regardless of all this, AFAICT, the storming stuff arises from similar confusion to Anton although I assume most of those who were concerned did at least somewhat understand how monetisation worked. May I suggest that if anyone is still concerned even after the clarification, and still talking about storming Youtube's headquarters let alone nonsense like Youtube being dead in 2020, perhaps they aren't worth watching except for comedic relief? Nil Einne (talk) 05:36, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 26

Songs that end on a subdominant chord

In the key of C major, the national anthem of India appears to end as follows:

C-C-D-D-E-E-D-E-F (8 eighth notes and a whole note at the end.)

This sounds like 2 final measures that can be accompanied by the C and F chords; it sounds kind of surprising to end a song in C major with these notes. Georgia guy (talk) 21:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ending a song on a subdominant chord has been described as a "musical cliffhanger" as discussed here: "Theory - Ending a song with a dominant chord". Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange. — Btw, Wikipedia has an article on everything, including the national anthem of India. —2606:A000:1126:28D:9417:2118:29F3:6E25 (talk) 22:23, 26 November 2019 (UTC) ... P.s.: "Mo Li Hua" is mentioned as an example.[reply]

That discussion looks to be about ending a song on a dominant chord (the V) which would be the G chord in the key of C. Ending on a subdominant chord is ending in the IV chord, which is what the OP is talking about. The way in which a song or section of a song resolves is called a cadence in music theory, and ending on a IV chord, or subdominant is so rare, traditional music theory doesn't even have a name for it. this discussion can't turn up much of anything. It mentions a few songs, but when I checked them out, they actually don't resolve to the IV chord. Which is not to say it's never been done, but I can't personally think of an example. Most songs end on either a I or V. Songs that don't are said to have a "deceptive" cadence, so I guess you might call it that.--Jayron 32 04:37, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That is because ending on a chord that is not I is by definition not a real resolution. From the viewpoint of traditional tonality it creates a fragment. But I would hesitate to say that we should be interpreting the national anthem of India in terms of traditional tonality. AFAIK, Indian traditional music is not based on Western-style harmony with harmonic motion. It would therefore stand to reason that attempting to harmonise a traditional Indian melody in Western terms is going to produce something that does not make sense from the viewpoint of functional harmony in about the same way attempting to harmonise a melody of Schoenberg tonally makes nonsense: both cases are fitting a square peg into a round hole (naturally, this is not a criticism, but just a recognition that functional harmony is the wrong framework for analysing such melodies as they do not imply functional harmonic progressions within themselves). And indeed, this is what happens in Herbert Murrill's harmonisation (which is on the article National anthem of India), with its nonfunctional harmonic progressions (that end on ii, rather than IV).

I reckon the same thing is going on with "Mo Li Hua" (a traditional Chinese melody). It's possible to harmonise it in Western fashion vaguely grammatically, but the result just doesn't go anywhere, as usually happens when harmonising pentatonic melodies: it ends up pretty much stuck on the tonic, and certainly not ending on the subdominant. (And anyway this sort of thing is straitjacketing the melodies into a harmonic framework they were never meant for in the first place.) Double sharp (talk) 11:48, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 27

Which Show could it have been?

Many years ago, in the nineties, I saw an episode of a police TV Series, which I later thought was Hunter with Fred Dryer, and the actor Brion James, who normally played bad guys, was a cop who committed a murder at or near a car in the hills, then threw the murder weapon down the slope, but then was back in the daytime to investigate it, even conveniently finding the murder weapon after making reference to the main character about how one would throw something in an American Football style, and if so, where it would land. The show was not Hunter, since I saw both episodes he was in recently, and neither of them fit. I am pretty certain it was Brion James, whose killer cop character was eventually caught by the main character in the series, and this might have been James' only appearance in the series. The only other ones I could see he was in, (since I wrongly thought it could have been Jake and the Fat Man, but he was never in that), are Silk Stalkings and The Marshal with Jeff Fahey, but there are no clips available on YouTube of them. The Silk Stalkings episode that Brion James was in, called T.K.O., was conveniently not available - it is always the ones one is trying to find that just happen not to be there. In addition, in the early eighties, there was a movie I watched about a family who went onto a work farm to earn money, but did not realise until it was too late that it was a prison, and they were to be made to work and not get paid. I thought the actor William Smith (actor), also in Any Which Way You Can where he has a mammoth fight for money against Clint Eastwood, was in it, but having looked at all his works, nothing seems to match. There is an actor that looks like him, but I cannot recall his name. In the end the family man, after the crooks kill his dogs, overthrows the prison, and is about to beat the bad guy to death, but stops. If anyone else remembers these, please feel free to point me in the right direction. Thank You.Chris the Russian Christopher Lilly 05:19, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Scully, you're not gonna believe this"

Does Agent Mulder ever say these exact words on The X-Files, or is it one of those misquotations like "Beam me up, Scotty"? --Lazar Taxon (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Or "Play it again, Sam" or "Houston, we have a problem." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:54, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I believe Steve McGarrett does say "Book 'em, Dano, Murder One" in Hawaii Five-O, but not until later episodes.

At least once, in S02E10.[5][6]--William Thweatt ^Talk^Contribs 05:27, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I just fired it up on Hulu and confirmed. --Lazar Taxon (talk) 15:40, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 28

Is this book cover based on a famous painting?

This book cover looks familiar to me, I'm sure it is based on a famous painting, but I can't place it. Any ideas? 46.225.204.166 (talk) 23:32, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/phillip-the-prison-window-n01908 Nanonic (talk) 00:06, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 29

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's most recent speaking role on The Simpsons

I know that his character has appeared a couple of times since the documentary The Problem with Apu but when was Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's most recent speaking role on The Simpsons? (78.17.100.83 (talk) 00:51, 29 November 2019 (UTC))[reply]

Questions about Korea

Hi My first question is, when was the big hit entertainment in Korea established ? and then, when did Korea had its last presidency election? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NisandiLinara2005 (talk • contribs) 05:38, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Question header added. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 06:43, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

North or South? Anton 81.131.40.58 (talk) 09:30, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean the South Korean Big Hit Entertainment, Co., (according to our article) it was established in 2005. As for the most recent South Korean presidential election, see: 2017 South Korean presidential election. 2606:A000:1126:28D:59BE:674C:9955:8F83 (talk) 05:13, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 30

LOTR animated movie

I thought this was from The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) but based on the article and other searches, it can't be. I remember seeing a cartoon version of LOTR that was played rather "camp", and in the big scene on Mount Doom, Gollum tries to take the Ring and Frodo pulls out a revolver and shoots him, saying "take that, you son of a bitch". Or it's possible that this was in a different scene. I don't think I'm confusing it with the scene in the parody book where "pity stayed his hand", but it's sort of possible. Anyone remember a cartoon like that? What could it have been? I think I saw it in a theater, not on TV. Thanks. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 08:07, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You may be thinking of the 1977 Ralph Bakshi animated film Wizards. This was not explicitly based on, or a deliberate parody of, Tolkien's work, but in places had some of the same feel, as I recall. Bakshi, of course, shortly afterwards directed the LotR 1978 film you cite, drawing on his experience with Wizards, so confusion of the two is understandable. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.217.209.178 (talk) 21:20, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the scene from Wizards. MarnetteD|Talk 04:15, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_in_1973_(New_Zealand)

Hello,the above site lists #1 singles from 1973 in New Zealand but makes no mention of their source.They make reference to "The Official NZ Music Chart, RIANZ website" but this site only has charts going back to 2000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2403:6200:8872:A3C:5811:1906:8717:53DD (talk) 01:18, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried raising this question on the article's talk page? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:20, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 I thought this was from [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)]] but based on the article and other searches, it can't be.  I remember seeing a cartoon version of LOTR that was played rather "camp", and in the big scene on Mount Doom, Gollum tries to take the Ring and Frodo pulls out a revolver and shoots him, saying "take that, you son of a bitch".  Or it's possible that this was in a different scene.  I don't ''think'' I'm confusing it with the scene in [[Bored of the Rings|the parody book]] where "pity stayed his hand", but it's sort of possible.  Anyone remember a cartoon like that?  What could it have been?  I think I saw it in a theater, not on TV.  Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/67.164.113.165|67.164.113.165]] ([[User talk:67.164.113.165|talk]]) 08:07, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
-:You may be thinking of the 1977 [[Ralph Bakshi]] animated film ''[[Wizards (film)|Wizards]]''. This was not explicitly based on, or a deliberate parody of, Tolkien's work, but in places had some of the same feel, as I recall. Bakshi, of course, shortly afterwards directed the LotR 1978 film you cite, drawing on his experience with ''Wizards'', so your confusion of the two is understandable. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} [[Special:Contributions/2.217.209.178|2.217.209.178]] ([[User talk:2.217.209.178|talk]]) 21:20, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
+:You may be thinking of the 1977 [[Ralph Bakshi]] animated film ''[[Wizards (film)|Wizards]]''. This was not explicitly based on, or a deliberate parody of, Tolkien's work, but in places had some of the same feel, as I recall. Bakshi, of course, shortly afterwards directed the LotR 1978 film you cite, drawing on his experience with ''Wizards'', so confusion of the two is understandable. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} [[Special:Contributions/2.217.209.178|2.217.209.178]] ([[User talk:2.217.209.178|talk]]) 21:20, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
 ::[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZqRzHnI8s Here] is the scene from ''Wizards''. [[User:MarnetteD|MarnetteD]]&#124;[[User talk:MarnetteD|Talk]] 04:15, 1 December 2019 (UTC)