Comments on: Transformers! http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/01/transformers/ SF/F Copyeditor Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:41:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Geoffrey Allan Plauche http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/01/transformers/#comment-88514 Geoffrey Allan Plauche Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:50:02 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/01/transformers/#comment-88514 "And then there were little things. A character at one point noted about a phone in one cool scene something like, “Nokias are nasty. You’ve gotta hand it to the Japanese.” But…well…Nokia is a Finnish company. :-/ And of course you can make the argument that the character didn’t know—I mean, people say incorrect things all the time in real life—and I suppose they do have some offices in Japan, and maybe they could say the phone came from there. The copyeditor in me screams for a query, though. :-)" It has been a while since I saw the movie but I remember the character's (I believe it was the govt agent, Simmons) mistake being pointed out. I think a second character mentioned to a third character quietly that Nokia is a Finnish company and the third character said something to the effect that Simmons was in his own little world. Maybe this scene was added later. “And then there were little things. A character at one point noted about a phone in one cool scene something like, “Nokias are nasty. You’ve gotta hand it to the Japanese.” But…well…Nokia is a Finnish company. :-/ And of course you can make the argument that the character didn’t know—I mean, people say incorrect things all the time in real life—and I suppose they do have some offices in Japan, and maybe they could say the phone came from there. The copyeditor in me screams for a query, though. :-)”

It has been a while since I saw the movie but I remember the character’s (I believe it was the govt agent, Simmons) mistake being pointed out. I think a second character mentioned to a third character quietly that Nokia is a Finnish company and the third character said something to the effect that Simmons was in his own little world. Maybe this scene was added later.

]]> By: Kaytie http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/01/transformers/#comment-73101 Kaytie Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:06:28 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/01/transformers/#comment-73101 There are continuity people on the sets to keep things like wounds from moving around a person's face, but to my admittedly limited knowledge, only writers and producers check the scripts rather than actual fact-checkers or copy-editors. I hope Nokia didn't pay for the product placement since they were so misrepresented. There are continuity people on the sets to keep things like wounds from moving around a person’s face, but to my admittedly limited knowledge, only writers and producers check the scripts rather than actual fact-checkers or copy-editors.

I hope Nokia didn’t pay for the product placement since they were so misrepresented.

]]> By: TemplarWolf http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/01/transformers/#comment-72035 TemplarWolf Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:59:12 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/01/transformers/#comment-72035 I grew up with base theaters. Of course, I also grew up in army schools, where we stood and said the Pledge every day. I grew up with base theaters. Of course, I also grew up in army schools, where we stood and said the Pledge every day.

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