My mouse on the "Add to cart" again. I'm shopping for DVD, once again. All it takes is for a friend in Twitter to describe a scene or a Youtube clip of a song to show incredible future, and I'm running out of DVDs to add even more to my growing stash. And in an average of about $ 7 each, it is hard to resist.
Online shopping makes it so easy. Most websites allow you to search for movies by the famous names involved. There are the easy option of seeking the "all-star cast," director or producer, and also the musical director of the utmost importance, singer and lyricist.
I love these options, not so much because they tend to go hunting for Kalyanji-Anandji movies worked (though I, now that I think), but because they are a perfect reflection of how music is integral to the film and how experience and remember them.
Some sites like Eros International and Induna. com provide structured routes for their products, with the categories in the navigation bar. If you're in the mood to explore, can be fun to follow these instructions for rabbit holes to the unknown treasures. Categories such as language, gender, price and new version I have never been particularly inspired, but the search for ten years has led many jewels in the 1970s, an era that rarely disappoints. You can even explore the supply of a particular DVD maker. This last category is surprisingly useful after having half a dozen DVDs sudden jump in unemployment, or subtitles that are totally unrelated to the scene they accompany.
It is certainly easier than buying individual movies. The biggest problem with the video stores I visited in the U.S. The United Kingdom and India is that everyone seems to sort and show your unique selections and criteria uninitiated, often imperceptible. To see whether other shops movie fans as mysterious as I do, I recently took to Twitter to ask: "How local businesses organize your movies Indian DVD (not language): alphabetical order? Hero? Director? music director? "
Several friends from around the world, immediately said variations of "organized? Ja" "Organized store? You never seen," said a Mumbaikar. "It's a free for all," laughed a student from Florida. In Missouri, someone reported a breakdown of film language, either in color or black and white, then alphabetically by title. The defendant has been found Brooklyn shops that force buyers to meet their ethical stance on DVD piracy rating their products in smuggling and legal. A friend in Calcutta described its stores using just two criteria: the new release and classic, with the latter simply a catchall for anything that is not the first, an unusual use and the book value of the word "classic ".
The shops to visit in Devon Avenue in Chicago tend to emphasize the new Hindi releases the cash register, and the rest of the store is organized by the language and then hero. Taking into account what the audience experiences, and often violent love-about the supreme importance of the male protagonist of the popular films, this plan makes sense. It also reflects how many directors seem to conceive of their productions.
Not all male stars deserve this treatment. Headed by Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar, Khan and Akshay Kumar may usually be found without much trouble. However, in a single store I've ever seen the categories of actors beyond a sort of generic "top-ten leading men of all time." We all know what a hero and who is he playing in a particular film, but who decides what major actors or popular enough to merit its own section?
I have to assume this system works well enough for the shops, which do not adhere to it. It certainly works if you are looking for a film Big B in particular (but never have, "Toofan" a lamentable film, according to almost all the reviews I've read, which however has been in the top of my list Shopping for a year.) But what if you want to find a movie with - shock! - A woman? Where are all the movies starring Madhubala, Rekha or Smita Patil?
They may be in the large "everything else" section, but you'd need to know the titles of the films listed in alphabetical order. And what about the directors or multi-starring movie? Or the stories of brothers with the same importance? And if the only store has a copy of "Sholay", often considered the best Hindi film and most popular of all time, where do you?
Despite all these obstacles, there is still brick and mortar stores of satisfaction that the websites, although they have fewer options and are more aggravating to use. I love having a handful of movies and flip through them, actually weighing my decision. The options you feel more important. Maybe it's the possibility of unexpected treasures lurking among the failures, the joy of chance.
A notable victory was in one of my favorite DVD stores on Devon Avenue, when a friend, having spent 15 minutes delving through the discount bin, emerged triumphant with "Khoon Bhari Maang" (aka "Rekha is maimed by a crocodile and becomes a supermodel "for those who have not seen this masterpiece of 1988, the glitz and revenge). On another occasion, after finding "Dharam Veer" in a little shop full Southall in London, which won over my head with both hands and let out, to the surprise of my colleagues and staff at the store, " I win! "
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Online shopping makes it so easy. Most websites allow you to search for movies by the famous names involved. There are the easy option of seeking the "all-star cast," director or producer, and also the musical director of the utmost importance, singer and lyricist.
I love these options, not so much because they tend to go hunting for Kalyanji-Anandji movies worked (though I, now that I think), but because they are a perfect reflection of how music is integral to the film and how experience and remember them.
Some sites like Eros International and Induna. com provide structured routes for their products, with the categories in the navigation bar. If you're in the mood to explore, can be fun to follow these instructions for rabbit holes to the unknown treasures. Categories such as language, gender, price and new version I have never been particularly inspired, but the search for ten years has led many jewels in the 1970s, an era that rarely disappoints. You can even explore the supply of a particular DVD maker. This last category is surprisingly useful after having half a dozen DVDs sudden jump in unemployment, or subtitles that are totally unrelated to the scene they accompany.
It is certainly easier than buying individual movies. The biggest problem with the video stores I visited in the U.S. The United Kingdom and India is that everyone seems to sort and show your unique selections and criteria uninitiated, often imperceptible. To see whether other shops movie fans as mysterious as I do, I recently took to Twitter to ask: "How local businesses organize your movies Indian DVD (not language): alphabetical order? Hero? Director? music director? "
Several friends from around the world, immediately said variations of "organized? Ja" "Organized store? You never seen," said a Mumbaikar. "It's a free for all," laughed a student from Florida. In Missouri, someone reported a breakdown of film language, either in color or black and white, then alphabetically by title. The defendant has been found Brooklyn shops that force buyers to meet their ethical stance on DVD piracy rating their products in smuggling and legal. A friend in Calcutta described its stores using just two criteria: the new release and classic, with the latter simply a catchall for anything that is not the first, an unusual use and the book value of the word "classic ".
The shops to visit in Devon Avenue in Chicago tend to emphasize the new Hindi releases the cash register, and the rest of the store is organized by the language and then hero. Taking into account what the audience experiences, and often violent love-about the supreme importance of the male protagonist of the popular films, this plan makes sense. It also reflects how many directors seem to conceive of their productions.
Not all male stars deserve this treatment. Headed by Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar, Khan and Akshay Kumar may usually be found without much trouble. However, in a single store I've ever seen the categories of actors beyond a sort of generic "top-ten leading men of all time." We all know what a hero and who is he playing in a particular film, but who decides what major actors or popular enough to merit its own section?
I have to assume this system works well enough for the shops, which do not adhere to it. It certainly works if you are looking for a film Big B in particular (but never have, "Toofan" a lamentable film, according to almost all the reviews I've read, which however has been in the top of my list Shopping for a year.) But what if you want to find a movie with - shock! - A woman? Where are all the movies starring Madhubala, Rekha or Smita Patil?
They may be in the large "everything else" section, but you'd need to know the titles of the films listed in alphabetical order. And what about the directors or multi-starring movie? Or the stories of brothers with the same importance? And if the only store has a copy of "Sholay", often considered the best Hindi film and most popular of all time, where do you?
Despite all these obstacles, there is still brick and mortar stores of satisfaction that the websites, although they have fewer options and are more aggravating to use. I love having a handful of movies and flip through them, actually weighing my decision. The options you feel more important. Maybe it's the possibility of unexpected treasures lurking among the failures, the joy of chance.
A notable victory was in one of my favorite DVD stores on Devon Avenue, when a friend, having spent 15 minutes delving through the discount bin, emerged triumphant with "Khoon Bhari Maang" (aka "Rekha is maimed by a crocodile and becomes a supermodel "for those who have not seen this masterpiece of 1988, the glitz and revenge). On another occasion, after finding "Dharam Veer" in a little shop full Southall in London, which won over my head with both hands and let out, to the surprise of my colleagues and staff at the store, " I win! "
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