Working for an SEO company, Search Engines and the Internet are usually our friends, but it must be said, they have taken a bit of the fun out of watching films. In the old days, my dad and I used to sit and watch films and then try to work out where we recognise and actor from. We’d sit for a couple of hours agonising about what colour hair he might have had in the previous film and why we can’t quite put our finger on it. Sometimes, if we’d been trying for hours we’d give up and resort to Halliwell’s film guide – a huge book which you had to buy annually in order to keep it up to date.
These days the tradition has passed on to my husband and I – but we have absolutely no patience now. Usually I sit for possibly 5 minutes at the most thinking – “who is it underneath all that latex” (I’m thinking of the witches Mormo and Empusa in Stardust which we watched last night right now) – before resorting to:
1.) IMDB to check the character names and cast list…
then
2.)when I am not quite sure – as I wasn’t in this case, what the name of the character is – I stick the character name into Google image search to check if I’ve got the right one.
Of course – that’s just the tip of the iceberg – can’t think of how I’d work out what a song is called if I couldn’t randomly type some vague lyrics into a search engine and let it tell me the artist and song title and ask me if I wanted to listen to it!
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