Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeoul is a modern city. It is clean and beautiful with large streets. It is dominated by modern high-rise buildings, outside of which there is always a big sculpture. There are many modern shopping malls and aquaria. The people are very nice and polite. Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesFame of actors and actresses In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The unit of fame is the famon: with 1 famon = 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency. Marylin Monroe and John Wayne are still at the Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKuala Lumpur There are several tall buildings in the modern capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. However, three are among the most iconic ones: Merdeka 118 (2023, 678.9 m) Petronas Twin Towers (1998, 451.9 m) Kuala Lumpur Tower (1996, 412 m). Merdeka 118 is the newest building. Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI visited the impressive Kuala Lumpur for 12 days in February. During my visit to several malls, such as Pavilion and Suria, I had the opportunity to come across multiplex cinemas (e.g. Dadi Cinemas). The movies that were or will be in the theaters are the Malaysian: action comedy Happy Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLet’s see whether there are other popular icons of the golden Hollywood era, listed by the American Film Institute, that can break the fame level attained by Monroe and Wayne. Let’s also see how these compare to modern time actors and actresses. Six iconic actresses and actors Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn recent years, Willis and Stallone enjoy a fame of about 10 famons whereas Schwarzenegger’s fame reaches 25 famons (see previous post). But how do these figures compare to those of other people? In a previous post I compared their fame to those of Seagal and Van Damme. Now let’s see Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe dialogue is an important element of a movie scenario. It contributes to character development, advances the plot and builds the required tension for the viewer. The dialogues of Die Hard are real diamonds. The penetration of humor makes them more entertaining and effective. Even idle chit chat allows us Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesBruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are all iconic action heroes for the 1980s and 1990s. Each one has its own idiosyncrasy and personal style of acting. Yet, all three have contributed some of the best action movies ever made, which are nowadays considered classic. In the last decades, Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Ngram tool Michel et al. (2011) produced the online tool Ngram. Ngram produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up about 6% of all books ever printed; Lin et al. 2012) relative to all remaining phrases Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI visited Vienna from the 29th of December till the 6th of January 2024. The New Year eve was impressive as is Vienna in general. During all these days I continuously walked throughout the city, enjoying the Viennese coffee and hot chocolate, strudels, krapfen, sachertorte, and Read more