Where's Andrew Crossley when you need him
Someone ring him up and tell him there's a job for him
China's state broadcaster CCTV has been left looking a bit daft after local netizens spotted it had swiped a choice snippet of footage from Top Gun. The outrage featured in a 23 November broadcast about an air force training exercise, in which "a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft". In …
Given the BBC's lack of effort when it comes to investigating and checking its journalists reprinting of a press release I suspect such a scam would work on them as well. I reckon a report that links alcohol to something tediously bad - even if patently not true - would be hugely popular with the BBC and splashed all over its website. Perhaps we could do something like alcohol linked to 90% of all software defects ever written.
Dude!
90% of all of the greatest software ever written was conceived out of an alcohol induced stupor.
Ok, so I made my statistics up, but its still true. How many hack-a-thons done today would be successful if they were done sans pizza and beer?
I rest my case. :-)
Mine's the jacket that has two bottles of beer stuffed in the lower pockets.
(And if they're empty, someone's going to owe me a couple of rounds!)
I see it this way.
Their new whizz-bang fighter does a launch of a missle which knocks the target into next Wednesday.
However reviewing the footage of the test, it becomes clear the quality of images is lacking.
So they rifle through their footage of other tests - nothing that makes the grade.
Go on line and find something that looks right says one panicky middle ranking official.
And unfortunately due to some shortcomings in translation software they end up a website called "Tribute to the greatest homoerotic films of all time".
Took me a while to get that one. For people studying simplified characters:
你已经失去了爱的感觉。 (Ni yijing shiqule aide ganjue. You already lost love feeling.)
Even if you drop the "yijing" (it's kind of unnecessary), it does not fit the song quite right. Perhaps one of the pilots of the new fighters will attempt their own translation when serenading China's Kelly McGillis.
There are some jokes involving Xenu and homosexuality (both male and female) in China running through my head, but I guess I should cut it short here.
Paris, 'cause she gets serenaded all the time.
Look, these guys blew their budget on the fighters and well lets face it, life size drones are very expensive.
So rather than create some sort of footage of a scale model blowing up, they got creative.
I can understand it. A T-5/F-5 is still advanced tech in 3rd world militarizes?sp? so why waste one for PR?
My only question... where's the MPAA on this? Shouldn't they be suing the Chinese government for copyright infringement?
I have a print screen of CNN reportign on nukes at North Korea and Iran and both articles used satelite imagery of the same nuke plant while CNN was claiming both were different.
It just means a news agencies art dept is lazy.
no matter the new source or country it seems everyones art dept is LAZY!
Would have been better if that T10 shot down a TIE fighter.... or to put it politically, shot down an X-Wing....
Damn! That would offend numerous Mr X. Wing(s)..... Y-Wing? No, that's his wife.... ummmmmmmm
A Colonial Viper perhaps?
:)
I learn from Mr. Obama that they have the fastest super computer..... meh, probably used for nuclear stuff and breaking other super computers, not CGI. Dunno.
Paris cuz she dunno, either....
An original Battlestar Galactica Cylon fighter! (you can't use the new series, because some of the Cylons in that are actually really attractive!!)
Another option would be to paste in Alderaan getting blown up in the first Star Wars movie.
And I suppose this means that "Top Gun" is actually a documentary?? Damn! I know naval aviators get some chicks, but I didn't know that Meg Ryan had really married poor, doomed Goose! I knew I should have gone to the Naval Academy out of high school!!
The stop sign, because you need some appropriate traffice controls when you are on a highway to the danger zone.....
'Fair Use' rights (See: < https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fair_use >) which is permitted in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders.
However, they should have post a hat's off to the source.
As posted elsewhere, this is actually a double con if we're supposed to believe it's new footage of the J-10 in action.
It's actually over a year old and comes from the Chinese propaganda movie 'J-10 On A Mission'. Not only does this film apparently rip the visual effects from 'Top Gun', but judging by the last few seconds from this link it also appropriates the theme music from 'Independence Day'.
http://english.cctv.com/20091116/101150.shtml
I would love to get hold of a copy of the full length movie, just to see what other American IP they've appropriated.
Show me the producer who claims they've never *ever* used stock photography or footage without proper attribution, and I'll show you a liar.
The Chinese had a missile test. Whether or not it went well - who knows, we probably never will - but either way, their own film of it was crap. So they decided to report it as successful, and use some better footage that shows the same thing happening.
A misdemeanour, but hardly a casus belli.