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(n.) something which stands out and thus ruins a performance, an image, suspension of disbelief, or continuity. This definition requires some explanation. In Gene Kelly's 1948 version of The Three Musketeers, there is a scene in which Athos shares a final, passionate kiss with Milady deWinter, who is about to be executed for her many crimes. As their lips part from each other, a line of spit forms between their mouths for a moment (I'm told that it doesn't show up on the video, and I saw it on the big screen long ago -- where it was disturbingly obvious). This line of spit was a terrible distraction, and while I was pondering why on earth the editor had not caught and excised it, the plot got away from me. When I caught the train of the plot again, my suspension of disbelief was shot -- I was not in early 17th century France: I was on a 1948 movie set, in California. I started noticing makeup, blocking, casting trouble, camera angles. In a word, it ruined the movie for me. After many years, I have applied my Line-of-Spit ("LoS") to many situations. The one thing all such scenarios share is that something stands out which should never have been noticed -- and this leads to the paradoxical truth that "everything must be perfect ... so that no one will notice it." It applies to clothing (orange socks with a tuxedo are a LoS), makeup (nothing can stand out, or the whole image is ruined), grammar (if anyone stops reading what you say and stops instead to "correct" you, it's a LoS), and so forth. There is a story that in a motion picture once, the entire crew was reflected in a large window as the protagonist is walking down a supposedly empty street: a palpable Line of Spit. (Sorry that takes so long to explain.)
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In Aliens, the space marines are not allowed to use their weapons as they might inadvertently shoot the abandoned complex's fusion reactor, leading to a catastrophic explosion. The problem, of course, is that fusion reactors don't explode; they simply cease to function when they are damaged. There isn't even any radiation to speak of. This Line of Spit made it rather difficult to suspend my disbelief -- the aliens were just rubber suits or CGI, and the plot wasn't scary anymore. |
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