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September 7

Raising Arizona

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj6MlOaV50Y&feature=youtu.be

When the Unpainted Arizona commercial ends content wise, it doesn't stop but still goes on for a couple more seconds with Nathan Arizona pointing into the camera and pretending to be a freeze-frame. Why is that? Why didn't they actually freeze the footagee if they wanted a still image of the guy? Was this supposed to show that it was a local, non-professional commercial? 193.224.66.230 (talk) 13:09, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was done that way to highlight the fact that it was a low quality commercial. --Jayron32 13:13, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

• This reminds me of something I see and/or hallucinate fairly often on TV - corpses breathing. A freeze frame obviously would prevent it, and even making the performers hold their breath for a few seconds of filming should work. My guess in that case (I'm not watching this ad) is that the filmmakers believe, presumably correctly, that somewhere subconsciously the viewer wants to be "assured" and not actually see a jarring absolute freeze frame. Or maybe when you see the "corpse" breathing, it's not weird to view the actor/actress more sexually. But I don't know. Wnt (talk) 23:56, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

• • It's a Coen Brothers film. Knowing how exacting the Coen Brothers are in the details of their films, especially in the "look and feel" department, I would find it hard to believe that this commercial isn't the way it is deliberately, and for exactly the look of it. If it looks like a cheap commercial, that's because they wanted it to look that way. --Jayron32 02:24, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Paralympic classification

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics has a summary of the classifications from http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/athletics/classification/ . Can anyone find a link to the details of the classes? -- SGBailey (talk) 14:01, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

This links to a 77 page document on the clasification process. It's very detailed, but it doesn't seem to have a super-easy summary. hint hint -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 14:06, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

The UK's Channel 4 has a rather nice interactive classification tool called Lexi. You can find it at http://lexi.channel4.com. I'm not sure how well it works outside the UK and Ireland. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 14:13, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

For Wikipedia's articles about classifications in the Paralympics and other sports for people with disabilities, see Category:Disability sport classifications. Graham87 11:38, 8 September 2012 (UTC)