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Don't know if I have seen this posted in the past. It is quite possibly the stupetest of all time.
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Another depiction of pool on a TV series.
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I know of a pool room that is a little like the one in the show. They have fairly hi end dining with a scatter of pool, billiard and snooker tables. Very nice ice cream bar as well.
A 60 year old TV comedy show is not a realistic depiction of reality??? Shocking...
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The thing is, pool is not some obscure game that no one knows anything about. From the actors to Camara men to anyone on the set there must be at least a fraction of knowledge of the game.
There is no reason to depict it that rediclous. I am not talking about the plot, that was funny. I am talking about the technical nature of the game.
The set was good, they had like 5 tables set up to resemable a pool room. It was not done completely on the cheap. But then when it came to the actual playing of the game they didn't even try to create any authenticity. Fact is, it is just as easy to do it right.
Of course in the Hustler Fats banks a ball with balls open to shoot. Eddie says "this guy is great" after he has run half a rack seemingly out of position on every shot. So nothing has changed I all these years.
Not a realistic candy factory
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Lucy In The Candy factory was not meant to be legitimate it was done for comedy effect.Not a realistic candy factory
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The Hustler was just a grossly inaccurate depiction of straight pool. In the movie "Baltimore Bullet" playing straight pool the shooter calls three balls in one shot.
Mosconi who is in the movie playing an expert commentator, says, "Sounds a little reckless".
The thing is, you really don't see this with other sports. Even in a movie like Major League, the game itself is still depicted as baseball and the way baseball is played.
It's funny one of the better television episodes I've seen about pool, actually there's two. One was the Ben Casey show where Fred Astaire played a professional pool player it was very well done.
The second is an episode of gunsmoke called Cowtown Hustler with Jack Albertson and he plays a pool hustler in the 1880s. That was pretty entertaining I liked it.
The worst I ever saw was an episode of Mission Impossible where they played pool. Anybody who saw that knows what I'm talking about.
Apparently some episodes were comedy and others were somewhat flawed documentaries.
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They had to give them wired combos because lucy could barely hold a cue, how do you expect her to make anything else?
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Camara cuts and a stand in who could play a little plus some more realistic set ups. I set up a pool table for a movie and helped the actors do a few things that looked good. It's not hard to do it right.
Unfortunately none of it was in the movie. I had replaced the slate in a pos bar table I had with plywood. The table was to be flipped over in a fight.
The actor Robert Conrad still could not do it, or more was afraid of getting hurt. so I took the legs off the one side and just balanced it so it would tip over easly. Then the way they film it you are fooled as to what you saw.