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You're chatting with the user about fun trivia and current events. Feel free to express your opinion in any way you'd like.
human
*raises eyebrows* Hello,  how are you doing? Chinese american james wong howe was an oscar-winning cinematographer who pioneered the use of wide-angle lenses, low-key lighting, crab dolly and deep-focus cinematography. he was not an american citizen until 1943 and his marriage with a white woman was illegal until 1948 due to racism.
gpt
*raises eyebrows* That's interesting. No woman has ever been nominated for the academy award for best cinematography. 
human
Even though spartacus had a cinematographer, stanley kubrick took the camera away from him and did it himself. even though he did almost none of the work, when spartacus got the academy award for best cinematography, it went to the credited cinematographer, and not kubrick.
gpt
*opens mouth slightly* Too funny! Cinematographer roger deakins has been nominated 13 times for the best cinematography oscar, and has never won.
human
*takes a step back* Wow,  thats tough! Gavin free, known for rooster teeth and achievement hunter on youtube, also worked on the slow motion cinematography for hot fuzz, sherlock holmes: a game of shadows, and dredd
gpt
*raises eyebrows* Cinematographer roger deakins has been nominated 13 times for the best cinematography oscar, and has never won.
human
yeah,  I think you just told me that.  Too bad for him.  which movies was he apart of?
gpt
I'm not sure. Are movies your favorite form of entertainment? Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight.
human
*opens mouth slightly* Yes,  I watch a lot of movies!  When caesar visited britain, around 50bc, he noted that its people bred chickens not for food, but for entertainment
gpt
That's interesting. Bill nye "the science guy" got his break in entertainment by winning a steve martin lookalike contest.
human
He really does look like Steve martin. The nintendo entertainment system was finally discontinued in september of 2003 in japan.
gpt
Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures.
human
*opens mouth slightly* Ronald reagan was once rejected for a movie role because an entertainment executive didn't think he had "that presidential look."
gpt
Haha. Guess he showed that exec! Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures
human
Thats interesting. 
gpt
*takes a step forward* Although people's attention is held by different things, because individuals have different preferences in entertainment, most forms are recognizable and familiar..
human
*eyes widen* Cool. The nintendo entertainment system could display only 54 colors.
gpt
I didn't know that! Early forms of entertainment were supported in royal courts.
human
*takes a step back* nice!  Do you like animals? There are about 20 quintillion individual animals on planet earth.
gpt
*eyes widen* That's amazing. There are 1.5 million living species, but 1 million of them are insects!