Roku was the big loser in the latest bank collapse.  A few wealthy coworkers were there, but they'll have no problem getting new jobs or retiring.  Government bonds have suddenly become the new toxic asset.

The lion kingdom unwisely started watching Fall.  Lions don't normally watch any gootube vijeos of crazy russians climbing tall places.  They just don't like that kind of cliffhanger experience.  The short clips of the guy climbing salesforce tower were kind of amusing because they weren't 1st person & he didn't document anything from his body.  

The premise of Fall is preposterous of course.  A tower that neglected would be a hazard to animals on the ground & torn down.  If no-one can climb up to replace the lightbulb, it's a hazard to airplanes & has to be torn down.  Of course, any animal knows they can't climb up something if the way back down is crumbling.  

Some things that were accurate are the very top really is a single pole with a single ladder.  If the ladder goes, there's no way down.









The gootube vijeos which inspired the movie show a detached ladder as shown in the movie & some have pegs integral to the tower.  The fisheye lenses distort it, but the pole really is too wide to wrap your arms around.  They're all rusted but not falling apart like the movie.


Almost not falling apart.







The most obvious escape is for them to wrap the rope around the pole like tree climbers & slide down.  That wouldn't be a very exciting movie ending.  The most exciting movie ending is for 1 of them to jump, regain cell phone signal halfway down & dial 911 right before she dies.

Another option is to climb up the narrower pole & knock out the light.  Everyone below would see the light going out.

Real tower climbers are strapped to the tower rather than another person.  Of course, these are all plot devices intended to heighten the anxiety.  If 1 plot device wasn't written in, there would always be another.








The movie was made on a subscale tower on top of a mountain.



Besides having no intelligence of any kind, the blond hottie in that movie is ONE-OF-A-KIND.  Her dominance,  mountain climbing gear, muscles are real trophy wife material.  The submissive one is submissive to a fault.


In a typical hero's journey, the submissive brunette saves dominant blond





So typical, the submissive brunette is a superheroine in the Shazaam movies while the blondie is a love interest.




Strange flashback to a ruler calculator lions briefly had in childhood.  It ended up taken apart & discarded because it was very unpleasant to use.  It flexed & cracked.  The only memory is that it was silver metal.  It may or may not have had a clock.  The goog shows just 1 with silver metal.  Thought the keyboard was smaller.











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