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Double
A double is a look-alike or doppelgänger; one person or being that resembles another. Double, The Double or Dubble may also refer to: Film and television * Double (filmmaking), someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character * ''The Double'' (1934 film), a German crime comedy film * ''The Double'' (1971 film), an Italian film * ''The Double'' (2011 film), a spy thriller film * ''The Double'' (2013 film), a film based on the Dostoevsky novella * '' Kamen Rider Double'', a 2009–10 Japanese television series ** Kamen Rider Double (character), the protagonist in a Japanese television series of the same name Food and drink * Doppio, a double shot of espresso * Dubbel, a strong Belgian Trappist beer or, more generally, a strong brown ale * A drink order of two shots of hard liquor in one glass * A "double decker", a hamburger with two patties in a single bun Games * Double, action in games whereby a competitor raises the stakes ** , in contract bridge ** Dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Dragon
is a beat 'em up video game series initially developed by Technōs Japan and released as an arcade game in 1987. The series features twin martial artists, Billy and Jimmy Lee, as they fight against various adversaries and rivals. The original ''Double Dragon'' was a blockbuster hit arcade game, ushering in a "Golden Age" for the beat 'em up genre,Spencer, SpannerThe Tao of Beat-'em-ups (part 2) ''EuroGamer'', Feb 12, 2008, Accessed Mar 18, 2009Cassidy, William, ''Gamespy'', Jan 5, 2003, Accessed, March 24, 2009 resulting in a flood of beat 'em ups during the late 1980s to 1990s that followed the conventions set by ''Double Dragon''. Due to the popularity of the game series, a 1993 animated series and 1994 live-action film adaptation were produced; these adaptations were widely-panned by critics and audiences. The franchise is now the property of Arc System Works, the company that ported the original ''Double Dragon'' to the Sega Master System console in 1988. Game series Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Dash
(stylized as ''Mario Kart: Double Dash!!'') is a 2003 kart racing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. The game is the fourth main entry in the ''Mario Kart'' series and the third for home consoles after ''Mario Kart 64''. It was preceded by '' Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' for the Game Boy Advance in 2001 and was followed by the handheld game ''Mario Kart DS'', which was released for the Nintendo DS in 2005. It is the first game in the series to use 3D polygon graphics for the racers, as opposed to sprites. Similar to the previous titles, ''Double Dash'' challenges ''Mario'' series player characters to race against each other on ''Mario''-themed tracks. The game introduced a number of new gameplay features, such as supporting co-op gameplay with two riders per kart. One player drives the kart, and the other uses items. Players can switch at any time. ''Double Dash'' is the only game in the ''Mario Kart'' series to allow cooperative gameplay so f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Double (2013 Film)
''The Double'' is a 2013 British black comedy thriller film written and directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. It is based on the 1846 novella '' The Double'' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, about a man driven to breakdown when he is usurped by a doppelgänger. It was produced by Alcove Entertainment, with Michael Caine, Graeme Cox (Attercop), Tessa Ross (Film4) and Nigel Williams as executive producers. Plot Downtrodden Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) has worked at his office for seven years, but he is ignored by his boss, named The Colonel, and colleagues. From his apartment he spies on a beautiful co-worker he admires, Hannah ( Mia Wasikowska), who lives in the apartment opposite him. He sees her throwing away art and secretly retrieves and admires it. One night, Simon sees a man jump to his death from the floor above Hannah's apartment. He talks to detectives, who explain that if the man had jumped a few feet to the right, he would have been ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Double (Dostoevsky Novel)
''The Double: A Petersburg Poem'' (russian: Двойник. Петербургская поэма, Dvoynik. Peterburgskaya poema) is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on 30 January 1846 in the '' Otechestvennye zapiski''. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866. Plot summary In Saint Petersburg, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin works as a titular councillor (rank 9 in the Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great.), a low-level bureaucrat struggling to succeed. Golyadkin has a formative discussion with his Doctor Rutenspitz, who fears for his sanity and tells him that his behaviour is dangerously antisocial. He prescribes "cheerful company" as the remedy. Golyadkin resolves to try this, and leaves the office. He proceeds to a birthday party for Klara Olsufyevna, the daughter of his office manager. He was uninvited, and a series of ''faux pas'' lead to his expulsion from the party. On his way home through a snowstorm, he enco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doppelgänger
A doppelgänger (), a compound noun formed by combining the two nouns (double) and (walker or goer) (), doppelgaenger or doppelganger is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is often portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon and usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck. Other traditions and stories equate a doppelgänger with an evil twin. In modern times, the term twin stranger is occasionally used. Spelling The word ''doppelganger'' is a loanword from the German. The singular and plural forms are the same in German, but English writers usually prefer the plural "doppelgangers". The first known use, in the slightly different form ''Doppeltgänger'', occurs in the novel ''Siebenkäs'' (1796) by Jean Paul, in which he explains his newly coined word in a footnote; the word also appears in the novel, but with a different meaning. In German, the word is written (as is usual with German nouns) wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look-alike
A look-alike, double, or doppelgänger is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance. Some look-alikes have been notable individuals in their own right, such as Britain's King George V and Russia's Tsar Nicholas II, who bore a striking resemblance to each other (they were first cousins). Other notable look-alikes have been notable solely for resembling well-known individuals, such as Clifton James, who acted as a double for British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery during World War II. Some look-alikes who have resembled celebrities have worked as entertainers, impersonating them on stage and screen, or at venues like parties and corporate functions. Professional look-alikes have often been represented by talent agencies specializing in celebrity impersonators. Close physical resemblance between two or more individuals is also a common plot point in works of fiction. Notab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Double (2011 Film)
''The Double'' is a 2011 American spy film directed by Michael Brandt, written by Brandt and Derek Haas, and starring Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Stephen Moyer and Martin Sheen. The film tells the story about a retired CIA operative working with a rookie FBI agent to solve the murder of a US senator caused by a Soviet assassin. It was released on October 28, 2011. The film garnered negative reviews from critics, and was a box office bomb. Plot Two FBI agents are conducting surveillance at a warehouse. As U.S. Senator Dennis Darden walks out of the door, he is approached by an assassin from behind who slits his throat and escapes. The agents rush to the scene to find the man dead. However, they could not identify the assassin as he committed the murder in darkness. Later, CIA officers arrive on the scene and take charge. Retired operative Paul Shepherdson is summoned by CIA director Tom Highland to look into the murder. He is introduced to a young FBI agent, Ben Geary who is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double-precision Floating-point Format
Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point. Floating point is used to represent fractional values, or when a wider range is needed than is provided by fixed point (of the same bit width), even if at the cost of precision. Double precision may be chosen when the range or precision of single precision would be insufficient. In the IEEE 754-2008 standard, the 64-bit base-2 format is officially referred to as binary64; it was called double in IEEE 754-1985. IEEE 754 specifies additional floating-point formats, including 32-bit base-2 ''single precision'' and, more recently, base-10 representations. One of the first programming languages to provide single- and double-precision floating-point data types was Fortran. Before the widespread adoption of IEEE 754-1985, the representation a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ayako Noda. It began serialization on the manga website ''Flat Hero's'' in January 2019; its individual chapters have been collected into four volumes as of May 2021. A live-action television series adaptation premiered in June 2022. Media Manga Written and illustrated by Ayako Noda, the series began serialization on the ''Flat Hero's'' manga website on January 11, 2019. As of May 2021, four volumes have been released. In July 2021, Tokyopop announced they licensed the series for English publication. Volume list Live-action In March 2022, it was announced that the manga would be receiving a live-action television series adaptation. The series will be directed by Kazuhiro Nakagawa and scripted by Eriko Yoshida; Yudai Chiba and Kento Nagayama will perform the leads. It premiered on various Wowow networks on June 4, 2022. Reception As part of Anime News Network's winter 2021 manga preview guide, Rebecca Silverman an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double (filmmaking)
In filmmaking, a double is a person who substitutes FOR another actor such that the person's face is not shown. There are various terms associated with a double based on the specific body part or ability they serve as a double for, such as stunt double, "dance double", "butt double" and "hand double". Types of doubles Body double A body double or photography double is used in certain specific shots to replace the credited actor of a character. The body double's face is obscured to maintain the illusion that they are the same character; usually by shooting their body at an angle that leaves their face out (such as by showing the body double from the back) or in post-production by superimposing the original actor's face over the body double's. The double's face is usually not seen on-camera, particularly when they do not facially resemble the actor; a wig will usually be employed if the double's hair color is different from that of the main actor. This is in contrast to a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mega Man X4
''Mega Man X4'', originally released in Japan as , is a video game developed by Capcom. It is the fourth game in the ''Mega Man X'' series and the second game in the series to be released on the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. The two versions were released simultaneously in Japan in 1997. A North America release followed sometime thereafter, while Europe received only the PlayStation version in 1997. Taking place in the 22nd century, the ''Mega Man X'' series is set in a society populated by humans and intelligent robots called "Reploids". A military taskforce called the "Maverick Hunters" is implemented to suppress the uprising of "Mavericks", Reploids that begin to exhibit dangerous and destructive behavior. ''Mega Man X4'' follows two such hunters, X and Zero, as they become involved in a conflict between the Hunters and a Reploid army called the "Repliforce". ''Mega Man X4'' is an action-platform game in the same vein as other installments in the series. The player completes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider W
, is a 2009-2010 Japanese tokusatsu drama, the eleventh series in the Heisei period run of the Kamen Rider Series and the twentieth overall. It premiered following the finale of ''Kamen Rider Decade'' on September 6, 2009, and aired alongside '' Samurai Sentai Shinkenger'' in TV Asahi's Super Hero Time programming block. Following ''Shinkenger's'' finale, it aired alongside ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', until ''W'' concluded on August 29, 2010. The series is described as the . In the first episode of Kamen Rider Fourze, W is revealed to be in the same continuity as the original Showa timeline, making it the first series to do so since ''Kamen Rider Agito''. The series is notable for being the first installment in what's popularly viewed as Heisei era Kamen Rider's second phase by fans. A sequel manga series, ''Fuuto PI'', began serialization in August 2017 and an anime adaptation began airing in August 2022. Promotion Advertisements throughout the months of May, June, and July 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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