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Monday, September 27, 2010
Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.) Sep 24 - 26 weekend
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Akira kurasoa! A great Director!
He in his life as archived many milestones which would be a dream for any producer in the cinematic world. It is as a found out not very hard to find out information about this fascinating character as there are many sources to follow. So I am not going to post a complete biography about him from somewhere. Instead I will try to post as many as links as possible to watch his films or at least parts of them. Hope you will all enjoy it.
Sanshiro Sugata (1943) - Name of the film
Sadao Yamanaka Prize,The National Incentive Film Prize - Awards
LINK - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQxMzc5MTg4.html
Rashomon 1950 - Name of the film
Golden Lion(First prize),NBR Award,Honorary Award - Outstanding
Foreign Language Film - Awards
Rashomon (1950)
Ikiru (1952) - Name of the film
Kinema Jumpo Award,Mainichi Film Concours,Arts Festival,Special Prize of the
Senate of Berlin - Awards
LINK - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQ5NDgwNzY=.html
Seven Samurai - (1954) - Name of the film
Silver Lion of St. Mark (Second Prize),Diploma of Merit Awards
LINK - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU4NjAzNTIw.html
High and Low (1963) - Name of the film
Mainichi Film Concours,Golden Laurel Award - Awards
LINK - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTczOTQ4ODg0.html
Red Beard (1965)
Asahi Culture Prize,OCIC Award,Soviet Filmmakers' Association Prize,Million Pearl Award,NHK Award,NHK Award, Mainichi Film Concours,Kinema Jumpo Award - Awards
Link CD1
CD2
Dersu Uzala (1975)
FIPRESCI Prize, Best Foreign Language Film,David, Silver RibbonPrix Léon Moussinac, Golden Halo - Awards.
Part 1
Part 2
Kagemusha (1980)
Palme d'Or (First Prize) , Hochi Film Award,Blue Ribbon Award,Mainichi Film Concours, Reader's Choice Award,César,David,BAFTA Film Award,Silver Ribbon - Awards
Link - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTczOTQ4MjIw.html
Monday, September 20, 2010
Music.
MUSIC..
M - Minds
U - Under
S - surveillance
I - Into
C -conquest of self Music is a huge partition of entertainment. It is also known as a global language and a musician can and do talk to people around the globe without geological and language and any other such barriers. One cannot travel around the world without a proper passport and they will have to go under several difficult stages of procedures to do so. But a musician is above that ordinary line and with there music they can travel around the globe and rest in people's minds as there is no politician or ruler could stop or prohibit them to do so.And as the globalization of the world is happening it is now becoming even less difficult. A ruler may impair the musician if they don't like what they do.But there is one thing they cannot do. It is impairing there work. It will reach the people's mind sooner or later. It actually more powerful than any gun or bomb.
Music made the world much a smoother place. Scientist have already discovered that a proper music can put a human mind into ease and it can be used to minimize the tension of human mind. As this is becoming a more competitive place -the world- , it is recommended to listen to some proper, calm music whenever one could. It is also experimenting to use for some patients with some life-threatening conditions such as heart attacks. It is now a well known fact and scientifically proven that music can decrease the death rate of patients with heart problems from a significant percentage.And can be used to cure many mental or physical conditions particularly involved with stress.
One should be able to taste music. It is begin from when we are still in mothers womb. So it is a great responsible of a mother to if she is willing to produce a good person to the world, listen to good music. A mother can actually feel the different of it and when ever she listen to music the baby will stop kicking around and will listen to the music and even after birth the baby will show a special interest for the kind of music mother listened.
So it is clear the important of music and how it can change the world. There is a bad side of music too and I am not going to discuss it here. And please be noted that this is just a small partition of music and it's advantages we discussed here.
So lets hope for a better future with some nice music to hear to.
-SAM
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The My meaning of entertainment..
entertainment...
E - Endless
N - Noble
T - Temptation
E - Expanding
R- Reality
T - True
A - Awesome
I - Informative
N- Natural
M - Modesty
E - Evaluating
N - Needful
T - Target oriented ..
IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY I AM ALWAYS OPEN MINDED..
-SAM-
Friday, September 17, 2010
What is the important of art?
The topic I started just now is most probably be the one of most difficult one of all time. But I guess without any objection everyone will accept with me if I say that art is a compulsory for development of human mind. Of cause it is also varies according to the content of the artistic work. It doesn't matter weather it is a film, novel, drama or poem or any other form.But the inner idea echoing from the project is the part that effect by most to the society.
SO be alerted. But love art. It will save you and me and our society for sure.
SAM
Without any art people will be just zombies. Because art always pump liveliness to the human brain and that is the fuel which produce humanity among human. Even once in a while a person has to laugh.Or Else they will die due to the tension building up inside him. Specially in a society like this which is based upon money and corruption and power which push the society members to run as fast as possible to win the competition of life.
Have you ever though of the reason why the rate of suicide is so high? It of cause due to the highly competitive nature of this society. That is why we need plenty of art and artists who could pour some ice to the burning minds of human being.
Yes. Art can also turn other way around too. A bad art project mean a bad outcome for the society. So we as society members should monitor thoroughly and closely about art and artistic projects for our own safety. Imaging the effect of a bad art to a child. Which could even lead to provide a anti-socialist out of that child and there are hundreds of thousands of such incidents we can gather from around the world.
SO be alerted. But love art. It will save you and me and our society for sure.
SAM
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Mainstream Films With Hardcore Sex Scenes
Well you might wonder that you only could witness hardcore scenes via blue films. But it is not true and I am going to give you few proofs to let you believe that I am correct!
1.9 Songs
This one is a love story and it contains some really explicit scenes which made the film more controversial than other modern love stories.
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Produced by Andrew Eaton
Written by Michael Winterbottom
Starring Kieran O'Brien,
Margo Stilley
2.Battle In Heaven (Mexican-French-German film)
This is a film about a couple who kidnapped a baby. The baby dies accidiently and then comes events following that incident..
Starring Marcos Hernández
Anapola Mushkadiz
Berta Ruiz
3. All About Anna
This is a story about a girl name Anna and her two lovers. One is her present lover and the other one is coming back to her life after long lost for 5 years. This leads to some troubles..
Starring Gry Bay
Mark Stevens
Eileen Daly
4.Intimacy
This story is about a musician and his lover girl. This film actually brought the main actress a award in berlin film festival.
Starring Timothy Spall, Fraser Ayres, Mark Rylance
5. Baise-Moi
This one is involved with violent. Plenty of killings also going on. The story which is build around two girls named Nadine and Manu is originally taken from a novel.
Starring Karen Lancaume, Raffaëla Anderson, Céline Beugnot
6. Shortbus
This is a comedy type film. It is about some group of youngsters and there activities which are sometimes not ordinary at all.
Starring Sook-Yin Lee
Paul Dawson
Lindsay Beamish
PJ DeBoy
7. Anatomy of Hell
It contains a different kind of story. This is about a woman who tried to kill her self and her rescuer. Then she gives him a hell of a show.
Starring Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Alexandre Belin.
8. The Brown Bunny
This one is about a motorcycle racer who is on a cross country ride with his haunting memories about a lover.
Starring Vincent Gallo, Chloë Sevigny, Cheryl Tiegs
9. Ken Park
This one is a odd one about some neighborhood teenagers. Their out of ordinary behaviorism is subjected to this film in an odd way.
Starring James Bullard, Eddie Daniels, Maeve Quinlan.
10. Romance
This story is build up around a girl named Marie and her boyfriend and the struggle between them as he is not anymore having intimacy relationship with her.
Starring Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François
1.9 Songs
This one is a love story and it contains some really explicit scenes which made the film more controversial than other modern love stories.
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Produced by Andrew Eaton
Written by Michael Winterbottom
Starring Kieran O'Brien,
Margo Stilley
2.Battle In Heaven (Mexican-French-German film)
This is a film about a couple who kidnapped a baby. The baby dies accidiently and then comes events following that incident..
Starring Marcos Hernández
Anapola Mushkadiz
Berta Ruiz
3. All About Anna
This is a story about a girl name Anna and her two lovers. One is her present lover and the other one is coming back to her life after long lost for 5 years. This leads to some troubles..
Starring Gry Bay
Mark Stevens
Eileen Daly
4.Intimacy
This story is about a musician and his lover girl. This film actually brought the main actress a award in berlin film festival.
Starring Timothy Spall, Fraser Ayres, Mark Rylance
5. Baise-Moi
This one is involved with violent. Plenty of killings also going on. The story which is build around two girls named Nadine and Manu is originally taken from a novel.
Starring Karen Lancaume, Raffaëla Anderson, Céline Beugnot
6. Shortbus
This is a comedy type film. It is about some group of youngsters and there activities which are sometimes not ordinary at all.
Starring Sook-Yin Lee
Paul Dawson
Lindsay Beamish
PJ DeBoy
7. Anatomy of Hell
It contains a different kind of story. This is about a woman who tried to kill her self and her rescuer. Then she gives him a hell of a show.
Starring Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Alexandre Belin.
8. The Brown Bunny
This one is about a motorcycle racer who is on a cross country ride with his haunting memories about a lover.
Starring Vincent Gallo, Chloë Sevigny, Cheryl Tiegs
9. Ken Park
This one is a odd one about some neighborhood teenagers. Their out of ordinary behaviorism is subjected to this film in an odd way.
Starring James Bullard, Eddie Daniels, Maeve Quinlan.
10. Romance
This story is build up around a girl named Marie and her boyfriend and the struggle between them as he is not anymore having intimacy relationship with her.
Starring Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Hi to all.
This is my first post and I think it is fair to do some introducing first. I am by nature a film maniac. I do nothing but watching films in most of my leisure time. So I am so concerned about what is going on around the film industry.
In fact that is the reason I choose to begin a blog to get connected with the rest of the world to exchange everything and anything about movies,films and etc.. with you guys..
Hope you will enjoy my blog..
-SAM -
This is my first post and I think it is fair to do some introducing first. I am by nature a film maniac. I do nothing but watching films in most of my leisure time. So I am so concerned about what is going on around the film industry.
In fact that is the reason I choose to begin a blog to get connected with the rest of the world to exchange everything and anything about movies,films and etc.. with you guys..
Hope you will enjoy my blog..
THANK YOU!
-SAM -
Sunday, September 12, 2010
THE TWILIGHT SAGA
Hi to all,
I think it is a good think to begin my new posting episode with somthing magnificent. It infact is a movie which took my heart very dearly. In fact I happned to watch the 3rd film first and by watching it impulsed me to watch the other two episodes.
he Twilight Saga is a series of romance fantasy films from Summit Entertainment based on the four Twilight series novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. The films star Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The series has grossed over $1.7 billion in worldwide receipts and consists, to date, of three motion pictures.
Twilight
This is the begiuning of the story. You should watch this episode to understand the inter-connections between characters.It was released on November 21, 2008.The film focuses on the development of a relationship between human teenager Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen, and the subsequent efforts of Cullen and his family to keep Swan safe from a coven of evil vampires.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
In this episode the two lovers get parted temporally only to understand they love each other more than enything in the world. This episode also very sweet and romantic.
The film was released on November 20, 2009 in most countries, and set domestic box office records as the biggest midnight screening, grossing $26.3 million, which was superseded by its sequel, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. This led to the highest single day, domestic gross on an opening day, with $72.7 million. Furthermore, New Moon opened with the third highest domestic opening weekend grossing a total of $142,839,137. The film also became the highest grossing film released by Summit Entertainment, and was the widest independent release, playing in over 4,100 theaters in its theatrical run, until it was surpassed by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
This is the episode in which Bella spined herself between her vampire lover and werewoulf lover. But don't worry she still managed to find out where her true love lies.
WAIT...
It is not all.. Even though these are the whole number of films belonged to this film series we can still hope for another one. Because in novel series another book is still remains.
It is "Breaking Dawn"..
In which Bella will get married and will be married to her vampire lover Edward..
Monday, January 25, 2010
Top 10 Hitman Movies
10. Kill Bill Vol. 2
The opening of Volume 2 greatly reprises the opening scenes of the first volume, the wedding rehearsal scenes and massacre. We are briefly introduced to The Bride, her groom-to-be, and their friends, before Bill arrives. Bill convinces The Bride that he has gracefully accepted her decision, and agrees to pose as her father as a cover story for everyone else. The Deadly Vipers then arrive and begin the massacre of everyone in the church. The film then cuts to the Bride driving her car to Bill’s location, as he is now the last on her death list.
Bill ventures to the California desert to warn his brother Budd (Michael Madsen), another former Deadly Viper, that the Bride will come for him next. Budd, now an overweight alcoholic, has put his assassin days behind him, living in a trailer and working as a bouncer at a local strip club, where he is verbally abused and generally treated poorly by the manager. The Bride arrives at Budd’s trailer that night, but Budd shoots her in the chest with rock salt and injects her with a sedative. Budd calls Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and offers to sell her the Bride’s Hanz? sword for $1 million. Budd then buries the Bride alive with a flashlight in a grave.
9. Kill Bill Vol.1
The Bride (Uma Thurman) is a former assassin and lover of a man named Bill (David Carradine), her former boss. Pregnant, and wanting to move beyond the life of an assassin to raise the child, she left him, and was about to marry another man. Bill and his other assassins, the four Deadly Vipers, arrive at the El Paso wedding chapel during the wedding rehearsal, and massacre everyone at the chapel. She attempts to tell her would-be killer, Bill (Carradine), that the baby is his, but he shoots her in the side of her head, leaving her in a coma.
8. Collateral
Cab driver Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) drives U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrell (Jada Pinkett Smith) to work. During the drive, she tells him about an upcoming case she’s prosecuting and he tells her about his dream of owning his own limousine service. Annie leaves Max her business card. Moments later, Max picks up a man named Vincent (Tom Cruise), who was seen earlier exchanging a briefcase with a stranger (Jason Statham) at Los Angeles International Airport.
Vincent directs him to a tenement building, and impressed with Max’s efficiency, asks him to be his personal chauffeur for his remaining stops. Max reluctantly agrees for extra pay. Minutes later, a body drops onto the cab. Max realizes Vincent killed the man, and unable to escape, he is forced to help Vincent.
7. Road To Perdition
Michael Sullivan, Sr. (Tom Hanks) is a mob enforcer for John Rooney (Paul Newman), an Irish American organized crime boss in Illinois during the Great Depression and the Al Capone mob-rule era. Sullivan is an orphan raised by Rooney who has worked most of his life for the crime boss, who looks at Sullivan as a second son.
Rooney’s actual son Connor (Daniel Craig), joined by Sullivan, goes to a warehouse for a meeting with Finn McGovern (Ciarán Hinds), a disgruntled employee. Twelve-year-old Michael Sullivan, Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin) hides in his father’s car and witnesses Connor’s impulsive killing of McGovern.
Sullivan swears his son to secrecy, but Connor decides to hush these witnesses forever. He ruthlessly murders Sullivan’s wife Annie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the couple’s younger son Peter (Liam Aiken), mistakenly thinking he has murdered young Michael. Sullivan and his remaining son flee to Chicago.
6. Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (1994) is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did costars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman.
5. The Bourne Identity
A crew of Italian fishermen find a man (Matt Damon) floating in the Mediterranean, with two gunshot wounds in his back. While treating the unconscious body, the ship’s medical officer finds a device with the number of a safe deposit box embedded in the man’s hip. The man wakes up, and discovers he is suffering from psychogenic amnesia. Over the next few days on the ship, the man finds he is fluent in several languages and can perform uncommon tasks such as sea navigation and tying exotic knots in the ship’s ropes, but he cannot remember anything about himself including his identity or why he was found in the ocean. When the ship docks in Imperia, he sets off for Zürich to investigate the safety deposit box.
At the CIA headquarters in Langley, Deputy Director Ward Abbott finds out about a failed assassination attempt on dictator Nykwana Wombosi. Meanwhile in Zürich, the amnesiac is approached by two police officers and when they attempt to arrest him, he knocks them both unconscious using advanced hand-to-hand combat.
4. Wanted
The hitman thriller goes into overkill when office nobody James McAvoy is inducted into a 1000-year-old fraternity of super-assassins by pistol-packing Angelina Jolie and her boss Morgan Freeman. Based on the ultraviolent comic books and orchestrated by the director of Russian blockbusters Night Watch and Day Watch, it’s a brain-blowing symphony of somersaulting vehicles, gravity-defying gunplay… and exploding rodents.
3. The Bourne Supremacy
Two years after the events in The Bourne Identity, Bourne and his girlfriend, Marie Kreutz, are living in Goa, India. Bourne is beginning to recover some of his memories, and he is troubled by disjointed flashbacks of an assassination he carried out in The Brecker Hotel in Berlin. Meanwhile, in Berlin, a CIA officer under Deputy Director Pamela Landy is trading $3 million for the “Neski Files”, documents about the theft of $20 million from the CIA seven years earlier. During the exchange, a Russian assassin named Kirill arrives to intercept the selling. He plants two bombs in the basement electrical circuit: one on the main and the other on a subline with Jason Bourne’s fingerprint. The bomb on the main line kills the power while Kirill kills the agent and the source, and steals the files and money, which he gives to Russian oil magnate Yuri Gretkov.
2. Mr & Mrs Smith
The film opens with John (Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple has been married for “five or six” years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities. They quickly fell in love and were married. John later states that Jane “looked like Christmas morning” to him on the day they met.
1. The Bourne Ultimatum
Wounded by a gunshot from Russian assassin Kirill (in the previous film, The Bourne Supremacy), Jason Bourne evades Moscow police, treats his wound after breaking into a hospital, and goes into hiding. Six weeks later, The Guardian correspondent Simon Ross meets with someone to discuss Bourne and Operation Treadstone. The CIA begin tracking Ross after he mentions “Operation Blackbriar” over a cell phone call. Bourne contacts Ross to meet with him after learning that Ross has been investigating Operation Treadstone, but realizes that the CIA are tracking Ross. Bourne helps Ross evade CIA teams trying to capture him, but Ross deviates from Bourne’s instructions and is killed by Blackbriar assassin Paz on orders from Operation Blackbriar’s director Noah Vosen. Pamela Landy, who had hunted Bourne six weeks earlier unsuccessfully, is brought in to help Vosen. After searching Ross’ notes, they figure out that Ross’ source was Neal Daniels, CIA Station Chief in Madrid, who was formerly involved in Treadstone and actively involved in Blackbriar. Bourne, having taken Ross’ bag shortly after he was killed, is led to Daniels’ office Madrid but finds it empty. After he subdues a CIA team sent by Vosen and Landy, Nicky Parsons arrives. She decides to help Bourne, telling him that Daniels has fled to Tangier and helping him escape another incoming CIA team.
The opening of Volume 2 greatly reprises the opening scenes of the first volume, the wedding rehearsal scenes and massacre. We are briefly introduced to The Bride, her groom-to-be, and their friends, before Bill arrives. Bill convinces The Bride that he has gracefully accepted her decision, and agrees to pose as her father as a cover story for everyone else. The Deadly Vipers then arrive and begin the massacre of everyone in the church. The film then cuts to the Bride driving her car to Bill’s location, as he is now the last on her death list.
Bill ventures to the California desert to warn his brother Budd (Michael Madsen), another former Deadly Viper, that the Bride will come for him next. Budd, now an overweight alcoholic, has put his assassin days behind him, living in a trailer and working as a bouncer at a local strip club, where he is verbally abused and generally treated poorly by the manager. The Bride arrives at Budd’s trailer that night, but Budd shoots her in the chest with rock salt and injects her with a sedative. Budd calls Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and offers to sell her the Bride’s Hanz? sword for $1 million. Budd then buries the Bride alive with a flashlight in a grave.
9. Kill Bill Vol.1
The Bride (Uma Thurman) is a former assassin and lover of a man named Bill (David Carradine), her former boss. Pregnant, and wanting to move beyond the life of an assassin to raise the child, she left him, and was about to marry another man. Bill and his other assassins, the four Deadly Vipers, arrive at the El Paso wedding chapel during the wedding rehearsal, and massacre everyone at the chapel. She attempts to tell her would-be killer, Bill (Carradine), that the baby is his, but he shoots her in the side of her head, leaving her in a coma.
8. Collateral
Cab driver Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) drives U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrell (Jada Pinkett Smith) to work. During the drive, she tells him about an upcoming case she’s prosecuting and he tells her about his dream of owning his own limousine service. Annie leaves Max her business card. Moments later, Max picks up a man named Vincent (Tom Cruise), who was seen earlier exchanging a briefcase with a stranger (Jason Statham) at Los Angeles International Airport.
Vincent directs him to a tenement building, and impressed with Max’s efficiency, asks him to be his personal chauffeur for his remaining stops. Max reluctantly agrees for extra pay. Minutes later, a body drops onto the cab. Max realizes Vincent killed the man, and unable to escape, he is forced to help Vincent.
7. Road To Perdition
Michael Sullivan, Sr. (Tom Hanks) is a mob enforcer for John Rooney (Paul Newman), an Irish American organized crime boss in Illinois during the Great Depression and the Al Capone mob-rule era. Sullivan is an orphan raised by Rooney who has worked most of his life for the crime boss, who looks at Sullivan as a second son.
Rooney’s actual son Connor (Daniel Craig), joined by Sullivan, goes to a warehouse for a meeting with Finn McGovern (Ciarán Hinds), a disgruntled employee. Twelve-year-old Michael Sullivan, Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin) hides in his father’s car and witnesses Connor’s impulsive killing of McGovern.
Sullivan swears his son to secrecy, but Connor decides to hush these witnesses forever. He ruthlessly murders Sullivan’s wife Annie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the couple’s younger son Peter (Liam Aiken), mistakenly thinking he has murdered young Michael. Sullivan and his remaining son flee to Chicago.
6. Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (1994) is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did costars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman.
5. The Bourne Identity
A crew of Italian fishermen find a man (Matt Damon) floating in the Mediterranean, with two gunshot wounds in his back. While treating the unconscious body, the ship’s medical officer finds a device with the number of a safe deposit box embedded in the man’s hip. The man wakes up, and discovers he is suffering from psychogenic amnesia. Over the next few days on the ship, the man finds he is fluent in several languages and can perform uncommon tasks such as sea navigation and tying exotic knots in the ship’s ropes, but he cannot remember anything about himself including his identity or why he was found in the ocean. When the ship docks in Imperia, he sets off for Zürich to investigate the safety deposit box.
At the CIA headquarters in Langley, Deputy Director Ward Abbott finds out about a failed assassination attempt on dictator Nykwana Wombosi. Meanwhile in Zürich, the amnesiac is approached by two police officers and when they attempt to arrest him, he knocks them both unconscious using advanced hand-to-hand combat.
4. Wanted
The hitman thriller goes into overkill when office nobody James McAvoy is inducted into a 1000-year-old fraternity of super-assassins by pistol-packing Angelina Jolie and her boss Morgan Freeman. Based on the ultraviolent comic books and orchestrated by the director of Russian blockbusters Night Watch and Day Watch, it’s a brain-blowing symphony of somersaulting vehicles, gravity-defying gunplay… and exploding rodents.
3. The Bourne Supremacy
Two years after the events in The Bourne Identity, Bourne and his girlfriend, Marie Kreutz, are living in Goa, India. Bourne is beginning to recover some of his memories, and he is troubled by disjointed flashbacks of an assassination he carried out in The Brecker Hotel in Berlin. Meanwhile, in Berlin, a CIA officer under Deputy Director Pamela Landy is trading $3 million for the “Neski Files”, documents about the theft of $20 million from the CIA seven years earlier. During the exchange, a Russian assassin named Kirill arrives to intercept the selling. He plants two bombs in the basement electrical circuit: one on the main and the other on a subline with Jason Bourne’s fingerprint. The bomb on the main line kills the power while Kirill kills the agent and the source, and steals the files and money, which he gives to Russian oil magnate Yuri Gretkov.
2. Mr & Mrs Smith
The film opens with John (Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple has been married for “five or six” years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities. They quickly fell in love and were married. John later states that Jane “looked like Christmas morning” to him on the day they met.
1. The Bourne Ultimatum
Wounded by a gunshot from Russian assassin Kirill (in the previous film, The Bourne Supremacy), Jason Bourne evades Moscow police, treats his wound after breaking into a hospital, and goes into hiding. Six weeks later, The Guardian correspondent Simon Ross meets with someone to discuss Bourne and Operation Treadstone. The CIA begin tracking Ross after he mentions “Operation Blackbriar” over a cell phone call. Bourne contacts Ross to meet with him after learning that Ross has been investigating Operation Treadstone, but realizes that the CIA are tracking Ross. Bourne helps Ross evade CIA teams trying to capture him, but Ross deviates from Bourne’s instructions and is killed by Blackbriar assassin Paz on orders from Operation Blackbriar’s director Noah Vosen. Pamela Landy, who had hunted Bourne six weeks earlier unsuccessfully, is brought in to help Vosen. After searching Ross’ notes, they figure out that Ross’ source was Neal Daniels, CIA Station Chief in Madrid, who was formerly involved in Treadstone and actively involved in Blackbriar. Bourne, having taken Ross’ bag shortly after he was killed, is led to Daniels’ office Madrid but finds it empty. After he subdues a CIA team sent by Vosen and Landy, Nicky Parsons arrives. She decides to help Bourne, telling him that Daniels has fled to Tangier and helping him escape another incoming CIA team.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Top 6 Most Expensive Movies Ever Made
Making the film was not cheap. People spend a lot of money to do this. Prove is this list. To show you that this is true, we made a list of 6 most expensive movies ever made. Take a look, and enjoy.
King Kong – $207 million
King Kong is a monster (a gigantic ape) that has appeared in several films since 1933. These include the groundbreaking 1933 film King Kong, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005, as well as various sequels. The character has become one of the world’s most famous movie icons and, as such, has transcended the medium, appearing in other works outside of films, such as a cartoon series, books, comics, various merchandise and paraphernalia, video games, theme park rides, and even an upcoming stage play. His role in the different narratives varies from source to source, ranging from rampaging monster to tragic antihero. The rights to the character are currently held by Universal Studios, with limited rights held by the estate of Merian C. Cooper, and perhaps certain rights in the public domain.
X-Men: The Last Stand – $210 million
X-Men: The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film and the third in the X-Men series. It is directed by Brett Ratner, who took over when Bryan Singer dropped out to direct Superman Returns. The movie revolves around a “mutant cure” that causes serious repercussions among mutants and humans, and on the mysterious resurrection of Jean Grey, who appeared to have died in X2. The film is loosely based on two X-Men comic book story arcs: writer Chris Claremont’s and artist John Byrne’s “Dark Phoenix Saga” in The Uncanny X-Men and writer Joss Whedon’s and artist John Cassaday’s six-issue “Gifted” arc in Astonishing X-Men.
The film was released on May 26, 2006 in the United States and Canada. Despite mixed reviews from critics and fans, the film became successful at the box office. Its opening-day gross of $45.5 million is the fourth-highest on record while its opening weekend gross of $103 million is the fifth highest ever.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – $225 million
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is a 2006 adventure film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the sequel to the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and the first film from Walt Disney Pictures to feature the current logo (even though the trailer and commercials of the movie showed one of the two previous logos). The film was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The movie received 4 Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.
The story picks up from where the first film left off when Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) discovers his debt to the villainous Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) is due, while Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) for helping Jack Sparrow escape execution.
The film was shot back-to-back with the third film during 2005, and was released in Australia and the United Kingdom on July 6, 2006, and in the United States and Canada on July 7, 2006. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for its special effects and criticism for its confusing plot and lengthy running time. Despite this, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest set several records in its first three days, with an opening weekend of $136 million in the United States, and became the third movie ever to gross over $1 billion in the worldwide box office, behind Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and is therefore Walt Disney Pictures’ most financially successful film. The budget for this movie was estimated at $225 million.
Spider-Man 3 – $258 million
Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 superhero film written and directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the third film in the Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard.
The film begins with Peter Parker basking in his success as Spider-Man, while Mary Jane Watson continues her Broadway career. Harry Osborn still seeks vengeance for his father’s death, and an escaped convict, Flint Marko, falls into a particle accelerator and is transformed into a shape-shifting sand manipulator. An extraterrestrial symbiote crashes to Earth and bonds with Peter, influencing his behavior for the worse. When Parker abandons the symbiote, it finds refuge in Eddie Brock, a rival photographer, causing Peter to face his greatest challenge.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – $300
million
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is a 2007 adventure film, the third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The plot follows Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), from Davy Jones’s Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who plan to extinguish piracy. Gore Verbinski directed the film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with the preceding film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
James Cameron’s Avatar – $500 million
Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 16, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. The film is Lightstorm Entertainment’s latest project, and focuses on an epic conflict on a far-away world called Pandora, where humans and the native species of Pandora, the Na’vi, engage in war over the planet’s resources and existence.
The film will be released in 2D and 3D formats, along with an IMAX 3D release in selected theaters. The film is being touted as a breakthrough in terms of filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and stereoscopic filmmaking with cameras that were specially designed for the film’s production, and has already been slated for two awards
King Kong – $207 million
King Kong is a monster (a gigantic ape) that has appeared in several films since 1933. These include the groundbreaking 1933 film King Kong, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005, as well as various sequels. The character has become one of the world’s most famous movie icons and, as such, has transcended the medium, appearing in other works outside of films, such as a cartoon series, books, comics, various merchandise and paraphernalia, video games, theme park rides, and even an upcoming stage play. His role in the different narratives varies from source to source, ranging from rampaging monster to tragic antihero. The rights to the character are currently held by Universal Studios, with limited rights held by the estate of Merian C. Cooper, and perhaps certain rights in the public domain.
X-Men: The Last Stand – $210 million
X-Men: The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film and the third in the X-Men series. It is directed by Brett Ratner, who took over when Bryan Singer dropped out to direct Superman Returns. The movie revolves around a “mutant cure” that causes serious repercussions among mutants and humans, and on the mysterious resurrection of Jean Grey, who appeared to have died in X2. The film is loosely based on two X-Men comic book story arcs: writer Chris Claremont’s and artist John Byrne’s “Dark Phoenix Saga” in The Uncanny X-Men and writer Joss Whedon’s and artist John Cassaday’s six-issue “Gifted” arc in Astonishing X-Men.
The film was released on May 26, 2006 in the United States and Canada. Despite mixed reviews from critics and fans, the film became successful at the box office. Its opening-day gross of $45.5 million is the fourth-highest on record while its opening weekend gross of $103 million is the fifth highest ever.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – $225 million
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is a 2006 adventure film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the sequel to the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and the first film from Walt Disney Pictures to feature the current logo (even though the trailer and commercials of the movie showed one of the two previous logos). The film was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The movie received 4 Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.
The story picks up from where the first film left off when Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) discovers his debt to the villainous Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) is due, while Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) for helping Jack Sparrow escape execution.
The film was shot back-to-back with the third film during 2005, and was released in Australia and the United Kingdom on July 6, 2006, and in the United States and Canada on July 7, 2006. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for its special effects and criticism for its confusing plot and lengthy running time. Despite this, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest set several records in its first three days, with an opening weekend of $136 million in the United States, and became the third movie ever to gross over $1 billion in the worldwide box office, behind Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and is therefore Walt Disney Pictures’ most financially successful film. The budget for this movie was estimated at $225 million.
Spider-Man 3 – $258 million
Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 superhero film written and directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the third film in the Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard.
The film begins with Peter Parker basking in his success as Spider-Man, while Mary Jane Watson continues her Broadway career. Harry Osborn still seeks vengeance for his father’s death, and an escaped convict, Flint Marko, falls into a particle accelerator and is transformed into a shape-shifting sand manipulator. An extraterrestrial symbiote crashes to Earth and bonds with Peter, influencing his behavior for the worse. When Parker abandons the symbiote, it finds refuge in Eddie Brock, a rival photographer, causing Peter to face his greatest challenge.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – $300
million
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is a 2007 adventure film, the third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The plot follows Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), from Davy Jones’s Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who plan to extinguish piracy. Gore Verbinski directed the film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with the preceding film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
James Cameron’s Avatar – $500 million
Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 16, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. The film is Lightstorm Entertainment’s latest project, and focuses on an epic conflict on a far-away world called Pandora, where humans and the native species of Pandora, the Na’vi, engage in war over the planet’s resources and existence.
The film will be released in 2D and 3D formats, along with an IMAX 3D release in selected theaters. The film is being touted as a breakthrough in terms of filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and stereoscopic filmmaking with cameras that were specially designed for the film’s production, and has already been slated for two awards
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra!
Sienna Miller
Directed by Stephen Sommers
Starring Channing Tatum,Sienna Miller,Christopher Eccleston
I will begin the this story with my full approval for this film as a non-boring action packed film. It is about the upcoming future and so, full of scientific stuffs. Me, as a someone easily get board with such stuffs would like to say honestly that the creators of this film done a real good job to use those would be boring stuffs to boost the action packed nature of the film. So here is a big salute for them who did a marvels job.
It is actually not a SE-fi. But a SE-fi war film. About a group of hi-tech solders. They, as usually does once again saves the world from evil. It dosen't matter whether you are in future of past, there still are some villains left and also heroes who saves the world by risking there own lives. (THANK GOD!!)
Anyway the important think is the ability of the creators to present the storyline without any flow and with this film they have done a perfect job!
(And I loved the way Sienna Miller walked! Wow!! It is mind-blowing. So I decided to post some of her nice pics).
ENJOY!
Tailer,
Monday, December 28, 2009
10 Most Controversial Sex Scenes
Hedy Lamarr’s Orgasm in Ecstasy (Gustav Machaty, 1933)
This notorious Czechoslovakian production wasn’t the first non-pornographic film to depict sexual intercourse, but it is considered the first theatrically released movie to feature an actress (Hedy Lamarr, in her star-making role) simulating an orgasm onscreen. Censorship, bans and denouncements of the film from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Adolph Hitler and Pope Pius XII were partly due to Lamarr’s infamous non-sexual nude scene, but the close-ups on the actress’ face as she expresses sexual pleasure were certainly as objectionable, if not more so, for the time.
The “Rape of the Christ” in The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
A film so controversial that it’s still very difficult to see it in its (existing) entirety, Ken Russell’s The Devils initially had such blasphemous sequences as the infamous “Rape of Christ,” which features possessed nuns masturbating with crucifixes and effigies of Jesus. Yes, we can count masturbation as sex, though in this film and in The Exorcist, which also includes masturbation with a cross, we might better classify the acts as rape. But the difficulty of distinction only adds to its controversial nature, doesn’t it?
Sweetback Loses His Virginity in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
Considering Melvin Van Peebles actually performed most of the sex acts he’s seen engaged in in this seminal Blaxploitation film, it’s quite possible that young Mario Van Peebles’ sex scene was similarly unsimulated. Of course, that would have been illegal, since Mario was only 13. Even if there was no actual intercourse occurring, though, the scene is controversial for the boy’s nudity and energetic performance during the title character’s moment of sexual awakening with a prostitute.
Sex with Chickens in Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972)
Bestiality scenes can be quite controversial (see the cat rape in Leolo, for example), but animal rights groups have less to protest with a film that merely simulates animal cruelty than a film like Pink Flamingos, which definitely appears to be exploiting and harming a live chicken during an infamous moment of lovemaking between two characters who crush the fowl between them. It may not be the most disturbing moment of the film, but it is one of the more contentious.
Fisting Scene in Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980)
Long before Brokeback Mountain and Milk were protested for their tasteful depictions of homosexual lovemaking (Christian groups predictably slammed them for being gay propaganda), Cruising was controversial for depicting gay sex as fetishistic, depraved and violent (gay groups slammed it for being anti-gay). The film originally opened with a disclaimer stating that it portrays only “one segment” of the “homosexual world” and is “not meant to be representative of the whole,” but it didn’t help matters. The film was still considered homophobic, failed at the box office, and worst of all, led to copycat crimes against gays.
The Introduction of Frank Booth in Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Like most erotic films made by respected arthouse filmmakers, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet polarized critics and audiences and was met with both Oscar recognition and protests. Most of the controversy concerned the film’s most infamous scene, criticized for being misogynistic as well as depraved, in which Dennis Hopper inhales oxygen and engages in abusive sexual activity with Isabella Rosellini while being watched by Kyle Maclachlan. David Cronenberg would be met with a similar mix of praise and disgust ten years later, with the controversial auto-accident-fetish film Crash.
Jesus Has Sex in The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
Obviously Christian groups would get upset with a film that depicts Jesus (Willem Dafoe) in a sex scene with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey), and so it was no surprise that protests began many months prior to the release of The Last Temptation of Christ when such a scene was first reported to exist. Never mind that the scene is only part of a dream/vision Jesus has while being tempted by Satan and is not exploitive. Many would continue to slam the film without even watching it. One French Catholic group famously went to see it, but only to throw a Molotov cocktail at the screen.
The Opening Scene in Kids (Larry Clark, 1995)
Though controversial for many, many reasons and scenes, particularly the tragic rape scene at the end, Kids was met with protest from the very first shot, which features a depiction of a 17-year-old boy (Leo Fitzpatrick) deflowering a 12-year-old girl (Sarah Henderson). Many viewers questioned the legality or morality of employing this seemingly age-appropriate actress, critics called it borderline kiddy porn, and the filmmakers constantly had to assure audiences that she was in fact 18. The film had its share of protests and distribution problems, but fortunately for the filmmakers, it was made and released before the signing of the Child Pornography Prevention Act, unlike…
Humbert and Lolita Play a Game in Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997)
Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel was obviously controversial for its semi-incestuous, pedophilic sex scenes, even though they were only hinted at and occurred off screen. 35 years later, in an era thought to be more progressive and allowing, Adrian Lyne’s version was just as objectionable, if not more so, because it left less to the imagination. One sex scene carefully substituted a 19-year-old body double for 15-year-old actress Dominique Swain, but despite the fact that plenty of movies had employed legal-aged girls portraying underage characters in nude and sex scenes before, Lyne’s Lolita was unfortunately being filmed just as President Clinton signed the Child Pornography Prevention Act. This banned even virtual child pornography, which Lolita’s sex scene might be considered to be, so Lyne videotaped the making of all questionable scenes in case he needed to produce evidence in court that his film falls into the boundaries of the law. Of course, legal or not, the film became a difficult sell to audiences and failed to find proper theatrical distribution. Meanwhile, after five years, the Child Pornography Prevention Act was struck down in 2002 for being too broad.
Nazi Commits Statutory Rape in The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
This wasn’t the first film to depict an underage boy having sex with an older woman, nor was it the first to incite protests regarding the double standard of statutory rape being more acceptable when the minor is male. But due to its added controversy of involving a former Nazi (Kate Winslet), whose humanity is defended through the film’s early lovemaking and romance scenes, The Reader makes it onto this list instead of other titles (which due to the double standard aren’t even seen as that controversial anyway).
This notorious Czechoslovakian production wasn’t the first non-pornographic film to depict sexual intercourse, but it is considered the first theatrically released movie to feature an actress (Hedy Lamarr, in her star-making role) simulating an orgasm onscreen. Censorship, bans and denouncements of the film from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Adolph Hitler and Pope Pius XII were partly due to Lamarr’s infamous non-sexual nude scene, but the close-ups on the actress’ face as she expresses sexual pleasure were certainly as objectionable, if not more so, for the time.
The “Rape of the Christ” in The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
A film so controversial that it’s still very difficult to see it in its (existing) entirety, Ken Russell’s The Devils initially had such blasphemous sequences as the infamous “Rape of Christ,” which features possessed nuns masturbating with crucifixes and effigies of Jesus. Yes, we can count masturbation as sex, though in this film and in The Exorcist, which also includes masturbation with a cross, we might better classify the acts as rape. But the difficulty of distinction only adds to its controversial nature, doesn’t it?
Sweetback Loses His Virginity in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
Considering Melvin Van Peebles actually performed most of the sex acts he’s seen engaged in in this seminal Blaxploitation film, it’s quite possible that young Mario Van Peebles’ sex scene was similarly unsimulated. Of course, that would have been illegal, since Mario was only 13. Even if there was no actual intercourse occurring, though, the scene is controversial for the boy’s nudity and energetic performance during the title character’s moment of sexual awakening with a prostitute.
Sex with Chickens in Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972)
Bestiality scenes can be quite controversial (see the cat rape in Leolo, for example), but animal rights groups have less to protest with a film that merely simulates animal cruelty than a film like Pink Flamingos, which definitely appears to be exploiting and harming a live chicken during an infamous moment of lovemaking between two characters who crush the fowl between them. It may not be the most disturbing moment of the film, but it is one of the more contentious.
Fisting Scene in Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980)
Long before Brokeback Mountain and Milk were protested for their tasteful depictions of homosexual lovemaking (Christian groups predictably slammed them for being gay propaganda), Cruising was controversial for depicting gay sex as fetishistic, depraved and violent (gay groups slammed it for being anti-gay). The film originally opened with a disclaimer stating that it portrays only “one segment” of the “homosexual world” and is “not meant to be representative of the whole,” but it didn’t help matters. The film was still considered homophobic, failed at the box office, and worst of all, led to copycat crimes against gays.
The Introduction of Frank Booth in Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Like most erotic films made by respected arthouse filmmakers, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet polarized critics and audiences and was met with both Oscar recognition and protests. Most of the controversy concerned the film’s most infamous scene, criticized for being misogynistic as well as depraved, in which Dennis Hopper inhales oxygen and engages in abusive sexual activity with Isabella Rosellini while being watched by Kyle Maclachlan. David Cronenberg would be met with a similar mix of praise and disgust ten years later, with the controversial auto-accident-fetish film Crash.
Jesus Has Sex in The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
Obviously Christian groups would get upset with a film that depicts Jesus (Willem Dafoe) in a sex scene with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey), and so it was no surprise that protests began many months prior to the release of The Last Temptation of Christ when such a scene was first reported to exist. Never mind that the scene is only part of a dream/vision Jesus has while being tempted by Satan and is not exploitive. Many would continue to slam the film without even watching it. One French Catholic group famously went to see it, but only to throw a Molotov cocktail at the screen.
The Opening Scene in Kids (Larry Clark, 1995)
Though controversial for many, many reasons and scenes, particularly the tragic rape scene at the end, Kids was met with protest from the very first shot, which features a depiction of a 17-year-old boy (Leo Fitzpatrick) deflowering a 12-year-old girl (Sarah Henderson). Many viewers questioned the legality or morality of employing this seemingly age-appropriate actress, critics called it borderline kiddy porn, and the filmmakers constantly had to assure audiences that she was in fact 18. The film had its share of protests and distribution problems, but fortunately for the filmmakers, it was made and released before the signing of the Child Pornography Prevention Act, unlike…
Humbert and Lolita Play a Game in Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997)
Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel was obviously controversial for its semi-incestuous, pedophilic sex scenes, even though they were only hinted at and occurred off screen. 35 years later, in an era thought to be more progressive and allowing, Adrian Lyne’s version was just as objectionable, if not more so, because it left less to the imagination. One sex scene carefully substituted a 19-year-old body double for 15-year-old actress Dominique Swain, but despite the fact that plenty of movies had employed legal-aged girls portraying underage characters in nude and sex scenes before, Lyne’s Lolita was unfortunately being filmed just as President Clinton signed the Child Pornography Prevention Act. This banned even virtual child pornography, which Lolita’s sex scene might be considered to be, so Lyne videotaped the making of all questionable scenes in case he needed to produce evidence in court that his film falls into the boundaries of the law. Of course, legal or not, the film became a difficult sell to audiences and failed to find proper theatrical distribution. Meanwhile, after five years, the Child Pornography Prevention Act was struck down in 2002 for being too broad.
Nazi Commits Statutory Rape in The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
This wasn’t the first film to depict an underage boy having sex with an older woman, nor was it the first to incite protests regarding the double standard of statutory rape being more acceptable when the minor is male. But due to its added controversy of involving a former Nazi (Kate Winslet), whose humanity is defended through the film’s early lovemaking and romance scenes, The Reader makes it onto this list instead of other titles (which due to the double standard aren’t even seen as that controversial anyway).
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Yesterday I watched "Nowhere to run". And it was interesting and also of Van damme. Watching this film brought up my memories about this fine actor. Of vause he is and always has been one of my favorite hero, I used to watch some of his films over and over again and I would do that even again if I came a cross with some fils such as "LIONHEART" or "KICKBOXER" or "THE QUEST". Those, specially "LIONHEART" are my choice of best films stard by this musculine and in the same time martial art hero.
Yes Stallon and Arnold are great action heros. But this little (Just a little short) hero got something more and it is the skill of martial arts. He realy got the tallent and some magnificiant kicks to go along with him.
I recently learned that his last theatrical released movie was "Universal Soldier: The Return" (1999) and all his movies after this, up until 2008's JCVD, had been direct to video releases. And that is why we see very less of him.
After the filming of the 1998 movie Knock Off, Van Damme was diagnosed with rapid cycling bi-polar disorder after becoming suicidal and started treatment on the bi-polar medication sodium valproate to stabilize his mood. So that is why he wasn't around after 1999 "Universal Soldier: The Return".
I also learned that Van Damme will reprise his role as Luc Devereaux in the upcoming movie Universal Soldier: Regeneration. So that means he is going to be back in action.
So I wish all the good luck for him in the future for a hugh success. And I think he needs it not only on behalf of him but also of us who misses such a great thearatical hero who can not be replaced very easily.
Born 18 October 1960 (age 49)
Parents Eliana and Eugène Van Vaerenbergh
His martial arts styles kickboxing, Shotokan karate, Muay Thai, and Taekwondo.
earned his black belt in karate (Around the age of 10), later winning the European Karate Association's middleweight championship
He started lifting weights to improve his physique, which eventually led to a Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title
At the age of 16 he took up ballet, which he studied for five years.
Van Damme has been married five times, including two marriages with bodybuilder and fitness competitor Gladys Portugues. Van Damme has three children: Kristopher (born 1987), Bianca (born 1990), and Nicholas (born 1995).
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