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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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The A-Team (film)
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The A-Team is a 2010 American action comedy film based on the television series of the same name created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell. Co-written and directed by Joe Carnahan, the film stars Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson and Brian Bloom. The film tells the story of The A-Team, a United States Army Ranger team imprisoned for a crime they did not commit, the film was produced by Stephen J. Cannell, Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. The film was released on June 11,2010 by 20th Century Fox. The film had been in development since the mid-1990s having gone through a number of writers and story ideas, upon its release, the film received mixed reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office making $177 million on a $110 million budget. John Hannibal Smith is held captive in Mexico by two Federal Police officers working for renegade General Javier Tuco, Hannibal escapes and sets out to rescue Templeton Faceman Peck, who is held captive at Tucos ranch. Hannibal saves Face after enlisting fellow Ranger B. A. Baracus, pursued by Tuco, they stop at a nearby Army Hospital to recruit the services of eccentric pilot Howling Mad Murdock. They flee in a helicopter, chased by Tuco, in a dogfight that leaves BA with a fear of flying. The battle ends when they lure Tucos helicopter into American airspace, the mission is successful, when the team returns to base, however, the money and Morrisons vehicle are destroyed by Brock Pike and his men from the private security firm Black Forest. Without Morrison, Hannibal, Face, Murdock, and BA are court-martialed and they are sentenced to ten years in separate prisons, Sosa also ended up court-martialed and is demoted to lieutenant. Six months later, Lynch visits Hannibal in prison and tells him that Pike may be trying to sell the plates with the help of an Arab backer. Hannibal, who has been tracking Pike on his own, makes a deal with Lynch, full reinstatement, Lynch agrees and Hannibal escapes, breaking out Face, BA, and Murdock in the process. Sosa is hot on the teams trail, the team hijacks a USAF Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, which is later shot down by Reaper UCAVs, but not before the team parachute away in a tank stashed aboard and make it to the ground safely. The team moves to reclaim the plates and kidnap Pikes backer and it is revealed that the backer is actually General Morrison, who plotted with Lynch and Pike to steal the plates but teamed up with Pike to double-cross Lynch and fake his death. Lynch orders an airstrike to kill the team and Morrison, Hannibal arranges to meet Sosa on board a container ship at the Los Angeles docks, saying he will hand over Morrison and the plates. Face then calls Sosa on a phone he planted on her at the train station. It all unfolds according to plan until Pike, who is now working with Lynch, blows up the container ship, BA finally gives up his pacifist ways and kills Pike, saving Face. Hannibal leads Lynch into a container with Murdock, who, wearing a covered bullet-proof helmet, is portraying Morrison
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The Abominable Snowman (film)
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The Abominable Snowman is a 1957 British fantasy-horror film, scripted by Nigel Kneale from his 1955 BBC teleplay, The Creature, produced by Hammer Film Productions and directed by Val Guest. The plot follows the exploits of a British scientist who joins an American expedition led by glory-seeker to search the Himalayas for the legendary Yeti, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis and Arnold Marle appear in supporting roles. Dr. John Rollason, his wife, Helen, and assistant, Rollason, despite the objections of his wife and the Lama, decides to join Friends expedition. Whereas Rollason is motivated by curiosity to learn more about the creature, Friend seeks fame and fortune and wants to capture a live Yeti. The expedition climbs high into the mountains and finds a set of giant footprints in the snow, as the tensions between Rollason and Friend rise, McNee is injured by a bear trap laid by Friend to catch the Yeti and later dies in a fall. Kusang flees back to the monastery from where Helen and Fox decide to mount a rescue mission, meanwhile, Shelley succeeds in shooting and killing a Yeti, an act that enrages the creatures fellows. When Shelley is killed in a attempt to catch a live specimen, Friend finally decides to cut his losses. The Yeti close in on the two survivors, however, and Friend is killed in an avalanche, Rollason takes refuge in an ice cave and watches in amazement as a number of Yeti arrive and take away the body of their fallen compatriot. He realises the Yeti are an intelligent species biding their time to claim the Earth when humanity has destroyed itself, the rescue party finds Rollason and brings him back to the monastery where, when questioned by the Lama, he claims the expedition found nothing. Forrest Tucker as Dr Tom Friend, The American producer Robert L. Lippert co-produced many of Hammers films in the early 1950s, under these co-production deals, Lippert provided an American star in return for the rights to distribute Hammers films in the United States. For The Abominable Snowman, Lippert approached Forrest Tucker, who had appeared for Hammer in Break in the Circle. Tucker was, I think, an underrated and very good actor”, the Abominable Snowman was the first of three horror films Tucker made in Britain around this time, the others being The Strange World of Planet X and The Trollenberg Terror. Peter Cushing as Dr John Rollason, Cushing reprised the role of John Rollason that he had played in The Creature. Recalling how the cast and crew were entertained by Cushings improvisation with props, Val Guest said, “We used to call him Props Cushing, when he was examining the Yeti tooth, he was pulling these things out totally unrehearsed and we found it very difficult keeping quiet”. The film also stars Maureen Connell as Helen Rollason Richard Wattis as Peter Fox Robert Brown as Ed Shelley and their next production had been The Creature, a morality play written by Kneale about a search for the mysterious Yeti in the Himalayas. Kneale wished to write a story about the Yeti that would not make him a monster, in particular, he was influenced by an unsuccessful 1954 expedition to find the Yeti sponsored by the Daily Mail newspaper. It was broadcast live from Lime Grove Studios on Sunday,30 January 1955, the broadcast was not recorded and the only record of the production that survives is a series of screen images, known as tele-snaps, taken by photographer John Cura. The play received mixed reviews, the critic in The Times found it unrealistic, the play was spoofed by The Goon Show in the episode Yehti, broadcast on 8 March 1955
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is a 2012 American dark fantasy action horror film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, based on the 2010 mashup novel of the same name. The novels author, Seth Grahame-Smith, wrote the screenplay with Simon Kinberg, Benjamin Walker stars as the title character with supporting roles by Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, and Marton Csokas. The real-life figure Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is portrayed in the novel, the film was produced by Tim Burton, Bekmambetov, and Jim Lemley. Filming began in Louisiana in March 2011 and the film was released in 3D on June 20,2012 in the United Kingdom, the film received mixed reviews, which praised the action sequences and originality, but criticized its overly serious tone, overuse of CGI, and pacing. In 1818, Abraham Lincoln lives in Indiana with his parents, Nancy and Thomas, there, Lincoln intervenes when he sees his friend, a young African American boy, William Johnson, being beaten by a slaver. Because of his sons actions, Thomas is fired and that night, Lincoln sees Barts break into his house and attack Nancy. She falls ill the day, and dies shortly afterwards. Thomas tells Lincoln that Barts poisoned Nancy, nine years later in 1827, a vengeful Lincoln tries to kill Barts at the docks, but Barts, who is actually a vampire, overpowers him. However, before Barts can kill him, Lincoln is rescued by Henry Sturgess, Sturgess explains that vampires exist, and offers to teach Lincoln to be a vampire hunter. Lincoln accepts and, after a decade of training, travels to Springfield, during his training, Sturgess tells Lincoln that the vampires in America descend from Adam, a vampire who owns a plantation in New Orleans with his sister, Vadoma. Sturgess also tells Lincoln of the weakness, silver. In Springfield, Lincoln befriends shopkeeper Joshua Speed, and meets Mary Todd, Though Sturgess warned him not to form any close relationships, Lincoln develops romantic feelings for Mary. Lincoln successfully finds and defeats Barts, before dying, Barts reveals that Sturgess is also a vampire. Lincoln confronts Sturgess, who reveals that, several years ago, he was attacked, because Sturgess soul was impure, he became a vampire, and that prevented him from harming Adam or any other vampire. Sturgess has since been training vampire hunters, hoping to destroy Adam, disappointed, Lincoln decides to abandon his mission. However, Adam learns of his activities and kidnaps Johnson to lure Lincoln into a trap at his plantation, Adam captures Lincoln and tries to recruit him, revealing his plans to turn the United States into a nation of the undead. Speed rescues his friends, and they escape to Ohio, Lincoln marries Mary and begins his political career, campaigning to abolish slavery. It is at time in the movie Lincoln symbolically puts on the top hat which he dons the rest of the movie
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5 Fingers
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5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 American spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang. The screenplay by Michael Wilson was based on the book Operation Cicero by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch, in the film, James Mason plays Ulysses Diello, the character based on Elyesa Bazna. The rest of the cast includes Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Herbert Berghof, the film is based on the true story of Albanian-born Bazna, one of the most famous spies of World War II. He worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador to Turkey and he used the code name Cicero. He would photograph top-secret documents and turn the films over to Franz von Papen, now destitute, the countess volunteers to become a spy for a fee, but she is turned down. A man approaches a German embassy attaché, Moyzisch, offering to provide von Papen with top-secret British documents for a price,20,000 British pounds. What is not yet known by the Germans is that the man, the documents taken from Sir Frederics safe and photographed prove genuine. Diello is given the code name Cicero and asked to continue his subterfuge, Diello gives his money to Anna for safekeeping and pays her a portion of it, provided he be allowed to use her new villa as a meeting place for his transactions. When the valet also tells Anna his dream of living in South America together, but she agrees to his conditions. Moyzisch is summoned to Berlin by military officers suspicious of Ciceros true intent, Allied bombing of a Romanian oil refinery is carried out, exactly as Ciceros photographed documents had outlined. Colonel Von Richter is sent to Ankara to take over the negotiations with Cicero, while the British send a man, Colin Travers. Annas newfound wealth and previous willingness to become a spy cause her to fall under suspicion from Travers, Von Richter requests a document detailing an Allied operation called Overlord. It is the D-Day invasion plan and Cicero wants 40,000 pounds for it, Diello realizes that he could soon be killed by one side or captured by the other. He decides to leave for South America, only to discover that Anna has stolen all of his money, a letter arrives from her to Sir Frederic that identifies his valet as the spy being paid by the Germans. Diello breaks into the safe and photographs the D-Day plans, and intercepts the letter and he now knows for certain how Anna feels toward him. Broke and on the run, Diello demands a 100, 000-pound payment from the Germans for the photographs of the D-Day plans and he receives it, then manages to avoid getting killed or captured. A second malicious letter from Anna to the Germans misinforms them that the valet is a British spy, Diello escapes alone to Rio, where he is shown enjoying a new life of prosperity and freedom. Or at least he is until Brazilian authorities arrive to take him into custody because all his money is counterfeit, annas money in Switzerland, he finds out, is fake as well, which offers him consolation in his new, dark circumstances
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12 Rounds (film)
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12 Rounds is a 2009 American action film directed by Renny Harlin and produced by WWE Studios. The cast is led by John Cena, alongside Aidan Gillen, Steve Harris, Gonzalo Menendez, Brian J. White, Ashley Scott, the film was released on March 27,2009 in United States theaters. A sting operation to capture arms dealer Miles Jackson goes awry when the FBIs inside man double crosses them, Miles rendezvouses with his girlfriend Erica Kessen, who has a getaway car. Officers Danny Fisher and Hank Carver are dispatched to help the FBI and they look at Jacksons record and see a surveillance video of him dancing with Kessen. An encounter with them at a traffic light leads to her death, one year later, Fisher gets a phone call from Jackson, who has escaped from prison. Fisher runs outside the house looking for Jackson, and Fishers car and house explode, after he recovers, Jackson says he is launching a game of revenge called 12 Rounds. The house, the car, and Phil, the plumber who came to fix a pipe were Round 1, Molly Porter, Fisher’s girlfriend is kidnapped by Jackson for Round 2. Carver has a lead on the man who helped kidnap Molly Porter, FBI Special Agents George Aiken and Ray Santiago work with them to get Porter back. For Round 5 one of the security boxes is a bomb, Fisher discovers and disposes of the bomb. The other box contains a hotel room key. The room is raided and found empty, for Round 6, Fisher follows a series of clues to a bus where he finds Porter on board, wearing a bomb underneath her jacket. He is handcuffed to a bar and is given an envelope with a number as the clue to the next round. The Feds try to get Jackson but he escapes with Porter, when Fisher is freed, he tells the Feds about the bomb. Carver shows up and tells Fisher he has located Jacksons henchman, in Round 7 Fisher has to find the correct cell phone number that disarms bombs placed in different locations. Jackson answers and tells him that his call disabled Streetcar 907s brakes, Fisher and Santiago slam their car into the transformer, shutting off electricity for the whole neighborhood. They run along the streetcar, clearing out of the way until it can slow to a halt. A mine planted by Jackson kills Carver and Deluso, Jackson says that Porters bomb can only be disarmed by Fishers fingerprint. He tells Fisher to pay a visit to Erica Kessen, so Fisher, Santiago, another detective, Chuck Jansen calls Fisher to tell him that the numbers in the envelope were rigged to the streetcar. Jackson had cameras monitoring the elevator shaft and set off the five seconds early
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27 Dresses
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27 Dresses is a 2008 comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. The film stars Katherine Heigl and James Marsden, the film was released January 10,2008 in Australia and opened in the United States on January 18. Jane Nichols has been a bridesmaid for 27 weddings, one night when she is attending two weddings almost simultaneously, she meets Kevin Doyle, who helps her get home but disgusts her with his cynical views of marriage. He finds her day planner in the cab they shared, meanwhile, Janes sister Tess arrives from Europe and falls in love with Janes boss George at first sight. Tess pretends to like the things that George does to get him to like her. Despite being in love with George herself, Jane does not reveal the truth, soon the new couple announce that they intend to marry in three weeks and Jane becomes the wedding planner. The reporter who agrees to cover their wedding for the society page turns out to be Kevin, Jane is unaware of Kevins intentions. When he asks to interview her for his column on Tess and he takes pictures of her in all of them and sends them with the completed article to his boss. As they get to each other, Kevin begins to think that Jane is not as one-dimensional as he thought. When Kevin finds out that Jane is getting her sisters marriage fixed with the man she loves, Jane agrees to one drink with Kevin and ends up getting drunk. Kevin and Jane kiss and have sex in the car, the next morning, the two go to a diner and a waitress recognizes Jane. Kevins editor ran the article on the front page of the Commitments section, despite Kevin, when Jane finds out about it, she feels betrayed and is furious at him. Tess then gets angry at Jane for giving Kevin material about her, the fight escalates when Jane sees that Tess altered their late mothers wedding dress to her own style — the last straw on Tess string of lies to George and demands on Jane. Despite the fight, Tess asks Jane to make a slideshow for her engagement party, after that, Pedro, the child George mentors, tells the crowd that Tess had him clean Georges apartment for money. Janes friend points out that telling the truth to George and breaking their engagement didnt make her feel better, the next day, Jane confronts Tess to apologize. She is still mad with Jane, as Tess believes that Jane resented her throughout the years, later at work, George tells Jane that he appreciates her because she never says no. Remembering that Kevin once said the thing as a criticism. She discovers after a kiss that she no longer loves him
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The 33 (film)
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The 33 is a 2015 English-language American-Chilean biographical disaster-survival drama film directed by Patricia Riggen and written by Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten, and José Rivera. The film is based on the events of the 2010 mining disaster. The film stars Antonio Banderas as trapped miner Mario Sepúlveda, dozens of people from Copiapó, Chile, work in the San José mine. The owner ignores the warnings of the stability of the mine. The only path inside the mine is completely blocked, and the thirty-three miners manage to get to the rescue chamber and they discover that the radio is useless, the medical kit is empty, the ventilation shafts lack the required ladders, and there is very little stored food. Mario Sepúlveda becomes the leader of the miners, dividing the foods rations and stopping the outbursts of violence, the mine company does not attempt any rescue, and the relatives of the miners gather around the gates. The government of Chile decides on active intervention, and orders the use of drills to reach the chamber, the first exploratory boreholes move off-target, but a later one reaches the required destination. The miners attach a note to the bit to announce their survival. They receive new food and clothing, and television communication with the surface, a second, bigger, drill system is prepared to retrieve the miners one by one. The following names have been confirmed, The film is based on the events of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident and it is directed by Patricia Riggen and written by Mikko Alanne and José Rivera. Producer Mike Medavoy, who also produced Apocalypse Now, has worked with the miners, their families, Antonio Banderas, who portrays Super Mario Sepúlveda, is the public face for the miners who sent videos to the rescuers to update them on the miners condition. The actual Sepúlveda has expressed his enthusiasm and approval towards having Banderas in the role, brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro plays Laurence Golborne, Minister of Mining. On 17 June 2013, it was announced that Jennifer Lopez had joined to lead the cast of the film and she was replaced in the strong female central role by Juliette Binoche. On 10 January 2014 Cote de Pablo joined the cast of the film, on 27 January 2014, Gabriel Byrne joined the cast of the film, to play the role of Andre Sougarret, the engineering genius who masterminded the miraculous rescue of the 33 trapped miners. Next day on 28 January, Bob Gunton joined the cast of the Chilean miner filming, then shooting in Colombia, principal photography began in December 2013 in Colombia. Before shooting began, Riggen interviewed each of the miners and their families, after the shooting wrapped up in Nemocón, Colombia in January, crews started filming again in Copiapó, Chile on 5 February 2014 which was the actual place of the incident. On 18 February 2014 news told that more than half of the filming was done in the mine of Nemocón, Colombia. Filming wrapped up on 20 February 2014, in October 2014, James Horner was hired to compose the music for the film
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The 300 Spartans
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The 300 Spartans is a 1962 CinemaScope film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese, in the film, a force of Greek warriors, led by 300 Spartans, fights against a Persian army of almost limitless size. Despite the odds, the Spartans will not flee or surrender, accompanying him are Artemisia, the Queen of Halicarnassus, who beguiles Xerxes with her feminine charm, and Demaratus, an exiled king of Sparta, to whose warnings Xerxes pays little heed. In Corinth, Themistocles of Athens wins the support of the Greek allies and convinces both the delegates and the Spartan representative, Leonidas I, to grant Sparta leadership of their forces. Outside the hall, Leonidas and Themistocles agree to fortify the pass at Thermopylae until the rest of the army arrives, after this, Leonidas learns of the Persian advance and travels to Sparta to spread the news. Leonidas decides to march north immediately with his bodyguard of 300 men, who are exempt from the decisions of the Ephors. They are subsequently reinforced by Thespians led by Demophilus and other Greek allies, after several days of fighting, Xerxes grows angry as his army is repeatedly routed by the Greeks, with the Spartans in the forefront. Promising to reward Ephialtes for his betrayal, Xerxes sends his army onward, once Leonidas realizes he will be surrounded, he sends away the Greek allies to alert the cities to the south. Being too few to hold the pass, the Spartans instead attack the Persian front, Leonidas is killed in the melée. Meanwhile, the Thespians, who had refused to leave, are overwhelmed while defending the rear, surrounded, the surviving Spartans refuse Xerxess demand to give up Leonidas body. They are then annihilated by arrowfire, one of the final images of the film is the memorial bearing the epigram of Simonides of Ceos, which is recited. C. Turning the strait where the battle was fought into a coastal plain. Some 5,000 members of the Hellenic Army were loaned by the Greek Ministry of National Defence to portray both the Spartans and the Persians, despite Cold War connotations the film was dubbed in Russian and it was shown in the USSR in 1970. The film was very popular there—27.1 million of viewers had seen it and his graphic novel 300 is about the Battle of Thermopylae, and in 2006, the book was adapted into a successful film. At AllMovie The 300 Spartans publicity photos at 300spartanwarriors. com
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1900 (film)
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The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. Due to the length,1900 was presented in two parts when originally released in many countries, including Italy, East and West Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Colombia. Other countries, such as the United States, released a version of the film. Born on the day of the death of renowned composer Giuseppe Verdi—27 January 1901—Alfredo Berlinghieri, Alfredo is from a family of landowners led by his populist grandfather, while Olmo is an illegitimate peasant. Olmos grandfather, Leo, is the foreman and peasants strong man who verbally and spiritually carries out a duel of wits with the elder Alfredo. As Alfredo is somewhat rebellious and despises the falseness of his family, in particular his weak but abusive and cynical father Giovanni, he befriends Olmo, the two are friends throughout their childhood, despite the social differences of their families. Olmo enlists with the Italian army in 1917 during World War I, Olmo returns from the war over a year later and his friendship with Alfredo continues. However, Alfredos father has hired Attila Mellanchini as his foreman, several are killed by Attila himself. As the new padrone of the plantation, Alfredo does little to challenge or halt Attilas actions, during the late 1920s, the intimacy and lack thereof in their respective relationships with others is highlighted in their love lives. Alfredo marries a gorgeous, demure woman while Olmo marries Anita, alfredo’s wife, Ada, sinks into alcoholism when confronted with the reality of the emptiness of her relationship with Alfredo. Anita, a strong and independent spirit dies tragically in childbirth, as Olmo takes on his fateful role of leader among the poor farmers and their families, he clashes with Attila. The power, however, shifts after World War II in 1945, as padrone, Alfredo is captured by a teenage peasant boy carrying a rifle. Attila is also captured when he and his wife, Regina, Attila is stabbed, non-fatally, several times by women wielding pitchforks and is imprisoned in the Berlinghieri pig sty. Years earlier, Attila also had several peasants killed after they threw horse manure at him for selling Olmo, Olmo made Attila eat manure and let him go. Olmo then had to leave town to keep from being killed by the fascists, Alfredo fires Attila, when Attila and his blackshirts seek vengeance on Olmo by tearing up Olmos house. In the final scenes, set on 28 April 1945, Alfredo is brought before Olmos workers tribunal to stand trial, many workers come forth and accuse Alfredo of letting them suffer in squalor while he profited from their labors. As soon as the verdict is reached, however, representatives and soldiers of the new government, Olmo convinces the peasants to do so, overcoming their skepticism. Alone with Olmo, Alfredo declares, The padrone is alive, Alberto Grimaldi, the films producer, was contractually obligated to deliver a 195-minute version to Paramount Pictures
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The Abyss
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The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, the US search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, Deep in the ocean, they encounter something unexpected. This movie was released on August 8,1989 and received positive reviews, in 1988, the U. S. Ohio-class submarine USS Montana has an encounter with an unidentified submerged object and sinks near the Cayman Trough. The platforms designer, Dr. Lindsey Brigman, insists on coming along with the SEAL team, during initial investigation of the Montana, a power outage in the teams submersibles leads to Lindsey seeing a strange light circling the sub. At the same time, one of Deep Cores crew, Jammer, damages his breathing apparatus in an apparent panic, Coffey does not get permission from the Deep Core crew. The Benthic Explorer, which Deep Core is tethered to, is rocked by the storm, the crane falls into the trench and, without the mini-sub to disconnect the cable, Deep Core is dragged towards the trench, stopping just short of it. The rig is partially flooded, killing crew members and damaging its power systems. Coffey shows little remorse when he and his SEALs return to the damaged base, Lindsey is sent in dive gear to retrieve some oxygen bottles from a damaged portion of the rig to give the crew enough time to wait out the storm. While working, shes accosted by a small, maneuverable pink/purple device, before she can take a picture as proof, the large craft zooms downward into the trench, leaving her to take fuzzy, smeared pictures of the smaller one following it. She coins the term non-terrestrial intelligence, or NTI, as the crew struggles against the cold, they find an NTI has formed a living column of water and is exploring the base. Though they treat it with curiosity, Coffey is agitated by it and cuts it in half by closing a pressure bulkhead on it, the crew soon realize that Coffey is suffering paranoia from high-pressure nervous syndrome. Spying on him through a remote operated vehicle, they find he and another SEAL are arming the warhead to attack the NTIs, There, he and the crew administer CPR and revive her. Bud and Lindsey reaffirm their lost love, One SEAL, unaware of Coffeys plan at the time, helps to locate the warhead, stopped on a ledge several thousand feet down the trench. Bud volunteers to use a diving suit equipped with a liquid breathing apparatus to survive to that depth. Bud begins his dive, assisted by Lindseys voice keeping him coherent against the effects of the mounting pressure, and reaches the warhead. The SEAL guides him in disarming it, but his light source is yellow. With nearly no oxygen left in the system, Bud types out that he knew this was a one-way trip, as he waits for death, an NTI approaches Bud and takes his hand. He is guided to an alien ship deeper in the trench, Deep inside, the NTI creates an atmospheric pocket for Bud, allowing him to breathe normally
