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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Eindhoven
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Eindhoven is a municipality and a city in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams. The Gender was dammed short of the city centre in the 1950s, the city has a population of 223,220 in January 2015, making it the fifth-largest municipality of the Netherlands and the largest in the province of North Brabant. Neighbouring cities and towns include Asten, Son en Breugel, Nuenen, Geldrop-Mierlo, Heeze-Leende, Waalre, Veldhoven, Eersel, Oirschot, the agglomeration has a population of 337,487. The metropolitan area consists of 419,045 inhabitants, the city region has a population of 753,426. Also, Eindhoven is located in the Brabantse Stedenrij, a metropolitan area with about 2 million inhabitants. The name Eindhoven derives from the contraction of the regional words eind, toponymically, eind occurs commonly as a prefix and postfix in local place- and streetnames. A hove comprised a parcel of land which a local lord might lease to private persons, given that a string of such parcels existed around Woensel, the name Eindhoven may have originated with the meaning last hoves on the land of Woensel. The written history of Eindhoven started in 1232, when Duke Hendrik I of Brabant granted city rights to Endehoven, then a small town right on the confluence of the Dommel, at the time of granting of its charter, Eindhoven had approximately 170 houses enclosed by a rampart. Just outside the city stood a small castle. The city was granted the right to organize a weekly market. Another factor in its establishment was its location on the route from Holland to Liège. Around 1388, the fortifications were strengthened further. And between 1413 and 1420, a new castle was built within the city walls, in 1486, Eindhoven was plundered and burned by troops from Guelders. The reconstruction of Eindhoven was finished in 1502, with a stronger rampart, however, in 1543 it fell again, its defense works having been neglected due to poverty. A big fire in 1554 destroyed 75% of the houses but by 1560 these had been rebuilt with the help of William I of Orange, Eindhoven did not become part of the Netherlands until 1629. During the French occupation, Eindhoven suffered again with many of its houses destroyed by the invading forces, Eindhoven remained a minor city after that until the start of the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution of the 19th century provided a major growth impulse, canals, roads and railroads were constructed. Industrialization brought population growth to Eindhoven, at the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815, Eindhoven had 2,310 inhabitants
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Netherlands
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The Netherlands, also informally known as Holland is the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a densely populated country located in Western Europe with three territories in the Caribbean. The European part of the Netherlands borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, sharing borders with Belgium, the United Kingdom. The three largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, Amsterdam is the countrys capital, while The Hague holds the Dutch seat of parliament and government. The port of Rotterdam is the worlds largest port outside East-Asia, the name Holland is used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands. Netherlands literally means lower countries, influenced by its low land and flat geography, most of the areas below sea level are artificial. Since the late 16th century, large areas have been reclaimed from the sea and lakes, with a population density of 412 people per km2 –507 if water is excluded – the Netherlands is classified as a very densely populated country. Only Bangladesh, South Korea, and Taiwan have both a population and higher population density. Nevertheless, the Netherlands is the worlds second-largest exporter of food and agricultural products and this is partly due to the fertility of the soil and the mild climate. In 2001, it became the worlds first country to legalise same-sex marriage, the Netherlands is a founding member of the EU, Eurozone, G-10, NATO, OECD and WTO, as well as being a part of the Schengen Area and the trilateral Benelux Union. The first four are situated in The Hague, as is the EUs criminal intelligence agency Europol and this has led to the city being dubbed the worlds legal capital. The country also ranks second highest in the worlds 2016 Press Freedom Index, the Netherlands has a market-based mixed economy, ranking 17th of 177 countries according to the Index of Economic Freedom. It had the thirteenth-highest per capita income in the world in 2013 according to the International Monetary Fund, in 2013, the United Nations World Happiness Report ranked the Netherlands as the seventh-happiest country in the world, reflecting its high quality of life. The Netherlands also ranks joint second highest in the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, the region called Low Countries and the country of the Netherlands have the same toponymy. Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nether and Nedre and Bas or Inferior are in use in all over Europe. They are sometimes used in a relation to a higher ground that consecutively is indicated as Upper, Boven, Oben. In the case of the Low Countries / the Netherlands the geographical location of the region has been more or less downstream. The geographical location of the region, however, changed over time tremendously
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Monique van de Ven
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Monica Maria Theresia Monique van de Ven is a Dutch actress and director. From 1973 until 1988 she was married to Dutch cinematographer and director Jan de Bont and she is now married to actor and writer Edwin de Vries. Her film debut as an actress was in Turkish Delight in 1973 and this film was an immediate breakthrough for her acting career. The Paul Verhoeven film was nominated for an Academy Award and was chosen as the best Dutch film of the century, thirteen years later she played in the Oscar-winning film The Assault. Apart from acting in films she also performs in Dutch television series. In 1996 she directed the short film Mamas Proefkonijn, her first feature film as a director Summer Heat was released 2008
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Cinematographer
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The study and practice of this field is referred to as cinematography. The cinematographer selects the camera, film stock, lens, filters, in the infancy of motion pictures, the cinematographer was usually also the director and the person physically handling the camera. As the art form and technology evolved, a separation between director and camera operator began to emerge, with the advent of artificial lighting and faster film stocks, in addition to technological advancements in optics, the technical aspects of cinematography necessitated a specialist in that area. Cinematography was key during the silent movie era, with no sound apart from music and no dialogue, the films depended on lighting, acting. Similar trade associations have been established in other countries too, there are a number of national associations of cinematographers which represent members and which are dedicated to the advancement of cinematography. S. C. Defines cinematography as, A creative and interpretive process that culminates in the authorship of a work of art rather than the simple recording of a physical event. Cinematography is not a subcategory of photography
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Film director
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A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a films artistic and dramatic aspects, the director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film, the film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized, or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions, there are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, film editors or actors, other film directors have attended a film school. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors dialogue, while others control every aspect. Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners, some directors edit or appear in their films, or compose the music score for their films. Film directors create a vision through which a film eventually becomes realized/noticed. Realizing this vision includes overseeing the artistic and technical elements of production, as well as directing the shooting timetable. This entails organizing the crew in such a way as to achieve their vision of the film. This requires skills of leadership, as well as the ability to maintain a singular focus even in the stressful. Moreover, it is necessary to have an eye to frame shots and to give precise feedback to cast and crew, thus. Thus the director ensures that all involved in the film production are working towards an identical vision for the completed film. The set of varying challenges he or she has to tackle has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with egos. It adds to the pressure that the success of a film can influence when, omnipresent are the boundaries of the films budget. Additionally, the director may also have to ensure an intended age rating, thus, the position of film director is widely considered to be a highly stressful and demanding one. It has been said that 20-hour days are not unusual, under European Union law, the film director is considered the author or one of the authors of a film, largely as a result of the influence of auteur theory. Auteur theory is a film criticism concept that holds that a directors film reflects the directors personal creative vision
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Speed (1994 film)
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Speed is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont in his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Alan Ruck and it became a surprise critical and commercial success, winning two Academy Awards, for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing, at the 67th Academy Awards in early 1995. The film tells the story of an LAPD cop who tries to rescue civilians on a city bus rigged with a bomb programmed to explode if the bus slows down, a sequel called Speed 2, Cruise Control was released in June 1997. Los Angeles SWAT officers Jack Traven and Harry Temple thwart an attempt by a bomber to hold a full of people for a $3 million ransom. They corner the bomber, but as he grabs Harry, Jack shoots Harry in the leg, the bomber turns away, appearing to die in an explosion using his own bombing device. Jack and Harry are praised by their superior, Lieutenant Mac McMahon, some time later, Jack sees a city bus explode. The bomber demands a ransom of $3.7 million. Jack races through traffic and manages to catch up to the bus and he manages to board the bus and explains the situation to the driver, Sam, and everyone aboard, but a small-time criminal fires his gun, wounding Sam. Another passenger, Annie Porter, takes Sams place behind the wheel, Jack examines the bomb under the bus and phones Harry, who uses clues to identify the bomber. The police clear a route for the bus to the unopened 105 Freeway, Mac insists they offload the passengers onto a pacing flatbed truck, but Jack warns about the bombers demands. The bomber allows the officers to offload the injured Sam for medical attention, Jack learns that part of the freeway ahead is incomplete but persuades Annie to accelerate the bus and jump the gap. Jack then directs Annie to nearby Los Angeles International Airport to drive on the runway, meanwhile, Harry identifies the bomber as Howard Payne, a retired Atlanta bomb squad officer with a local address, and takes a SWAT team there. However, the house is rigged with explosives and explodes, killing Harry and his team. Jack attempts to defuse the bomb while riding on a towed sledge under the bus, after being pulled back aboard by the passengers, Jack learns that Harry has been killed and that Payne has been watching the bus the entire time with a hidden camera. Mac gets a news crew to record a transmission, then rebroadcast it in a continuous loop to fool Payne while the passengers are offloaded onto an airport bus before all the fuel leaks out. The bus suffers a flat tire, forcing Jack and Annie to escape via an access panel. The empty bus then reduces to 50 mph, causing it to explode as it reaches an empty Boeing 707 cargo plane, Jack and Mac continue the ruse and head to Pershing Square to drop the ransom. Realizing he has been fooled, Payne poses as a police officer, when the drop is made into a waste can, Jack discovers a hole under the can leading into the Metro Red Line subway
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Keanu Reeves
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Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor, producer, and musician. Reeves is best known for his career, beginning in 1985. He has also appeared in films such as Dangerous Liaisons, My Own Private Idaho. Since becoming active in the industry, Reeves abilities have earned critical acclaim. One New York Times critic praised Reeves versatility, saying that he displays considerable discipline and he moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles. However, Reeves has spent much of his career being typecast. A recurring character arc in many roles he has portrayed is one of saving the world, as can be seen in the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine, and Klaatu. His acting has garnered awards including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During his film career, Reeves has engaged in several forms of artistic expression, active as a musician for a decade, he played bass guitar for the bands Dogstar and Becky. Acting onstage, he performed as Prince Hamlet for the Manitoba Theatre Centres production of Hamlet and he wrote the text for a picture book, Ode to Happiness, illustrated by Alexandra Grant. He has also produced a documentary, Side by Side, Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the son of Patricia Bond, a costume designer/performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr. His mother is English, from Essex, England and his father, an American from Hawaii, has Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, and English ancestry. Reeves has said, My grandmother is Chinese and Hawaiian, so I was around Chinese art, furniture, Reevess mother was working in Beirut when she met his father. Reevess father earned his GED while imprisoned in Hawaii for selling heroin at Hilo International Airport and he abandoned his wife and family when Reeves was three years old, but Reeves knew him until he was six. They last met on the island of Kauai when Reeves was 13, Reeves moved around the world frequently as a child, and lived with various stepfathers. The couple moved to Toronto and divorced in 1971, when Reeves was 15, he worked as a production assistant on Aarons films. Reevess mother married Robert Miller, a promoter, in 1976. She subsequently married her husband, a hairdresser named Jack Bond
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Sandra Bullock
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Sandra Annette Bullock is a German-American actress, producer, and philanthropist. Her breakthrough role was in the film Demolition Man and she subsequently starred in several successful films including Speed, While You Were Sleeping, The Net, A Time to Kill, Hope Floats, and Practical Magic. Bullock achieved further success in the decades in Miss Congeniality, Two Weeks Notice, Crash, The Proposal. Bullocks greatest commercial success is the comedy film Minions, which grossed over US$1 billion at the box office. In 2007, she was one of Hollywoods highest-paid actresses and she was also named Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015. In addition to her career, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she starred, including Two Weeks Notice, Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous and she was an executive producer of the ABC sitcom, George Lopez, and made several appearances during its run. Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia and her father, John W. Bullock, was a U. S. Army employee and part-time voice coach, her mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer, was an opera singer and voice teacher. Helga was German, while John is from Birmingham, Alabama and has English, French, German, Bullocks maternal grandfather was a German rocket scientist from Nuremberg. John, who was in charge of the U. S. Armys Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met Helga. They married in Germany and moved to Arlington, where John worked with the Army Materiel Command before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon, Bullock has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who went on to serve as vice president of Bullocks production company Fortis Films. Until the age of 18, Bullock held American-German dual citizenship and she then held only American citizenship until 2009, when she reapplied for German citizenship. Bullock was raised in Germany for 12 years, and grew up speaking German and she attended the humanistic Waldorf School in Nuremberg. As a child, while her mother went on European opera tours, Bullock usually stayed with her aunt Christl and cousin Susanne, Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child and frequently accompanied her mother, taking small parts in her opera productions. She sang in the childrens choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. Bullock has a scar above her eye, caused by falling into a creek when she was a child. She attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader, after graduating in 1982, she attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she received a BFA in Drama in 1987. While at ECU, she performed in theater productions, including Peter Pan
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Twister (1996 film)
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Twister is a 1996 American disaster film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. Twister was the film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 54,688,100 tickets sold in the US. The plot is a view of research projects like VORTEX of the NOAA. The device used in the movie, called Dorothy, is copied from the real-life TOTO, in June 1969, 5-year-old Jo Thornton, her parents, and the family dog Toby seek shelter in their family storm cellar as a powerful F5 tornado hits their farm in Oklahoma. This tornado is so strong that the cellar door is ripped off. Jo, her mother, and Toby survive and he is planning to marry reproductive therapist Melissa Reeves. They need Jos signature on the papers and have tracked her down during an active bout of stormy weather. Jo has built four identical tornado research devices called DOROTHY, based on Bills designs, the device is designed to release hundreds of sensors into the center of a tornado to study its structure from the inside, with the purpose of creating a more advanced storm warning system. Bill and Melissa join Jo and her team of storm chasers, and the team encounters Dr. Jonas Miller, a smug, corporate-funded meteorologist and storm chaser. When Bill discovers that Jonas has created a device based on DOROTHY, called DOT-3, during the first tornado, Jos truck and DOROTHY I are both destroyed. They continue storm chasing in Bills truck, with Melissa in the back seat and they find a second tornado, a confirmed F2, and head off on a back road when the twister shifts its track. Theyre fine, but Melissa becomes hysterical from the ordeal, the team visits Jos Aunt Meg in Wakita, Oklahoma, for food and rest. While Jo is busy showering, Bill tells Melissa about his relationship with Jo and they soon learn that an F3 tornado has formed near some hills, but they have trouble finding it. As Jo jumps out to gather the dozens of mini sensors, Bill pulls the upset Jo into the truck and moves to safety. The two confront each other over their marriage and Jos obsession with stopping tornadoes, due to being devastated about her fathers death, by this time Melissa has been traumatized by the experiences and recognizes the unresolved feelings between Bill and Jo. In desperation for her own safety, she breaks off the engagement with Bill. The tornado continues on to Wakita, devastating the town and injuring Meg while destroying her house, Bill and Jo rescue Meg and her dog from the collapsing house
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Cujo (film)
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Cujo is a 1983 American psychological horror thriller film based on Stephen Kings novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Teague, and written by Don Carlos Dunaway, despite the film receiving mixed reviews and being a modest success during its theatrical release, the film has gathered a major cult following in the years since its release. A remake has been announced in 2015 and is currently in production, Cujo, an easygoing St. Bernard, playfully chases a rabbit until he accidentally gets his head in a bat cave, where a rabid bat bites his nose. Donna notices Cujos bite but thinks little of it, after Charity and Brett, Joes wife and son leave the house for a week to visit Charitys sister Holly, Cujos bite drives him mad, and he kills their alcoholic neighbor, Gary Pervier and then Joe. Vic goes out of town on a trip as Donna. Cujo attacks them, and they take shelter in their Ford Pinto, Donna tries to drive home, but the cars alternator dies and the two are trapped inside. The hot sun makes conditions nearly unbearable and Donna realizes that she must do something before they die from heatstroke or dehydration. Attempts at escape, however, are foiled by Cujos repeated attacks, Vic returns home to rekindle his marriage, only to find Donna and Tad missing and his house vandalized by Kemp. He suspects the possessive Kemp of kidnapping, but then realizes his wife, the local Sheriff, George Bannerman, arrives at the house and has a brief standoff, before Cujo kills him, knocking him off the catwalk in the barn and biting him. Meanwhile, Donna takes advantage of a distraction and hits Cujo with a baseball bat until it breaks. Cujo jumps at her and is impaled in the stomach by the broken bat, Donna then retrieves a dehydrated and overheated Tad, along with the sheriffs revolver. As Donna revives Tad in the house, a recovered Cujo breaks through the kitchen window, however, Donna fatally shoots him just as Vic arrives, and is reunited with his family. They were replaced by Lewis Teague and Jan de Bont respectively, Cujo was a modest box office success for Warner Brothers. The film was released August 12,1983 in the United States and it grossed a total of $21,156,152 domestically, making it the fourth highest grossing horror film of 1983 behind Jaws 3-D, Psycho II, and The Twilight Zone movie. Critical reception for Cujo has been mixed to positive, on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 60% based on 30 reviews with an average rating of 5. 6/10. Author and film critic Leonard Maltin gave the three out of a possible four stars, calling it genuinely frightening also writing, Builds slowly but surely to terrifying climax. In 2015, Sunn Classic Pictures announced they would develop a remake titled C. U. J. O, which stands for “Canine Unit Joint Operations”. Cujo at the Internet Movie Database Cujo at AllMovie Cujo at Box Office Mojo Cujo at Rotten Tomatoes
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Flesh and Blood (1985 film)
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Flesh and Blood is a 1985 American-Dutch-Spanish dramatic adventure film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson and Jack Thompson. The script was written by Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman, the story is set in the year 1501 in Italy, during the passing of the Late Middle Ages to the Early modern period, and follows two warring groups of mercenaries and their longstanding quarrel. The script is based on unused material for the Dutch TV series Floris. The film, originally titled Gods Own Butchers, was known as The Rose. It was Verhoevens first English language film, in 1501, a city in Italy has been taken by a coup détat while its rightful ruler, Arnolfini, is away. Arnolfini promises some mercenaries 24 hours of looting if they succeed in retaking the city, but in their revelry, Arnolfini decides that he wants them gone. Hawkwood, the commander of the troops, is caring for a young nun he mistakenly attacked during the siege, Arnolfini promises to get medical attention for her and Hawkwood leads Arnolfinis cavalry, betraying his former lieutenant, Martin. The cavalry ejects the mercenaries from the city without their loot, soon after, Martins son is stillborn. Burying the infant unearths a wooden statue of Saint Martin of Tours – a saint with a sword, the mercenaries cardinal views this as a sign from God to follow Martin as their new leader. Arnolfinis son, Steven, is betrothed to Agnes and they meet for the first time and eat from a mandrake to magically fall in love, then the entourage is attacked and robbed by Martins band. Arnolfini is seriously injured, and Agnes is hauled away, concealed among her valuable dowry, Martin discovers Agnes later evening as they strip the caravan of valuables. The men desire to rape her but Martin decides to take her himself. He rapes Agnes while she at first taunts him and then begins to flirt with him, the mercenaries come upon a castle where, unknown to the mercenaries, the inhabitants are infected with the Plague. They capture the castle easily with the help of Agnes and she induces Martin to fall in love with her and works on the other mercenaries to accept her. She appears to have given up on her former life, meanwhile, Steven is determined to rescue her and turns to Hawkwood. Hawkwood only wants to live a life, married to the former nun he had injured. Steven, becoming as ruthless as his father, seizes the nun to force Hawkwood to help his pursuit of Martin and they locate Martin and the mercenaries. They do not have sufficient force to take the castle and lay siege to it, in the castle, Martin asks Agnes where her true loyalty lies, she is noncommittal, hinting that the winner takes all
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Die Hard
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Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It is based on Roderick Thorps 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, the sequel to 1966s The Detective, Fox was therefore contractually obligated to offer Sinatra the lead role in Die Hard, but he turned it down. Made for $28 million, Die Hard grossed over $140 million theatrically worldwide, the film turned Willis into an action star, became a metonym for an action film in which a lone hero fights overwhelming odds, and has been named one of the best action movies ever made. The film also ranks #29 on Empire magazines 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time, the films success spawned the Die Hard franchise, which includes four sequels, video games, and a comic book. NYPD Detective John McClane travels to Los Angeles to join his estranged wife Holly at a Christmas Eve party held by her employer and he is taken to Nakatomi Towers by an arranged limousine driven by Argyle, who then waits in the underground lot. McClane is introduced by Holly to her coworkers, and dismayed to learn she has taken her maiden surname, as he freshens up from travel, a group of armed men, led by the German terrorist Hans Gruber, secure the building and seize the partygoers as hostages. McClane escapes into the air vents and quietly follows Gruber as he isolates Nakatomi executive Joseph Takagi from the others, Gruber reveals the situation is just a ploy to steal the $650 million in bearer bonds stored in the Nakatomi vault. Gruber kills Takagi when he refuses to give the vault codes, Grubers men discover McClanes presence, and pursue him. McClane kills several of them, acquiring their weapons, a radio, aware that Gruber can listen in on the radio, McClane contacts the LAPD. Gruber calls the LAPD to dismiss McClanes warning as a false alarm, Powell sees nothing amiss, but as he leaves, McClane drops a corpse onto his car, and Grubers men fire upon it. The building is surrounded by LAPD. McClane uses the alias Roy Rogers to communicate with the LAPD, while Powell discerns McClane is an officer, against McClanes warnings, a SWAT armored car is brought to breach the building, but Grubers men fire on it with anti-tank weapons. McClane uses the C-4 dropped down a shaft to destroy the floor. McClane keeps in communication with Powell, learning the officer took desk duty after accidentally shooting a child years earlier, meanwhile, Hollys coworker Harry Ellis attempts to mediate with Gruber, but instead Gruber assassinates him over the radio when McClane refuses to surrender. McClane encounters Gruber while he is checking the explosives on the roof, Gruber passes himself as an escaped hostage, one of Grubers men arrives and fires upon McClane, forcing him to drop the bag of detonators to escape. Outside, the FBI have arrived and taken control, Gruber gives off a list of demands including a helicopter to escort the hostages. The FBI follow procedure and sever power to the building, this was part of Grubers plan, as the media pick up on the situation, investigative reporter Richard Thornburg learns of Holly and goes to her home to interview her children. The interview gives away McClanes identity and relationship to Holly, Gruber orders the hostages to the roof as the helicopter nears while he personally grabs Holly
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The Hunt for Red October (film)
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The film is based on Tom Clancys 1984 bestselling novel of the same name. An American CIA analyst correctly deduces his motive and must prove his theory to the U. S. Navy before a violent confrontation between the Soviet and the American navies spirals out of control. The film was a co-production between the motion picture studios Paramount Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions, and Nina Saxon Film Design, theatrically, it was commercially distributed by Paramount Pictures and by the Paramount Home Entertainment division for home media markets. Following its wide release, the film was nominated for and won a number of accolades. On June 12,1990, the soundtrack, composed and conducted by Basil Poledouris, was released by MCA Records. The film was the first in a series involving the fictional character Jack Ryan, played additionally by Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Ramius leaves port to conduct exercises with attack submarine V. K. Konovalov, commanded by his former student Captain Tupolev. Once at sea, Ramius secretly kills political officer Ivan Putin, the next morning, CIA analyst and ex-Marine, Jack Ryan, after consulting with Vice Admiral James Greer, briefs United States government officials on Red October and the threat it poses. Officials in the briefing learn that the bulk of the Soviet Navy has been deployed to sink Red October, Ryan, however, hypothesizes that Ramius instead plans to defect, and leaves to rendezvous with the American attack submarine USS Dallas to prove his theory. Meanwhile, Tupolev, though unable to track Red October, guesses his former mentors route, due to the actions of an unknown saboteur, Red Octobers caterpillar drive fails during risky maneuvers through a narrow undersea canyon. Petty Officer Jones, a sonar technician aboard Dallas, has discovered a way to detect Red October using underwater acoustics, Ryan arranges a hazardous mid-ocean rendezvous to board Dallas, where he attempts to persuade its captain, Commander Bart Mancuso, to contact Ramius and determine his intentions. The Soviet Ambassador informs the U. S. that Ramius is a renegade and that order is sent to the U. S. Fleet, including Dallas, which has found the Soviet submarine. Ryan, however, is convinced that Ramius plans to defect with his officers and convinces Mancuso to contact Ramius, Ramius, stunned that the Americans correctly guessed his plan, accepts. He then stages a nuclear emergency, ordering his crew to abandon ship. After a U. S. frigate is spotted, Ramius submerges, meanwhile, Ryan, Mancuso, and Jones come aboard via a rescue sub, at which point Ramius requests asylum in the United States for himself and his officers. Red October is suddenly attacked by Konovalov, which has tracked them across the Atlantic, as the two Soviet subs maneuver, one of Red Octobers cooks, Loginov, an undercover GRU agent and the secret saboteur, opens fire. He fatally wounds first officer Vasily Borodin before retreating to the nuclear missiles bay, pursued by Ryan, Loginov shoots Ramius, wounding him, but Ryan kills Loginov before he can detonate a missile. Meanwhile, Red October makes evasive maneuvers with a provided by Dallas. Ryan and Ramius, their complete, navigate Red October to the Penobscot River in Maine
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Basic Instinct
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Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. The film follows a detective, Nick Curran, who is investigating the brutal murder of a wealthy rock star. During the investigation Curran becomes involved in a torrid and intense relationship with the suspect, Catherine Tramell. Even before its release, Basic Instinct generated heated controversy due to its overt sexuality and it was strongly opposed by gay rights activists, who criticized the films depiction of homosexual relationships and the portrayal of a bisexual woman as a murderous narcissistic psychopath. In a 2006 interview, Stone alleged that the infamous leg-crossing scene in which her vulva was exposed was filmed without her knowledge, despite initial critical negativity and public protest, Basic Instinct became one of the most financially successful films of the 1990s, grossing $352 million worldwide. Several versions of the film have been released on videocassette, DVD, a 2006 sequel, Basic Instinct 2 starring Stone was made without Verhoevens involvement, but received negative reviews from critics and was unsuccessful at the box office. A retired rock star, Johnny Boz, is stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex by a blonde woman at his apartment. Homicide detective Nick Curran investigates, and the suspect is Catherine Tramell, Bozs bisexual girlfriend. It is concluded that either Catherine herself did it or someone trying to frame her out of spite, Tramell is uncooperative and taunting in the investigation, smoking in the interrogation room and exposing her bare genitalia in front of the officers. She presents alibis and passes a lie detector test, Nick, who accidentally shot two tourists while high on cocaine, attends counseling sessions with police psychologist Dr. Beth Garner, with whom he has had a sexual affair. Nick discovers that Catherine plans on using him as a detective in her latest book. Catherine becomes aware of Nicks past after paying Lt. Nielsen to look into Nicks psychiatric file, Nick publicly assaults Nielsen in his office and later becomes a prime suspect after Nielsen is killed. Nick suspects Catherine, and when he joins in her behavior in front of his co-workers, a torrid affair between Nick and Catherine begins with the air of a cat-and-mouse game. Nick shows up at a club and witnesses her sniffing coke in a stall along with Roxy. Nick and Catherine begin to dance and make out at a club, later, observed by Roxy, they have sex in a bed. Roxy, jealous of Nick, attempts to run him over with Catherines car, Nick identifies the girl as Beth Garner, who acknowledges the encounter, but claims Catherine was the one who became obsessed. Nick discovers the pages of Catherines new book in which the fictional detective finds his partner lying dead with his legs protruding between the doors of an elevator. Catherine breaks off their affair, Nick becomes upset and suspicious, Nick later meets his partner Gus, who has arranged to meet with Catherines college roommate at an office building to find out what really went on between Catherine and Beth
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Roman Catholic
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The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or the Universal Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.28 billion members worldwide. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, it has played a prominent role in the history, headed by the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, the churchs doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed. Its central administration is located in Vatican City, enclaved within Rome, the Catholic Church is notable within Western Christianity for its sacred tradition and seven sacraments. It teaches that it is the one church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christs apostles. The Catholic Church maintains that the doctrine on faith and morals that it declares as definitive is infallible. The Latin Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as such as mendicant orders and enclosed monastic orders. Among the sacraments, the one is the Eucharist, celebrated liturgically in the Mass. The church teaches that through consecration by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body, the Catholic Church practises closed communion, with only baptised members in a state of grace ordinarily permitted to receive the Eucharist. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Catholic Church as Queen of Heaven and is honoured in numerous Marian devotions. The Catholic Church has influenced Western philosophy, science, art and culture, Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and medical services in the world, from the late 20th century, the Catholic Church has been criticised for its doctrines on sexuality, its refusal to ordain women and its handling of sexual abuse cases. Catholic was first used to describe the church in the early 2nd century, the first known use of the phrase the catholic church occurred in the letter from Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans, written about 110 AD. In the Catechetical Discourses of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, the name Catholic Church was used to distinguish it from other groups that call themselves the church. The use of the adjective Roman to describe the Church as governed especially by the Bishop of Rome became more widespread after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and into the Early Middle Ages. Catholic Church is the name used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church follows an episcopal polity, led by bishops who have received the sacrament of Holy Orders who are given formal jurisdictions of governance within the church. Ultimately leading the entire Catholic Church is the Bishop of Rome, commonly called the pope, in parallel to the diocesan structure are a variety of religious institutes that function autonomously, often subject only to the authority of the pope, though sometimes subject to the local bishop. Most religious institutes only have male or female members but some have both, additionally, lay members aid many liturgical functions during worship services
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Cinematography
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Typically, a lens is used to repeatedly focus the light reflected from objects into real images on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a questioned exposure, creating multiple images. With an electronic sensor, this produces an electrical charge at each pixel. The result with photographic emulsion is a series of invisible latent images on the film stock, the images on the film stock are played back at a rapid speed and projected onto a screen, creating the illusion of motion. Cinematography finds uses in fields of science and business as well as for entertainment purposes. The word cinematography was created from the Greek words κίνημα, meaning movement, motion and γράφειν meaning to record, the word used to refer to the art, process, or job of filming movies, but later its meaning was restricted to motion picture photography. In the 1830s, moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks, with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer in Austria, Joseph Plateau in Belgium, and William Horner in Britain. In 1845, Francis Ronalds invented the first successful camera able to make recordings of the varying indications of meteorological. The cameras were supplied to numerous observatories around the world and some remained in use well into the 20th century. William Lincoln patented a device, in 1867, that showed animated pictures called the wheel of life or zoopraxiscope, in it, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit. On 19 June 1873, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named Sallie Gardner in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras. The cameras were arranged along a parallel to the horses. They were 21 inches apart to cover the 20 feet taken by the horse stride, although it was never played back at speed to create motion, this was the first step towards motion pictures. The late nineteenth to the twentieth century brought rise to the use of film not only for entertainment purposes. The experimental film Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on 14 October 1888, in Roundhay, Leeds and this movie was shot on paper film. W. K. L. Dickson, working under the direction of Thomas Alva Edison, was the first to design a successful apparatus and this camera took a series of instantaneous photographs on standard Eastman Kodak photographic emulsion coated onto a transparent celluloid strip 35 mm wide. The results of work were first shown in public in 1893, using the viewing apparatus also designed by Dickson. Contained within a box, only one person at a time looking into it through a peephole could view the movie. The Lumière brothers were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, in 1896, movie theaters were open in France, Italy, Brussels, and London
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Paul Verhoeven
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Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch film director, film producer, television director, television producer, and screenwriter. Verhoeven is active in both the Netherlands and Hollywood, explicit violent and/or sexual content and social satire are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films. He is best known for directing the films RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Verhoevens film Turkish Delight received the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century at the Netherlands Film Festival. His films altogether received a total of nine Academy Award nominations, mainly for editing, Verhoeven won the Saturn Award for Best Director for Robocop. His Dutch war film Black Book was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and was voted the best Dutch film ever by the Dutch public in 2008. In contrast, he won the Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director for Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven was born on 18 July 1938 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is the son of school teacher Wim Verhoeven and hat maker Nel van Schaardenburg, although he was born in Amsterdam, the family lived in the village of Slikkerveer. In 1943 the family moved to The Hague, the location of the German headquarters in the Netherlands during World War II, the Verhoeven house was near a German military base with V1 and V2-rocket launchers, which was repeatedly bombed by allied forces. Their neighbours house was hit and Verhoevens parents were almost killed when bombs fell on a street crossing, from this period, Verhoeven mentioned in interviews, he remembers images of violence, burning houses, dead bodies on the street, and continuous danger. As a small child he experienced the war as an adventure and compares himself with the character Bill Rowan in Hope. Verhoevens father Wim Verhoeven became head teacher at the Van Heutszschool in The Hague, sometimes they watched informative films at home with the schools film projector. Paul Verhoeven and his father liked to see American films that were in the cinema after the liberation. They went as many as ten times to see The War of the Worlds, Paul Verhoeven was a fan of the Dutch comic Dick Bos. The character Dick Bos is a detective who fights crime using jujutsu. Verhoeven himself liked comic drawing, he created The Killer, a character in a detailed story full of revenge. Other fiction he liked were Frankenstein and the Rice Burroughs Barsoom series, Verhoeven attended public secondary school Gymnasium Haganum in The Hague. Later, beginning in 1955, he studied at Leiden University, Verhoeven graduated with a doctorandus with a double major, in mathematics and physics. Verhoeven made his first film A Lizzard Too Much for the anniversary of his students corps in 1960, in his last years at university Verhoeven also attended classes at the Netherlands Film Academy
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Rutger Hauer
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Rutger Oelsen Hauer is a Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist. He has acted in both Dutch and English-language TV series and films and his career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series Floris. Hauer founded the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, an AIDS awareness organization, Hauer was born on 23 January 1944 in Breukelen in the Netherlands. He is the son of drama teachers Teunke and Arend Hauer and he has three sisters, one older and two younger. Since his parents were occupied with their careers, he. He went to a Waldorf school, at the age of 15, Hauer ran off to sea and spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as an electrician and a joiner for three years while attending acting classes at night school, Hauer served in the Royal Netherlands Navy. Hauer joined a troupe, with which he remained for five years before Paul Verhoeven cast him in the lead role of the 1969 television series Floris. The role made him famous in his country, and Hauer reprised his role for the 1975 German remake Floris von Rosemund. Hauers career changed course when Verhoeven cast him in Turkish Delight, the film found box office favour abroad and at home, and Hauer looked to appear in more international films. Within two years, Hauer made his English-language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy, set in South Africa, the film was an action-drama with a focus on apartheid. Hauers supporting role, however, was noticed in Hollywood. During this period, he made Katie Tippel and worked again with Verhoeven on Soldier of Orange and these two films paired Hauer with fellow Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé. Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone film Nighthawks as a psychopathic and he continued to make an impression on audiences in The Hitcher, in which he played a mysterious hitchhiker tormenting a lone motorist and murdering anyone in his way. At the height of Hauers fame, he was set to be cast as RoboCop though the role went to Peter Weller. That same year, Hauer starred as Nick Randall in Wanted, in The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Hauer showed a more soulful side. Phillip Noyce also attempted to capitalize, with far less success, Hauer returned to science fiction with The Blood of Heroes, in which he played a former champion in a post-apocalyptic world. He also appeared in the Kylie Minogue music video On a Night Like This, in 1999, Hauer was awarded the Dutch Best Actor of the Century Rembrandt Award
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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John McTiernan
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John Campbell McTiernan, Jr. is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his films, especially Predator, Die Hard. His later well-known films include the action-comedy-fantasy film Last Action Hero, the film sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance. He was incarcerated in prison from April 2013 to February 2014. During his imprisonment, he declared bankruptcy amidst foreclosure proceedings for his residence and struggles to pay legal fees. His last completed project was the mystery-thriller Basic, released in 2003. McTiernan was born in Albany, New York, the son of Myra and John Campbell McTiernan, Sr. a lawyer and he attended the Juilliard School before graduating with a Master of Fine Arts from the AFI Conservatory. In 1986, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Nomads, while being neither commercially successful nor critically acclaimed, it did land him the job of directing the science fiction action hit Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the wake of that success, he went on to direct two more hits – Die Hard in 1988 starring Bruce Willis and The Hunt for Red October in 1990 with Alec Baldwin. Nomads was not well received by critics – receiving only one positive review out of eight according to the aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 1.5 stars out of four and said even if viewers cared about the characters. However, Jay Scott of The Globe and Mail described it as a breathlessly unself-conscious film, and then, via one of the funniest, cleverest and most unexpected conclusions to any movie in history, Nomads comes off the fence it has been sitting on with a bravura jump. Scott credited McTiernan, saying he has brought to his project a staggeringly resourceful technique, the sharply unpredictable editing, the hypnotic use of slow motion and rack focus, the ominous rock music - everything adds up to a debut of singular confidence, full of fun and creepiness. Variety wrote, Nomads avoids the more obvious ripped-guts devices in favor of dramatic visual scares, in fact, everything seems to come naturally in a tale that even has the supernatural ring true. Walter Goodman of The New York Times called the Innuat as menacing as the chorus from West Side Story. In his memoir, Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was so impressed by the tense atmosphere made with a low budget that he hired John McTiernan to direct Predator. The budget for Predator was around $15 million, but it opened as #1 at the U. S. box office with a gross of $12 million on its opening weekend, for the calendar year 1987, it was second only to Beverly Hills Cop II. Initial critical reaction to Predator was negative, with focusing on the thin plot
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Roar (1981 film)
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The film follows a family who are attacked by a range of ravening jungle animals at the secluded home of their keeper. Much of the footage capturing the injuries was included in the cut of the film. It has been considered the most dangerous film shoot in history, the film was released theatrically in Europe in 1981, but was a financial failure. It was released theatrically in the United States for the first time on April 17,2015, Hedren co-wrote the 1985 book Cats of Shambala about her experience of filming Roar. Hank lives contentedly with his animals, two elephants, and 110 lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, cougars, and jaguars. One day his wife and three children arrive to visit him, the only trouble is he is not at home, but all his animals are. The two came across a plantation house that had been overrun by a pride of lions. Hedren, a rights activist, had envisioned making the film as a response to the dwindling population of endangered cats on the African continent. Roar was shot on location at Noel Marshalls private ranch in Acton, California, a flood at the ranch three years into the shooting process caused over $3 million in damages, creating further setbacks to the production. Over 70 of the cast and crew were injured during the production of this film, cinematographer Jan de Bont had his scalp lifted by a lion, resulting in 220 stitches. Tippi Hedren received a leg and also had scalp wounds. This occurred after an elephant bucked her off its back while she was riding it and she was also bitten in the neck by a lion and required 38 stitches. This incident can also be seen in the film, melanie Griffith was also mauled during the production, receiving 50 stitches to her face, it was feared she would lose an eye, but she recovered and was not disfigured. Noel Marshall was attacked so many times that he eventually was diagnosed with gangrene, in one of those incidents, he was clawed by a cheetah when protecting the animals during a bushfire that occurred in 1979. All animals were evacuated though it took years for him to recover from his injuries. Due to the injuries, turnover was high as many did not want to return to the set, some of the lions also suffered from illnesses that reduced their population. John Marshall was bitten by one of the lions and required 56 stitches, in a 2015 interview, he commented on the films notorious tagline that 70 people were injured during the making of the film, saying, Tippi disputes the number. I believe that number is inaccurate – I believe it’s over 100, it’s somewhere between 70 and 100
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Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption which is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and his short story The Man in the Black Suit received the O. Henry Award. In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature, King was born September 21,1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, when Donald was born, his surname was Pollock, but as an adult, he used the surname King. Kings mother, Nellie Ruth, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Donald and Nellie were married July 23,1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, when King was 11, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist and remains religious as an adult, as a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless. Only later did the family learn of the friends death, some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of Kings darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre. King compares his uncles successfully dowsing for water using the bough of a branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, I knew that Id found home when I read that book, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine
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Cujo
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Cujo is a 1981 psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a rabid dog. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982, and was made into a film in 1983, Cujos name was based on the nom de guerre of Willie Wolfe, one of the men responsible for orchestrating Patty Hearsts kidnapping and indoctrination into the Symbionese Liberation Army. Stephen King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he barely remembers writing at all, the book was written during a period when King was drinking heavily. King goes on to say that he likes the book and that he wishes he could remember enjoying the good parts as he put them down on the page, the story takes place in the setting of numerous King works, the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Revolving around two families, the narrative is interspersed with vignettes from the seemingly mundane lives of various other residents. There are no chapter headings but breaks in between passages to indicate when the narration switches to a different point of view, the principal characters are the Trenton and the Camber families. The middle-class Trentons have recently moved to Castle Rock from New York City, bringing them their four-year-old son. Father, Vic, discovers that his wife, Donna, has concluded an affair. In the midst of this tension, Vics advertising agency is failing. The blue-collar Cambers are longtime residents, Joe is a mechanic who dominates and abuses his wife, Charity, and their ten-year-old son, Brett. Charity wins a $5,000 lottery prize and uses the proceeds to trick Joe into allowing her to take Brett on a trip to visit Charitys sister, Holly, Joe acquiesces, secretly planning to use the time to take a pleasure trip to Boston. Soon after Charity and Brett leave town, Cujo goes mad and kills their alcoholic neighbor, when Joe calls on Gary, Cujo kills him, as well. Donna, home alone with Tad, takes their failing Ford Pinto to the Cambers for repairs, the car breaks down in Cambers dooryard, and as Donna attempts to find Joe, Cujo appears, ready to pounce. She climbs back in the car as Cujo starts to attack, Donna and Tad are trapped in their vehicle, the interior of which becomes increasingly hot in the sun. During one escape attempt, Donna is bitten in the stomach and leg but manages to survive and escape back into the car. She plans to run for the Cambers home but abandons the idea due to her fears that the door will be locked, to explore all leads, the state police send Castle Rock Sheriff George Bannerman out to the Cambers house, but Cujo attacks and kills him. Donna, after witnessing the attack and realizing Tad is in danger of dying of dehydration, battles Cujo, Vic arrives on the scene with the authorities soon after, but Tad has already died from exposure. Donna is rushed to the hospital, and Cujos head is removed for a prior to cremation of his remains
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Ridley Scott
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Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. Scott is known for his atmospheric, highly concentrated visual style and his films are also known for their strong female characters. Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing, in 1995, both Ridley and his brother Tony received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema. In 2003, Scott was knighted for his services to the British film industry, in a 2004 BBC poll Scott was named the tenth most influential person in British culture. In 2015 he received a doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Scott was born in South Shields, County Durham, North East England, to Elizabeth and he was brought up in an army family, so for most of his early life, his father – an officer in the Royal Engineers – was absent. His elder brother, Frank, joined the British Merchant Navy when he was still young, during this time the family moved around, living in Cumberland in North West England, Wales and Germany. He had a brother, Tony, who also became a film director. He studied at Grangefield Grammar School and West Hartlepool College of Art from 1954 to 1958, Scott went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London, contributing to college magazine ARK and helping to establish the college film department. For his final show, he made a black and white film, Boy and Bicycle. In February 1963 Scott was named in title credits as Designer for the BBC television programme Tonight, about the severe winter of 1963. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars. He was originally assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, however, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant he was replaced by Raymond Cusick. In 1965, he began directing episodes of series for the BBC, only one of which. In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates, a nostalgia themed television advertisement that captured the public imagination, it was voted the UKs all-time favourite commercial in a 2006 poll. In the 1970s the Chanel No.5 brand needed revitalisation having run the risk of being labelled as mass market, five members of the Scott family are directors, and all have worked for RSA. His brother Tony was a film director whose career spanned more than two decades, his sons Jake and Luke are both acclaimed directors of commercials, as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles, Luke is based in London, in 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds
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Black Rain (1989 American film)
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Black Rain is a 1989 American action thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw and Yusaku Matsuda. The story centers on two New York City police officers who arrest a member of the Yakuza and must escort him back to Japan, once there, he escapes, and the two police officers find themselves dragged deeper and deeper into the Japanese underworld. Nick is divorced from his wife, who has custody of their two children, at a restaurant, Nick and his partner Charlie Vincent observe two Japanese men meet with Mafia gangsters. Nicks suspicions are validated when another Japanese man enters the restaurant, seizes a small package at gunpoint, Nick and Charlie chase and arrest the suspect after he nearly kills Nick. The suspect, a Yakuza gangster named Sato, is to be extradited to Osaka, though angered Sato will not be prosecuted in the US, Nick agrees to escort him. Nick’s captain believes it will keep Nick from causing more trouble, when they arrive in Osaka, they surrender Sato to the Japanese police, only to be told that they were duped by impostors. Nick convinces the Osaka police to them to observe the investigation. They are assigned to Masahiro Matsumoto, Nick behaves rudely and offends Matsumoto, while Charlie attempts to be more polite. Nick also makes contact with an American nightclub hostess, Joyce, through her, Nick discovers Sato is fighting a gang war with a notorious crime boss, Sugai, and traveled to New York to disrupt Sugais counterfeiting scheme. Nick joins a police raid without permission and takes a few $100 bills from the crime scene, at night, Nick and Charlie walk back to their hotel drunk and unescorted, despite warnings about their safety. In an apparent prank, a young motorcyclist steals Charlies coat, separated from Charlie, Nick watches in horror as Sato and several others briefly torture and kill him. Joyce comforts the distraught Nick at her apartment, later, Mastumoto hands him Charlies service pistol. As Matsumoto and Nick trail one of Satos operatives, Nick admits he stole money in New York, the operative retrieves a sample counterfeit note, which she passes to a gangster. Nick and Matsumoto tail him to a foundry, where they find Sato is meeting Sugai. Nick confronts Sato, who escapes when swarming police arrest Nick for waving a gun in public, though deported, Nick sneaks off the plane to pursue Sato on his own, as Matsumoto has been suspended and demoted. Joyce helps him meet Sugai, who explains that making counterfeit US currency is his revenge for the rain, or nuclear fallout. Nick suggests a deal where Sugai can use Nick to retrieve the stolen plate from Sato, leaving Sugais reputation, Sugai drops Nick at a remote farm with a shotgun. Matsumoto arrives, and they deduce Sato plans a massacre, during a meeting with Sugai, Sato cuts off one of his fingers in atonement, stabs Sugai, and escapes with the plates, prompting a gunfight between Sugais and Satos men
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Speed 2: Cruise Control
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Speed 2, Cruise Control is a 1997 American disaster thriller film, and a sequel to Speed. It was produced and directed by Jan de Bont, and written by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson, based on a story by De Bont, Sandra Bullock stars in the film, reprising her role from Speed, while Jason Patric and Willem Dafoe co-star. The film was released by 20th Century Fox on June 13,1997, the plot involves a couple, Annie and Alex, vacationing in the Caribbean aboard a luxury cruise ship, which is hijacked by a villain named Geiger. As they are trapped aboard the ship, Annie and Alex work with the ships first officer to try to stop it after they discover it is programmed to crash into an oil tanker. De Bont came up with the idea for the film after he had a nightmare about a cruise ship crashing into an island. Speed star Keanu Reeves was initially supposed to reprise his role as Jack Traven for the sequel, production took place aboard Seabourn Legend, the ship on which the film is set. The films final scene, when the ship crashes into the island of Saint Martin, cost almost a quarter of the films budget, many interior scenes aboard the ship were shot on soundstages in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The films soundtrack featured mostly reggae music, Mark Mancina returned to compose the film score, which was released as an album 13 years after the films release. Critical reception of the film was extremely negative, the acting, story, and characters attracted the most criticism as well as the films setting on a slow-moving cruise ship, which was much less thrilling than Speeds setting on a fast-moving bus. The film was also a disappointment, earning $164 million worldwide against a budget of $110 million. It was nominated for eight Golden Raspberry Awards, and won the award for Worst Re-Make or Sequel, Alex Shaw is on a motorcycle chasing a vehicle with stolen goods. After he catches the driver of the vehicle, his girlfriend Annie runs into him during her driving test and she finds out that Alex is on the SWAT team after he lied and told her he was a beach officer. As an apology, Alex surprises her with a Caribbean cruise on Seabourn Legend, aboard the ship, passenger John Geiger hacks into the ships computer system, and the following evening, he destroys the ships communication systems and kills the captain. After remotely shutting down the engines, Geiger calls the bridge to tell the first officer, Juliano. Juliano is ordered by Geiger to evacuate the ship, Geiger steals jewelry from the ships vault. As passengers evacuate, Drew, a deaf girl, becomes trapped in an elevator. As Annie and Alex attempt to board the last lifeboat, Geiger programs the ship to continue sailing, the winch lowering the lifeboat jams. Alex jumps into the boat to rescue the passengers who are falling off, Alex realizes Geiger is controlling the ship
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The Haunting (1999 film)
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The Haunting is a 1999 remake of the 1963 horror film of the same name. Both films are based on the 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, the Haunting was directed by Jan de Bont and stars Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson and Lili Taylor. It was released in the United States on July 23,1999, eleanor Nell Vance has cared for her invalid mother for 11 years. After her mother dies, her sister Jane and Janes boyfriend Lou eject her, Nell receives a phone call about an insomnia study, directed by Dr. David Marrow at Hill House, a secluded manor in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, and applies for it. At the house, she meets Mr. and Mrs. Dudley, two other participants arrive, Luke Sanderson and Theodora, along with Dr. Marrow and his two research assistants. Unknown to the participants, Dr. Marrow’s true purpose is to study the response to fear. Each night, the chain the gate outside Hill House. During their first night, Dr. Marrow relates the story of Hill House, the house was built by Hugh Crain —a 19th-century textile tycoon. Crain built the house for his wife, hoping to populate it with a family of children, however. Crain’s wife Renee killed herself before the house was finished and Crain became a recluse, after the story, Marrows assistant’s face is slashed by a snapped clavichord wire. The freak accident causes Marrows research assistants to leave, Nell begins to suspect that it was no accident, as she notices that the wire was unwound by someone or something. Theo and Luke try to establish their innocence, but Nell tells them that dont know her. Nell becomes determined to prove that the house is haunted by children who are only terrorized and killed by Crains cruelty. She also learns that Crain had a wife named Carolyn. Dr. Marrow is skeptical of Eleanors claims, until he realizes he made a mistake by bringing them to Hill House when a statue tries to him in a pool of water in a greenhouse. After several more terrifying events, Nell insists that she leave the ghosts of the kids to suffer for eternity at Crains hands. Hugh Crains ghost seals up the house, trapping them all inside, a frustrated Luke defaces a portrait of Hugh Crain. Crains enraged spirit drags Luke to the fireplace where he is decapitated, Nell is able to lead Crains spirit towards an iron door
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Golden Raspberry Awards
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The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to Razzies and Razzie Awards, is an award in recognition of the worst in film. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, the awards themselves are in the form of a golf ball-sized raspberry which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold. The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31,1981, wilsons living-room alcove in Los Angeles, to honor the worst in film of the 1980 film season. The 37th ceremony was held on February 25,2017, american publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards. In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Cant Stop the Music and Xanadu. He gave them ballots to vote on worst in film, approximately three dozen people came to the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards. The 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards had double the attendance as the first, by the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, CNN and two major wire services covered the event. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in blowing a raspberry, Wilson commented to the author of Blame It on the Dog, When I registered the term with the Library of Congress in 1980, they asked me, Why raspberry. But since then, razz has pretty much permeated the culture and we couldnt have done it without Hollywoods help. Wilson is referred to as Ye Olde Head Razzberry, paying members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation vote to determine the recipients. For the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009, award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans, voters hailed from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries. The ceremony, typically one day before the Academy Awards, is modeled after the latter but deliberately low-end. Most winners do not attend the ceremony to collect their awards, notable exceptions include Tom Green, Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock, Michael Ferris, J. D. Shapiro, and Paul Verhoeven. Three people won both the Razzies and Oscars the same weekend, Alan Menken in 1993, Brian Helgeland in 1998, two actors had performances in the same movie scoring Oscar and Razzie nominations, James Coco and Amy Irving. Neil Diamond, winner of the inaugural Worst Actor Razzie for 1980s The Jazz Singer, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the same role, wall Street is the only film to date to win both an Oscar and a Razzie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, however Daryl Hannahs performance was not as well received and earned her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress, special prizes for the 25th anniversary of the Razzies awards were also given out in 2005. This is an award given by Razzie Award Governor John J. B. Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the Razzies other categories. It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography in the film From Justin to Kelly and this award is given to a critical and financial failure that wouldve been nominated if it had received an eligible release
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
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Lara Croft, Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life is a 2003 action-adventure film based on the Tomb Raider video game series. Angelina Jolie stars as the titular Lara Croft character, and supporting roles include Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor, Til Schweiger, Djimon Hounsou, and Simon Yam. The film was directed by Jan de Bont and is a sequel to the 2001 film Lara Croft, despite the films critical improvement over its predecessor, it did not repeat its financial success, grossing $156 million compared to the previous installments $274 million. This film is Jan de Bonts last work as a director, on Santorini island, Greece, a strong earthquake uncovers the Luna Temple. The temple was built by Alexander the Great to house his most prized treasures, among these treasures is a glowing orb with a pattern resembling a code etched into it. Lara finds this orb, but crime lord Chen Lo attacks her group, Lara escapes with a strange medallion. MI6 approaches Lara with information about Pandoras box and it is an object from ancient legends that supposedly contains a deadly plague. They need to get it before Jonathan Reiss —a Nobel Prize winning scientist turned bio-terrorist—does, the box, hidden in the mysterious Cradle of Life, can only be found with a magical sphere that serves as a map. The same sphere was stolen by Chen Lo, who plans to sell the sphere to Reiss, Lara agrees to help them, with the condition that they release her old flame Terry Sheridan, who is familiar with Chen Los criminal operation. Together, Terry and Lara infiltrate Chen Los lair, where he is smuggling the Terracotta Soldiers, Lara defeats him in a fight and learns the location of the orb. Lara and Terry then meet up with Kosa, an African friend and they question a local tribe about the Cradle of Life. The tribes Chief states that the Cradle of Life is in a protected by the Shadow Guardians. As they set out on an expedition, Reiss men ambush them, using her companions as hostages, Reiss forces Lara to lead him to the Cradle of Life. At the crater, they encounter the Shadow Guardians, humanoid creatures that appear in, the creatures kill most of Reiss men. Lara manages to find the key hole and drops the Orb in it, the Guardians disintegrate and the entrance to the Cradle of Life opens. Lara and Reiss are drawn into the Cradle, a made of a strange crystalline substance. Inside, they find a pool of highly corrosive black acid, normal laws of physics seem not to apply, as Lara and Reiss are able to walk upside down along the ceiling of the cave. Terry arrives, frees the hostages and catches up to Lara, Lara fights Reiss, and knocks him into the acid pool after Terry distracts him
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Tomb Raider
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Tomb Raider, styled as Lara Croft, Tomb Raider between 2001 and 2007, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design. Croft was created by a team at Core Design that included Toby Gard, the gameplay generally focuses around action-adventure exploration of environments, solving puzzles, navigating hostile environments filled with traps, and fighting numerous enemies. Additional media has grown up around the theme in the form of two adaptations, one in 2001 and another in 2003, both of which featured Angelina Jolie as Croft. Development on the original Tomb Raider game began in 1993 and its success prompted Core Design to develop a new game annually for the next four years, which put a strain on staff. The sixth game, The Angel of Darkness, faced difficulties during development and was considered a failure at release and this prompted Eidos to switch development duties to Crystal Dynamics, which has been the series primary developer since then. Other developers have contributed either to spin-off titles within the series or ports of mainline titles, Tomb Raider games have sold over 58 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling video game franchises. The series has met with critical acclaim, with the series being noted as one of the pioneers of the action-adventure genre. Lara Croft herself has one of the most recognisable video game protagonists in existence, winning numerous accolades and earning places on the Walk of Game. Alongside being praised for pioneering female characters in games, she has also been the subject of controversy due to her sex appeal being used for marketing. The first six Tomb Raider games were developed by Core Design, after the sixth game in the series released to a lukewarm reception in 2003, development was transferred to North American studio Crystal Dynamics, who have handled the main series since then. Since 2001, other developers have contributed either to ports of games or with the development of spin-off titles. The first entry in the series Tomb Raider was released in 1996 for personal computers, the Saturn and PlayStation versions were released in Japan in 1997. The second game, Tomb Raider II, launched in 1997, again for PC, a month before release, Eidos finalized a deal with Sony Computer Entertainment to keep the console version of Tomb Raider II and future games exclusive to PlayStation until the year 2000. The PlayStation version was released in Japan in 1998, Tomb Raider III launched in 1998. As with Tomb Raider II, the PlayStation version released in Japan the following year, the fourth consecutive title in the series, Tomb Raider, The Last Revelation, released in 1999. In 2000, with the end of the PlayStation exclusivity deal, in Japan, both console versions released the following year. Tomb Raider Chronicles released in 2000 on the platforms as The Last Revelation. After a three-year gap, Tomb Raider, The Angel of Darkness released on PC, the PS2 version released in Japan that same year
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Angelina Jolie
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Angelina Jolie Pitt, DCMG is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has cited as Hollywoods highest-paid actress. Jolie made her debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight. Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2, followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers. She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical cable films George Wallace and Gia, Jolies starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft, Tomb Raider established her as a leading Hollywood actress. Beginning in the 2010s, she expanded her career into directing, screenwriting and her biggest commercial success came with the fantasy picture Maleficent. Her personal life is the subject of wide publicity, divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, she separated from her third husband, actor Brad Pitt, in September 2016. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally, born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven and niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor and her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her fathers side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mothers side, she is of primarily French Canadian, Dutch, like her mother, Jolie has stated that she is part Iroquois, although her only known indigenous ancestors were 17th-century Hurons. After her parents separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, when Jolie was six years old, Bertrand and her live-in partner, filmmaker Bill Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York, they returned to Los Angeles five years later. Jolie then decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Jolie first attended Beverly Hills High School, where she felt isolated among the children of some of the areas affluent families because her mother survived on a more modest income. She was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and her early attempts at modeling, at her mothers insistence, proved unsuccessful. She dropped out of her classes and aspired to become a funeral director. She also struggled with insomnia and an eating disorder, and began experimenting with drugs, by age 20, she had used just about every drug possible, particularly heroin. Jolie suffered episodes of depression and twice planned to commit suicide—at age 19 and again at 22, when she was 24, she experienced a nervous breakdown and was admitted for 72 hours to UCLA Medical Centers psychiatric ward. Two years later, after adopting her first child, Jolie found stability in her life, later stating, I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again. Jolie has had a dysfunctional relationship with her father, which began when Voight left the family when his daughter was less than a year old
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Lara Croft
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Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Square Enix video game franchise Tomb Raider. She is presented as a beautiful, intelligent, and athletic English archaeologist-adventurer who ventures into ancient, hazardous tombs, created by a team at UK developer Core Design that included Toby Gard, the character first appeared in the 1996 video game Tomb Raider. She has also appeared in video game sequels, printed adaptations, a series of animated films, feature films. Official promotion of the character includes a brand of apparel and accessories, action figures, Croft has also been licensed for third-party promotion, including television and print advertisements, music-related appearances, and as a spokesmodel. As of June 2016, Lara Croft has been featured on over 1,100 magazine covers surpassing any supermodel, Core Design handled initial development of the character and the series. Inspired by Neneh Cherry and comic book character Tank Girl, Gard designed Lara Croft to counter stereotypical female characters, the company modified the character for subsequent titles, which included graphical improvements and gameplay additions. American developer Crystal Dynamics took over the series after the 2003 sequel Tomb Raider, the new developer rebooted the character along with the video game series. The company altered her physical proportions, and gave her additional ways of interacting with game environments, Croft has been voiced by six actresses in the video game series, Shelley Blond, Judith Gibbins, Jonell Elliott, Keeley Hawes, Camilla Luddington and Abigail Stahlschmidt. Critics consider Lara Croft a significant game character in popular culture and she holds six Guinness World Records, has a strong fan following, and is among the first video game characters to be successfully adapted to film. Lara Croft is also considered a sex symbol, one of the earliest in the industry to achieve widespread attention. The characters influence in the industry has been a point of contention among critics, Lara Croft is depicted as an athletic and fast woman with brown eyes and reddish-brown hair, frequently kept in a plait or ponytail. The characters classic costume is a tank top, light brown shorts, calf-high boots. Accessories include fingerless gloves, a backpack, a utility belt with holsters on either side, the video game sequels introduced new outfits designed for different environments, such as underwater and cold weather. In the later games, Croft wears a top, camouflage pants. When exploring, she carries two pistols, but has used other weaponry throughout the series. She is fluent in several languages, Laras backstory has changed dramatically over the course of the series. During the first era, game manuals describe the character as the Wimbledon and she was raised as an aristocrat and betrothed to the fictitious Earl of Farringdon. Lara attended the Scottish boarding school Gordonstoun and a Swiss finishing school, Croft published books and other written works based on her exploits as a mercenary, big-game hunter, and master thief
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Business Is Business (film)
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Business Is Business is a 1971 comedy film. The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven, and stars Ronnie Bierman, Sylvia de Leur, Piet Römer, the story is about the lives of two prostitutes in Amsterdam, and is based on two books written by Albert Mol. This film marks the debut of cinematographer, Jan de Bont, the film is about the customers and personal lives of Greet and Nel, two female prostitutes in Amsterdam. Greet and Nel are friends and live on different floors of the canal house at the Prinsengracht. In this house they also receive customers, Greet roleplays the customers sexual fantasies. These incidents are recounted in the form of anecdotes throughout the film, the roleplaying involves Greet being a wigged witch, a schoolteacher, a feathered chicken, a corpse, a woman commanding her cleaner, and a surgeon. Sometimes Nel assists her by playing a part in the roleplaying, Nel lives with Sjaak, a guy who likes fishing and who lives on Nels money. Nel and Sjaak are continuously fighting, Greet convinces Nel to respond to a personal ad. The following blind date in a restaurant ends up in throwing cakes, Nel wants to clean her dress and then she meets Bob and they fall in love. In another fight Sjaak almost kills Nel with a knife and Nel decides to move in with Bob in Eindhoven, Bob turns out to be boring, and Nel visits Greet in Amsterdam. Nel doesnt want to work as a prostitute anymore, and she turns out to be pregnant, Nel and Bob marry in Amsterdam, and all of Nels former colleagues pretend that she worked as a seamstress. Greet meets the married man Piet in the bar where she hangs out, Piet takes her to a striptease club, and they have sex afterwards at her house. Unlike the other men, he doesnt have to pay, Piet brings Greet a bouquet of red roses. The next time they meet, they create a romantic atmosphere, later, Piet takes Greet to a classical concert. She dislikes it and makes a scene in the concert hall, when Piet finds out his wife is pregnant he stops seeing Greet. In the end of the film they again and Greet says he should name his child Greet if it is a girl. The film ends when Greet makes the customer that plays the cleaner clean up Nels marriage party, gerard Soeteman wrote the film scenario, which was his first feature film script. He based the story on the two books Wat zien ik. and Haar van Boven written by Albert Mol, writer Albert Mol also has a small role in the film himself as Mr. Van Schaveren
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Keetje Tippel
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Katie Tippel is a 1975 film by Paul Verhoeven. The film is based on the memoirs of Neel Doff and was the most expensive Dutch film produced up to that time, the film was a box office success taking in 1,829,116 admissions in the Netherlands. Upon their arrival Katie manages to secure employment at a dye-works and she manages to find a job at a hat shop, where, during a business trip to a brothel, she discovers her older sister Mina is working as a prostitute. Later that evening, back at the hat shop, she is raped by the owner and, as an act of revenge. Weeks go by, during which Katies father struggles to make ends meet working in a factory, while attempting to steal some bread from a market cart, Katie is knocked unconscious by a policeman and taken to a sanitorium. It soon becomes apparent that everywhere she goes her body is her asset as one of the doctors diagnoses her with tuberculosis. It is unclear whether this occurs, but on her discharge Katie rejoins her family and discovers her father has been made redundant, Katies mother decides that, rather than let the family starve, Katie must go into prostitution. Her first client is a gentleman, who Katie does not satisfy due to her relative inexperience. When she approaches her second client, an artist called George and he pays her the rate they negotiated on the street for her services, but tells her he only wants her to model for him. The next day he introduces Katie to Hugo, a banker, and Andre, a wealthy socialist, Andre is immediately attracted to Katie, but she seems more enamoured with Hugo, with whom she goes home and sleeps. That next morning Hugo provides Katie with money to buy herself a new dress and it is here that Katies former life threatens to catch up with her when the gentleman she approached a few days earlier recognises her and informs Hugo he knew Katie when she only cost fifty pence. Hugo punches him, refusing to believe his story and promises Katie that she can move in with him forever, Katie goes to see her family, informing them she intends to leave. Her mother asks how she will feed the children if Katies not there to provide, Katie tells her mother she should have fucked less and storms out, kicking her hysterical mother out of the way. Once at Hugos, Katie settles into the life of the bourgeoisie but is troubled at having to go spying on some of Amsterdams less affluent shop owners to see who Hugo should refuse credit to. After being exposed in a shop, and as a result, hot chocolate is thrown in her face. Very soon Hugo informs Katie that he intends to marry his fiancee and Katie must leave, Katie, with nowhere to go, runs out onto the street and joins in a socialist march. The police arrive to break it up, opening fire on the marchers, during the confusion, Katie is reunited with George and Andre who are also present. Andre is shot in the arm and collapses, hitting his head, George takes them to a carriage waiting nearby and Andre and Katie board it, taking them to Andres country mansion
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Private Lessons (1981 film)
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Private Lessons is a 1981 American sex comedy film starring Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, and Ed Begley, Jr. The screenplay was written by Dan Greenburg, who wrote the original source novel, Greenburg appears as the manager of a motel in the film. Private Lessons was highly controversial at the time of its release and it was one of Kristels few major American film appearances, she was better known to European audiences for her Emmanuelle films which had only limited distribution in the United States. In early 2006, a 25th anniversary DVD release was issued in North America, Phillys character becomes infatuated with Nicole. When she spots him peeping into her room, she tells him to close her door, to Phillys utter shock, she means for him to close her door from the inside and then watch her undress. However, it is too much for him when a topless Nicole asks him to touch her breasts, when he objects, she steps back and instead takes off her panties. Later on, he is surprised to find her in his fathers bathtub, once again to his amazement, she asks him to join her. At first he objects, but instead she keeps sweet-talking him until he gives in. However, he decides to wear swimming trunks, once in the bathtub, she spoons and kisses him from behind. When she tries to take off his swimming trunks from behind, but once she reaches for his private area, he again panics and rushes out. She follows him to apologize, kisses him and directly invites him to sleep with her, after they flirt in a movie theater the following day, he gives in but backs down when she reacts without fondness to the notion of marrying him. One day later, she tells him she guesses they can at least date for a while, after they flirt during their first date in a restaurant, they return home and have sex. Nicole is revealed as an alien, Lester is using this secret to blackmail her into helping him in a larger blackmail scheme against Philly. Lester intends that Nicole seduce Philly then fake her own death during intercourse, Lester then helps the panicked Philly to secretly bury Nicole. Her body later disappears, and a note orders Philly to steal $10,000 from his father to prevent exposure of his role in Nicoles death, when Nicole has second thoughts, Lester threatens to also expose her as a child molester. Nicole has truly fallen in love with Philly, and she reveals the truth to him, Philly convinces his tennis coach to pose as a police detective and intimidate Lester with questions about Nicoles disappearance. Lester panics but is caught with the money before he can flee the country, Nicole and Philly return the money to the safe, but they decide not to expose Lesters treachery. Nicole fears that Phillys father will discover their affair
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
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Im Dancing as Fast as I Can is a 1982 American biographical film directed by Jack Hofsiss and starring Jill Clayburgh. Barbara Gordon appears to have it all, including a career in a male-dominated industry. Beneath her facade is a personality who heavily relies on sedatives to reduce tension and anxiety and maintain a composed exterior for her friends. Her current project focuses on cancer patient Jean Scott Martin and her husband Ben, despite reservations expressed by her collaborators, Barbara is determined to end the film on a positive note, showing the Martins embracing on the beach. When she shows them a cut, fatalistic Jean is angered by the false optimism. The response triggers a deep depression in Barbara, who relies on Doctor Kalman, her therapist of many years, and she finally reaches a turning point when she realizes Kalmans treatment has been ineffective and admits her dependence on drugs is controlling her life. Following a series of fights, he imprisons her - bruised, bloodied. She manages to convince him they had plans with friends Karen and Sam Mulligan. Barbara is institutionalized and begins a long and arduous journey towards recovery with the help of Julie Addison, during this period, she is visited by Jean, who confesses she may have overreacted to Barbaras film and feels a sense of guilt over her breakdown. Her encouragement inspires Barbara to get well and complete the project, Jean suggests she end the film with an image of Barbara herself walking on the beach, and she complies with her wishes. Jean dies before seeing the work, but a newly confident Barbara is certain she would have approved of it. Much of the film was shot on location in New York City, the hospital interiors and exteriors were filmed at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Some of the music composed by Stanley Silverman was performed by pianist Paul Jacobs. The soundtrack includes I Guess Ill Have to Change My Plan by Tony Bennett and Count Basie and Our Love is Insane by Desmond Child, brunner David Margulies as Walter Kress The film had received negative reviews during its release. In her review in the New York Times, Janet Maslin called it a forceful, but its not an especially revealing one. We never quite learn why Barbara Gordon, who is played earnestly and vigorously by Jill Clayburgh, has gotten into trouble, although the film describes her illness and recovery in harrowing detail, it simply presents the symptoms. Im Dancing as Fast as I Can is often quite effective, but its power is more bluntly disturbing than provocative or controlled. Geraldine Page particularly exemplifies this, in the role of a poet who is dying of cancer, the film isnt sure how to use her
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Night Warning
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Night Warning is a 1982 American exploitation horror film directed by William Asher, and starring Susan Tyrrell, Jimmy McNichol, and Julia Duffy. The film was nominated for a Saturn Award for the Best Horror Movie of 1982 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, and also marked one of Bill Paxtons earliest roles. Billy Lynch is a school student whose parents died in a car accident and has been raised by his aunt, Cheryl. A gifted basketball player, Billy is offered a chance at a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado, but Cheryl dismisses the idea, assuming that Billy will stay with her to contribute. On Billys seventeenth birthday, Cheryl changes her mind about the scholarship and that night, after Phil works on their television, Cheryl makes aggressive sexual advances toward him, when he refuses, Cheryl stabs him to death with a kitchen knife. Billy and Cheryls neighbor friend, Margie arrive immediately after the ordeal, a bigoted police detective, Joe Carlson is assigned to the case, and is skeptical of Cheryl and the alleged rape. Det. Carlson begins regularly questioning Billy, accusing him of being a fag, Det. Carlson also inquires from Julia about her and Billys sexual relationship. Meanwhile, Cheryl drugs Billys milk which causes him to perform poorly at his scholarship tryout, sergeant Cook, who has been casing Cheryls home, believes Billy to be innocent, and is suspicious of Cheryl. After walking in on Billy and Julia having sex, Cheryl becomes increasingly enraged with Billy, in the attic, Billy finds a photo of a man named Craig, whom Cheryl claims was one of his mothers old boyfriends. Meanwhile, downstairs, Cheryl strikes Julia in the head with a meat tenderizer in a fit of jealousy, Julia awakens in a secret room in the basement, where she discovers Craigs mummified corpse and his severed head in a jar of formaldehyde, next to a makeshift shrine. Sergeant Cook then enters the house in search of Julia, who has reported missing by her mother. Cheryl chases Julia out of the house, and they fall in a pond near the forest, where Cheryl again knocks Julia unconscious. Billy awakens in the attic, which Cheryl has adorned with his childhood toys, while attempting to dial 911, Cheryl attacks him with a knife, and a violent struggle ensues, ending with Billy impaling her with a fireplace poker. Billy calls Coach Landers, asking for help, shortly after, Det. Carlson arrives at the house, where he finds Coach Landers treating Billys stab wounds, and sees Cheryls lifeless body on the floor. In a rage, Det. Carlson blames Billy and Tom for the crimes, Coach Landers and Det. Carlson get into a scuffle, during which Billy is able to grab the gun, shooting Carlson multiple times. Carlson bleeds to death in front of the living room piano while Billy and Julia embrace, kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote, Unfolding deftly under Ashers direction, Night Warning combines darkly outrageous humor with persuasive psychological validity. Variety called it a psychological horror film in which Tyrrell gives a tour-de-force performance. In Horror Movies of the 1980s, John Kenneth Muir rated it 3. 5/4 stars, Muir called it a true gem of the decade and the 1980s most twisted, bizarre cinematic vision of motherhood
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The Fourth Man (1983 film)
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The Fourth Man is a 1983 Dutch suspense film directed by Paul Verhoeven, based on the novel De vierde man by Gerard Reve. The film stars Jeroen Krabbé and Renée Soutendijk in the lead roles and it was Verhoevens last film made in the Netherlands before he established himself in Hollywood, he would later return to make 2006s Black Book. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, the title refers to Krabbés position as the fourth man whom Soutendijk seduces, after she presumably has dispatched her first three husbands. The film is explicit and, like many of Verhoevens other films, shows graphic violence. Gerard Reve, an alcoholic, bisexual novelist, leaves Amsterdam to deliver a lecture at the Vlissingen Literary Society, there, he becomes sexually involved with its attractive treasurer, Christine Halslag, who is alternately described as a witch, black widow, Delilah and the Devil. The Virgin Mary appears to him in visions to show that he is targeted as her fourth victim, Mary says, Anyone given a warning must listen to it. Gerard listens and his life is spared and he passes on the warning to Herman, Christines other lover, who ignores it, thinking that Gerard is trying to scare him off so that he can have Christine for himself. The movie ends with Hermans death, Christines selection of a fifth victim, Paul Verhoeven has said of the film, The Fourth Man has to do with my vision of religion. In my opinion, Christianity is nothing more than one of interpretations of reality. Subsequently, Christianity has a tendency to look like magic or the occult, and I liked that ambiguity, because I wanted my audience to take something home with them. I wanted them to wonder about what really is. Remember, that Christianity is a religion grounded in one of the most violent acts of murder, otherwise, religion wouldnt have had any kind of impact. With regard to the irony of the violence, much of that comes from my childhood experiences during. In fact, if it hadnt been for the German occupation and then the American occupation and he told The Seattle Times, You never know if youre dealing with a super-reality or not. The film was successful in the United States, where it received widespread critical acclaim. It currently holds a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is his highest rated film and it ranked #93 in Empire magazines The 100 Best Films of World Cinema in 2010. Usually movies that take this approach are too frustrating to American audience expectations to become commercially successful, yet The Fourth Man appears to have broken through that barrier to become one of the few profitable foreign films of the past year. Coincidence and random happenings reinforce the mans paranoia, and his visions of castration, spiders that kill their mates, eventually, the imagery of the film accumulates and leads directly to an explosive but still inconclusive finale
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All the Right Moves (film)
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All the Right Moves is a 1983 American sports drama film directed by Michael Chapman and starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn and Gary Graham. It was filmed on location during WPIAL football season in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Stefan Stef Djordjevic is a Serbian American high school defensive back who is gifted in both sports and academics. He dreams of becoming a right after he graduates from college. Ampipe is a town whose economy is dominated by the towns main employer, American Pipe & Steel. Stef gets through his days with the love of his girlfriend, Lisa Lietzke, most of the film takes place after the big football game against undefeated Walnut Heights High School. Ampipe appears headed to win the game, when a fumbled handoff in the closing seconds—as well as Stefans pass interference penalty earlier in the game—leads to a Walnut Heights victory. Following the game, Coach Burt Nickerson lambastes the fumbler in the locker room, when Stefan retorts that the coach himself quit, the coach kicks him off the team. In the aftermath, disgruntled Ampipe fans vandalize Coach Nickersons house, Stefan is present and is a reluctant participant, but is nonetheless seen by Nickerson as the vandals flee. Stefan gets in an argument with Lisa and his best friend Brian declines college, Stefan, frustrated by what Nickerson did, angrily confronts his former coach which ends in a shouting match out in the street. But Lisa decides to talk to Nickersons wife to try and help, in the end, Nickerson realizes he was wrong for blacklisting Stefan. He has accepted a position at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and offers Stefan a full scholarship to play football there. Gary Morton of Lucille Ball Productions was executive producer, the production was filmed over seven weeks in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in mid 1983. A sixty-year-old, recently closed high school, formerly Johnstown High School, was used as the location of the film, actress Lea Thompson was inserted as a new student at Ferndale Area High School for three days prior to shooting. Tom Cruise was similarly inserted into Greater Johnstown High School but was recognized immediately, the film has a score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews and a score of a generally favorable 62% on Metacritic based on 7 reviews. Jay Carr from The Boston Globe stated Cruise is believable as an athlete, among the unfavorable reviews, TV Guide called the movie cliche-riddled and Richard Corliss of Time called it a naive little movie hopes to prove itself the Flashdance of football. List of American films of 1983 All the Right Moves at the Internet Movie Database All the Right Moves at AllMovie
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Bad Manners (1984 film)
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Bad Manners is a 1984 American black comedy teen film released by New World Pictures. The film begins at the ominous Home of the Bleeding Heart Catholic orphanage, there he meets the cruel overseers, the stern head-mistress of the orphanage, Sister Serena, and the cattle-prod wielding head-master, Mr. Kurtz. Devastated by Mouses departure, the group of young rebels devise a plan to him, outwitting the maniacal staff. In their odyssey to free Mouse, the four street-smart teenagers lie, cheat, the film was both written and directed by, then 29-year-old, Robert Houston, whose only previous writing/directing credit was the Samurai themed action-adventure feature film, Shogun Assassin. Filmed in 1983 and produced by Growing Pains Productions, Bad Manners was released by New World Pictures in October 1984, songs for the films soundtrack were written by Ron Mael and Russell Mael of Sparks. Sparks also performed several of the songs for the film, including the title song. Targeted to a teen audience, the film has received negative reviews from adult critics. In his October 2,1984 review for the Boston Phoenix, film critic Owen Gleiberman criticized Houstons directing, writing, Houston has fashioned a cinematic contradiction, hes taken the derisive black comedy of directors like John Waters and the pre-70s Roger Corman and repackaged it like laundry detergent. The film takes lots of whacks at The Establishment, and the shame of it is that in the right hands this might have been a good film, Bad Manners at the Internet Movie Database Bad Manners at AllMovie Bad Manners at Rotten Tomatoes Bad Manners at TV Guide
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The Jewel of the Nile
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The Jewel of the Nile is a 1985 action-adventure romantic comedy and a sequel to the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, directed by Lewis Teague and produced by one of its stars, Michael Douglas. The film reunites Douglas with Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, all reprising their roles, like Romancing the Stone, the opening scene takes place in one of Joans novels. This time, instead of Jesse and Angelina in Joans wild-west scenario, Joan, the Jewel of the Nile sends its characters off on a new adventure in a fictional African desert, in an effort to find the fabled Jewel of the Nile. The Jewel of the Nile is notable for its top 40 theme song performed by Billy Ocean, When the Going gets Tough, while moored at a port in the South of France, Joan Wilders and Jack Coltons romance has grown stale. Joan, suffering writers block, wants to return to New York, while Jack prefers aimlessly sailing the world on his boat, at a book signing engagement, Joan meets Omar, a charming Arab ruler who wants Joan to write his biography. Joan accepts and leaves with Omar over Jacks protests, Jack later runs into Ralph, the swindler from Jack and Joans previous adventure in Colombia who demands Jack turn over the gem Jack and Joan found. Ralph and Jack team up to find Joan and the fabled jewel, Joan soon discovers that Omar is a brutal dictator rather than the enlightened ruler he claimed will unite the Arab world. In the palace jail, Joan encounters Al-Julhara, a man who is the Jewel of the Nile. The pair escape and find Jack, and they flee into the desert in Omars hi-jacked F-16 fighter aircraft, Ralph is captured by Taraks rebel Sufi tribe who are sworn to protect the Jewel so he can fulfill his peoples destiny. After encountering a Nubian mountain African tribe, Joan and Jacks romance is rekindled, Joan tells Jack that the jewel is Al-Julhara and not a gem stone. In Kadir, Omar intends to use a smoke-and-mirror-special effect to convince onlookers that he is the prophet who will unite the Arab world, Jack, Joan, and Al-Julhara arrive to expose Omar but are captured. Omar suspends Jack and Joan with ropes over a pit while Al-Julhara is in a stockade, Ralph, along with the Sufi tribe. As Omar takes center stage to address the Arab people, Jack, a fire breaks out, engulfing Omars stage. Jack and Joan are separated, and Omar corners Joan atop the burning scaffolding, Jack knocks Omar over the side, killing him. Al-Julhara rises and safely walks through the flames, fulling the prophecy that he is the spiritual leader. The following day, Jack and Joan are married by Al-Julhara, Ralph laments having gained nothing for his efforts, but Tarak acknowledges that he is a true Sufi friend and presents him with a jeweled dagger as Jack and Joan happily sail away down the Nile. With a $21 million budget, principal photography began April 22,1985 with filming wrapped on July 25,1985. At the time, both Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas only made the sequel because they were obligated to do so
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Ruthless People
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The film is the story of a couple who kidnap their ex-bosss wife to get revenge and extort money from him. They soon realize he does not want her back and was planning to kill her himself, meanwhile the bosss mistress plans a blackmail attempt on him which also does not go as planned. Although it has been perceived that Ruthless People was influenced by O. Millionaire Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara and he plans on murdering her to gain control of her $15 million family fortune and run off with his mistress Carol. He goes home to murder his wife, but he cant find her, the phone rings and he answers. An anonymous man tells him that Barbara has been kidnapped and if Sam informs the media, overjoyed, Sam informs the media, the police and deliberately disobeys all of the kidnappers demands, believing this will ensure his wifes death. The kidnappers are Ken and Sandy Kessler, who want revenge on Sam for stealing Sandys fashion design, Barbara is imprisoned in the Kesslers basement, where she proves a handful to the amateur kidnappers. When Sam doesnt show up with the ransom on several occasions, even when the price is dropped, it becomes obvious that Sam doesnt want his wife back, and would rather she were dead. Carol, having learned of Sams plan to kill Barbara, secretly intends to blackmail Sam, with the help of her handsome, knowing Sam plans to dump his wifes body in the Hollywood Hills at night, Carol has Earl lie in wait with a video camera. He mistakenly films a rendezvous between a prostitute and her client performing noisy sex in the front seat of a car, Earl, hearing the womans screams, thinks the murder is happening right in front of him. Without watching the tape, Carol sends a copy to Sam. He tells Carol he will do the thing to her. Carol sends another anonymous copy to police chief Henry Benton — who happens to be the prostitutes client, Benton, thinking that he is being blackmailed, asks for the demands. Carol tells him to arrest Sam Stone for murdering his wife, Benton orders a search of Sams house, planning to plant evidence, but real evidence turns up—a bottle of chloroform Sam intended to use to sedate his wife. There also are pictures of Sam with Carol, the kidnapping investigation, which has led to Ken by now, is immediately called off, and Sam is arrested. Sam now faces the prospect of having to get his wife back in order to prove his innocence. While being held captive in the Kesslers basement, Barbara takes up exercising to relieve her boredom, Sandy half-mentions that she looks great and that it looks like Barbara has lost at least 20 pounds. Unexpectedly, Barbara bonds with Sandy, letting Barbara wear some of her dress designs to show off her new figure, Barbara loves them, and offers to go into business with Sandy. During their bonding, Sandy reveals why they kidnapped her
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (film)
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The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1986 film based on the book of the same name by Jean M. Auel and was directed by Michael Chapman. The film stars Daryl Hannah, Pamela Reed, James Remar, dialogue is conducted mostly through a form of sign language which is translated for the audience with subtitles. A young Cro-Magnon woman named Ayla is separated from her family and she is found by a group of Neanderthals and raised as one of their own. Daryl Hannah as Ayla Pamela Reed as Iza James Remar as Creb Thomas G, the score was composed by Alan Silvestri. The movie is one of Bart the Bears earliest roles, the muskox hunt was filmed just outside Hughenden, Alberta. Because the film cost US $15 million to produce and brought in only US $1.9 million domestically, the film was nominated for an Oscar in 1987 for Best Makeup. The film currently holds a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews
