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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Signs outside Hall H
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Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter – Panorama.
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Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 awaiting the exhibition hall to open.
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Blacktown
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Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Blacktown is located 34 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, Blacktown is the largest of any suburb or township in New South Wales and is one of the most multicultural places in Sydney. It is estimated that fifty to ninety percent of the Darug died of smallpox, governor Arthur Phillip began granting land in the area to white settlers in 1791. The institution was known as Black Town Native Institute and it was synonymous with the stolen generation. Although the institution closed in 1833, the road heading out to the internment camp known as the Black Town Road. In 1860 the Railway Department gave the name of Black Town Road Station to the station at the junction of the railway. The arrival of the led to the formation of a town around the station. A post office was opened in 1862 and a school in 1877, in 1906, the Shire of Blacktown was formed and in 1930, electricity was introduced to the town. The population in 1933 was then around 13,000, in the 1950s and 60s, there was a large amount of suburban development both in the current suburb of Blacktown and the new suburbs that sprung up around it. This led to development in the town centre with the hospital opening in 1965, the courthouse and police station in 1966, the library in 1967. In 1973, the Westpoint shopping centre opened which was followed by the cinema complex. The Blacktown Commercial Business District is located close to Blacktown railway station, Westpoint Blacktown is a major shopping centre and there are a number of small shops, restaurants and hotels in the surrounding area. Westpoint also houses a western suburb television studio of the Nine Network, according to the 2006 census, the most common way of getting to work from Blacktown was by car with public transport used by just under twenty percent. Most public transport was done by train with five percent catching buses for all or part of their journey, Blacktown railway station is on the North Shore, Northern & Western Line of the Sydney Trains network. A major bus interchange is located next to the station and a bus station is at the entrance to Westpoint. Blacktown is a terminus of the North-West T-way, busways provides services to Northern areas, West areas, and South districts, whilst Hillsbus provides services, Eastern services of Blacktown. The first school, a brick building with gables, was opened in 1877. While no longer in use as a school, the building in Flushcombe Road is now used as a Visitor Information Centre and it is the oldest remaining building in the Blacktown CBD and is heritage-listed
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Westpoint shopping centre, Blacktown
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Location map of Blacktown based on NASA satellite images
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Blacktown Hospital
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Max Webber Library
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New South Wales
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New South Wales is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south and it has a coast line with the Tasman Sea on its east side. The Australian Capital Territory is an enclave within the state, New South Wales state capital is Sydney, which is also Australias most populous city. In March 2014, the population of New South Wales was 7.5 million. Just under two-thirds of the population,4.67 million. Inhabitants of New South Wales are referred to as New South Welshmen, the Colony of New South Wales was founded as a penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised a more than half of the Australian mainland with its western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825, in addition, the colony also included the island territories of New Zealand, Van Diemens Land, Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Island. During the 19th century, most of the area was detached to form separate British colonies that eventually became New Zealand. However, the Swan River Colony has never administered as part of New South Wales. Lord Howe Island remains part of New South Wales, while Norfolk Island has become a federal Territory, as have the now known as the Australian Capital Territory. The prior inhabitants of New South Wales were the Aboriginal tribes who arrived in Australia about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago, before European settlement there were an estimated 250,000 Aboriginal people in the region. The Wodi Wodi people are the custodians of the Illawarra region of South Sydney. The Bundjalung people are the custodians of parts of the northern coastal areas. The European discovery of New South Wales was made by Captain James Cook during his 1770 survey along the eastern coast of the Dutch-named continent of New Holland. In his original journal covering the survey, in triplicate to satisfy Admiralty Orders, Cook first named the land New Wales, however, in the copy held by the Admiralty, he revised the wording to New South Wales. After years of chaos and anarchy after the overthrow of Governor William Bligh, macquaries legacy is still evident today. During the 19th century, large areas were separated to form the British colonies of Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria. Responsible government was granted to the New South Wales colony in 1855, following the Treaty of Waitangi, William Hobson declared British sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840
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286 kg (630 lb) gold nugget unearthed in 1872 from
Hill End during the Gold Rush
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Flag
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Japanese POW camp in Cowra, 1944, several weeks before the
Cowra breakout
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A short-lived
South Maitland Railway (SMR) Railcar travelling between
Weston and
Abermain, 1962. The SMR is notable for being the second last system in Australia to use steam haulage.
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
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Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales. The film is set ten years after the events in Star Wars, the galaxy is on the brink of civil war. Led by a former Jedi named Count Dooku, thousands of planetary systems threaten to secede from the Galactic Republic, after Senator Padmé Amidala evades assassination, Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker becomes her protector, while his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates the attempt on Padmés life. Soon Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan witness the onset of a new threat to the galaxy, development of Attack of the Clones began in March 2000, after the release of The Phantom Menace. By June 2000, Lucas and Hales completed a draft of the script, the film crew primarily shot at Fox Studios Australia in Sydney, Australia, with additional footage filmed in Tunisia, Spain and Italy. It was one of the first motion pictures shot completely on a high-definition digital 24-frame system, the film premiered on May 16,2002. Critics praised it as an improvement over The Phantom Menace, the effects, costume design, musical score. Despite this, critics lambasted the romance of Anakin and Padmé, the dialogue, most of the acting, the film was released on VHS and DVD on November 12,2002 and was later released on Blu-ray on September 16,2011. Following Attack of the Clones, the third and final film of the trilogy, Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. Ten years after the Trade Federations invasion of Naboo, the Galactic Republic is threatened by a Separatist movement organized by former Jedi Master Count Dooku, Senator Padmé Amidala comes to Coruscant to vote on a motion to create an army to assist the Jedi against this threat. Narrowly avoiding an attempt upon arrival, she is placed under the protection of Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice. The two Jedi thwart an attempt on her life and subdue the assassin, Zam Wesell. The Jedi Council assigns Obi-Wan to identify and capture the bounty hunter, while Anakin is assigned to escort Padmé back to Naboo, where the pair develop a romantic attraction towards each other. Obi-Wan deduces Jango to be the bounty hunter he is seeking, and follows him and his son, Boba, to the desert planet Geonosis via a homing beacon placed on their ship. Meanwhile, Anakin becomes troubled by premonitions of his mother, Shmi, in pain and they meet Owen Lars, Anakins stepbrother and the son of Shmis new husband, Cliegg Lars. Cliegg tells Anakin that Shmi was abducted by Tusken Raiders weeks earlier and is likely dead, determined to find her, Anakin ventures out and finds Shmi at the Tusken campsite, where she dies in Anakins arms. Enraged, Anakin massacres the Tuskens and returns to the Lars homestead with Shmis body, after revealing his deed to Padmé, Anakin says that he wants to prevent death. Obi-Wan transmits his findings to Anakin to relay to the Jedi Council, with knowledge of the droid army, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is voted emergency powers to send the clones into battle
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Original theatrical poster by
Drew Struzan
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Ewan McGregor (left) as Obi-Wan Kenobi and
Hayden Christensen (right) as Anakin Skywalker in Attack of the Clones.
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Plaza de España was the location for the Naboo palace.
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Clone troopers march onto their starships.
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Warrior (2011 film)
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Nick Nolte was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the father of the two brothers. Jennifer Morrison and Frank Grillo also star, U. S. Marine Tommy Riordan visits his father, Paddy Conlon, a recovering alcoholic who has returned to his Catholic faith. Tommy had to run away from Paddy with his mother when he was just a boy due to Paddy having previously been an abusive alcoholic. Paddy tries to him that he has changed, but to no avail. Tommy learns about a mixed martial arts tournament called Sparta in which the winner will receive $5,000,000. Tommy asks his father to help him train for the tournament, meanwhile, Tommys older brother, Brendan, a high school physics teacher and former MMA fighter, is struggling to provide for his wife Tess and two daughters. He had to mortgage his house to pay for his younger daughters open heart surgery, to increase his income, Brendan battles amateur fighters for money. Rumors of Brendans secret life spread around the school, and the superintendent suspends him without pay, left with no other option, Brendan seeks the training of old friend Frank Campana and begins competing in smaller venue fights. After the fighter Frank planned to enter into the Sparta tournament is injured, later that night, Paddy comes over to meet up with Brendan in his driveway to try to reconcile with him, but to no avail. Before Paddy leaves, he tells Brendan that Tommy is back in town, after arriving at the tournament, Brendan discovers that Tommy has also entered. It is revealed that Tommy is still angry at Brendan for staying behind for Tess when Tommy and their mother left Paddy, Tommy was left to care for their mother when she became terminally ill. Brendan claims that he could not help having been in love with Tess and that he has forgiven his father for the wrong he has done, meanwhile, the video of Tommy beating Mad Dog attracts the attention of a Marine whose life Tommy saved in Iraq. The Marine tells the press about Tommys heroism, and Tommy becomes a national hero, however, Tommys records surface from the Corps and reveal that he deserted the military after his entire unit was killed in a friendly fire bombing. Tommy had been using his mothers name as his own surname in order to evade arrest for his desertion. He reveals to have pledged to give his winnings to the widow of one of his fallen friends, the military police will take him into custody after the tournament is over. In the semi-final match, Brendan is matched up with undefeated Russian wrestler Koba, in round three, Brendan swings for the fences, making the bout a back and forth battle. In the closing moments of the round, Koba takes Brendans back from the clinch. As Koba attempts to escape the position, Brendan quickly reverses, Tommy meets Mad Dog Grimes in the semifinals and Tommy once again knocks him unconscious
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Theatrical release poster
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Joel (left) and Tom (right) played rival siblings in the film
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Actor Nick Nolte, won
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an alcoholic father
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The Thing (2011 film)
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The Thing is a 2011 science-fiction horror film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and written by Eric Heisserer based on the novella Who Goes There. It is a prequel to the 1982 film of the name by John Carpenter. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and they are part of a team of Norwegian and American scientists who discover an alien buried deep in the ice of Antarctica, realizing too late that it is still alive. In 1982, a spacecraft is discovered beneath the Antarctic ice by a team from a Norwegian research base, Edvard, Jonas, Olav, Karl, Juliette, Lars, Henrik, Colin. Columbia University paleontologist Kate Lloyd is recruited by Dr. Sander Halvorson and they travel to the Norwegian base, Thule Station, located in Antarctica near U. S. Outpost 31, in a helicopter manned by Carter, Derek, after viewing the spacecraft, Kate, Sander, and Adam are told the group also discovered an alien body from the crash, buried in the ice nearby. In the afternoon the body is brought to the base in a block of ice and that evening, while the team celebrates their find, Derek sees the alien burst from the ice and escape the building. The team searches for the creature and discovers that it killed Lars dog, Olav and Henrik find the alien, which then grabs and engulfs Henrik. The rest of the group arrive and set fire to the creature, an autopsy of the scorched alien corpse reveals that its cells were consuming and imitating Henriks own. Derek, Carter, Griggs and a sick Olav take the helicopter to seek help, Kate discovers bloody dental fillings near a blood-soaked shower. She runs outside to flag down the helicopter after it takes off, when it attempts to land, Griggs transforms into the Thing and attacks Olav, causing the helicopter to spin out of control and crash in the mountains. When Kate returns to the shower, she finds the blood is gone, the team decides to send a party to the closest base, but Kate confronts them with her theory that the Thing can imitate them and has likely already done so. They dismiss her claims, but Juliette says she saw Colin leaving the showers, when Juliette and Kate look for the vehicle keys to prevent the others from leaving, Juliette transforms and tries to attack Kate. As Kate flees, she runs past Karl, who is impaled by the creature, Lars arrives with a flamethrower and burns the creature just as it assimilates Karl. At nightfall, they burn the remains of the Juliette-Thing and Karls body and that night, Edvard, Kate and Lars find Carter and Derek stumbling into base, half frozen. The team refuses to believe that they could have survived the crash, Kate has them isolated until a test can be prepared to verify they are human. Adam and Sander had started to work on a test, Kate proposes another test, believing that the Thing cannot imitate inorganic material. She inspects everyone and singles out those without amalgam fillings, Sander, Edvard, Adam
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Theatrical Poster
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Kathryn Bigelow
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Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American film director, producer, and writer. The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Film and she also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for Strange Days. In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year, Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, the only child of Gertrude Kathryn, a librarian, and Ronald Elliot Bigelow, a paint factory manager. Her mother was of Norwegian descent, Bigelows early creative endeavors were as a student of painting. She enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute in the fall of 1970, while enrolled at SFAI, she was accepted into the Whitney Museum of American Arts Independent Study Program in New York City. Bigelows early work benefited from her apprenticeships with Vito Acconci, Richard Serra, also in her early days in Manhattan, Bigelow teamed up with Philip Glass on a real-estate venture in which the pair personally renovated distressed apartments downtown then sold them for a profit. Bigelow entered the film program at Columbia University, where she studied theory and criticism. She also taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Bigelows short The Set-Up is a 20-minute deconstruction of violence in film. The film portrays two men fighting each other as the semioticians Sylvère Lotringer and Marshall Blonsky deconstruct the images in voice-over, Bigelow asked her actors to actually beat and bludgeon each other throughout the films all-night shoot. Her first full-length feature was The Loveless, a film which she co-directed with Monty Montgomery. Next, she directed Near Dark, which she co-scripted with Eric Red, in the same year, she directed a music video for the New Order song Touched by the Hand of God, the video is a spoof of glam metal imagery. Bigelows subsequent trilogy of action films — Blue Steel, Point Break, in the process, Bigelow became recognizable as both a Hollywood brand and an auteur. All three films rethink the conventions of action cinema while exploring gendered and racial politics, Eric Red was also co-writer on Bigelows 1990 film, Blue Steel. Blue Steel starred Jamie Lee Curtis as a police officer who is stalked by a psychopathic killer. This is perhaps due to the fact that it most successfully conforms to its genre and abandons much of the stylistic substance. In 1993, she directed an episode of the TV series Wild Palms, Bigelows 1995 film Strange Days was written and produced by her ex-husband James Cameron. Despite some positive reviews, the film was a commercial failure, furthermore, many attributed the creative vision to James Cameron, diminishing Bigelows perceived influence on the film. She directed episodes of Homicide, Life on the Street in 1997 and 1998, based on Anita Shreves novel of the same name, Bigelows 2000 film The Weight of Water is a portrait of two women trapped in suffocating relationships
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Bigelow at the
82nd Academy Awards, 2010
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Bigelow at the 2010
Time 100 Gala
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Bigelow speaking at the 2009
Seattle International Film Festival
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Zero Dark Thirty
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Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American political action-thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. This search eventually leads to the discovery of his compound in Pakistan and it was produced by Boal, Bigelow, and Megan Ellison, and was independently financed by Ellisons Annapurna Pictures. The film premiered in Los Angeles on December 19,2012 and had its release on January 11,2013. Zero Dark Thirty received widespread acclaim and appeared on 95 critics top ten lists of 2012. The film also earned Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, acting CIA director Michael Morell stated, The film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques. Were the key to finding bin Laden, other critics described it as an anti-torture exposure of interrogation practices. Republican Congressman Peter T. King charged that the filmmakers were given access to classified materials. Unbeknownst to Panetta, screenwriter Mark Boal was among the 1,300 present during the ceremony, in 2003, Maya, a young U. S. She is reassigned to the U. S. embassy in Pakistan to work with a fellow officer, Dan subjects the detainee to approved torture interrogation techniques, i. e. stress positions, hooding, subjection to deafening noise, sleep deprivation, waterboarding, and humiliation. Other detainees corroborate this, with some claiming Abu Ahmed delivers messages between bin Laden and a man known as Abu Faraj al-Libbi, in 2005, Abu Faraj is apprehended by the CIA and local police in Pakistan. Maya is allowed to him, but he continues to deny knowing a courier with such a name. Maya interprets this as an attempt by Faraj to conceal the importance of Abu Ahmed, Maya spends the next five years sifting through masses of data and information, using a variety of technology, hunches, and sharing insights. She concentrates on finding Abu Ahmed, theorizing that he is the best way to find bin Laden, in 2008, she is caught up in the Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing. Dan, departing on reassignment, warns Maya about a change in politics. Mayas fellow officer and friend Jessica is killed in the 2009 Camp Chapman attack and that same day, a grieving Maya receives an interrogation video of a Jordanian detainee, who claims the man previously identified from a photograph as Abu Ahmed is a man he personally buried in 2001. Several CIA officers – Mayas seniors – conclude the target who could be Abu Ahmed is long dead, and that they have searched a false trail for nine years. Sometime later, a fellow analyst researching Moroccan intelligence archives comes to Maya and suggests that Abu Ahmed is Ibrahim Sayeed, realizing her lead may still be alive, Maya contacts Dan, now a senior officer at the CIA headquarters. Dan uses CIA funds to purchase a Lamborghini for a Kuwaiti prince in exchange for the number of Sayeeds mother
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Theatrical release poster
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Baz Luhrmann
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His 2008 film Australia is an epic historical romantic drama film starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. His 2013 drama The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel of the name, stars Leonardo DiCaprio. His mother, Barbara Carmel, was a dance teacher and dress shop owner, and his father, Leonard Luhrmann, ran a petrol station. He was raised in Herons Creek, a rural settlement in northern New South Wales. Luhrmann received the nickname Baz from his father Leonard and he officially changed his given name from Mark to Baz sometime around 1979. In 1983, he commenced a course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. He graduated in 1985 alongside Sonia Todd, Catherine McClements and Justin Monjo, on 26 January 1997, he married Catherine Martin, a production designer, the couple have two children. Luhrmann supports the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League, Australia The Great Gatsby The modern film interpretation Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, defeated Titanic at the BAFTAs for best direction, music and screenplay. The film was celebrated at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was recognised with the Gold Bear award for direction, Luhrmann also produced the soundtrack albums for the film. Was named one of the AFIs top ten films of 2001, the film also gave birth to a successful soundtrack album, selling more than seven million copies, led by the Grammy-winning number one hit single Lady Marmalade. Luhrmanns 2008 romantic epic Australia starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and it is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, next to Crocodile Dundee and ahead of Happy Feet. In 2016, Luhrmann collaborated with award-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis on the Netflix series The Get Down about the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s. 1981, A young Luhrmann can be seen in an acting role in the film Winter of Our Dreams. Luhrmann has a part playing opposite Judy Davis. 1992, Luhrmann directed a video for John Paul Youngs Love Is in the Air,1993, Luhrmann staged his interpretation of Benjamin Brittens version of A Midsummer Nights Dream, set in colonial India, for the Australian Opera. After successful seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, the production went on to win the Critics Prize at the Edinburgh Festival, music extracts can be heard on his album Something for Everybody. 1993, Luhrmann assisted in the campaign of former Australian prime minister Paul Keating. 1997, The CD of Something for Everybody was released, featuring music from Luhrmanns films, moreover, Luhrmann created his own company with his wife Catherine Martin, Bazmark
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Luhrmann at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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The Great Gatsby (2013 film)
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The Great Gatsby is a 2013 Australian-American romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel of the same name. Production began in 2011 and took place in Australia, with $105 million budget, the film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick, who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties in New York state. The film polarized critics, receiving praise and criticism for its acting performances, soundtrack, visual style, and direction. Audiences responded much more positively, and F. Scott Fitzgeralds granddaughter praised the film, as of 2016, it is Baz Luhrmanns highest-grossing film, having earned over $350 million worldwide. At the 86th Academy Awards, the won in both of its nominated categories, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. In 1929, Nick Carraway, a World War I veteran, is receiving treatment for alcoholism at a psychiatric hospital and he talks about Jay Gatsby, the most hopeful man he had ever met. Nicks doctor suggests that he writes his thoughts down, since writing is Nicks passion, in the summer of 1922, Nick moves from the Midwest to New York after abandoning writing. He rents a house in the North Shore village of West Egg, next to the mansion of Gatsby. One day, while Nick has dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, he is introduced to Jordan Baker by Daisy, who hopes to make a match between them. When Nick returns home, he sees Gatsby standing on the dock, Jordan tells Nick that Tom has a mistress who lives in the valley of ashes, an industrial dumping site between West Egg and New York City. Nick and Tom visit the valley and stop at a garage owned by George Wilson and his wife, Myrtle, later, Nick receives an invitation to one of Gatsbys parties. Upon arrival, Nick learns he is the one to receive an invitation. Nick encounters Jordan, and both meet Gatsby, Gatsby offers Nick a ride to town for lunch. On the way, Gatsby tells Nick he is an Oxford graduate and they go to a speakeasy, where Gatsby introduces Nick to his business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim. Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby had a relationship with Daisy years ago and is still in love with her, Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy to tea. After an awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy begin an affair, Gatsby is dismayed when Daisy wants to run away with him and wants her to get a divorce. He asks Nick and Jordan to accompany him to the Buchanan home, during the luncheon, Tom becomes suspicious of Gatsby and Daisy, but Daisy stops Gatsby from revealing anything and suggests they all go to the Plaza Hotel. Tom drives Nick and Jordan in Gatsbys car, while Gatsby drives Daisy in Toms car, Tom stops for gas at Georges garage, where George tells him that he and Myrtle are moving and that he suspects Myrtle is unfaithful
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From left to right:
Joel Edgerton and director
Baz Luhrmann,
Elizabeth Debicki,
Carey Mulligan,
Tobey Maguire, and producer and designer
Catherine Martin at the premiere of The Great Gatsby in Sydney, May 22, 2013
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Beacon Towers in 1922, during the period that Fitzgerald would have known it
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Inspiration for the Buchanan estate came from Old Westbury Gardens in
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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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Ridley Scott in 2012.
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
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Exodus, Gods and Kings is a 2014 British-American biblically based epic film directed by Ridley Scott. The film stars Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, María Valverde, Sigourney Weaver, Ghassan Massoud, Golshifteh Farahani and Ben Kingsley. It is inspired by the episode of the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt as led by Moses. The film was released theatrically on December 12,2014 by 20th Century Fox, Exodus, Gods and Kings received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and earned $268 million on a $140 million budget. The film was dedicated to Ridleys director brother Tony Scott who comitted suicide at August 2012, in 1300 BC, Moses, a general and accepted member of the Egyptian royal family, prepares to attack the Hittite army with Prince Ramesses. A High Priestess of Sekhmet divines a prophecy from animal intestines and he tells the two men of the prophecy, in which one will save the other and become a leader. During the attack on the Hittites, Moses saves Ramesses life, later, Moses is sent to the city of Pithom to meet with the Viceroy Hegep, who oversees the Hebrew slaves. Upon his arrival, he encounters the slave Joshua, who is the descendant of Joseph, and Moses is appalled by the horrific conditions of the slaves. Shortly afterwards, Moses meets Nun, who informs him of his true lineage, Moses is stunned at the revelation and leaves angrily. However, two Hebrews also overhear Nuns story and report their discovery to Hegep, Seti dies soon after Moses return to Memphis, and Ramesses becomes the new Pharaoh. Hegep arrives to reveal Moses true identity, but Ramesses is conflicted about whether to believe the story, at the urging of Queen Tuya, he interrogates the servant Miriam, who denies being Moses sister. When Ramesses threatens to cut off Miriams arm, Moses comes to her defense, although Tuya wants Moses to be put to death, Ramesses decides to send him into exile. Before leaving Egypt, Moses meets with his mother and Miriam. Following a journey into the desert, Moses comes to Midian where he meets Zipporah and her father, Moses becomes a shepherd, marries Zipporah and has a son Gershom. Nine years later, Moses gets injured during a rockslide and he comes face to face with a burning bush and a boy called Malak, who serves as a representative of the God of Abraham. While recovering, Moses confesses his past to Zipporah and reveals what God has asked him to do and this drives a wedge between the couple, because Zipporah fears he will leave their family. After he arrives in Egypt, Moses reunites with Nun and Joshua, Moses returns to confront Ramesses, demanding the Hebrews be released from servitude. Ramesses refuses to listen, insisting that to free the slaves would be economically impossible, upon Moses threatening Ramesses life, Ramesses orders the death of Moses, executing random Hebrew families until he is found
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Ramesses II
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Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great and Ozymandias, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He often is regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and his successors and later Egyptians called him the Great Ancestor. Ramesses II led several expeditions into the Levant, reasserting Egyptian control over Canaan. He also led expeditions to the south, into Nubia, commemorated in inscriptions at Beit el-Wali, at age fourteen, Ramesses was appointed Prince Regent by his father Seti I. He is believed to have taken the throne in his teens and is known to have ruled Egypt from 1279 BC to 1213 BC. Manetho attributes Ramesses II a reign of 66 years and 2 months, most Egyptologists today believe he assumed the throne on May 31,1279 BC, estimates of his age at death vary,90 or 91 is considered most likely. Ramesses II celebrated an unprecedented 14 sed festivals during his reign—more than any other pharaoh. On his death, he was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, his later was moved to a royal cache where it was discovered in 1881. The early part of his reign was focused on building cities, temples and he established the city of Pi-Ramesses in the Nile Delta as his new capital and used it as the main base for his campaigns in Syria. He is known as Ozymandias in the Greek sources, from a transliteration into Greek of a part of Ramesses throne name, Usermaatre Setepenre, The justice of Rê is powerful – chosen of Rê. Early in his life, Ramesses II embarked on campaigns to restore possession of previously held territories lost to the Nubians and Hittites. He also was responsible for suppressing some Nubian revolts and carrying out a campaign in Libya, during Ramesses IIs reign, the Egyptian army is estimated to have totaled about 100,000 men, a formidable force that he used to strengthen Egyptian influence. The Sherden people probably came from the coast of Ionia, from southwest Anatolia or perhaps, a stele from Tanis speaks of their having come in their war-ships from the midst of the sea, and none were able to stand before them. In that sea battle, together with the Sherden, the pharaoh also defeated the Lukka, the immediate antecedents to the Battle of Kadesh were the early campaigns of Ramesses II into Canaan. The inscription is almost totally illegible, due to weathering, additional records tell us that he was forced to fight a Canaanite prince who was mortally wounded by an Egyptian archer, and whose army subsequently, was routed. Ramesses carried off the princes of Canaan as live prisoners to Egypt, Ramesses then plundered the chiefs of the Asiatics in their own lands, returning every year to his headquarters at Riblah to exact tribute. In the fourth year of his reign, he captured the Hittite vassal state of Amurru during his campaign in Syria, the Battle of Kadesh in his fifth regnal year was the climactic engagement in a campaign that Ramesses fought in Syria, against the resurgent Hittite forces of Muwatallis. The pharaoh wanted a victory at Kadesh both to expand Egypts frontiers into Syria, and to emulate his father Seti Is triumphal entry into the city just a decade or so earlier and he also constructed his new capital, Pi-Ramesses
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One of the four external seated statues of Ramesses II at
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Ramesses II as a child (
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Black Mass (film)
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The film has an ensemble cast including Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Adam Scott, Dakota Johnson and Corey Stoll. The film follows the career of infamous American mobster James Whitey Bulger. Principal photography of the film began on May 19,2014 in Boston and it had its world premiere at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. The film was released by Warner Bros. worldwide on September 18,2015 and it received generally positive reviews and grossed $99 million. Bulger lives with his common-law wife Lindsey Cyr and their young son Douglas, Bulgers supremacy is challenged by the North End Angiulo Brothers, a rival gang, part of the New England Mafia family. FBI agent John Connolly returns to the area – he grew up in South Boston as a friend of Whitey and his brother William Billy Bulger, Connolly tries infiltrating the Angiulo Brothers, and attempts to get Whitey to work with the FBI. Although Whitey hates the idea of being a rat, he understands the protection he would have for himself, his gang, Douglas suffers from Reye syndrome, leading a devastated Lindsey to remove him from life support over Whiteys furious objections. When the Angiulo Brothers murder a Winter Hill member, Whitey becomes an informant, although Connolly is supported by his co-worker John Morris, their boss, Charles McGuire, is suspicious. Whitey increasingly exploits the FBI informant relationship, using Connollys protection as a cover for his crimes, Connolly demands information on the Angiulos racketeering locations. Finally, Whitey gets pictures of the rival gangs hideouts, allowing the FBI to wiretap the Angiulos, the FBI arrests them, thus eliminating underground opposition to Whiteys power. Connolly, blinded by his past, grows closer to Whitey and his wife, Marianne, sees negative changes in her husband as his agent-informant relationship with Whitey grows. Cut out of an embezzlement scheme from World Jai Alai, Whitey orders Martorano to murder his rivals Roger Wheeler, due to Whiteys increasingly violent and unpredictable behavior, his informant relationship deteriorates. A bulldog prosecutor, Fred Wyshak, becomes an assistant U. S. Attorney in Boston, Connolly attempts to make friends and to perhaps divert his attention from Bulger, but Wyshak bluntly refuses, demanding that the FBI arrest Whitey. John McIntyre, an informant within the Winter Hill Gang, informs on an attempt by Whitey to smuggle weapons for the IRA. Connolly tells Whitey, Wyshak and McGuire investigate Connollys management of Whiteys informant role. They discover that most of what Connolly called Whiteys tips were already obtained from other sources, Morris tells the Boston Globe about Connollys and Whiteys relationship and a front-page story exposes the FBIs links to organised crime. In the final scenes, Connolly, Flemmi, Weeks, Whitey goes on the run, but not before giving Billy a final goodbye from a pay phone. Morris turns states evidence and testifies against Connolly in return for immunity, Connollys and the other characters sentences are listed, and a concluding sequence shows a now-elderly Whitey being caught by the FBI in 2011. An idea for an adaptation of Black Mass, The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI
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FBI
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nations prime federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Department of Justice, Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U. S. counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, although many of the FBIs functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and the Russian FSB. At an FBI field office, a senior-level FBI officer concurrently serves as the representative of the Director of National Intelligence. Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint and these overseas offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a domestic function. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation and its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, in the fiscal year 2012, the Bureaus total budget was approximately $8.12 billion. In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created an urgent perception that America was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, the Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the breakage of the Oregon land fraud scandal at approximately the turn of the 20th Century, President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General. Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the Secret Service, for personnel, on May 27,1908, the Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by the Justice Department, citing fears that the new agency would serve as a secret police department. Again at Roosevelts urging, Bonaparte moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Investigation was created on July 26,1908, after the Congress had adjourned for the summer. Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds, hired thirty-four people, including veterans of the Secret Service. Its first Chief was Stanley Finch, Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908. The bureaus first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the White Slave Traffic Act, or Mann Act, in 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition, in the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI. J. Edgar Hoover served as Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his tenure
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J. Edgar Hoover, Director from 1924 to 1972.
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John Connolly (FBI)
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State and federal officers had been trying to imprison Whitey Bulger for years, but Bulger evaded capture until 2011. As the FBI handler for Bulger and Flemmi, Connolly had been protecting them from prosecution by feeding Bulger information about possible attempts to catch them. Connolly was indicted on December 22,1999, on charges of alerting Bulger and Flemmi to investigations, falsifying FBI reports to cover their crimes, in 2000, he was charged with additional racketeering-related offenses. He was convicted on the charges in 2002 and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. In 2008, he was convicted on charges of second-degree murder in Florida. He was suspected of tipping off Bulger that an associate in Miami was being investigated for his ties to the Winter Hill Gang. Connolly was released from prison on June 28,2011. John Joseph Connolly Jr. was the namesake and son of an Irish immigrant and his father was a Gillette employee for 50 years, his mother Bridget T. Connolly was a housewife. They lived in the Old Harbor housing project on OCallahan Way until John Jr. was twelve, in 1952 his family moved to the City Point neighborhood of South Boston. John Jr. was able to attend Columbus High School, a Catholic high school in the Italian North End neighborhood. He has a sister, Mary Ann, and a brother, James. As a boy, Connolly would later tell reporters, his first memory of Whitey Bulger was of Bulger using his earnings to buy ice cream cones for all the boys that swarmed around him in adoration. Connolly would later answer to the nickname Elvis because of his black hair and also to Neighbor. Connolly again met Bulger when the former was being beaten up by bullies at a park, according to Connolly, the teenaged Bulger came in and chased the bullies away. Connolly graduated from Boston College and attended law class and then briefly and he was in the same class as John Martoranos brother, James Martorano. He withdrew from Suffolk University without completing his law degree, after completing his studies, Connolly worked as a teacher at South Boston High School and at Dorchester High School. In 1968 he met with H. Paul Ricos FBI partner, Special Agent Dennis Condon, and Boston Police Department Detective Edward Walsh, both Condon and Walsh would later brag that they had recruited Connolly. He visited his old neighbor and State Representative Billy Bulger to discuss career opportunities in law enforcement, on August 1,1968, U. S. House Speaker John William McCormack wrote a personal note to J. Edgar Hoover on behalf of a constituent
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Animal Kingdom (film)
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David Michôds script was inspired by events which involved the Pettingill criminal family of Melbourne, Australia. In 1991, two brothers Trevor Pettingill and Victor Peirce were acquitted in the 1988 shooting murder of two Victoria, Australia police officers. It received 36 awards and 39 nominations, and Jacki Weaver received multiple awards for her performance, after his mother overdoses, 17-year-old Joshua J Cody asks his estranged grandmother, Janine Smurf Cody, for help, and she invites him to move in with her. Smurf is the matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her home as a base. Her home is also being watched by cops who are looking for the oldest son, Andrew Pope Cody, the volatile middle brother, Craig, deals drugs successfully enough to have bought the house for his mother. The youngest brother, Darren, follows the lead of his siblings, while family friend Baz leads the gang, which specializes in armed robbery. Craig takes J along to meet with a cop from the drug squad. Later, Baz goes to meet Pope at a shopping centre, as Baz gets in his car to leave, police approach and kill him. Angry, Pope and Craig want revenge, and ask J to steal a Commodore, the car is then planted in the middle of a street. Two policemen are drawn to the scene, where they are ambushed and killed. The next day, Pope, Darren and J are taken in for questioning, Leckie, one of the few non-corrupt police officers, recognizes Js predicament and begins to lean on him. The three are later released from custody, but J returns with his girlfriend Nicky to her parents home, Craig, who has avoided being picked up by the police, Pope, Darren and Smurf meet at a diner, where they recognize J as the weak link. When told by Smurf to give himself up for questioning, Craig panics and he learns that the house is already being monitored, and as the police arrive tries to flee through a field but is gunned down. Pope and Darren take J to meet their solicitor Ezra and he coaches him to not tell the police anything and pressure him to break up with Nicky, which he does. Leckie takes J into custody again, where he proposes that J be moved to witness protection, meanwhile, Nicky, unsure what to do, shows up at Smurfs home, where Pope gives her heroin, questions her, then smothers her to death to keep her silent. When J returns to Smurfs house the morning he discovers Nickys bracelet outside the house. He calls Nickys phone, and realising something is not right, Pope gets Nickys address from Darren and arrives in time to intercept J. J flees on foot and is taken into a safe house. With Craig and Baz dead, Pope and Darren imprisoned, and J potentially being the witness for the prosecution, Smurf decides
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The Gift (2015 film)
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The Gift is a 2015 American-Australian psychological thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Joel Edgerton in his directorial debut, and co-produced by Jason Blum and Rebecca Yeldham. The film stars Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall as a couple intimidated by a past figure played by Edgerton and it was released in the United States on August 7,2015, by STX Entertainment. The film received acclaim and grossed $59 million worldwide on a budget of $5 million. A married couple, Simon and Robyn Callem, relocate from Chicago to a Los Angeles suburb after Simon takes a new job, while out shopping, they run into Gordon Gordo Moseley, Simons former high school classmate. Gordo begins dropping in unannounced and delivering gifts including koi for their pond and he makes Simon uncomfortable, but Robyn sees no problem. Gordo invites the couple to his large and elegant home and he receives a phone call and leaves abruptly, making Simon more suspicious. When he returns, Simon tells him to stay away from his family, the next day, Robyn finds the koi dead and their dog missing. Simon drives to Gordos house to confront him, but discovers it is not actually his home, in the days following, Robyn suspects she is not alone in the house while Simon is at work. Unable to sleep, she steals prescription pills from her neighbor, the dog returns and Robyn receives a letter of apology from Gordo. She is puzzled by his writing that he was willing to let bygones be bygones, Simon says he does not know what it refers to and refuses to make peace with Gordo, telling Robyn that her pills are making her paranoid. At her baby shower, Simons sister tells her that, at school, Simon, Gordo was bullied afterwards and had to transfer. Robyn finds Greg, who reveals that the story was fabricated by Simon. As a result of the story, Gordos father thought he was homosexual and nearly killed him, when asked why Simon would do such a thing, Greg replies because he could. Robyn searches Simons home office and discovers that he has run background checks on Gordo, Robyn learns Simon has beaten Danny for a promotion after troubling information was revealed from Dannys previous job. Robyn confronts Simon about Gordo, but he denies responsibility, Simon angrily blames Robyns suggestions of reconciliation on her own past traumas of being bullied at school. At Robyns behest, Simon tracks down Gordo and half-heartedly apologizes, Simons promotion party is interrupted by Danny, who says Simon fabricated the information that ruined his career. Robyn goes into labor and gives birth to a boy, the next morning, Simon receives a call from his boss telling him that his fraud has been discovered and he will be fired. Robyn tells him that she wants to separate, Simon goes home and finds another gift box, containing footage of Gordo preparing to sexually assault Robyn after she fainted months earlier
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Richard Loving
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Loving v. Virginia,388 U. S.1, is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a woman, and Richard Loving, a white man. Their marriage violated the states anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, the Supreme Courts unanimous decision determined that this prohibition was unconstitutional, overruling Pace v. Alabama and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. The decision was followed by an increase in interracial marriages in the U. S. and is remembered annually on Loving Day and it has been the subject of several songs and three movies, including the acclaimed 2016 film Loving. Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States had been in place in certain states since colonial days, Marriage to a slave was never legal. In the Reconstruction Era in 1865 the Black Codes across the seven states of the lower South made intermarriage illegal, the new Republican legislatures in six states repealed the restrictive laws. After the Democrats returned to power, the restriction was reimposed, a major concern was how to draw the line between black and white in a society in which white men had many children with black slave women. On the one hand, a reputation as black or white was usually decisive in practical matters. On the other hand, most laws used a one drop of blood rule, in 1967,16 states, all Southern, had anti-miscegenation laws. Mildred Delores Loving was the daughter of Musial Jeter and Theoliver Jeter and her husband was Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and the son of Lola Loving and Twillie Loving. Mildred was African-American, and also had Cherokee and Rappahannock Native American ancestry and her race has been a point of confusion – during the trial, it seemed clear that she identified herself as black, especially as far as her own lawyer was concerned. However, upon her arrest, the report identifies her as Indian. She said in a 2004 interview, I am not black, a factor contributing to the confusion is that it was seen at the time of her arrest as advantageous to be anything but black. Richard Loving died aged 41 in 1975, when a driver struck his car in Caroline County. Mildred Loving lost her eye in the same accident. She died of pneumonia on May 2,2008, in Milford, Virginia, the couple had three children, Donald, Peggy, and Sidney. At the age of 18, Mildred became pregnant, in June 1958, the couple traveled to Washington, D. C. to marry, thereby evading Virginias Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which made marriage between whites and non-whites a crime. They returned to the town of Central Point, Virginia
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Mildred and Richard Loving in 1967
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University of Western Sydney
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Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney. It is a provider of undergraduate, postgraduate and higher degrees with campuses in Bankstown, Blacktown, Campbelltown, Hawkesbury, Parramatta. It is currently ranked in the top 400 in the world in the 2014 QS World University Rankings, in 2015, the university underwent a rebranding which resulted in a change in name from the University of Western Sydney to Western Sydney University. The University consists of an amalgamation of campuses, each with their own unique, in 1891, the Hawkesbury campus was established as an agricultural college by the NSW Agricultural Society. At Parramatta, Western Sydney University owns and has renovated the Female Orphan School building, in 1987 the New South Wales Labor government planned to name the university Chifley University, after the former Labor Prime Minister, Ben Chifley. However, in 1989, a new Liberal government reversed this decision, in 1989, teachers colleges and Colleges of Advanced Education in Sydneys western suburbs were given university status under the University of Western Sydney Act of 1988. The 1990s saw the federation of three education providers, UWS Nepean, UWS Hawkesbury and UWS Macarthur,1989 was the year the Hawke federal labour government introduced HECS, the Higher Education Contribution Scheme. Federal Government funding of Australias universities as a percentage of Australias GDP was in decline during the years of the Howard government, federal funding policy was very influential at UWS. In the 2000s, UWS consolidated its schools of art, social science, humanities. In this decade the university introduced its first nanotechnology and biotechnology undergraduate degrees, in 2002 UWS designed and installed standardised IT infrastructure across its campuses. In 2003, UWS sponsored a Samuel Beckett symposium as part of the Sydney Festival, in 2003 there was a highly publicised squabble over UWS between the New South Wales state government and the Australian federal government. In 2004, Michael Le Grand won the inaugural UWS Sculpture Award, also in 2004, UWS joined with Metro Screen and SLICE TV to successfully bid for Sydneys first permanent Community Television licence. Television Sydney, broadcasting as TVS, launched in February 2006 from a broadcast operations centre located on the Werrington South Campus, in 2007, UWS had its first intake for the Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery. In the same year UWS was part of a consortium with Griffith University, in 2008, UWS announced its current water and energy saving strategies, its Indigenous Advisory Board and endorsed Prime Minister Kevin Rudds apology to the Stolen Generations. An employee, as well as eminent scientists, criticised the biased and unbridled support of the University for complementary medicines such as homeopathy, acupuncture, TCM, energy healing etc. The main controversial aspect was the support of these pseudo-scientific fields in exchange for continued funding from the naturopathic Jacka Foundation of Natural Therapies. The Bankstown Campus is a new campus, located at Milperra. Specialising in the sciences, most of the students on campus are psychology, sociology, arts
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Sydney Theatre Company
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Sydney Theatre Company is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company performs in The Wharf Theatre at Dawes Point in The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company was formed in December 1978, following the closure of The Old Tote Theatre Company the month before. Butcher established its identity and managerial structure, and proposed the name. With John Clark as the Artistic Adviser of the first season, the first production, by The Paris Company, was A Cheery Soul, by Patrick White, Australias Nobel Laureate for Literature, directed by Jim Sharman, featuring Robyn Nevin as Miss Docker. In June 1979, Richard Wherrett, then one of Nimrod Theatres co-Artistic Directors, was appointed Artistic Director of STC to plan and organise activities for the 1980 season. The first STC-produced play was The Sunny South,1 January 1980, by George Darrell, with music by Terence Clarke, directed by Richard Wherrett, in its early years the company operated out of several rented premises around the city, producing 38 productions in five separate venues. Elizabeth Butcher, STC Administrator, was given the task of finding one location that could all the activities of the company. The Wharf was officially handed over to STC in a ceremony on 13 December 1984. The first STC production in The Wharf Theatre,17 January 1985, was Late Arrivals, by Pamela van Amstel, the play was part of a season of one-act plays called Shorts at the Wharf. Directors working regularly for STC include Gale Edwards, Barrie Kosky, David Berthold, Neil Armfield, Benedict Andrews, many Australian actors who would later find wider success both locally and internationally such as Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush and Toni Collette have established their careers in STC productions. The Sydney Theatre Company operates out of a site of the wharf area of Sydney Harbour. The program goes beyond infrastructure projects to include employees, environmentally responsible theatre production, community engagement, the program won two Green Globe Awards. Culture of Sydney Wharf Revue Meyrick, Julian, see How It Runs Nimrod and the New Wave. Sydney, Currency Press in association with Cambridge University Press, the floor of heaven my life in theatre. Sydney Theatre Company website Greening the Wharf project video explanation
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King Arthur (2004 film)
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King Arthur is a 2004 epic historical fiction war film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni. It stars Clive Owen as the character, Ioan Gruffudd as Lancelot. The film is unusual in reinterpreting Arthur as a Roman officer rather than a medieval knight, the film was shot in England, Ireland and Wales. D. Arthur is loyal to Rome and a devout Catholic, but follows the teachings of Pelagianism and he and his men guard Hadrians Wall against the Woads, a group of native Britons who are rebels against Roman rule, led by the mysterious Merlin. However, on the night when they are to receive their freedom, Bishop Germanus sends them on a final, Marius Honorius faces impending capture by the invading Saxons, who are invading from mainland Europe, led by their king Cerdic and his son Cynric. According to Germanus, Marius son Alecto is the Popes favourite godson, though angry, the knights follow Arthur once more but only after he and Lancelot argue over Arthurs deeply held beliefs. At the remote estate, Arthur discovers that Marius has immured pagans, including a Woad named Guinevere, Arthur defies Marius and frees the captives before deciding to take everyone, along with Marius family, back to Hadrians Wall. One night, Guinevere takes Arthur to meet with Merlin, the leader of the Woads, at first, Arthur thinks Guinevere has betrayed him, but Merlin has come in peace. It is revealed in a flashback that Arthurs mother had died in a Woad attack when he was a boy, Arthurs famous sword, Excalibur, had belonged to his father and marked his burial mound. Arthur had pulled it from the mound in an effort to rescue his mother from a burning building, Merlin suggests an alliance between the Woads and the Sarmatian knights against the invading Saxons. Marius then betrays the group, takes Lucan hostage and attempts to kill Dagonet but is shot by Guinevere with an arrow, while moving on to the south, Alecto informs Arthur that Germanus executed Pelagius after being insulted by his teachings of equality. Tristan returns from scouting the area and tells Arthur that a Saxon army is close behind them, the knights stay behind to delay the Saxons and allow the refugees to escape. They soon encounter the Saxons at a lake bordered on each side by steep cliffs. Greatly outnumbered, Arthur, Guinevere and the attempt to repel them with arrows. The battle is won when Dagonet runs to the middle of the ice, many Saxons are also killed, and the rest are forced to turn back. Upon their return to the wall, Germanus awards the knights their discharge papers, Guinevere attempts to persuade Arthur to remain in Britain and defend the people from the Saxons. The pair share an encounter in Arthurs room, only to be interrupted by the Saxon armys arrival, despite Lancelots pleas, Arthur decides to stay and defend the wall, sending his knights away to live the rest of their lives in freedom. Now in command of the Woad forces, Arthur prepares to face the Saxon army, as the knights are leading the evacuation, they hear the Saxon drums and turn back to join Arthur
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Guinevere's warrior persona is closer to the ancient Queen
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Ned Kelly (2003 film)
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Ned Kelly is a 2003 Australian historical drama film based on Robert Drewes 1991 novel Our Sunshine. Directed by Gregor Jordan, the adapted screenplay was written by John Michael McDonagh. The film dramatises the life of Ned Kelly, a bushranger and outlaw who was active mostly in Victoria. In the film, Kelly, his brother Dan, and two other associates—Steve Hart and Joe Byrne—form a gang of Irish Australians in response to Irish and English tensions that arose in 19th century Australia. Heath Ledger stars in the role, with Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts. The film starts out with a young Ned Kelly rescuing a boy from drowning. It then pans to the Australian bush with Ned talking about his father and he then awakens in the Australian outback and sees a white mare. He rides it into town, only to be arrested and subsequently imprisoned in 1871, for stealing the horse, even though it had actually been stolen by Wild Wright. Two years later he is released and comes home to a welcome from his Catholic Irish family. The Kelly family are working to get ahead in life, by owning horses. One night at a bar, a local Victoria Police Officer named Fitzpatrick, after several attempts, Kate insists she doesnt want one. Ned intervenes and hostilities ensue when fellow officers help Fitzpatrick, getting back at Ned, the Victoria Police Officers confiscate the Kellys horses. Ned, his brother Dan and their friends Steve Hart, Joe Byrne, Aaron Sherrit, one evening later, Fitzpatrick arrives at the Kelly house, while Ned is away, to visit Kate, only to be told that she doesnt want to see him. Fitzpatrick tells them they have warrants for them, for horse stealing, a fight ensues and Fitzpatrick returns to the police office, telling the others that Ned Kelly shot him. The police then arrest Neds mother, Ned, Dan, Steve and Joe become outlaws on the run. They later meet some Police in the Victorian bushlands and kill Constable Lonigan, for the following months the Kelly Gang avoids capture, living in the outback, often without food. The Colonial Government sends in Superintendent Francis Hare, who many people including Aaron. Aaron, being told that they dont want to harm his friend Joe, Joe learns of this and arrives one night armed with a loaded shotgun and kills Aaron for being an informant
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Owen Lars
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This list of characters from the Star Wars franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official Star Wars canon. C-3PO and R2-D2 are the characters to appear in all films to date
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AACTA Awards
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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. The awards recognise excellence of professionals in the film and television industry and it is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards, the awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958 and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film, the AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. As of 2011, the Australian awards take place at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney and they were instituted in 1958, as a way to improve the impoverished state of Australian cinema, and was part of the Melbourne International Film Festival until 1972. Between 1958–1980, submitted films were presented with a gold, silver or bronze prize, and in some circumstances, a Grand Prix award, which was the highest honour a film could receive. Additionally, films were presented with a gold or silver medallion for technical achievements. Up until 1970, prizes were handed out in recognition of the film and production, rather than achievements of individual filmmakers and crafts people. In 1977 feature film categories became competitive, while non-feature films continued to be awarded the gold, silver and bronze prizes until 1981, in 1976 the awards were broadcast live on television for the first time on the Nine Network at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne. In 1986 television categories were introduced, presenting awards for mini-series and telefeatures before expanding to dramas, in June 2011, the AFI announced an industry consultation for an Australian Academy. The aim of the Academy is to create awareness for Australian film in local and international markets, the name of the new Academy was revealed on 18 August 2011 as the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, with the awards renamed to the AACTA Awards. The date change was made to align the awards with the awards season. At the time of the inception, a jury of five judges, composed of film critics and filmmakers. In 1976, the system was replaced by a peer voting process for feature films which would allow public members the right to vote in the Best Film category. The nominees and winners were later peer-voted by a jury which was made up of representatives from all industry crafts, including members of guilds, who have a professional membership with the AFI. When the AFI announced the launch of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, the fifteen Chapters consist of professionals from industry guilds and organisations including actors, producers, directors and screenwriters. All television and non-feature film awards, and feature film pre-selection are determined by juries, members of the Australian Film Institute are eligible to vote in the Best Short Fiction Film, Best Short Animation and Audience Choice award categories only. The votes are audited by accounting firm Ernst and Young from 2011, throughout the history of the awards there have been several differently designed awards given to winners
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Diana Glenn with an AACTA Award in 2012.
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Academy Award
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Kinky Boots (film)
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Kinky Boots is a 2005 British comedy-drama film written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, and directed by Julian Jarrold. Based on a story, the movie tells of a struggling British shoe factorys young, strait-laced owner, Charlie, who forms an unlikely partnership with Lola. In the town of Northampton, in the East Midlands of England, Charlie Price is attempting to save the family shoe factory, which has been floundering since his father died. While on a trip to London to sell the companys extra stock, Charlie encounters a woman being harassed by drunken hoodlums. He wakes up backstage, in the room of Lola. Charlie is intrigued when he sees that drag queens high heels snap easily since they have only womens shoes to wear, rather than those that can support the weight of a larger male body frame. Back in Northampton, while in the process of making his workers redundant, one employee, Lauren, gives Charlie the idea of looking for a niche market product to save the business. Charlie then recruits Lauren to assist him in designing a high-heeled boot for Lola, initially as a thank-you, when their initial designs are met with scorn by Lola, Charlie and Lauren bring her on as a consultant. Charlies fiancée arrives at the factory, furious that he took out a mortgage on their house to save the company. Nicola insists that he sell the company, but Charlie is determined to save it, the argument is broadcast on the factorys PA system, which is overheard by Lauren and Lolas bitterest opponent at the factory, Don, a chauvinistic male worker. After arriving in Milan with no one to model the boots, Charlie is forced to go onstage and model the boots himself as the symbol of his dedication to his workers. After tripping and ultimately falling flat on his face, Lola and her posse of drag queens arrive, put on a runway show. In the films denouement, Lola headlines her own show and sings a song in honor of the kinky boots factory of Northampton, most of the key workers are in attendance and enjoying themselves, including Charlie and Lauren, who have become a couple. J. Brooks Ltd, a family-controlled Earls Barton, Northamptonshire shoe factory, the Kinky Boots, Original Soundtrack was released on April 11,2006 by Hollywood Records. The film earned a total of $9,941,428 internationally, ejiofor was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Director Jerry Mitchell is also the choreographer, the Chicago cast included, Billy Porter and Stark Sands. At the 67th Tony Awards won six Tony Awards, including Tony Award for Best Original Score, Best Actor and Best Musical
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Whisper (film)
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Whisper is a 2007 horror film directed by Stewart Hendler and written by Christopher Borrelli. The film revolves around the kidnapping of a boy, David. After being released from prison, convicted felon Max Truemont and his fiancée Roxanne, however, the bank refuses to loan US$50,000. After the successful abduction of the boy, David, the group awaits ransom instructions in a secluded hideout. However, as they begin to become suspicious of each other, the boy commands various characters in the movie to kill each other. As the film evolves we learn that the mastermind is none other than the boys own mother who it turns out had adopted him and she tells Max that the kidnapped boy is a demon. He can suggest or whisper ideas to weak minded individuals and she pleads with Max to kill the boy on her behalf. On Maxs refusal, she kills herself with her own hand gun, in the end, Max kills David, but with the loss of his fiancee Roxanne, whos killed accidentally by Max himself. Official website Whisper at the Internet Movie Database
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