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In 1987, Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a car salesman from Minneapolis, Minnesota with financial troubles, hatches a plan to end his financial difficulties. Through his mechanic, a former criminal named Shep Proudfoot, he enlists the service of two hit men, Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) and Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi), at a bar in Fargo, North Dakota to kidnap his wife, Jean, who will be returned unharmed for a payment of $80,000. Jerry's secret plan is to tell his wealthy but antagonistic father-in-law, Wade, that the ransom is $1,000,000 intending to use the large difference to settle unspecified debts he has accrued and to invest in a business venture involving a parking lot...another black comedy that i thought was terrific! I also got a kick out of how much and how often the local police chief, heavily pregnant Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand)and her sweet husband, Norm, ate!!
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Added: 15th July 2007
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For anyone who hasn't seen this film, Jaws is a 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. Jaws bears similarities to several literary and artistic works, most notably Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The character of Quint strongly resembles Captain Ahab, the obsessed captain of the Pequod who devotes his life to hunting a sperm whale. Quint's monologue reveals his similar vendetta against sharks, and even his boat, the Orca, is named after the only natural enemy of sharks. A direct reference to these similarities may be found in the original screenplay, which introduced Quint by showing him watching the film version of Moby-Dick. His laughter throughout made people get up and leave the theater (Wesley Strick's screenplay for Cape Fear featured a similar scene). However, the scene from Moby-Dick could not be licensed from Gregory Peck, the owner of the rights. The final scenes of the film, in which the men chase the shark and try to harpoon it with flotation barrels, parallel the chase for Moby-Dick in the novel. We have this in our library and watch it usually once a month. There's something about this film that sticks in my memory, and no, I never went back into the water.
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Added: 28th September 2007
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Trailer to "Sunset Boulevard" directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Cecil B. DeMille & Buster Keaton. Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenplay writer, escapes the finance men who are trying to reclaim his car by driving into the garage of an old mansion on Sunset Boulevard. Assumed to be someone else, he is led by Max the butler to the mansion's owner, silent film star Norma Desmond. Wishing to make a comeback, she hires him to rewrite her "Salome" script, then falls in love with him. Joe moves into the mansion as a kept man. Secretly, Joe is collaborating with a pretty young screenplay editor, Betty Schaefer, on another idea. Though she is engaged to his best friend, Artie Green, an assistant director, Betty falls in love with Joe. When Betty finds out about Norma, she asks him to leave Norma for her, but Joe can't unsettle her life, too. He decides, instead, to leave Hollywood. As he is leaving, a crazed Norma tries to stop him. I adore William Holden, he's simply gorgeous.
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Added: 20th October 2007
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Breaking Away released in the year 1979. It features Dennis Christopher,Jackie Earle Haley, Paul Dooley, and Barbara Barrie. This classic movie was directed by Peter Yates.
Do you remember the 1980 television series that followed the film? The series featured some cast members from the film, and singer Shaun Cassidy.
Many consider this to be a fine example of "inspiration" shown on film. It also won an Oscar for its winning screenplay.
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Added: 27th February 2009
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A rare instance of a sequel being as good as or perhaps even better than the original film, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) was the second of the original STAR WARS movies and benefited both from the direction of Irvin Kershner and a screenplay jointly written by Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas and Leigh Brackett (who wrote such classics as THE BIG SLEEP and RIO BRAVO).
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Added: 9th June 2009
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Okay, here is a very cool extended theatrical preview. This was shown weeks before the outstanding science fiction film was released by studio Columbia Pictures to theatregoers. From 1973, Steven Spielberg wanted to make a movie with his childhood ideas. His story would be mixed and matched with a host of other writers, those who participated in creating a worthy motion picture that would grab the audiences attention. This was headed by the film studio's brass. Eventually, director Paul Schrader was brought in. He was going to make the movie go in the wrong direction from what Spielberg really wanted. Spielberg was seeing his idea being ruined with the writers the studio invited. With what he had to contend with, Spielberg was looking at a completely different movie from what he thought at first. The outcome to the movies screenplay, Spielberg won the writing credit with the filming. Over months, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was becoming a hurried project.
He was told the film was going to be released to the public in November of 1977. Now you can see why there have been two other versions of this movie released since 1977. Do you recall "The Special Edition" two years later? Columbia studios agreed to the directors wishes, and gave him the further financing of 2 million dollars or so to make it his own way. But the condition included adding shots of inside the massive ship at the conclusion of the movie. Spielberg really didn't want to do that, but agreed in the end. The director who had the biggest issues with "Jaws" on location shooting wasn't wanting to go through that again, but gave in to filming outside instead of a Hollywood soundstage setting. Members of Spielberg's production were really getting excited to be involved in the movie, this actually delayed the film. The production team were constantly adding new scenes to the script daily. Did you know the famous scene at the end was created in Alabama. As the production cost rose, Spielberg was still hoping that 1978 was the right time for the films release. But the film studio was losing money and really needed this movie out quickly, just before Christmas of that year. Despite the pressure already, during the on-location shooting in the deep south of the United States, there was a massive rain storm that added more delays to their filming schedule. With this, if it had not happened, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" would of been released during the summer going against "Star Wars". In the end, the nervous film studio who were against the huge rising budget got their investment back at the box office. This happened practically in days. Just over nineteen million dollars the film cost to produce with the effects and advertising added. By now, the film has earned well over 300 million dollars worldwide. Recently, Spielberg has gone on record saying that if he was to make a movie like this now it would of been completely different. Thanks to the combined efforts, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" has become a classic for all generations.
This is why The United States Library of Congress has preserved this sci-fi film within the National American Film Registry.
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Added: 16th August 2009
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How many of you remember the stir that this Sidney Lumet directed movie began in 1976? "Network" is a funny satire about a major American television broadcaster that is needy for ratings at a critcal moment in its history.
Paddy Chayefsky wrote the Academy Award winning screenplay.
William Holden, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Beatrice Straight, and Oscar winner Peter Finch are all mixed-up in the four-time Academy Award winner. It is amusing that actress Beatrice Straight picked-up the Oscar for her performance that consisted of less than 6 minutes of on-screen time.
"Network" is one of few motion pictures that has been redeemed as a significant film in American culture.
The Writers Guild of America has hailed it as a great work put on film.
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Added: 1st December 2009
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Remember this controversial movie, Alan Parker's Midnight Express. A motion picture regarding a time in the country of Turkey, as originally wrote by American tourist Billy Hayes.
The books author was surprised to see that the movie was much different than what he had described already in detail. Midnight Express was given a few changes by screenplay master Oliver Stone.
During the Academy Awards, Oscars were given to Giorgio Moroder for his score that happened to become a bestseller on the music charts, and Oliver Stone as well received an award for the screenplay adaption taken from the Hayes book.
John Hurt and Randy Quaid co-starred in the dark film, with the late actor Brad Davis in the starring role. Recently, Oliver Stone has made it known that he made a mistake with the way he portrayed the country.
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Added: 5th December 2009
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