the general ( 1998 film )
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general devereaux (bruce willis) delivers lines in 1998 in the siege echoed on september 11, 2001 by president george w. bush .
the artist to take on the title track is yet to be announced. lea salonga sang reflection for the 1998 animated film .
the second major film from 1998 which was made in black & white, along with woody allen' s celebrity. x
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1) mulan, 1998. film. directed by tony bancroft and barry cook. u. s. a. walt disney pictures .
“make no mistake, we will hunt down the enemy, we will find the enemy and we will kill the enemy .
— actor bruce willis as general william devereaux the siege (1998), 20th century fox
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arrest general devereaux, his entire command staff, and armed military sentries after a tense standoff .
a criative screenplay and terrific direction, just like the acting, the general is a great motion picture. fresh .
“this movie is not an anti - muslim but an anti - prejudice film, and shows the tragic consequences of racism
( mail & guardian online, worsdale, 1998) .
′colonia′: film broaches atrocities of german - run sect in chile | film | dw | 14. 09. 2015
anti - villain: general deveraux, who will do anything and everything to ensure his country is safe .
from 1998 — have enlisted thousands of movie - industry names to come up with a consensus on the well - established classics .
1. james wolcott ,
tanks for the memories ,
vanity fair (august 1998): pp. 70 - 76 .
( 1997) found spielberg in social historian mode. the film centres on the
now film director florian gallenberger has created a movie based on this dark chapter of history. the german film
colonia
premieres at the 40th toronto international film festival (held from september 10 - 20) .
leo, john. “bigotry still has no place in world of art. ” the detroit news. 9 june 1998 (p. a7) .
the siege (1998) is a film about terrorists attacking in new york city, made about three years before 9 / 11. the film was directed by edward zwick. denzel washington, annette bening, and bruce willis play patriotic characters with different ideas about the best way to defend america from terrorists .
there' s so many remakes, but mulan stood out. disney saw the writers' spec, by lauren hynek and elizabeth martin. the idea is to take the legendary chinese ballad and the 1998 animated film and come up with something in bewteen .
while the siege did poorly in the domestic box - office when it was released in 1998, audiences found it at rental stores in the aftermath of the 9 / 11 attack. the vhs version of the siege finished in the top 200 the week following the attack and was still in the top 250 a week later. the movie' s dvd version also attracted renters (video software dealers association, 2001, september press release, no longer available online). though the film’s events are reminiscent of the events of 9 / 11, the film still offers a typical action - adventure film ending which is more utopian than what occurred in the post - 9 / 11 social reality. as genre traditions require, the film’s conclusion reproduces and maintains the prevailing order that has been attacked. the film’s ending even restores racial justice, rejecting the film’s overzealous general’s attack on civil liberties, including the civil liberties of ethnic minorities. in addition, the film offers a true hollywood ending: the hero kills the foreign terrorist villain .
… (1995), boorman wrote and directed the general (1998), a biopic about the legendary irish criminal martin cahill, portrayed by brendan gleeson; voight was cast as the policeman who has sworn to bring him to justice. the acclaimed crime drama earned boorman another best director award from cannes. he next helmed…
i believe my original issue with the disney version was it seemed more like “mulan goes to summer camp” because of the brevity of the story… not the length of the film but the passage of time depicted in the film .
in late july 1998, steven spielberg landed on the american public with his world war ii film saving private ryan, which won the war of critics, veterans, scholars, historians, and the general moviegoing public. all that is left is the cleanup at the box office and the final awarding of medals such as the oscar for best picture. the bottom line of the positive critical evaluations is this: saving private ryan is a new and different world war ii combat film because it finally refutes the dishonesty of previous hollywood movies of the genre .
modern film news, which reported the film plans, has been out of business for more than two years. moreover, 90 percent of the protest mail that has been overwhelming our staff is addressed to the former attorney general, william j. scott, who has been out of office longer than four years .
also the film’s hero, fbi agent hubbard, is slightly hurt in an attack .
in an interview with moviefone, caro talked about her approach to remaking the film .
applebomb, peter. “in reversal, theater vows to stage play that drew threats. ” the new york times. 29 may 1998 (p. a1) .
o’haire, patricia. “curtains for play depicting christ as gay. ” [ new york ] daily news. 22 may 1998 (p. 7) .
reel, bill. “artistic freedom is not a license to commit or aid artistic assault. ” newsday. 2 june 1998 (p. a40) .
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was probably spielberg’s least - successful film of the decade, and it received mixed reviews .
two years later. the film was acclaimed for its taut plotting and sharply drawn portrayals .
the general is a welcome return to basics for britain' s most adventurous and visionary director, who has always stayed faithful to his love of cinema .
came into possession of the papers in 1971, and the film follows the latter’s efforts to publish the material. hanks starred as
when 20th century fox released the siege in movie theaters in november 1998, protesters challenged the film’s plot device of middle eastern villains motivated by their islamic faith. [ 1 ] [ open endnotes in new window ] even when the film was in production, arab - american organizations criticized it for reinforcing u. s. stereotypes of muslims and of islam as a religion of terrorism. as a result of this criticism and a meeting with representatives of arab - american organizations, the movie producers made some changes to the movie, but they did not change the script to replace the muslim terrorists with domestic terrorists, as had been suggested (cnn, bay, 1998, november 10). the film’s director, edward zwick, defended the film by stating that art should be provocative. 20th century fox further defended the film by releasing a statement declaring :
in his book
colonia dignidad
( 1998), the journalist gero gemballa wrote that the media' s portrayal of the settlement remained surprisingly factual - practically no exaggerations or creepy legends were added to the descriptions .
plot summary :
an insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop .
in this story, ping is the first name of the commanding general. he picks mulan for the not unimportant task of cutting through the battlefront and capturing leopard skin when they mount their next attack .
florian gallenberger' s film
colonia ,
premiering at the toronto film festival, revisits the dark history of the colonia dignidad, a secretive german - founded colony in chile. the enclave' s legacy remains controversial .
the office of the attorney general of the state of illnois respectfully requests your assistance in combating an international chain letter that is distressing hundreds and thousands of christians and those of other faiths as well .
in january 1985 ann landers published a letter from the attorney general’s office of illinois which tried to set the record straight. by then it was modern film news (not modern people news) who supposedly had offices in illinois, which is how that state got dragged into this issue). people were exhorted to write to attorney general william j. scott... a man who had last held that office four years earlier :
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in the early incarnations of this call to arms, people were asked to fill out an attached form letter of protest and mail it to the attorney general of alabama. the message often contained the following postscript :
boorman directs gleeson in a good film. not great but good. worth a view .
before he was mad eye moody, before he took colin farrell to the woodshed
in bruges ,
before
the guard ,
the great irish actor brendan gleeson was the infamous irish crook known as
the general .
trilogy) rather than live - action or pure animation. the film’s reception by both the box office and the critics was little more than
the general is a refined, traditional movie about a character who is never more traditional than when he imagines himself outside the law. it' s a great paradox, but it barely comes alive on the screen .
when film critics are the only factor taken into account for such a list, however, the results skew in unexpected directions .
( as avner’s handler) are just a few members of the international cast. the film’s strength is also its weakness: its
plot summary :
a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound .
and subsequently becomes obsessed with ufos. for the film, spielberg received his first academy award nomination for best director .
federal agent carl hanratty, who pursues abagnale for years and eventually bonds with his target. but the film belongs to
, the film enjoyed box - office success. it also received 12 oscar nominations, including best picture and director .
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excellent film. keeps you gripped from the first scene. makes you very aware of the darker forces of the human psyche. well worth watching .
halfway through their trek to war, mulan and the soldiers come across a town that has been sacked by the invading hun army. it seems that the general, captain li’s father, is also lying somewhere in the remains of the village, together with the rest of the imperial army .
helped make the film provocative and often moving, but its inconsistent tone might be traced to spielberg’s and kubrick’s dueling sensibilities .
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genre has never quite been a strength of irish cinema, but if there’s one particular set of tropes to which the country’s filmmakers have adapted well it’s those of the gangster picture. arguably the best of the bunch—certainly before in bruges—is the general, john boorman’s biography of dublin gang leader martin cahill, played with unending hilarity by a career - best brendan gleeson. boorman earned the best director award at cannes, and it’s not hard to see why: shot in splendid monochrome, the general has the visual feel of a film noir, cinematographer seamus deasy’s gripping use of shadow doing far more to suggest the moral complexity of this story than ever does…
the poster got this film made it look super serious so i had always put this film off and in reality it has very few serious moments to it and rather most of the hijinks that he does are played for laughs and to show how clever he is rather than the idiot that they hope he is. i' m curious if a much more serious film like i expected would have made me like this film more or like it less. brendan is great in this role .
chum ehelepola has been cast in the role of ramtish, who, along with skatch, are a con - artist duo in the film .
thanks for replying! haha i agree with you about the jumpcuts in the film…and i won’t lie…i was slightly confused when the opening scene was showing an ukrainian man with long blonde hair singing opera…but i’m glad you agree that is still a good film. you too! 🙂
niki caro will helm the film, while ‘crouching tiger’ producer bill kong is joining as executive producer, according to hollywood reporter .
our understanding was she served for more than a decade and rose in rank to commander or general. also, like with the wei version, her comrades learned of her gender only after the fact rather than during her time in the army. once i got past that issue (and her lack of fighting prowess), i was able to enjoy the disney film for what it was…entertainment .
the siege was not the first, nor the last, hollywood film to portray arab terrorism as a threat to the united states. arabs as well as other foreigners and ethnic minorities are familiar villains from action adventure films, which have been hollywood’s main domestic and foreign products since the 1980s (maltby, 1998). as neale (2000: p. 52) points out, the term “action - adventure” primarily refers to the action films of the 1980s and 1990s, and they all have common ingredients :
: while the military is portrayed as doing the best as they can and the general in charge of the operation and the cia officer attending to it have major doubts about their operation, they' re still trampling on basic human rights, as opposed to the fbi' s attempt to handle the situation as cleanly and humanely as possible .
. as cinque, the leader of the africans, djimon hounsou gave a memorable performance. the film was well received critically, but it did only modest business at the box - office .
yes, non - existent. there never was such a film in production, but petitions likes these were circulated anyway :
a great irish film... the fact that its in black and white just makes it better. brendan gleeson is on top form .
in contradiction to a more traditional hollywood portrayal of terrorist villains, the film’s foreign villains are not insane individuals but people who have a clear terror campaign as well as clear plans of how to carry it out. they present a threat to u. s. society that is uncomfortable to viewers in the sense that the threat the film describes is believable. in fact this true u. s. nightmare was realized in a similar but even more horrifying form on september 11, 2001, when nearly 3, 000 lives were lost. real life imitated this 1998 film when in the aftermath of the 9 / 11 attack, many civil liberties were lost as a result of government responses to a terrorist attack against the u. s. on its own soil .
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a film following the lives of two inner - city chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional .
the film has little of the visual dazzle often associated with boorman' s movies, but the somber, black - and - white cinematography helps even out the often larger - than - life tone .
boorman’s choice of the retro format of b & w and widescreen gives the film a certain distance and stylization. but in its vigor and use of music and songs, “the general” at times reaches back to his first feature, “catch us if you can” (1965), and — in its harder, more violent moments — to his classic, california - set gangster movie, “point blank” (1967) .
by later the same day the radio station [ in gadsen, alabama ] personnel had attempted to contact modern people news and had been in touch with the alabama attorney general’s office. following these efforts at verification, a statement was read on the air saying that although the attorney general had received between two and three thousand letters over a period of several weeks concerning the supposed gay - jesus movie, no evidence could be found that such a project ever existed. modern people news, it was stated, seemed to have either gone out of business or changed their name .
a non - film version of a work similar to the one described in the petition was produced in 1998, when terrance mcnally’s dramatic offering corpus christi began previews at the manhattan theater club in new york. as described by the new york times, the production “retells the biblical story of a jesus - like figure — from his birth in a texas flea - bag hotel with people having profane, violent sex in a room next door, to his crucifixion as ‘king of the queers’ in a manner with the potential to offend many people. ”
the ten canoes agreement recognizes the ramingining community’s property rights for all artefacts and sets made for the film. these materials were included in a recent multi - media art / cultural exhibition .
played a doctor’s aide whom frank romances. a critical and commercial hit, the film was adapted into a well - received broadway musical in 2011 .
during the scene where deveraux is describing what the occupation of new york would entail, he distinctly mentions the
m16a1 assault rifle
; the army had upgraded to the m16a2 years before the events of the film. or devereaux is still used to referring to the older weapon .
had long fascinated spielberg, who had acquired film rights from hergé’s widow in the early 1980s only to have them lapse when the project failed to develop. but with filmmaker
as a flight attendant. the film plays like a fable, right up to the happy ending, although it was based on a real - life incident that found a man stranded in the
by the time mulan has joined the army, the majority of the bandit army has been wiped out by general xiu ping. all that’s left is for them to lure leopard skin out of his hideout in some steep cliffs by firing a catapult. once he reveals himself, it’s up to mulan to capture him .
when the film was shown theaters, it was in black and white but when it aired on american cable television networks, it was shown in color .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
on may 5, 1988, relatives of the young people detained in the colonia dignidad demonstrated in front of the settlement. the founder of the sect, paul schäfer, claimed he wanted to build an original christian community there. in reality, during general pinochet' s dictatorship, the colony served as a branch of the chilean secret service dirección de inteligencia nacional (dina) .
there was uproar at the idea of changing this, disney was forced to confirm it was not
whitewashing
the film and said it the main role and all primary roles will be chinese .
for the microcosm of its effect on a single california family. henry thomas gave a strong performance as the boy who discovers and befriends the stranded alien, and dee wallace portrayed his sympathetic mom. the film also featured
this innovative film, designed exclusively for gay audiences, goes into excruciating detail concerning the erotic career of jesus christ. the ads for the film show the face of the savior (with a cross glistening in one eye) while the headline inquires ‘are you curious about his sexual life? ’ filmmaker ed d. louie satisfies that curiosity by showing us that the son of man was a voracious homosexual. (after all, why did he spend all that time hanging around with the apostles ?) the central character of the film is actually a young gay male in contemporary america whose sexual obsession with jesus helps him to understand the “hidden meaning” of the gospels .
… (1998), which was directed by steven spielberg, and cast away (2000). additional dramatic roles came in apollo 13 (1995), the green mile (1999), and road to perdition (2002). in the blockbuster toy story series (1995, 1999, 2010), hanks provided the voice of the animated cowboy woody. …
the siege clearly takes a much darker approach to terrorism than any other film with terrorist themes that was in the annual top fifty domestic box - office in the two decades prior to the september 11, 2001 attack. [ 2 ] it largely relies on creating a mood and fear of terrorism. its focus is on the aftermath and social consequences of terrorist attacks rather than on reveling in portraying explosive fireworks, bloody massacres or detailed killings of villains. the film does portray one bus explosion as it happens and some minor counterterrorism attacks in new york city, but it also addresses the emotional impact of terrorist attacks by showing the after - attack destruction of the film’s terrorist attacks. this includes showing the attacks’ human toll and how that impacts society and some of the film’s main characters .
, though only a fraction of it derives from the original short story. the film was both a box - office and a critical success, though complaints about the somewhat pat ending were not uncommon .
rarely has a veteran filmmaker rejuvenated his career to such startling effect as john boorman with “the general, ” a fresh - off - the - slab biopic of maverick irish crime lord martin cahill that both challenges and entertains the audience at a variety of levels, as well as reviving the vitality of the helmer’s earliest, mid - ’60s pics. though the movie [ … ]
based on a legend from medieval china, mulan is the story of a girl who disguises herself as a man and goes to war in place of her father. at the time of the film’s release in 1998, it was widely rumoured that the chinese government banned it because they were so insulted by disney’s interpretation. in actual fact, they were in a sulk because miramax had backed a film about the dalai lama, and refused to distribute any disney films at all. ironically, mulan was used as a bargaining chip by disney to help smooth over their relations, and while this succeeded, the film didn’t. despite taking $ 300 million elsewhere, mulan proved to be a substantial flop in the country of its heroine. the reason? other than it having a rubbish release date, it seems that disney was just as adept at disguising the title character. so, how different is their version from the source text ?
there is a certain honor in sticking to your guns, even if they are the wrong guns. martin cahill, the subject of john boorman' s
the general ,
was for many years the most famous professional criminal in ireland, a man who copied robin hood, up to a point: he stole from the rich and gave to himself .
jesus and his disciples are going to be portrayed as homosexual in a soon - to - be - released film. see example (s )
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the film paints martin as a robin hood of sorts, keeping his buddies on a payroll while collecting thousands (if not millions, who knows) for himself .
was nominated for 11 academy awards, including best picture, and spielberg won his second academy award as best director. the film was the biggest commercial success of any release in the united states that year .
and it did. the manhattan theater club’s announcement of the play as part of its fall season was greeted with bomb threats promising to “burn the place to the ground” if the production opened. in may 1998 the theatre announced it was pulling “corpus christi” from its line - up. a week later it changed its mind, reinstating the play to its fall roster. caught between cries of censorship on one side and outraged sensibilities on the other, the theatre had to make a choice .
de heer’s collaboration with the yolngu people of ramingining began in 2000 when australian screen icon david gulpilil was cast as the lead in de heer’s film the tracker. at their first meeting in adelaide, gulpilil invited de heer to meet with him among his family in ramingining, to see his traditional lands and to make a film with him set in this area of north east arnhem land. de heer first visited ramingining in late 2000. in 2003, he and gulpilil began working together on a film, meeting with a number of gulpilil’s influential contemporaries to discuss ideas for it. all agreed the film should be set in “old times”, and initially they settled on the idea of some kind of aboriginal story that would end with the massacre of the yolngu characters by white invaders. this plan was abandoned, however, when gulpilil insisted that the film should centre on ten canoes. according to gulpilil :
, spielberg’s film captures the president’s complex psychology, a blend of good humour and cynical despair. although some critics complained that it took a few historical shortcuts and underplayed the role of abolitionists outside
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watch the chinese film hua mulan that has subtitles, and they do an excellent version of it that’s quite accurate from the research i’ve done. i think it also creates a stronger character for mulan
all this can easily be applied to the film, where transitions that in literature took centuries have come about in a decade. in cinematic practice, particularly in russia, this change - over has partially become established reality. some of the players whom we meet in russian films are not actors in our sense but people who portray themselves and primarily in their own work process. in western europe the capitalistic exploitation of the film denies consideration to modern man’s legitimate claim to being reproduced. under these circumstances the film industry is trying hard to spur the interest of the masses through illusion - promoting spectacles and dubious speculations .
as wasko (1994) points out, hollywood films are foremost commodities and have been recognized as such for a long time. in today’s extremely competitive market economy, media conglomerates, whose subsidiaries film studios are, fight against losses by investing in products and formulas that have brought profits in the past, such as films of the action - adventure genre. film genres regularly follow the traditional classical hollywood cinema narrative structure but also respond to the prevailing political environment, as well as to changes in public opinion and audience interests. this is also the case with the action - adventure film genre .
twice, general devereaux refers to
the president invoking the war powers act .
the wpa is not presidential authority for waging war or using the military (which comes from congress), but it is in fact a rule passed by congress in 1973 (after vietnam) that severely limits a president' s ability to unilaterally use military force without congressional authorization .
mexican standoff: near the end of the movie between the fbi and the 101st airborne .
in the meeting at capitol hill, among general devereaux' s medal ribbons is a silver star with a v on it. the v ribbon device may be used on certain medals to denote valor or combat service, but it should not be on a silver star because that medal is only awarded for valor in combat .
crew: camera (b & w, panavision widescreen), seamus deasy; editor, ron davis; music, richie buckley; production designer, derek wallace; costume designer, maeve paterson; sound (dolby digital), brendan deasy, douglas e. turner; assistant director, kevan barker; casting, jina jay. reviewed at warners preview theater, london, april 30, 1998. (in cannes film festival, competing .) running time: 123 min .
…in the early 1970s, were steven spielberg and martin scorsese. in addition to jurassic park, spielberg’s works in the 1990s include schindler’s list (1993, winner of an academy award for best picture), amistad (1997), and saving private ryan (1998), with a. i. artificial intelligence (2001) and munich (2005) among his subsequent…
ten canoes (rolf de heer, 2006) is australia’s most ambitious and most expensive cross - cultural film project to date. the balanda and the bark canoes (molly reynolds, tania nehme and rolf de heer, 2006) that takes us behind the scenes of this film to provide invaluable insight into the extraordinary processes of collaboration between balanda (“white - fella”), director rolf de heer and the yolngu people of ramingining .
cassandra truth: general devereaux himself warns his superiors not to use him or his troops in new york city, as he knows that extremely strict martial law and the extreme force the military requires to carry out its operations would result in human rights violations, if not worse. they ignore his protests and everything goes to hell .
, to wreak havoc on the populace after having been interred underground for thousands of years (a touch unique to spielberg’s version) —the film’s approach to the story rarely generated excitement in its audiences, who may have been primed for more action than watching cruise hiding in a farmhouse with a nutty survivor (tim robbins). the film was a box - office success, though some critical dissent was registered .
the distracted person, too, can form habits. more, the ability to master certain tasks in a state of distraction proves that their solution has become a matter of habit. distraction as provided by art presents a covert control of the extent to which new tasks have become soluble by apperception. since, moreover, individuals are tempted to avoid such tasks, art will tackle the most difficult and most important ones where it is able to mobilize the masses. today it does so in the film. reception in a state of distraction, which is increasing noticeably in all fields of art and is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception, finds in the film its true means of exercise. the film with its shock effect meets this mode of reception halfway. the film makes the cult value recede into the background not only by putting the public in the position of the critic, but also by the fact that at the movies this position requires no attention. the public is an examiner, but an absent - minded one .
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the fbi, cia, nypd and u. s. army all become involved. the plot portrays conflicts and distrust among these agencies' representatives, reflecting real life trouble among the country’s some fifty counterterrorist agencies. the film’s protagonist, anthony “hub” hubbard (played by denzel washington) leads a joint fbi / nypd antiterrorist force. he works in partial co - operation with a cia operative, elise kraft / sharon bridger (played by annette bening), who first introduces herself as elise kraft, hiding her real name as well as her own close connections to the suspected arab terrorists. general devereaux (played by bruce willis) further complicates hubbard’s efforts when the general implements martial law. the narrative emphasizes the unsavory aspects of devereaux' character, especially showing that he has no respect for the u. s. constitution, that he is over - zealous in trying to resolve the matter his own way, and that he had been the brains behind the muslim religious leader’s capture, which he has kept a secret from the president .
this piece about an upcoming “gay jesus film” is one of those examples that demonstrates a good petition never goes away, even when the issue it addresses has long since been settled (or was never really an issue in the first place). the “gay jesus film” petition first hit the fan in 1984, and by the end of 1985 more than a million christians had written protest letters in an attempt to have the non - existent movie it referenced banned .
. in: new takes in film - philosophy. editors: carel, h. and tuck, g. ,. palgrave macmillan. 154 - 170. 9780230294851
for the film, what matters primarily is that the actor represents himself to the public before the camera, rather than representing someone else. one of the first to sense the actor’s metamorphosis by this form of testing was pirandello. though his remarks on the subject in his novel si gira were limited to the negative aspects of the question and to the silent film only, this hardly impairs their validity. for in this respect, the sound film did not change anything essential. what matters is that the part is acted not for an audience but for a mechanical contrivance – in the case of the sound film, for two of them. “the film actor, ” wrote pirandello, “feels as if in exile – exiled not only from the stage but also from himself. with a vague sense of discomfort he feels inexplicable emptiness: his body loses its corporeality, it evaporates, it is deprived of reality, life, voice, and the noises caused by his moving about, in order to be changed into a mute image, flickering an instant on the screen, then vanishing into silence... . the projector will play with his shadow before the public, and he himself must be content to play before the camera. ” this situation might also be characterized as follows: for the first time – and this is the effect of the film – man has to operate with his whole living person, yet forgoing its aura. for aura is tied to his presence; there can be no replica of it. the aura which, on the stage, emanates from macbeth, cannot be separated for the spectators from that of the actor. however, the singularity of the shot in the studio is that the camera is substituted for the public. consequently, the aura that envelops the actor vanishes, and with it the aura of the figure he portrays .
the artistic performance of a stage actor is definitely presented to the public by the actor in person; that of the screen actor, however, is presented by a camera, with a twofold consequence. the camera that presents the performance of the film actor to the public need not respect the performance as an integral whole. guided by the cameraman, the camera continually changes its position with respect to the performance. the sequence of positional views which the editor composes from the material supplied him constitutes the completed film. it comprises certain factors of movement which are in reality those of the camera, not to mention special camera angles, close - ups, etc. hence, the performance of the actor is subjected to a series of optical tests. this is the first consequence of the fact that the actor’s performance is presented by means of a camera. also, the film actor lacks the opportunity of the stage actor to adjust to the audience during his performance, since he does not present his performance to the audience in person. this permits the audience to take the position of a critic, without experiencing any personal contact with the actor. the audience’s identification with the actor is really an identification with the camera. consequently the audience takes the position of the camera; its approach is that of testing. this is not the approach to which cult values may be exposed .
as a deadly russian agent and ray winstone as a british agent who secretly is in the pay of the soviets and double - crosses indy. deliberately made with a retro style, the film found favour with audiences, becoming the third biggest movie at the box - office that year .
essentially, disney’s enemy comes from outside and is an invading force, whereas wei’s is an uprising and a threat to the emperor’s ego. in addition, the film shows us the huns attacking the great wall and the emperor’s reaction; the play simply sees mulan stand in front of the audience and give a monologue. which brings us to the title character .
boorman' s film is shot in wide - screen black and white, and as it often does, black and white emphasizes the characters and the story, instead of setting them awash in atmosphere. and boorman' s narrative style has a nice offhand feel about it. instead of explaining everything in neat little simpleminded setups, he lets us discover for ourselves that cahill is living with both women. as the general unfolds his devious criminal schemes, we see them as they develop, instead of getting those cliched crime movie chalk talks .
although the action - adventure classification as a film genre did not become part of the popular culture until the 1980s, the 1960s had already introduced spectacular non - stop action with the screen arrival of james bond. the bond films, which at very first were considered to be b - films in the u. s. , set the standard for big - event action - adventure films which have repeated ingredients, including a simplified characterization of villains, usually foreign and to some degree insane. at the end of each film the white hero returns the balance of power, the last shot showing bond’s departure from the screen with his latest female conquest .
a talented team of hollywood directors and writers enlisted in the armed services and were assigned to the film units that created them, including frank capra, john huston, john ford, george stevens, and william wyler .
classic, which had already been adapted into a highly regarded film in 1953. despite a number of effective set pieces, including the opening scene—in which giant alien tripods emerge from underneath the streets of modern - day newark ,
thanks for the comment and tip! i actually have this film and i agree, especially the end decision. it could have been really cheesy at some points but they kept it just right. the editing was a bit hap - hazard though !
from an alluring appearance or persuasive structure of sound the work of art of the dadaists became an instrument of ballistics. it hit the spectator like a bullet, it happened to him, thus acquiring a tactile quality. it promoted a demand for the film, the distracting element of which is also primarily tactile, being based on changes of place and focus which periodically assail the spectator. let us compare the screen on which a film unfolds with the canvas of a painting. the painting invites the spectator to contemplation; before it the spectator can abandon himself to his associations. before the movie frame he cannot do so. no sooner has his eye grasped a scene than it is already changed. it cannot be arrested. duhamel, who detests the film and knows nothing of its significance, though something of its structure, notes this circumstance as follows: “i can no longer think what i want to think. my thoughts have been replaced by moving images. ” the spectator’s process of association in view of these images is indeed interrupted by their constant, sudden change. this constitutes the shock effect of the film, which, like all shocks, should be cushioned by heightened presence of mind. by means of its technical structure, the film has taken the physical shock effect out of the wrappers in which dadaism had, as it were, kept it inside the moral shock effect .
3. james agee ,
review of guadalcanal diary ,
the nation (november 13, 1943). reprinted in agee on film (boston: beacon press, 1958), p. 59 .
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the non - existence of a “gay jesus film” did not stem the ire of those who heard about it. blasphemy — even the mere hint of it — is enough to mobilize good christian soldiers everywhere. in 1988, martin scorsese’s the last temptation of christ reaped massive publicity — and long lines at the box office — after fundamentalist christians picketed theaters. the uproar wasn’t over a gay jesus, merely one who both questioned his fate and who had a dream about a sexual relationship with mary magdalene. the film remains controversial to this day .
the fbi / nypd task force is baffled by the terrorist demand to “release him. ” imitating real life problems in cooperation between some fifty counterterrorism agencies, as discussed by the 9 / 11 commission report, the film’s hero soon learns the difficulty of sharing information and getting cooperation between different government agencies in counterterrorism .
corpus christi is undoubtedly the “play that went on for a while but never stopped” referred to in the current petition, but there are still no plans to make a movie out of it. the 2010 release corpus christi: playing with redemption is often mistakenly cited as a film version of the play corpus christi, but it is not; it’s a documentary about the controversy surrounding one particular troupe’s production of the play, not a movie version of the play itself. likewise, the 2006 dvd release entitled corpus christi is simply a documentary about the historical figure of jesus, not a film version of the similarly titled play .
but the siege still relies on the use of film villains familiar from other films on terrorism, that is, terrorists who are on a crusade against the united states. however, the script then revolves around the threats that come from government responses to terrorism, that is, responses that damage civil liberties and civil society. the plot' s conclusion deals with what happens to citizens and society when the u. s. government sees the country as a target of terrorists attacks and takes action to protect the country, but does it using such extreme actions that u. s. citizens themselves become targets. in other words, the main threat in the film is not actually international terrorism per se. rather, the plot explores how shifts in the country’s foreign policy can work against its own security, in this particular film bringing old u. s. allies to the u. s. to attack the country on its own soil .
the original movie was based on the chinese legend, and kept the characters in tune with the legend .
, and arliss howard—and returnee jeff goldblum, who again plays a scientist who knows this manipulation of nature for profit is both crass and morally indefensible. there are numerous thrills, and the dinosaur special effects equal those of the earlier film .
a special u. s. military task force captures a fundamentalist islamic cleric, a terrorist leader, in a covert operation. this sets the film’s events, terrorist attacks on new york city, in motion .
a thief, pursued by an old friend from the neighborhood, evades the cops and the ira. brendan gleeson is fantastic as the eponymous character; he' s both awkward and wily, not looking the part of the thief but pulling it off believably. the rest of the supporting cast supports gleeson admirably, but even jon voight doesn' t deliver a stand - out performance. the story is fairly basic - - a crime drama in which the criminal cleverly eludes his pursuers - - and i can' t say that by the end of the film i cared about the characters. the film is so evenly presented that i wondered what it was saying. what is unique about this criminal that we haven' t seen before besides his physique (compare gleeson to george clooney' s danny ocean)? overall, there' s not a lot to feel strongly about in this film except gleeson' s superb performance .
my opinion of the film has changed over the years and i appreciate it for what it is. my two year old grandson watches it several times a day and enjoys it because of the music and animation / artwork. one of the things i find interesting is, it remains one of the few disney films where the villain’s end is the direct result of the hero’s actions rather than the classic disney “fall” to his death .
crime drama about irish gangster martin cahill (brendan gleeson) who became known as' the general' after co - ordinating a series of armed robberies in dublin during the 1980s. hailed in some quarters as a folk - hero for his defiance against the authorities, martin pulls one job too many when he steals paintings belonging to the beit collection. with the police, headed by ned kenny (jon voight), closing in, cahill' s problems are multiplied by the increasing interest of the ira in his activities.
the general is a british-irish crime film directed by john boorman about dublin crime boss martin cahill , who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the garda síochána , ira , and ulster volunteer force . the film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998 . brendan gleeson plays cahill , adrian dunbar plays his friend noel curley , and jon voight plays inspector ned kenny . 
the general is a british-irish crime film directed by john boorman about dublin crime boss martin cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the garda síochána, ira, and ulster volunteer force. the film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998. brendan gleeson plays cahill, adrian dunbar plays his friend noel curley, and jon voight plays inspector ned kenny.
the general is a british-irish crime film directed by john boorman about dublin crime boss martin cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the garda síochána, ira, and ulster volunteer force. the film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998. brendan gleeson plays cahill, adrian dunbar plays his friend noel curley, and jon voight plays inspector ned kenny.