the deal ( 2005 film )
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trailer from the movie the deal (2005). a political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the russian mafia, and governmental cover - ups. (imdb plot )
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far from the real deal when it comes to even a modicum of plausibility on a politically hot topic .
the film adaptation of charlie and the chocolate factory is ten years old this week .
dc comics and warner bros have announced that israeli actress gal gadot will star as wonder woman in the first female - led superhero film since 2005, when jennifer garner played the lead role in rob bowman' s elektra .
constantine is a 2005 american film very loosely based on vertigo comics' hellblazer comic book, with some plot elements being taken from the
dangerous habits
story arc (issues # 41 - 46) and others - such as the inclusion of papa midnite - from the
original sins
trade paperback. it was released on february 8, 2005 in hong kong, and on february 18, 2005 in the u. s. and canada. it is rated r for violence and demonic images by the mpaa. it also contains mild language .
he said that the $ 4 - billion deal was effectively clinched over dinner with their wives at an upper east side steakhouse .
as with the marvel deal, disney' s acquisition of lucasfilm — the producer of the sci - fi franchise — hinged on a pivotal meal .
basically, the deal looks and sounds a whole lot like a big - budget, feature - length tv commercial for merrill lynch .
: the film borrows symbols and names from christianity, but that' s where the similarities end .
the deal clearly aims at being a roman - a - clef. instead it' s more of a roman - a - clumsy .
part 22: (outside in woods, morning) clay hawkins and w. n. bilbo, the lobbyist, are hunting and discussing their deal. hawkins seems spooked by the threats against him and literally starts to run away from the deal and bilbo as they argue over his commitment .
but the problem is, the deal, like a lot of real - life wall street deals, is a labyrinth into which the plot tends to disappear. the ideas in the film are challenging, the level of expertise is high, the performances are convincing, and it' s only at the level of story construction and dramatic clarity that the film doesn' t succeed. show more
we know from the start that the deal is fishy, because at the top of the film a lawyer tells tolson he can' t continue to work on the deal; a few hours later the lawyer is shot dead. hanson, the slater character, is brought in as his replacement. his assignment: perform due diligence to be sure black star is sound, and the merger is in the best interests of condor' s shareholders .
in 2005, before wonka even welcomes his competition winners, we get a collection of unsettling singing dolls, which become even more unsettling when they are set on fire .
sin city, also known as frank miller' s sin city, is a 2005 american crime thriller film written, produced and directed by frank miller and robert rodriguez. it is a neo - noir based on miller' s graphic novel series of the same name .
, terry teachout’s analysis is initially promising in questioning the film’s bribery allegation. but then he drops the ball :
the pixar deal may be the one that established iger' s acquisition bona fides, but disney wouldn' t be where it is today without the marvel and lucasfilm purchases .
a sequel to the film, sin city: a dame to kill for, is released in 2014 .
the $ 4. 06 - billion deal was announced in october 2012 .
star wars: the force awakens
will be released dec. 18, the first of several new films planned for the franchise .
at the oct. 2, 2005, board meeting, iger floated an idea that would become a hallmark of his tenure. he made a risky, even audacious, proposal: what if the company bought pixar animation studios ?
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans. it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
but the problem is ,
the deal ,
like a lot of real - life wall street deals, is a labyrinth into which the plot tends to disappear. the ideas in the film are challenging, the level of expertise is high, the performances are convincing, and it' s only at the level of story construction and dramatic clarity that the film doesn' t succeed. one more rewrite might have been a good idea. i can' t quite recommend it purely as a film, but as a double feature with
enron: the smartest guys in the room ,
it' s a slam dunk .
the swords used by miho (devon aoki) in this film are the same ones used by some of the crazy 88 in kill bill: vol. 1. that film' s director, quentin tarantino, had been keeping them in the back of his garage .
the kidnapping, string of murders, and wood chipper incident portrayed in the film
fargo
supposedly took place in minnesota in 1987 .
the kidnapping, string of murders, and wood chipper incident portrayed in the film
fargo
actually took place in minnesota in 1987 .
the enigmatic french thriller is the water cooler film of the year, confounding audiences with its ambiguous plot. jason solomons asked the director to shed some light ...
evil spirits released from old celluloid cause a film crew to slowly go insane while in production on a new project .
fast forward to 2015, which marks the first time that each of the acquired companies is releasing a film in the same year, underscoring the central role they now play in the disney empire .
religious horror: the film is the in name only movie adaptation of hellblazer. the main villain is mammon, the son of the devil, and catholicism is shown to be almost entirely correct .
the ifta model international licensing agreement (
mila
) has long set the standard for licensing international rights in motion pictures and television programming. the model agreements were first published in 1986, and have since been updated in 1994, 2000, 2005, 2007 (with an internet and wireless rider), and 2010. the latest language is incorporated into the agreements in response to licensing trends such as advancements in digital technology and the agreements include deal terms, standard terms and definitions and a complete set of the international financing attachments .
while the film’s warden krutch is an utterly venal and corrupt bureaucrat, the real - life warden sherman crouse denied capote access to death row because prison regulations restricted contact to immediate family and legal counsel. to overcome this, capote retained the well - connected law firm of saffels & hope, who, at capote’s request, approached the governor of the state and worked out a deal .
a down - and - out film producer agrees to make his nephew' s film about 19th century english statesman benjamin disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well - known action star... . see full summary »
dressed in a trim gray suit, staggs explained how playmation would showcase disney film franchises, starting with
avengers .
, has become the topic of heated conversations around water coolers and over dinner tables across the country. it is on its way to becoming the defining film of a generation .
the gods must be lazy: god and satan have made a deal not to directly interfere in the mortal world. the half - demons constantly break this rule, but they don' t get punished — just sent back to hell by constantine .
adaptation expansion: the novelization of the film written by john shirley does an amazing job of expanding upon the movieverse. it develops the characters more thoroughly and explains the mythology of constantine' s job comprehensively. in addition, it includes all the deleted scenes shown on the dvd in context and fits them into continuity. for those who may be on the fence about the film, the novelization might be the tipping point into enjoying it .
sadly this dvd comes in two parts on two discs, at the start it shows all the action so nothing is left to unfold absolutely ruined the film. would not recommend .
how i met your mother ran for nine seasons on cbs from 2005 - 2014. ostensibly the story of a man in the future telling his children the complicated story of how he met their mother, the show was really mostly about a group of five friends and their various life experiences throughout their late 20s and early 30s .
' people are only asking ,
whodunnit ?
because i chose to use the genre, the structure of a thriller, to address the issues of blame and conscience, and these methods of narrative usually demand an answer. but my film isn' t a thriller and who am i to presume to give anyone an answer on how they should deal with their own guilty conscience?'
the phone conversation with jobs eventually led to disney' s purchase of pixar at a 3. 8% premium to its stock price. the deal, which made the mercurial jobs disney' s biggest shareholder, was widely questioned by analysts who believed the price was too dear .
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…
[ t ] he feeling of concrete, this - ain' t - science - fiction reality the film creates is effectively low - key eerie ...
originally the film was going to include the story featured in the
sin city
maxi - series
hell and back
, with johnny depp in the lead role as wallace. this was scrapped before production began but will most likely be filmed for a sequel, as robert rodriguez plans to film all of miller' s stories at some point .
the list includes the flash, which is due to be released in 2018, and will star american ezra miller, who will become the first openly gay actor to lead a major superhero film .
staggs seems to be cut from the same cloth as iger. both are fitness buffs, both are experienced in acquisitions (staggs was involved in the capital cities / abc deal) and are said by former colleagues such as cora to have a similar management style .
that willingness to make a decisive move is also evident in iger' s approach to deal - making. iger said that when he' s considering an acquisition, he doesn' t get caught up in what - ifs .
although the financial performance of each disney division has improved under iger, he has arguably made his biggest impact in film. in 2005, disney was fifth among the six major studios in domestic box - office receipts, according to rentrak. now it' s near the top: in 2014, disney was no. 2 behind 20th century fox. so far this year, disney again is in second place, trailing warner bros. by a narrow margin despite having released fewer films .
the true story of abraham lincoln and his bodyguard, u. s. marshal ward hill lamon. this unique film features sets created from actual civil war photographs .
it’s become quite fashionable to knock burton (and as someone who sat through his updates of planet of the apes and alice in wonderland, i’ve not been averse to such activity myself) for his peek behind the wonka factory’s curtain, but it is still a film of startlingly great moments, if not quite a startingly great film .
well, in one of the very last episodes of how i met your mother ,
vesuvius
( episode 19 of season 9), a bunch of the characters are gathered around watching the film wedding bride too. in the how i met your mother universe, wedding bride was a popular film written by the husband of a woman ted mosby almost married earlier in the series. it tells the story of ted' s relationship with the woman, only with ted as the stereotypical romantic comedy villain (with the writer of the film being the hero, as he gets back together with his ex - wife just when she is about to marry ted). at one point in the film' s sequel ,
ned moseley
notices that someone ate the chocolate cake that he had put aside in the refrigerator. his friend
narshall
then walks in with chocolate frosting around his mouth .
goldstein made a tortuous comparison of truman capote to edward r. murrow —the subject of another recent film, good night and good luck —citing both as proof that “journalists once pursued greatness, not just ratings and ad linage. ” surely either reporter would have urged goldstein not to rely on a hollywood film as a factual account .
the 1996 movie fargo begins: “this is a true story. the events depicted in this film took place in minnesota in 1987. at the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred. ”
iger said the importance of pixar to disney' s future had become clear to him during opening ceremonies for hong kong disneyland in september 2005, just a month before he became chief executive. he noticed the many characters from pixar films featured in the kickoff parade. but there was nothing from disney' s recent animated movies, whose latest characters weren' t popular .
there had also been rumours that sony pictures entertainment were planning a female - led superhero film derived from their spider - man universe but these were never confirmed .
great film. a little dated now. i remember watching it when it first came out. it did frighten me a bit, but the shocks are not as great now. david soul was great in the role and james mason was his usual brilliant self. must not take away what impact the film had when it was originally received. i loved it and still do !
ven in a year when powerful, politically engaged movies abound among the mainstream awards nominations, there is one film everyone is talking about above all others. despite being absent from the baftas and oscars ,
while director tim burton’s version of roald dahl’s book is definitely a hit - and - miss affair, it undoubtedly contains some of the scariest moments to sneak into a pg film in the past decade .
cultural translation: the film changes the nationality and location of the uk - set (american - owned) comic hellblazer to los angeles. since the release of the movie, the comic book character of constantine has stated that there' s another guy with his name and a similar job in the us .
the biggest holdout among the cast was jason segel, the second - youngest member of the main cast and the one with perhaps the most promising film career (the series' youngest actor, colbie smulders, is a featured cast member in marvel' s ultra - popular avengers film franchise, but she was not really the star of any the films). during his run on the show he starred in a number of films, including two hit films he wrote himself, forgetting sarah marshall and the muppets (co - written with nicholas stoller) .
unlike in cold blood, capote is very much a work of fiction, with a plot dependent on incidents that were created for the film. the movie focuses on capote’s inner struggle as he wrestles with writing a “great” work of literature. in the film, he comes to realize that for his work to succeed, he must manipulate, exploit and deceive the two murderers, perry smith and dick hickock .
hile one can argue how much license makers of fictional films based on actual events have to alter known facts, journalists should be aware that such biopics often take liberties with events as they happened. yet subsequent columns that used the film as a jumping - off point to discuss the real - life capote’s work were surprisingly credulous in accepting the film’s plot devices as an accurate depiction of reality .
in the 2013 film this is the end, segel appears as himself (like all the other cast members in the film, which is about what would happen if the rapture took place in modern day hollywood) and once again makes fun of how i met your mother using the exact same joke from the earlier gq interview, serving both to tease the show but also to tease the
controversy
( quotes because there really wasn' t much of a backlash) segel caused when he mocked his own show back in 2010 .
out of this, haneke crafts a thriller that has audiences twitching with suspicion, letting out gasps at the film' s one moment of violence and emerging from the cinema in deep discussion. i can' t recall a film in the last decade that has provoked so many theories, nor demanded so many explanations - none of which appear to satisfy, simply feeding the appetite, rather, for second viewings and yet more interpretations .
as an example of a nonjudgmental film, and its subject as someone who made an effort to interact positively and write genuinely about the “red state” region. he bolsters his case with dubious evidence :
there is of course always the ethics task force, set up by the sec and the fbi to guard against wall street fraud. one of the movie' s continuing puzzles involves the possibility that several characters may be working undercover for the task force or black star. secret information has a way of getting around, and the seriousness of the people behind the deal is made fairly clear when hanson finds a bleeding heart in his refrigerator .
not a human heart ,
the cops quickly reassure him .
the filmmakers explain capote’s presence on death row with a scene in which he gives “warden krutch” a $ 10, 000 cash payoff, which gains the writer unprecedented access to his two protagonists. capote is shown spending months bonding with smith, all the while hoping to get smith to describe what happened and how he felt on the night of the crime. the film concludes with the hanging of smith and hickock, and a note stating that capote never completed another book; the film suggests that the process was so personally scarring that it irretrievably shattered capote as an artist .
a film i was always curious to see, as i' d not seen it when it came out, quite good, showing its age now though, but worth seeing .
gadot, 28, is best known for her roles in the fast and furious films but will also star as wonder woman in the upcoming dc comics film, batman v superman: dawn of justice, directed by zack snyder .
and it manages to out - scare its predecessor, no mean feat when you think back to that psychedelic boat ride from the first film. dahl himself famously hated the wilder version, while wilder hated the burton one. the truth is somewhere in between all these extremes .
( 11 / 17 / 05), daniel mendelsohn wrote that “the film focuses on the... five - year period during which the killers, assisted at first by capote, found better lawyers, made appeals and won stays of execution. ”
the film ends with a long shot of pierrot' s school steps, with children coming out at the end of the day. we' ve seen this very static shot before, earlier in the film, when georges goes to pick his son up. in the final scene, we can make out two crucial characters coming together on the steps. they have a conversation. it' s hard to tell if they know each other already or if this is their first meeting, but the conversation seems civil. it' s the long shot that makes it seem threatening .
haneke says:' i like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. it' s the same with this film - if 300 people are in a cinema watching it, they will all see a different film, so in a way there are thousands of different versions of hidden. the point being that, despite what tv shows us, and what the news stories tell us, there is never just one truth, there is only personal truth.'
haneke says:' i' m not going to give anyone this answer. if you think it' s majid, pierrot, georges, the malevolent director, god himself, the human conscience - all these answers are correct. but if you come out wanting to know who sent the tapes, you didn' t understand the film. to ask this question is to avoid asking the real question the film raises, which is more: how do we treat our conscience and our guilt and reconcile ourselves to living with our actions ?
and in the same way that he was given an opportunity at disney, iger gave lasseter and catmull a big one too, putting them in charge of disney animation. the division has since released hits including
frozen ,
the top - grossing animated film of all time .
: the devil in this film is called both
lucifer
and
satan
. john calls him
lou
just to mess with him. gabriel has a few more choice names for him, when they meet .
while balthazar is looking at himself in a mirror, his image starts to distort and bubbles form on the glass just before the mirror explodes. this is a combination of two scenes in the matrix film series: the one in the matrix where neo is looking into a mirror and it distorts, and the one in the matrix reloaded where bubbles form on a door just before it explodes .
the pressure to close the deal is enormous; hanson' s firm alone expects to bank $ 25 million in commissions. but would it be worth it if black star were phony, and condor' s shareholders were buying a worthless company? more to the point, what if black star is the front for an oil - laundering scheme? plots like this once seemed paranoid, but no one who has seen the documentary
enron: the smartest guys in the room
will find the lies and deceit in this film surprising. it expresses a system of moral values that keeps running into the discovery that
in the real world ,
as they say ,
things don' t work that way .
the last scenes of the movie are deeply cynical and yet, we have a sinking feeling, not a million miles from the way wall street and the federal government actually do business .
could it be georges sending the tapes to himself, trying to frame majid as a stalker? or could it even be the film - maker away writing a scenario that the group of friends talk about during the dinner party? i' ve even seen a suggestion that it was georges' s elderly mother .
a major plot point in the film is that, according to catholic doctrine, people who commit suicide always go to hell. this has not been the case since 1997, when the church concluded that while suicide is a grave matter people who take their own lives might still be saved
marvel had long been a gleam in disney' s eye. the company had a stable of popular comic book characters such as iron man, spider - man and wolverine and by the mid - 2000s had found success releasing superhero movies with rival film studios .
but now more than ever, digital innovation will be important to disney' s future. it' s almost certain that the big challenge for the next ceo of disney won' t be animation or live - action film, as it was with iger, but with the digital revolution .
the film is notorious among readers for being an in name only adaptation — in particular, changing the blond, british protagonist into a black - haired american who is more of an exorcist than a magician — but it has merits aplenty if viewed as a standalone work .
by most accounts, disney is king of the hill in hollywood. the world' s largest entertainment firm, it owns television networks, a film studio and growing theme park and consumer products businesses — all of which work together to get maximum mileage out of the company' s stable of intellectual property .
in the 1971 version, willy wonka’s diminutive orange assistants were cuddly choir crooners, but in burton’s film, they are laced with menace thanks to the multi - performance of deep roy, who was given a reported $ 1 million for playing every oompa loompa. he earned it .
iger, in talking about the risk of acquisitions, noted that the chief executive is always the one in the spotlight .
in disney' s hands, a movie like
frozen ,
which was released in november 2013, can spin off cash years after it exits theaters. the film' s merchandise sales, for example, were credited with helping boost the consumer products division' s operating income 32% in the quarter that ended march 28 .
poke in the third eye: when constantine is using the chair to spy on the man possessed by the spear of destiny .
the story of the controversial brian clough' s 44 - day reign as the coach of the english football club leeds united .
the neat part about the above porcelain musical horror show is that it climaxes with the song’s subject not on the throne provided for him but in the audience .
dwight takes the bodies to a tar pit, where he is attacked by an ex - ira mercenary hired by mob boss wallenquist. he nearly drowns in the tar before miho saves him. the mercenary runs away in the sewer with jackie boy' s severed head but dwight and miho are able to retrieve it and return to old town. meanwhile, the head mercenary, manute (michael clarke duncan), kidnaps gail. becky has made a deal with the mob and has betrayed the prostitutes. the mob is moving to invade with manute leading. dwight trades jackie boy’s head in exchange for gail, but activates an explosive he placed inside the head, destroying it before it can be taken to the cops for evidence. the other prostitutes gun down the mercenaries while an injured becky escapes .
tap on the head: constantine to the bar' s bouncer the second time he goes there .
while the show was eventually one of cbs' most popular sitcoms, it struggled in the ratings for the first three seasons (leading to
back - up
mothers if the show was canceled earlier than expected, as detailed in this earlier tv legends revealed). so the actors on the show certainly did not expect the show to last nine seasons. nor did the producers, who found themselves increasingly straining how long a guy could tell the story of how he met his kids' mother. this time limitation was particularly evident in the final season of the show, which took place over just a single weekend. the series also found itself in an interesting position towards the end of its run. in the early days it was at the mercy of cbs, but in the late seasons it was cbs who wanted to keep the show going while the cast and crew were a bit unsure. the show' s producers and the cast were locked in for eight seasons after getting a two - year renewal during season 6. the renewal for the final season, though, went down to the wire and was announced towards the end of the eighth season (right before the creators would have had to commit to plotting a series finale if a deal had not been reached) .
i admire the film' s anger and intelligence, and the generally persuasive level of the performances; robert loggia really seems like a ceo and selma blair really seems like an idealistic college graduate. francoise yip, for that matter, seems like the sort of best corporate friend who always seems to know more than she should, and to be trying to tell you more than she can say .
not to be confused with the constantine television adaptation of the comic of the same name, which is more faithful to the source material .
capote’s ambivalence about smith and hickock and the agonizing turmoil it wreaks on his life is the major plot line throughout the film. several scenes dramatize his willingness to intercede on behalf of the killers. after their conviction, capote is depicted as hiring lawyers to represent them in their appeals, angering his newly befriended law enforcement source, kansas bureau of investigation agent alvin dewey (played by chris cooper). when smith goes on a hunger strike to try to die before facing the hangman, capote spoons him baby food through the bars of his cell, telling him that he still must live so that capote can reveal to the world that he is not a “monster. ” capote’s real motive, according to the film, is to keep smith alive as a continued source of material for his epic .
this movie started out with some of the most impressively terrible dialogue i' ve seen in a film in quite some time. you can actively see the actors struggle with trying to make it sound like stuff actual human beings might say (except for selma blair, who i' m convinced just ad libbed the shit out of her scenes. which is why she' s by far the best part of the movie... )
, on which the film is based, that claims that capote attempted to secure legal representation for smith and hickock. nor is this assertion included in any other nonfiction account that i have seen. duane west, the county prosecutor at the time, told me that the initial appeal was handled by attorneys appointed and paid for by the state of kansas. subsequent appeals were taken up by members of the kansas legal aid society of the state bar association after they were contacted by dick hickock, a fact mentioned in
fargo’s creators, the coen brothers, are known for their playfulness, the inclusion of “little touches” that add to a film. given the coens’ reputation for this, you’d think any responsible film reviewer would have made at least a stab at confirming this bold claim before blithely passing it along as fact. (had they done any checking, they would have quickly discovered that nothing so much as vaguely resembling that level of carnage had occurred in minnesota. not in 1987. not ever .) as a result of those reviews, an even greater number ended up believing what the coen brothers had to have thought no one but the incredibly gullible would fall for. their little leg - pull went over big time .
rival comic book franchise marvel, makers of the iron man, avengers and captain america films, has no public plans to make their own female - led superhero film, despite a high level of interest from fans, many of whom would like to see the avengers' black widow (scarlett johnasson) in her own spin - off movie .
part 1: (washington navy yard, nighttime) the film opens with a brief flashback to the battle of jenkins ferry (april 30, 1864). then it shows two free black soldiers conversing with a seated president lincoln during a cold, wet evening. they are joined by two nervous, young, white soldiers, who soon begin a revealing discussion about the gettysburg address .
and the devil are in a bet over who can influence mankind the most. roger ebert on the movie :
but not everything iger has touched has turned to gold. in 2009, he put tv veteran rich ross in charge of the film studio. three years later, disney parted ways with ross after the release of
john carter ,
the poorly received sci - fi epic that resulted in a $ 200 - million write - down. ross had also put
lone ranger
into production .
capote’s extended prison sojourns in the film are likewise fictionalized. in five years, capote personally visited his subjects no more than half a dozen times, though he did correspond with hickock and smith on a weekly basis. he placed a great value on access to information, but was less interested in dealing with the defendants as people. the baby food scene and other death row confrontations were likewise invented .
early in the film, [ capote ] becomes absorbed with the lives of the accused murderers, especially perry smith, whose undoubted intelligence and troubled early years seem to resemble his own. he tries to secure better lawyers for them. and indeed through these interventions, capote produces stays of execution for years, partly out of sympathy but also to give him more time to collect material for his book .
to the credit of the board, they did not throw me out of the room ,
he said .
a chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 u. s. presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in florida .
the elaborate suspense revolving around the toxic mix of oil, money and politics that the media only ever seems to brush the surface, makes for heady viewing .
the spear of destiny rises behind angela while she' s in the pool .
: the movie removes all elements of non - christian mythology from the setting .
public domain artifact: the lance of longinus, aka the spear of destiny .
haneke says:' although this scene happens in silence, i did actually write dialogue for it. the actors are actually speaking it and it might stand as an explanation for some. in any case, that dialogue will never be written in the published screenplay for the film and i told the actors never to reveal it to anyone. they are bound to silence forever and i hope they will have forgotten it by now, because they didn' t know when they were shooting it what the significance of the scene might be.'
mendelsohn bought into the film’s premise that capote was ambivalent, initially helpful to the murderers but ultimately eager to have them done in to pave his way to stardom. he accurately cited a 1965 letter from capote, quoted in clarke’s biography, in which he say he’s “keeping his fingers crossed” that all appeals will be denied and that the execution will swiftly ensue. but mendelsohn failed to mention that capote expressed exactly the same sentiments in published letters written two years earlier .
the deal
is a thriller about wall street insiders, set during an oil crisis a few years in the future. the united states is at war with the
confederation of arab states ,
gas is $ 6 a gallon and getting more expensive, and there' s enormous pressure to find new sources for oil. more than most thrillers, this one seems to be based on expert insights; its author, ruth epstein, wrote the screenplay against a background of wall street experience, and its view of boardroom politics has a convincing level of detail. it' s not in every thriller that you hear, someone say ,
oil is a fungible commodity .
the deal
appreciates how big institutions like slater' s have factions and infighting; when he lands the condor account, there' s jealousy from hank weiss (a leaner, meaner colm feore), who is supposed to be the firm' s oil expert. there is also a middle - aged woman in research who knows all sorts of things that nobody ever asks her about: for example, that there is no oil in the
oil fields
controlled by black star. what' s going on ?
oil may have been shipped from there ,
hanson is told by a cryptic insider ,
but i can' t tell you where it came out of the ground .
the cover of the sin city book
booze, broads, and bullets
, can be seen periodically throughout the movie. its most notable appearance is on the cover of the matchbook that hartigan picks up to locate nancy; it is also seen in the background of the strip club in the very next scene as hartigan first enters (to the right as a poster) .
the dulcinea effect :
definitely... mostly not about the girl .
pedestrian crushes car: at the beginning, when the mexican man finds the spear of destiny, he walks onto a road and a car runs into him. the car is totaled, the man is unscathed .
an internet meme made misleading comparisons between presidential donations and the sizes of the first ladies' staffs, calling the trumps
givers
and the obamas
takers .
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no quality difference than watching a vhs tape. annoying when companies transfer to dvd or blu ray for that matter and do nothing about rendering the image to make a better quality prodcut. i could use my machine to transfer my vhs to disk and it would look exactly like this one. so unless to you want the ability to forward to sections of the film which dvd gives you, don' t bother if you have a vhs version .
or sensing the emotions of an event from touching the newspaper can lead to this result .
at the end of the movie, he' s seen popping gum in his mouth .
continuing the storyline of the gathering storm (2002), churchill at war is a look at the former british prime minister' s life and career at the end of wwii .
a young novelist returning home to salem' s lot after many years is disturbed by the strange behaviour of its people. he begins to believe that the source of the trouble may be the eerie old marsten house that overlooks the town .
my death is just the beginning: constantine resorts to this to prevent the release of mammon .
after some demons are destroyed, angela starts coughing due to the smell of sulfur / sulphur. constantine says
happens to everyone the first time
, a reference to the
everyone falls the first time
bit in the matrix .
( white house office, early evening) the president and secretary seward discuss the state of the lobbying efforts and seward reveals his anger at the president’s decision to authorize peace negotiations without consulting him. the scene then shifts briefly to “no man’s land” outside of petersburg, va and captures the confederate officials being transported into union lines, before returning the point - of - view to the white house for the heated argument between seward and lincoln over blair’s intervention in the peace process .
an accurate depiction of the events surrounding the united kingdom hung parliament in 2010 and the aftermath involving the three main party leaders in attempting to form a government, despite contrasting policies and personal beliefs .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
part 47: (white house, evening) the president is getting ready to go to the theatre with help from his servant, william slade. congressman james ashley and speaker of the house schuyler colfax are with the president talking about his recent comments on the possibility of allowing blacks to vote. they report that thaddeus stevens is “furious” that lincoln qualified the extension of suffrage within certain limits but the tone of the conversation is friendly. nicolay interrupts to report that mrs. lincoln is waiting in the carriage. the men watch as lincoln slowly walks down the hall and leaves the white house .
trenchcoat brigade: constantine. the actual john constan - tyne is the trope namer for this one .
dwyer, michael. “lepage leaps into the limelight. ” the irish times. 31 may 1996 .
part 42: (house of representatives, late afternoon) the roll call proceeds until final passage is achieved. in the end, beanpole burton, coffroth, hutton, yeaman, hawkins, and the speaker himself (schuyler colfax) who usually doesn’t participate in voting –all cast affirmative votes. the announcement sets off wild celebrations in the gallery, though the seats of the seward lobbyists are now noticeably empty. thaddeus stevens takes the final bill from the stunned clerk, promising to return it the next morning .
maya becomes the target of the russian mafia after her husband, a successful american businessman, is killed .
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see you in hell: the
go to hell
version, when talking to the demonic halfbreeds .
the mirror shows your true self: a variation. when lucifer appears as a well - dressed peter stormare in the climax, he appears as a thrashing, animalistic beast in the reflection on the tiled hospital floor .
the team wasn' t sold on the idea, but iger made the call anyway, reaching jobs that afternoon as he drove home from disney headquarters in burbank .
surprise car crash: done in the beginning to show the strength of the supernatural threat. when the man it' s possessing is suddenly hit by a truck, the vehicle is left with a huge dent in its grille and a mangled driver while he just keeps walking .
angela: the spear of destiny. i' m a catholic, john. i know the crucifixion story .
a facebook meme gets the basic facts right about the gun lobby' s status as a social welfare organization .
, his journalistic account of a murder and its aftermath that he called a “non - fiction novel, ” i began to do some research on the book and its author. i read just about everything published on capote’s life and work, talked to some of the participants in the saga of the clutter family murder and even visited the holcomb, kansas area, the scene of the crime .
part 41: (house of representatives, afternoon) congressman james ashley reads lincoln’s response which simply denies that any confederate envoys are “in the city. ” the democrats denounce this as a “lawyer’s dodge” but conservative republicans accept the answer and the voting begins. the roll call proceeds by state. meanwhile, quick cutaways show lincoln reading with tad during the vote and anxious crowds following the results outside of the capitol and at grant’s headquarters in city point .
immune to bullets: when angela dodson is confronted by the mexican man possessed by the spear of destiny, she shoots him repeatedly in the chest. the bullets go right through him but don' t affect him at all .
if there’s still any doubt, follow the credits through to the very end. you’ll find the standard tiny - print disclaimer about “no resemblance to any persons living or dead …”
the first lady made a surprise visit to detained immigrant children while wearing a jacket bearing the message
i don' t really care do u ?
on the back .
that' s a pretty awesome in - joke by the show (barbara adler wrote the episode in question) .
the coen brothers like a good in - joke as much as anybody. next time you view fargo, look for the name of the actor who played “the man in the field. ” you’ll discover the entry listed as an odd squiggle that looks very much like prince’s signature. (i’m told the fellow who actually filled that role was j. todd anderson, one of the coen’s storyboard artists. the squiggle is prince’s signature laid on its side with a smiley face added. wonderful joke, that. laid on its side because the character is lying dead in a field. )
part 48: (grover’s theatre, evening) a performance on the stage is interrupted by the announcement that the president has been shot at another theater. tad lincoln, in the audience, is rushed out in anguish as pandemonium erupts .
part 39: (house of representatives, morning) thaddeus stevens arrives first on the morning of the vote for the thirteenth amendment. the gallery fills with “well - to - do black people”, some radical republican senators, lincoln’s aides, the seward lobbyists and mary lincoln with elizabeth keckley. congressman vintner welcomes the black guests. the final statements begin but democratic leader george pendleton interrupts to announce that there are confederate peace envoys in the city. there are calls to postpone the vote. aaron haddam, a conservative republican from kentucky, seeks guidance from preston blair, also seated in the gallery, who nods. haddam then announces that conservatives cannot support the amendment “if a peace offer is being held hostage to its success. ” the seward lobbyists and lincoln’s white house aides nicolay and hay rush from the capitol to the white house .
gabriel' s final punishment for the actions in the movie was to have satan strip his wings and leave him mortal .
the presumption of many is that these will be battles for staggs, now seen as the internal front - runner for the ceo job. but his ascension is not preordained: between now and 2018, his leadership will be scrutinized by disney' s board, which will select the company' s next leader. the company could also eye an outsider for the job.
the deal is a 2005 political thriller film directed by harvey kahn , starring christian slater , selma blair , robert loggia and colm feore . the movie was filmed in 2004 and based in boston , massachusetts . the film was released only in limited cinemas of usa and united arab emirates . 
the deal is a 2005 political thriller film directed by harvey kahn, starring christian slater, selma blair, robert loggia and colm feore. the movie was filmed in 2004 and based in boston, massachusetts. the film was released only in limited cinemas of usa and united arab emirates.
the deal is a 2005 political thriller film directed by harvey kahn, starring christian slater, selma blair, robert loggia and colm feore. the movie was filmed in 2004 and based in boston, massachusetts. the film was released only in limited cinemas of usa and united arab emirates.