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john mihelich’s “smoke or signals? american popular culture and the challenge of hegemonic images of american indians in native american films. ”
soldier is a 1998 american science fiction action film directed by paul anderson, written by david webb peoples, and starring kurt russell, jason scott lee, jason isaacs, connie nielsen and sean pertwee. the film was released in the united states on october 23, 1998 .
soldier is a 1998 american science fiction action film directed by paul anderson, written by david webb peoples, and stars kurt russell, jason scott lee, jason isaacs, connie nielsen, sean pertwee and gary busey. the film was released in the united states on october 23, 1998 .
soldier is a 1998 american science fiction and action film directed by paul w. s. anderson. the film stars kurt russell as sgt. todd, a soldier trained from birth. the film also features gary busey, jason scott lee, jason isaacs, connie nielsen, sean pertwee and michael chiklis in supporting roles .
soldier
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soldier is a 1998 american science fiction action film directed by paul w. s. anderson, written by david webb peoples and starring kurt russell, jason scott lee, jason isaacs, connie nielsen, sean pertwee and gary busey. the film tells the story of a highly skilled genetically advanced soldier defying his commanders and facing a relentless and brutal rival soldier .
soldier is a 1998 american science fiction action film directed by paul w. s. anderson, written by david webb peoples, and starring kurt russell, jason scott lee, jason isaacs, connie nielsen, sean pertwee and gary busey. the film tells the story of a highly skilled genetically advanced soldier defying his commanders and facing a relentless and brutal rival soldier .
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published at: aug. 17, 1998, 4: 59 a. m. cst by staff
“ smoke signals review. ” rolling stone july 9 - 23, 1998: 790 - 91 .
news item, the daughters of the american revolution awarded the film a bronze plaque for best historical film of 1960. according to modern sources ,
mihelich, john. “smoke or signals? american popular culture and the challenge of hegemonic images of american indians in native american films. ” wicazo sa review. summer 2001: 129 - 137 .
all these aspects of soldier diminish the film, and yet, on the other hand, you’ve got russell .
smoke signals. dir. chris eyre. perfs. adam beach, evan adams. miramax, 1998 .
cobb, amanda j. “this is what it means to say smoke signals: native american cultural sovereignty. hollywood’s indian: a portrayal of the native american in film. peter c. rollins and john e. o’connor, editors. lexington: university of kentucky press, 1998. 206 - 228 .
oppositely, however, soldier often does a fine job of explaining todd’s mind - set as a soldier. “ fear and discipline…always, ” he states .
the film was released worldwide on october 23, 1998. upon its release, soldier received generally negative reviews but many praised the action sequences and russell' s performance. the film was a commercial failure, grossing $ 14 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 60 million .
the film was released worldwide on october 23, 1998. upon its release, soldier received generally negative reviews but many praised the action sequences and russell' s performance. the film was a commercial failure, grossing $ 14 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 60 million .
despite being hampered by second - rate special effects and too many action film cliches, soldier does have its fun parts .
in 1998, the wellcome trust also made available a cd - rom set on tropical diseases, including one on malaria .
november 1998: godzilla comes out on dvd. neither emmerich nor dean devlin nor any of the film' s stars participate in a commentary, replaced instead by two of the film' s visual - effects supervisors .
has there ever been a more insipid sci - fi action film than soldier? probably, although it' s hard to imagine .
baird, ronald. “’going indian’: dances with wolves. ” hollywood’s indian: a portrayal of the native american in film. peter c. rollins and john e. o’connor, editors. lexington: university of kentucky press, 1998. 153 - 169 .
reviews for soldier were quite savage in 1998, mostly for the flaws i note above, yet director anderson undeniably makes the most out of russell’s screen presence, so much that that soldier proves unexpectedly powerful in spots, and an intriguing if compromised effort to bring the first blood aesthetic to the final frontier .
1. james wolcott ,
tanks for the memories ,
vanity fair (august 1998): pp. 70 - 76 .
is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which american indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. from george b. seitz’s 1925
american sniper: the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in u. s. military history
campaign to taunt trump with ‘american idiot’ ahead of u. k. visit is actually working
similarly, soldier re - stages action moments we’ve seen in a lot of these war films .
, alex proyas’ 1998 magnum opus serves up a cerebral sci - fi extravaganza as filtered through the visual tropes of film noir and german expressionism. the result is a staggering achievement in imagination that, like
the university of arizona libraries offers a very extensive list of north american indian films and video .
soldier is so mediocre, it might have been more mindless fun if it had been even worse .
( 1998), starring kurt russell, is a space - age variation on the same tale, but without many of the philosophical contradictions that made the stallone film such a challenging and vital work of art .
is a unique collaboration by scholars in american indian studies that draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing american indians and indigenous peoples more clearly in the twenty - first century .
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american gun: a history of the u. s. in ten firearms (p. s. )
soldier didn' t deserve to be treated so harshly critics, but it didn' t deserve recommendations either .
despite the stage - y feel and botched editing of soldier, the film boasts a remarkable strength that goes a long way towards repairing the aspects of the drama that don’t work .
i' m looking for a war world 2 movie set in desert, talk about a group of american soldier were finding water. after that, they were attacked by the german. the american try to protect a few of wells near it, which contain a little of water, and the german were trying to take it in order to have water for there soldiers! finally, there were only 2 american left and they arrested some dozens of germans !
, these 36 reviews by prominent scholars of american indian studies are accessible, personal, intimate, and oftentimes autobiographic .
production organization: american studies film center, inc. , new york, ny year produced: 1991 (first broadcast on the american experience) producers / directors: lance bird, john crowley, tom johnson writer: tom johnson cinematography: mead hunt editors: victor kanefsky, julianna parroni narrator: jason robards
“when it comes to american indians, hollywood either trades in injun stereotypes or dances with disney” (“smoke signals” review) .
this appealing formulaic action adventure (1998) displays a lot of conviction in its not - too - flashy action scenes and a little levity in the gradual socialization of russell' s character .
brown, “culture and the global resurgence of malaria, ” 129. in 1991, ddt was still being produced in india, indonesia, and italy as well as mexico; pesticides news 40 (june 1998): 18. today, use of ddt is completely banned in at least 26 countries and severely restricted in 12 others; pesticides news 40 (june 1998): 19 .
the smithsonian museum of the american indian film & media catalog provides information on films screened since 1995 at the national museum of the american indian in programs presenting indigenous media from north, central, and south america, the pacific region, and the arctic circle. the catalog includes information about productions, the mediamakers and actors who created them, and the film and media organizations that support their creation .
remember soldier, the 1998 kurt russell space punch - fest no one remembers? probably not. it' s about a bunch of soldiers genetically engineered to be badasses, much like the replicants - - which is no coincidence, since it shares a screenwriter with blade runner, and he openly called soldier a
side - quel
to that film. there are other shout - outs to the alien - verse in soldier, but that' s not all: a scene detailing past missions of the main character lists
nibian moon
and
antares maelstrom ,
which are, of course, places mentioned in star trek ii: the wrath of khan .
writer david peoples has said that soldier is a
side - quel
to blade runner (which he also wrote) because it takes place in the same universe and in fact the vehicles used by the blade runners, spinners, are also used in soldier .
feardotcom (2002) looks and sounds like a remake of a japanese horror film that never was. this 40 million dollar horror film was r ...
the expensive campaigning annoyed many people in the film industry. in a march 1961
i’ve always been slightly chagrinned by my love for the cheap sci - fi action film soldier. part of it is due to my complete adoration of kurt russel as the stoic eponymous soldier, who after a lifetime of brutal conditioning is replaced with genetically bred supersoldiers and dumped as refuse on a trash planet as dead, forcing him to rediscover his humanity .
images of american indians on film: an annotated bibliography / gretchen m. bataille, charles l. p. silet. new york: garland, 1985. 216pp. pn1995. 9. i48 b3 1985 :
the 1985 version, which had been expanded to 29 minutes, was available in 4 languages (english, french, latin american spanish, and arabic) and in 16 - mm film format and on videocassette .
an outsider called it. a bystander observing a uniquely american phenomenon. and, for decades, a largely unacknowledged bystander at that .
in its look, scope and special effects ,
soldier
is suitably imaginative and spectacular if often artificial - looking. russell has no more than five words to say during the film' s first hour and not much after that, but he has the presence, depth of character and expressiveness, along with the physicality, to carry
soldier .
the american government is leading the country towards hell... . we say to the americans as people and to american mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an american patriotic government that caters to their interests not the interests of the jews. if the present injustice continues with the wave of national consciousness, it will inevitably move the battle to american soil, just as ramzi yousef and others have done. this is my message to the american people. i urge them to find a serious administration that acts in their interest and does not attack people and violate their honor and pilfer their wealth... .
this film examines japanese - american relations and the events leading to the attack on pearl harbor, with special emphasis on the way in which various interpretations of events and evidence arise from conflicting national purposes and personal insights .
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starring bradley cooper, sienna miller, kyle gallner based on the memoir' american sniper' by u. s. navy seal chris kyle
soldier was released on dvd on march 2, 1999. it was released as a double - sided disc, which included the widescreen version on one side, with fullscreen on the other. included on the disc was a film commentary. soldier was released on blu - ray for the first time in the u. s. on july 26, 2011. [ 12 ]
news item, neither actor appeared in the other' s film. a september 1959
in the movie, kyle (bradley cooper) says he' s 30 when he enlists, but the american sniper true story reveals that the real chris kyle reported to the navy for basic training in february 1999 when he was 24 - years - old. - american sniper book
—jeanine basinger is the corwin - fuller professor of film studies and american studies at wesleyan university, where she is also founder and curator of the wesleyan cinema archives and chair of the film studies program. she is the author of numerous articles and eight books on film, including the world war ii combat film: anatomy of a genre (new york: columbia univ. press, 1986); anthony mann: a critical study (boston: twayne, 1979); and a woman' s view: how hollywood spoke to women, 1930 - 1960 (new york: alfred a. knopf, 1993). her book american cinema: 100 years of filmmaking (new york: rizzoli, 1994) was the companion book for a 10 - part pbs television series that was broadcast in january 1995. she is a trustee of the american film institute and is a nationally recognized expert on various aspects of american film. basinger was also the senior consultant for the series. her ninth book, silent stars, will be published by alfred a. knopf in 1999 .
the native american constructed in films like dances with wolves fulfills shepard kreck iii’s criteria for what he calls “the ecological indian. ” according to kreck, the trope and “dominant image” of the ecological indian found in literature and film is
soldier, well, soldier is just an all around good action film. its simple, but fun to watch. paul w. s. anderson gets a lot of crap for being an underwhelming director, but i really like a lot of his work including event horizon, soldier, and a couple of the resident evil films. i even think there were some decent ideas floating around in the remake of death race, and in avp. i see him as sort of a modern successor to john carpenter in a lot of ways .
soldier was written by david peoples, who co - wrote the script for blade runner. peoples considers soldier to be a
spin - off sidequel
- spiritual successor to blade runner, seeing both films as existing in a shared fictional universe. the film obliquely refers to various elements of stories written by philip k. dick (who wrote the novel do androids dream of electric sheep? , on which blade runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. a spinner from blade runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet 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 .
a soldier trained from birth is deemed obsolete and dumped on a waste planet where he is reluctantly taken in by a community of defenseless, stranded wayfarers .
all native american feature films are located in the digital and multimedia center unless otherwise indicated. items may be checked out or watched in - house .
before the end of dunbar’s evolutionary narrative, he has adopted a native american worldview. as kicking bird (graham greene) asserts of dunbar’s transformation ,
future learning and skills – giving everyone the opportunity to build a lifelong relationship with film .
clint eastwood loved the original script and was attached to direct the film for a while .
kurt russell had stated that a sequel had been planned, had the film done well .
news item reported that wayne' s
final tally
for the film was $ 14, 000, 000 and that the film would have to gross $ 17, 000, 000 before he netted a profit. to publicize the film, according to a september 1959
had a
message .
in the film' s program book, he wrote that
july 1998: the film' s soundtrack, featuring the wallflowers' cover of david bowie' s
heroes ,
come with me ,
p. diddy' s
re - creation
of led zeppelin' s
kashmir ,
and songs by silverchair and ben folds five, is certified platinum .
soldier was released on dvd on march 2, 1999. it was released as a double - sided disc, which included the widescreen version on one side, with fullscreen on the other. the film' s audio was mixed in dolby 5. 1 surround sound for the dvd, and included on the disc was a film commentary .
by the 1990s, troubles - influenced thrillers were rolled out both in britain and in hollywood, and ira soldiers became staple baddies and antiheroes, with richard gere and brad pitt offering imaginative irish accents in the jackal (1997) and the devil’s own (1997) respectively. the success of lock, stock and two smoking barrels (1998) and its ilk led to the unintentional glamorisation of violent thugs in films such as resurrection man (1998). the role of mothers became more prominent, with helen mirren giving a moving performance in some mother’s son (1996) as the desperate parent of a hunger striker, and julie walters excelling as the peace campaigner in the underrated titanic town (1998) .
sandefur, gary d. “american indian reservations: the first underclass areas? ” focus. 12. 1 (summer 1989): 37 - 41 .
this narrative of environmental adaptation evolves in u. s. western films with native americans at their center, from the early valorization of native american worldviews, through the vilification of the savage indian in the 1940s and ’50s, back to a more revisionist, if condescending, look at native american perspectives from the 1950s and 60s through the 1990s that makes way for the native - american - centered narratives to come. a review of smoke signals in rolling stone asserts ,
while
soldier
may not be the strongest
blade runner
sequel it is possibly one of the best films paul w. s anderson has ever directed .
how could soldier have been better? well, i concur with church’s words to mekum. director paul anderson should have made the movie “smarter” instead of “fast. ”
according to wikipedia, the film takes place in the same universe. the supersoldiers introduced in the film are actually meant to be replicants and there are several nods to the original film, including the location of tannhauser gate, which is a battle scene in soldier and mentioned by roy batty in blade runner during his final closing speech. also, the flying cars in blade runner, known as spinners, are shown on the junk planet in disrepair .
it had humphrey bogart in it and it was called sahara. great film... .
historical issues of the aes journal, the contents pages for
the phonograph and sound recording after one - hundred years
( 1977 - 10) and
the aes: 50 years of contributions to audio engineering
( 1998 - 01) .
no soldier in modern history has been more admired - or more reviled. douglas macarthur, liberator of the philippines, shogun of occupied japan, brilliant victor of the battle of inchon, was an admired national hero when he was suddenly relieved of his command. a portrait of a complex, imposing, and fascinating american general .
a scene from the 1947 kenyan film, “ddt versus malaria: a successful experiment in malaria control. ” this film documented the 1946 campaign to check a malaria epidemic among the kipsigis tribe in northwest kenya. courtesy of wellcome library for history and understanding of medicine, medical film and audio collections .
visualities: perspectives on contemporary american indian film and art / edited by denise k. cummings. east lansing: michigan state university press, c2011 243pp. main library e98. a73 v57 2011: in recent years, works by american indian artists and filmmakers such as jaune quick - to - see smith, edgar heap of birds, sherman alexie, shelley niro, and chris eyre have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary native america. this insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through native film -, video -, and art - making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. taking an interdisciplinary approach, visualities: perspectives on contemporary american indian film and art draws on american indian studies, american studies, film studies, cultural studies, women’s studies, and postcolonial studies. among the artists examined are hulleah j. tsinhnahjinnie, eric gansworth, melanie printup hope, jolene rickard, and george longfish. films analyzed include imprint, it starts with a whisper, mohawk girls, skins, the business of fancydancing, and a selection of native latin films .
may 1998: godzilla' s inescapable ad campaigns announce
size does matter ,
and continue to promote the film without actually showing the monster. the most notable example is a taco bell ad in which gidget, the company' s famous chihuahua mascot, is shown baiting godzilla with a cardboard box (
i think i need a bigger box
) .
jesse ventura (pictured here in the movie predator) sued chris kyle for defamation and won. publisher harpercollins then removed any reference to ventura from the american sniper book .
last week, i reviewed first blood (1982) on the blog. that film involves a soldier who returns home from vietnam and learns that, following the war, he is hated by the very people who sent him to fight, and also by the people at home .
i doubt that kurt russell has ever had less dialogue to work with than he has in this film .
the real taya kyle and chris kyle on their wedding day (left). actors sienna miller and bradley cooper recreate the wedding for the american sniper movie (right) .
12. david l. wood, “american indian farmland and the great war, ” agricultural history 55, no. 3 (july, 1981): 249 - 265 .
an implication in the film is that the genetically - engineered soldiers meant to replace todd and his fellow soldiers are in fact replicants, continuing a theme from blade runner. the 2017 short film 2036: nexus dawn, set in between the original blade runner and its 2017 sequel blade runner 2049, implies that nexus - 9 replicants were developed in 2035, the year in which soldier takes place .
despite my disappoint, there are elements with this 1998 film that are good. the tale of easily replaceable technology is one that should everyone understand, especially since with the invasion of the iphone, and it is timely. the audience generally feels for todd and the rest of the 1st generation adam soldiers when they are just tossed out after the new shiny super soldiers are deployed .
soldier was written by david peoples, who co - wrote the script for blade runner. by his own admission, he considers soldier to be a
sidequel
/ spiritual successor to blade runner. [ 4 ] it also obliquely references various elements of stories written by philip k. dick (who wrote the novel
do androids dream of electric sheep ?
, on which blade runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. a
spinner
vehicle from blade runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet that features in the film. [ 5 ]
soldier was written by david peoples, who co - wrote the script for blade runner. by his own admission, he considers soldier to be a
sidequel
- spiritual successor to blade runner. [ 4 ] it also obliquely references various elements of stories written by philip k. dick (who wrote the novel
do androids dream of electric sheep ?
, on which blade runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. a
spinner
vehicle from blade runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet that features in the film. [ 5 ]
soldier was written by david webb peoples, who co - wrote the script for blade runner. by his own admission, he considers soldier to be a
sidequel
/ spiritual successor to blade runner. [ 4 ] it also obliquely references various elements of stories written by philip k. dick (who wrote the novel
do androids dream of electric sheep ?
, on which blade runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. a
spinner
vehicle from blade runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet that features in the film. [ 5 ]
he is celebrated by handsome equestrian statues in countless cities and towns across the american south, and by no less than five postage stamps issued by the government he fought against during the four bloodiest years in american history. nearly a century and a half after his death, robert e. lee, the leading confederate general of the american civil war, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. this film examines the life and reputation of the general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the union and the hero of the confederacy, and who was elevated to almost god - like status by his admirers after his death .
soldier was a box - office flop. shot with a budget of $ 60 million, it performed poorly during its theatrical run, taking less than $ 15 million domestically. [ 3 ]
similarly, some folks may see the idea of a soldier without a nation defending a harmless colony as evoking seven samurai (1954) or the magnificent seven (1960), as well .
all of these merely include references. soldier was actually written with the idea that it was part of the blade runner continuity. total recall, alien, predator, and firefly were not .
was directed by paul anderson, who in 1997 gave the world a very effective space - horror film, event horizon. yet soldier feels like a step down from that movie, both in terms of complexity and visualization. there’s a kind of claustrophobia or sound - stage - like feel to soldier’ s exterior scenes, and much footage is recycled (particularly in a musical montage), or slowed down to make it seem more effectively shot…as though not enough good material was captured during production .
the power of russell’s strong but vulnerable performance drags soldier over the finish line with a surprising amount of success, but with a little more back - up from the director and screenwriter in terms of execution and originality the movie - - like the film’s hero - - could have transcended expectations for it .
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directed with vigor and finesse by paul anderson ,
soldier
was written by
blade runner
and
unforgiven' s
greatly gifted david webb peoples .
soldier
isn' t remotely as complex as either of those two landmark films, but it is a decent job of work on the part of peoples .
soldier
is the kind of picture described as being aimed at young urban males but may have an unexpected resonance for older viewers, who know only too well that obsolescence is something that nowadays extends to human beings and not just to machines .
for instance, gary busey plays likable if stern captain church, a surrogate for richard crenna’s character, trautman, in the rambo saga. in both cases, a sympathetic military officer - - sometimes aligned with a hostile military or law enforcement hierarchy - - offers common - sense counsel about his preferred soldier (john rambo / todd), but is routinely ignored. when the military hierarchy, here represented by mekum, fails to defeat that soldier, trautman / church is there to warn that the renegade and “real” soldier has been underestimated, and that his “war” is righteous .
as a pastiche of war movies like first blood, soldier resurrects a lot of clichés, but for the space age. i noted so above, but the movie has a lot of running from explosions, decoys that fool the bad guys, and other familiar set - pieces. the staging and execution of a lot of the action leaves something to be desired and yet i have returned to watch soldier (1998) probably three or four times since i saw it in the late 1990s. for all its flaws, the movie does manage to make us care about todd, and mourn the fact that he was taken from his family and made to be a killer .
). kyle' s number well - surpassed the previous american record of 109, which was set by army staff sgt. adelbert f. waldron iii, who served in vietnam (
people' s apparently called this film a
sidequel
to blade runner. one shot from the film shows russell in action and another shows a derelict spinner in the foreground. both images are with this e - mail .
for us, the narrative in dances with wolves harkens back to run of the arrow (1957) where pvt. o’meara (rod steiger) leaves the defeated confederacy, joins the sioux as an ex - soldier and takes a native american wife. both films reverse the narrative of environmental adaptation by inserting a sympathetic white soldier as protagonist. in both movies, however, this evolutionary narrative fails because white intruders either banish or exterminate the sioux. in spite of the two soldiers’ initial sympathy for the native americans that adopt them, intruding pioneers dominate the narrative. as meeker argues :
given his hard - bitten reputation, it’s surprising clint eastwood hadn’t got around to directing a world war ii movie before 2006. but he made up for it with a groundbreaking one - two punch: a pair of films exploring the battle of iwo jima from both the american and japanese perspectives. ‘flags of our fathers’ was weak, exploring the american culture of war. but ‘letters from iwo jima’ is stunning, depicting a group of soldiers even more bound by tradition and honour than their american counterparts, trapped in an unwinnable war and dreaming only of home. th
is a masterpiece. funny to think that american critics looked down their noses at the film at the time of its release. maybe they took offense at the inescapable scent of welles’ passion for rita hayworth, his wife at the time and his ex shortly after production wrapped. he captures her in close - up with a hungry, enraptured eye, the most coherent image in a film that’s built on logical incoherence .
although films are one of the most popular forms of both entertainment and education, there are few scholarly analyses of medical non–feature films. 2 one of the challenges is that little documentation exists to answer key research questions, including the following: who decided on the final script and the shots to be filmed? where was the film shown? how many people were present? was the film preceded or followed by a lecture or debriefing? what languages were chosen for the film and why? how can one gauge the effectiveness of a film as a public health tool? how much did the film cost to make and to distribute? when did the film cease to be used and why ?
a rodeo accident forced chris kyle (left) to give up a potential career in the sport. bradley cooper (right) dons a cowboy hat as kyle in the american sniper movie .
soldier was a box - office flop. shot with a budget of $ 60 million, it performed poorly during its theatrical run, earning only $ 14, 594, 226 domestically. [ 3 ]
soldier was a box - office flop. shot with a budget of $ 60 million, it performed poorly during its theatrical run, earning only $ 14, 594, 226 domestically. [ 3 ]
one of the best writers analyzing contemporary genre film and television .
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article reported plans to make the set a tourist attraction after the film' s production was completed. according to the
news item reported that ford would direct scenes in which wayne performed. however, according to special material in the film' s dvd version, all of ford' s scenes were cut from the final film. in a november 1960
the brackettville set was used as a location site for other film and television westerns for several years. a november 1960
- - - -. “sending cinematic smoke signals: an interview with sherman alexie. ” west, dennis and west, joan m. cineaste: america’s leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema. 23. 4 (january 1, 1998). accessed 6 december 2009. urltoken .
review agreed that the filmmakers had
shrouded some of the fantastic facts of the original with... frivolous fancies of their re - creation
and reported that the film contained
homilies on american virtues and patriotic platitudes under life - and - death fire which smack of yesteryear theatricalism .
even the favorable
writer david webb peoples has said that soldier is a
side - quel
to blade runner (1982) (which he also wrote) because it takes place in the same universe, and in fact the vehicles used by the blade runners - spinners - are also used in soldier. the premise of soldier was actually based on an unused opening scene for blade runner, where a group of replicants are dumped and left for dead on an off - world colony. both films were released by warner brothers, and both were box - office failures that gained a cult following after being released on home video .
this nine - part series examines the history and meaning of the american civil war, from its complex causes and the daily life of soldiers to its impact on the nation’s political and social life .
similarly, we see a giant aircraft carrier dumped on its side, left there on the surface. it is an avatar for military waste and the grinding gears of so - called technological “progress. ” a new machine replaces an old machine, just as a new soldier replaces an old soldier. such visuals suggest that the human race is very good and dreaming new, more efficient ways, to kill and destroy
and rutger hauer, as well as some of the most emotionally intense action set pieces ever put to film. moreover, a good portion of the film’s appeal lies in its incorporation of film noir aesthetics—shadow - filled, rainy metropolitan exteriors, a brooding yet resourceful investigator hero, retro ’40s fashion—into its dreary, dystopian setting. at one point, the film even boasted a philip marlowe - esque voiceover narration that was thankfully excised from future cuts. once regarded as a failed experiment ,
the film' s program book also listed clint murchison, jr. and dabney murchison as investors. according to the october
the film is dated june 4, 1942, but catalogued as 1944 in the imperial war museum, london, england .
dunbar’s voice, however, drives the film’s narrative. through the lens of his journal, dunbar tells us that the sioux
the greatest of the adam project soldiers is todd (russell), a soldier who fights multiple successful campaigns, including the war of the six cities, the moscow incident and the war of the argentine moons .
71. rg 10, vol. 7535, file 26, 126 - 6, petition from the residents of the municipalities of siglunes and ericksdale to the soldier settlement board and arthur meighen, 28 february 1919 .
entertaining sci fi actioner starring kurt russell, this is an underrated film that is entertaining for what it is, but also shows that it could have been much better as well. directed by paul w. s anderson who has had a sketchy career, soldier is one of those films that might entertain viewers that are looking for a mindless time waster to watch when they have nothing else to watch. anderson for me, a so - so director, i don' t hate his work, but he' s one of those directors that create popcorn action flicks, and for that, he' s very capable of doing so, but one thing that his films lack is substance. i don' t mind his films, and here he makes an entertaining picture with a decent cast of actors. soldier is mindless fun if you' re in the mood for this sort of film, but it' s never anything great either. i enjoyed the film, but i also felt it could have been better as well. some ideas here fall flat, and it' s a shame because the ideas here are quite good, but they never really take off, and in turn the film suffers from being a truly memorable action film. paul w. s anderson is a director that goes for thrills and action and not substance. soldier is fun for what it is, but if you want a bit more, you' ll sadly be disappointed. soldier could have been a great film, but as it is, it' s an action film that is mindless popcorn entertainment, and if you enjoy these types of films, you might like this one. however, at the same time, you can only wonder how good the film would have been if the script would have been better thought out .
thanks for the comment. always love to hear from people that have seen this film. the performance from kurt russell is amazing and the best of his career. those scenes with the settlers are also very good. as i said above, i just really, really wish that these scenes and this performance had been encased in a better film. the film suffered from the wrong director and some bad choices of actors to play off kurt russell. this could have a much better film .
carl franklin’s excellent early ’90s neo - noir walks a razor - thin tightrope of suspense: you get the sense from one minute to the next that any step out of place could send the entire narrative into violent anarchy. franklin’s film has great aspirations, delving into the complexities of modern american race relations just a few years after
original script by david webb peoples was written in 1982 or 1983, and it was originally titled the base. director ted kotcheff and sylvester stallone were involved in the project around that same time, right after they made first blood (1982), but once stallone left, and clint eastwood, next actor who they had in mind for main role also left, the project was cancelled, and after the script went through many different studios next 15 years, it was finally re - written and turned into soldier (1998) .
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only films like sherman alexie and chris eyre’s smoke signals can transcend this cultural erasure. although alexie admits his writing is influenced by dominant popular culture, as a native american who grew up on a reservation, he is tied by his experience to a native american worldview, one written as a narrative of environmental adaptation. when native americans control the script, the direction, and the production of a film, they control its narrative, making space for a comic evolutionary narrative that, as ten bears states in smoke signals, chooses life .
i screened this footage at the imperial war museum (3 examples of newsreel footage produced by gaumont, war office / new era film and us signal corps in 1916 and 1919, all showing soldiers wearing mosquito hoods) and the british film institute (the mosquito, the war on the mosquito, the nepalese amateur feature on the ross institute, and the 35 - mm footage of ronald ross). both the imperial war museum and the british film institute have their film archives in london, england .
article and other contemporary sources, wayne said he first conceived of the film in 1946. according to a january 1960 ^ mph
news item, was the thomas alva edison foundation award for the best film serving the national interest. according to an april 1961
article prior to a dvd release of the film reported that the print was found by a toronto projectionist in 1990. in the
the ghanaian hero of the 1960 film, “enemy in the night”, reads about a local mosquito spraying program while recuperating in the hospital from a bout with malaria. courtesy of wellcome library for history and understanding of medicine, medical film and audio collections .
director yann demange and actors jack o’connell, jack lowden and martin mccann discuss making their belfast - set film about the troubles .
even if you haven’t seen it, you probably already know of the big ‘twist’ in the crying game (although in fact it’s just one of many in the unpredictable narrative). but there are many other reasons to watch neil jordan ’s oscar - winning film, about fergus (stephen rea), an ira soldier whose life changes forever when he kidnaps a british soldier (forest whittaker) at a south armagh funfair. after an intense first third, the story relocates to london and the genre switches from thriller to unlikely romance – until ghosts from fergus’s past reappear .
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it had a great influence on gus van sant ’s 2003 film of the same name, inspired by the columbine high school massacre, which won the palme d’or at the cannes film festival. clarke’s film was produced by danny boyle at the start of his film career, and remains one of the most evocative films of the conflict. while news coverage sanitised the violence, and lesser films glamorised it, intentionally or otherwise, this shows the unrelenting circle of violence for what it is: numb, inhuman and pitiless .
the films selected focus on the period of the troubles between 1968 and 1998, rather than the historical context of the conflict. there are many great films about the era from the partition of ireland and the irish civil war in the early 1920s up to the end of the 1960s, which offer plenty of inspiration for a future list .
science fiction thriller. the story of todd, trained virtually from birth to be the perfect soldier, who finds himself considered obsolete at the age of forty. losing a battle against the newer breed of combatant, in this case one particular soldier named caine, todd is consigned to a distant planet where he slowly recovers. when caine and his men arrive on the planet ready for battle, the planet' s inhabitants look to todd to save them .
in both quality of filmmaking and cynicism of spirit. this film not only announced hanson as a filmmaker well beyond his previous work (
what about
the cruel sea
? amazed this film did not make it into this list. someone is not paying attention .
sorry no 1 film is ivans childhood or my name is ivan by tarkofsky. if you do not believe me ask copolla or klimof
news item stated that diahann carroll was offered a role, but she did not appear in the film. a august 5, 1959
the film isn’t 100% accurate – it considerably overplays the role of lawyer gareth peirce (emma thompson) in clearing the innocent prisoners’ names – but its ferocious criticism of a grave misjustice make it a great political work, and a deserving winner of the golden bear at the berlin film festival. sheridan, day - lewis, postlethwaite, thompson and the film itself were all nominated for oscars .
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in a move toward a more sustainable view of prairie and desert ecosystems, native americans in a variety of western films adapt a seemingly lifeless environment into a place they can call home. this narrative of environmental adaptation continues even into contemporary western films set on and near reservation lands and gains particular force in sherman alexie’s smoke signals (1998).
soldier is a 1998 american science fiction action film directed by paul w. s. anderson , written by david webb peoples , and starring kurt russell , jason scott lee , jason isaacs , connie nielsen , sean pertwee and gary busey . the film tells the story of a highly skilled genetically advanced soldier defying his commanders and facing a relentless and brutal rival soldier . the film was released worldwide on october 23 , 1998 . upon its release , soldier received generally negative reviews but many praised the action sequences and russell 's performance . the film was a commercial failure , grossing $ 14 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 60 million . 
soldier is a 1998 american science fiction action film directed by paul w. s. anderson, written by david webb peoples, and starring kurt russell, jason scott lee, jason isaacs, connie nielsen, sean pertwee and gary busey. the film tells the story of a highly skilled genetically advanced soldier defying his commanders and facing a relentless and brutal rival soldier. the film was released worldwide on october 23, 1998. upon its release, soldier received generally negative reviews but many praised the action sequences and russell's performance. the film was a commercial failure, grossing $ 14 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 60 million.
soldier is a 1998 american science fiction action film directed by paul w. s. anderson, written by david webb peoples, and starring kurt russell, jason scott lee, jason isaacs, connie nielsen, sean pertwee and gary busey. the film tells the story of a highly skilled genetically advanced soldier defying his commanders and facing a relentless and brutal rival soldier. the film was released worldwide on october 23, 1998. upon its release, soldier received generally negative reviews but many praised the action sequences and russell's performance. the film was a commercial failure, grossing $ 14 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 60 million.