crimson bat is the international title for the series of four jidaigeki films ( three from 1969 and one from 1970 ) based on the character blind oichi ( めくらのお市 mekura no oichi ) .

crimson bat

the blind oichi series , released in the west under the crimson bat monicker , ran for another three films until matsuyama hung up her blade to raise a family , the other films in the series being trapped ! the crimson bat ( 1969 ) ; watch out , crimson bat ! ( ' 69 ) and crimson bat : wanted dead or alive ( ' 70 ) .
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i think if you’re hoping to get the crimson bat , you’re wasting your gems if you’re getting event keys . use them on gem keys instead .
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with the success of the zatoichi movies it was natural that someone would try to feed off the series success . in 1969 shochiku studios introduced the crimson bat series which ran for four movies .
i’m crossing my fingers that i get the bat this week ! no luck so far though .
he started out as the red bat , but found that simply wasn ' t very scary .
the only featured character mentioned in the event chest is the morthani’s will . why are you assuming there’s a high chance of getting crimson bat ? i used to be under the impression that the troops offered in the event chest are all from the same kingdom as the featured character . i learned that’s not true last week .
in 2008 shochiku produced an official female spin - off film from zatoichi called ichi which is about a blind swordswoman who is looking for zatoichi . it was all right but there is something a little more entertaining about the crimson bat series . maybe it’s the lower budget , the ’70s music and the gratuitous blood but it’s an entertaining time killer .
the other critics are off base comparing crimson bat to zatoichi . they are different films with different tones , delivering different messages . zatoichi is highly dramatic and incorporates zen bushido . judged on it ' s own merits , crimson bat is a less preachy action flick with a female lead who kicks butt . it has a seventies feel due to its music , sound effects , and color schemes . i enjoy the use of dramatic lighting of black and white noir film applied to color . you get a sword fight in every town and on every road as oichi rights injustice and avoids bounty hunters . more akin to television westerns , it has better production value than bruce lee films and is simply entertaining .
just a reminder to all of the ones that recently joined and doesnt know everything about the game yet , as well as the less active players . one of the greatest legendaries is now in the event chest , the crimson bat . he has just been buffed to gain + 8 more life on each cast , now getting totally + 16 life for each cast , and is among the best true damage troops in the game .
it’s still one of the 4 cards i don’t own . the silent one , gaar’nok ( i think i spelled it right ) , psion and that bat . i won’t get desperate i got a very first gorgotha two days ago in a glory chest .
the crimson bat is a series of four movies based around the character of the same name . the character was a blind swordswoman . it was made by shochiku studios , as a response to the hugely successful zatoichi series . the character , oichi , was very similar to the zatoichi character , that is she was a blind sword fighter who roamed and did odd jobs for money . the main difference , apart from being a female , was that her weakness was a stereotyped female tendency to be emotional . ironically , an official female variation of zatoichi was released decades later , and entitled ichi .
the action is decent too , with matsuyama definitely operating a step above her first outing ; although these aren’t usually so much fights , more the swift dispatch of one or more opponents , that’s par for the chambara genre . matsuka is somewhat of an enigma as a character – it’s hard to see why oichi falls for him , and the whole “orphan” plotline is not well handled . in particular , it’s lacking any kind of background , to the extent it feels like an entire film was missing . the rest of the story though , is well - crafted and packs a solid wallop ; you could certainly argue that this is the best flight of the crimson bat .
officially , the four crimson bat movies were adaptations of teruo tanashita ' s mekura no oichi manga . but you ' d have to be blind yourself not to see that this was shochiku ' s barely disguised attempt at doing their own zatoichi character . if they never quite managed to reach the same levels of success as daiei did with their blind masseur , shochiku at least had the prettier one of the blind protagonists . yoko matsuyama , wife of mangaka tanashita , stars as oichi – the orphaned woman who is blinded as young and later rescued , taken in and taught the way of the sword by a wandering samurai . as is often the case in these movies , oichi is wandering the land in search of vengeance ( on…
hey , sure thing that bat is an awesome troop , but if it isn’t dropping randomly from pure luck , there’s no point for a new - ish player to try to get him via event chests . but if you have hundreds or thousands of gems , hell yes , you will get him , even raise him to mythic .
that swordswoman is oichi , supposedly based on an animated story and character by teruo tanashita – but , really , who are they trying to kid ? this was simply the shochiku’s studio’s answer to daiei’s zatoichi , and any protestations to the contrary should be treated with deep scepticism . both hero and heroine are blind , yet have no problem fighting for truth , justice and the amer…japanese way , as they wander through the traditional chambara landscape . [ indeed , in the first film , a blind masseuse wobbles drunkenly through one scene , in what can only be a casual potshot at zatoichi ] original thought is not something to look for in the crimson bat series , even ardent fans will admit . however , shochiku did strike gold in yuko matsuyama ; albeit they didn’t have to look very far to find her , since she was married to character creator tanashita . i get the feeling shochiku didn’t exactly over - exert themselves in a star search .
there are now eleven final clubs : a . d . , bat , delphic , d . u . , fly , fox , iroquois , owl , phoenix s . k . , porcellian , and spee . with the exception of the bat , each club has its own building and serves daily meals . the club sponsors a few parties and dances ; it provides a library , club room , bar , and pool tables for its members . beyond this , the final club does little . the contrast with the nation ' s fraternities is evident : the clubs have no athletic teams . they enter no candidate in local beauty contests . for the most part , they permit no women in the club houses . but most important , the spirit of a harvard club is entirely different from a fraternity or even from its counterparts in the ivy league . the clubs depend on a quiet acceptance in the college for removed from
hell weeks
and tap days . final clubs , like those oft - lampooned organizations for london or new york businessmen , have no reason for existing . and they seek no purpose . they have sprung up over the years for the enjoyment or convenience of their members and as long as they continue to attract men , they will continue .
she’s no luckier with her foster parent , who is murdered by a former associate , devil denzou ( amatsu ) ; she is saved from the same fate by a wandering samurai . he sees her potential and trains her in the way of the sword , to the point where she has surpassed him . but she mentions the m - word – “marriage” – and he , too , exits like a , er , bat out of hell . on subsequent travels , she uses her skills to save yet another man from being lynched , and eventually , all these disparate plot threads join up , more or less . though others , such as the woman with a killer yo - yo [ gogo yubari’s ancestor ? ] just kinda drift out of the plot .
put on your bat - suits and rejoice , for today ( july 23 ) is national batman day ! as part of the caped crusader’s 75th anniversary , dc comics is celebrating with comic giveaways and movie showings around the country . the festivities continue tomorrow when comic - book fans from all over descend on san diego to partake in the annual and highly popular comic - con . in honor of these comic festivities , we ' re celebrating the best in superhero - inspired music , from eminem ' s self - indulgent
superman
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while the samurai is one of the most common archetypes in japanese cinema , the female version is about as rare as the female gunslinger . although none of these women reached anything like the popularity of zatoichi – 26 films starring shintaro katsu alone , never mind the recent takeshi kitano version – there have been a few that have attempted to break the mould . azumi and the princess blade have both achieved cult status in the west , assisted by tarantino’s take in kill bill , volume 1 . back in 1973 , there was lady snowblood , which was successful enough to merit a sequel the following year , but so far , only one samurai - ess series has survived more than two outings .
proper english - language distribution . however , we don’t let things like that stop us . : - ) while dubbed versions of all four films in the saga are available on the grey market , the bootleg prints seem to have dutch , or occasionally greek , subtitles . this lends the whole thing a certain surreal air , though as dubs go , they aren’t bad – an opinion no doubt assisted by the characters , who generally prefer to let their actions speak louder than their words . and since even
[ august 2005 , bill f writes : “you may be interested to learn that after the last film it was turned into a television series . the film series was produced by shochiku . the tv series was produced by toei . like the films , the tv series starred yuko matsuyama . the tv series also starred hiroshi fujioka and it ran for 25 episodes ( 4 / 12 / 71 – 9 / 27 / 71 ) . ” ]
we meet our heroine oichi as a young child , who has just been being abandoned by her mother – not sure what happened to father , but we later discover mom’s a prostitute , so can probably fill in the blanks ourselves . to make matters worse , the tree under which oichi takes shelter from a storm is struck by lightning , rendering her totally blind , in a way that’s – probably wisely – left medically unexplained . however , she is then taken in by a kind gentleman , who brings her up , and on into adulthood .
the film is at its best when there is the threat of violence ; much like sergio leone , the lead - up lasts much longer than the actual acts , with the director ratcheting up the tension . for example , there’s one scene where oichi visits a gambling parlour to raise money , and from the moment she sits down , you
it’s just a matter of time before her sword comes out of its red sheath ( which presumably is the origin of her name – that , and the copious blood that tends to get sprayed when she’s around ) . there’s also a nice visual sense at work throughout here , particularly in lighting , which enhances proceedings nicely .
and , being honest , the actual drama needs all the help it can get , since it seems limp in comparison , though allowance should likely be made for the dubbing . that , however , can’t explain the bouncing back and forth in time , which may induce temporal nausea in susceptible viewers ; it feels as if the finished film got tossed in the air and is shown in the order it hit the ground . and while there’s a decent “ah - hah ! ” when everything ties up , this isn’t enough to justify the lengthy set - up . fewer plot threads , explored in depth , would be a major improvement .
dir : matsuda teiki star : yoko matsuyama , isamu nagato , jun tatara , satoshi amatsu a . k . a . mekura no oichi monogatari : makkana nagaredoni
, seems quite content with her life as a bounty - huntress . she has even adopted an orphan , just as she herself was taken in herself , but two things wreck this relatively happy situation . she discovers her protege is really a runaway , not an orphan , and consequently has to abandon her – again , as she was discarded . worse yet , she incurs the wrath of fellow bounty - huntress oen ( matsuoka ) , a kitten with a whip
pockets full of venomous snakes , who leaves oichi for dead . luckily , she is nursed back to health by matsuka ( irikawa ) , a farmer who doesn’t care about her shady past , and oichi discovers the joys of a simpler existence – specifically , one not involving the slaughter of criminals for cash . of course , the inevitable eventually happens : local thug bunzo ( abe ) starts taking the locals’ rice stocks , with oen closely in tow . no prizes for guessing that the quiet life isn’t going to last long , especially after matsuka is manipulated by oen into owing a gambling debt to bunzo .
this is a fine movie , with matusoka in particular a grand foil for the heroine , her hair covering one half of her face like a veil , and the other half usually displaying a near - psychotic expression . oichi’s struggles to leave her past behind feel almost like shakespearean tragedy , and the final shots of the film , while a sudden way to end , hint strongly at an endless , futile struggle . to paraphrase george orwell , if you want a picture of the future , imagine a samurai sword slicing up an opponent…forever . downbeat ? hell , yes . wouldn’t have it any other way .
dir : matsuda teiki stars : yoko matsuyama , yasunori irikawa , kikko matsuoka , toru abe a . k . a . mekura no oichi monogatari : jigoku hada
the third entry in the series saw a new director , and unfortunately , a marked turn for the worse , largely because the focus drifts off oichi . it starts briskly enough , with the heroine coming into possession of a new , effective formula for gunpowder , something barely known at the time in japan . understandably , this makes her the focus of attention , in particular for a group with an interest in profiting from the discovery .
hands . moral doubts aside , the main flaw is the introduction of characters such as gennosuke ( ibuku ) and , worse still , an immensely irritating pair of teenage orphans . together , they succeed in making oichi feel like a supporting character in her own movie , and she is almost entirely absent from action in the middle portion .
by the time she rides to the rescue…yes , i said “rides” , her previously unmentioned equestrian skills being hand - waved away with “the horse knows where it’s going”…the film is pretty much dead in the water . the final battle does mark another step up in scale , with matsuyama’s skills again clearly improved , and the quantity of enemies dispatched again setting a high - water mark , even if gennosuke gets to take out almost as many as oichi , and the way in which the villainous henchman suddenly switches sides is laughable . in marked contrast to its two predecessors , this does have a proper ending , tying up the loose threads in a satisfying , if conventional , way . it isn’t enough to rescue the day , with interest having succumbed at a disturbingly early point .
in its incarnation as samurai woman ( left ) , i believe this was the only installment to see a release in the uk . when first seen , over a decade ago , it was unimpressive , and it remains weak , particularly when viewed from an action heroine perspective . but even in general terms , it’s a poor piece of cinematic storytelling .
dir : hirokazu ichimura stars : yoko matsuyama , goro ibuki , kiyoko inoue , asahi kurizuka a . k . a . mekura no oichi monogatari : midare gasa
director ichimura returned for the fourth episode , and despite similar problems as the third installment – most obviously , an apparent doubt that oichi’s character can hold the viewer’s interest by herself – makes a much better stab at things here . bounty - hunter oichi finds out what life is like on the other side of the law , after she helps rescue an unwilling bride from a local magistrate ; he slaps a 100 gold - piece reward on her head , which naturally , brings other bounty - hunters on her trail , led by sankuro ( meguro ) .
she ends up in a fishing village , where the “evil property developer” subplot makes a surprising appearance , despite the historical era . the reconstruction of the harbour threatens to put the locals out of work , but a plot is afoot among the local authorities to pay them only one gold piece each in compensation , rather than the 15 gold pieces actually provided by the federal government . residents , officials , bounty - hunters and oichi all inevitably collide , including one character played by tetsuro tamba , who remains even now one of the most respected ( and prolific – the imdb lists 193 films for him ! ) actors in japanese cinema .
there’s a lot of devious double - crossing and deception here , which is okay to watch , but isn’t really the reason we watch these things . and that it also turns out to be sankuro’s birthplace is too much of a fluke to swallow . fortunately , it all builds nicely to an extended finale , where our heroine ( now also framed for the murder of a village elder ) gets a chance to take out her aggression and resentment on all those who have turned her life into that of a hunted animal . it’s a great urban battle , through the town which is being demolished around her , in and out of buildings until she finally confronts the chief villain of the piece .
though this was the last entry in the series , there isn’t much sense of closure at the end , with ( and i trust i’m not really spoiling this for anyone ) oichi merely walking off into the sunset , alone again , naturally . one senses shochiku were hoping to continue , but for whatever reason – most likely box - office success , or rather , the lack thereof – it never materialised . however , for a series from the 60’s , it was undeniably ahead of its time , and most of the films have survived the passage of three and a half decades in an impressive style . if any enterprising dvd company were to snap them up , the rewards would likely be significant .
dir : hirokazu ichimura stars : yoko matsuyama , yuki meguro , tetsuro tanaba , reiko oshida a . k . a . mekura no oichi monogatari : inochi moraimasu
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a young girl named oichi is abandoned by her mother . blinded by a lightning strike she is taken in by a caring elderly gentleman . when her guardian is killed , she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin who may or may not be involved with her guardian’s death . as she develops into a master swordsman , her profession becomes that of a bounty hunter . many test her sword and many die by her skills . she travels throughout the countryside to seek her mother and her revenge .
widely regarded as an inferior knockoff of the zatoichi movies , this time featuring a blind woman carrying a sword cane with menace .
there are many problems with the movie , but the premise is not one of them : i like zatoichi and i don ' t mind knockoffs . but it ' s the execution was really lacking . like many of these movies intended to start a series , they spend an inordinate amount of time laying pipe , and this dragged the pace down a lot . the sets looked really cheap and stagey . i wasn ' t surprised to learn that the director , sadatsugu matsuda , was 63 years old and working on his second - to - last feature ( how old was he ? he made his first movie before the great depression ) . the…
the obvious influence here is zatoichi yet i can ' t help but think that this screen adaptation of a popular manga , the first of four films , is also shochiku ' s answer to the red peony gambler series . i mean , even the music at the end is similar . overall it ' s pretty good but certainly uneven , suffering toward the end . the first 45 minutes or so are very good , quite artfully done , building the story whilst filling in our characters ' backstories through a series of flashbacks that are quite deftly woven into the film , courtesy of director sadatsugu matsuda . he incorporates a lot of cool studio effects that i would more readily associate with nikkatsu films , as well as some clever editing .
since my early childhood i ' m totally in love with martial arts in movies & television . a little bit more the american…
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yoko matsuyama , already well known to the japanese public in the 60s due to her leading tv role in seven faces of princess koto ( kotohime shichi henge ) , here takes to the big screen as the eponymous sightless swordswoman - a character developed in a successful manga comic by her husband teruo tanashita . deserted by her mother when blinded in a storm as a child , she is on a perennial quest to find the killers of her father .
the film under review here being the first of the series , a good part of the running time is given over to flashbacks establishing the character and background of the kimono - clad avenging angel . there ' s the usual edo period flavour , bright colours and stylised sequences of gymnastic swordplay , but essentially little else other than the attractive facade presented by blind oichi herself .
there are few plot intricacies and surface details to distinguish this from other genre offerings of the period such as the wicked priest series ( gokuaku bozu , 1968 - ' 74 ) , an early outing for lone wolf star tomisaburo wakayama . the dubbed video release seen here added to the charm , and it goes without saying that if you like martial arts films , you ' ll no doubt take to this . personally i found toshiya fujita ' s similar lady snowblood ( shurayukihime , 1973 ) , which also had the virtue of only stretching to one sequel , to be rather more satisfying .
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turning lead to gold ? no ! this power does the exact opposite and turns you into scrap metal . your gold will be worthless and your economy will be in shambles .
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using this power never gets old , but you will be . this power will make you move like an old grandpa in an matter of minutes . bushy eyebrows and all . added on 2018 - 06 - 19 .
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oichi was left behind by her mother when she was 7 years old and lost her eye sight from lightening . she was saved by ukita who was a sword master and taught her how to protect herself . however , when he finds out that oichi had fallen in love with him .
oichi the blind female samurai is given a secret scroll to be delivered to murobuse . many swordsmen challenge her for the scroll which contains information on a new secret weapon . will she be able to deliver the scroll before getting killed or capture ?
i think the % of getting him in an event chest is around 8 % . and one event key is costing like 15 gems . i would had loved to have some data on this tho , about the % of getting an legendary out of an event chest .
i’d disagree with that . if you’re in an active guild with a steady supply of gems , it’s totally worth it to crank through event chests in either of these situations :
( 1 ) you’re only missing a handful of legendaries and the event chests have one of them , or ( 2 ) you’re missing a lot of legendaries , and the event chests have a good one .
i don’t think it’s worth buying event chests over a 500 - gem armor , but if either of the above situations applies i think it’s better to buy event chests over gem chests .
50 event chests , 200 glory chests , got 2 bats today . yay rng .
i spent the 675 gems to get 50 event keys hoping to get queen mab or borealis because yeti was the featured character . i got about 24 yeti’s , but no queen mab or borealis . i did however get lots of troops from other kingdoms .
@ synergy , congrats ! @ ashasekayi , fingers are crossed for you . hopefully you will get one soon .
i too tried this but had no luck . now need to save up so i can try another batch of 10 .
@ studs sorry to hear that… i’ve had some lucky i’ve tried it on the kingdoms i don’t have the legendary too and i’ve lucked out a couple of times now pulling them .
event chests for legendaries aren’t worth it unless you can mass buy them and it is one of the last troops you are missing ( and / or you are looking to get the ultra rare / epics ascended as well ) . the chance to pull a legendary is roughly the same as a gem chest for 1 . 5x the cost , but a legendary will always be from the event kingdom ( there is also no chance to pull a mythic from the event chest ) . you need to keep in mind that rng is inherently streaky - i’ve pulled two troops i was missing from a kingdom with at little as 7 event keys before , but most weeks take over 50 . last week took 137 keys to get borealis after getting two mab in the first 87 , and i’ve heard of others using upwards of 200 keys to get a single target legendary . bottom line is to not buy event chests unless you can afford them , and don’t have expectations .
just adding some more data to increase the sample size reported here . today i opened 50 event chests and got 3 bats . i think sirrian mentioned that legendary drop rate was improved in 2 . 0 . hopefully it is up there at 8 % now for gem / event chests like eika says . ( i really want another 4 bats before the week ends so i can go mythic and have 2 left over . )
amazing pulls , sircookie . 3 out of 50 event chests is very good !
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about 140 sophomores are making the most important decision of their undergraduate social lives this morning . the college ' s final clubs last night chose their members from the class of ' 56 ; those elected were notified at 8 : 00 a . m . by club members ; by noon the sophomore must accept or reject all bids . and as one student sits in his room choosing between the club his great - grandfather belonged to and the one his friends have picked , the rest of the college sleeps or goes to class , oblivious and wholly unconcerned with clubs , club activities , or club membership .
while it is perhaps fitting that indifference should be the general attitude of the harvard undergraduate to the final club , such was not always the case . the history of the club system , through secret phases and periods of national affiliation , is now a completed cycle . and the position of the clubs , from a pre - eminent place in the college to a membership of 10 per cent of the undergraduates , reflects , if sometimes inversely , the growth of harvard as a national institution .
the attraction of the club when the system first began is easy to understand . the porcellian club , legend has it , began when a man in hollis hall found a suckling pig in his room . he hid the animal in a window seat until evening and then invited a few friends in to roast the pig . the evening was so pleasant that they determined to meet alternate friday evenings for fellowship and supper . they first called themselves
the argonauts ,
but when roast pig turned up month after month on the menu , the group came to be known as the
pig club .
from 1879 , with the entrance of the first pig , to 1794 the club gained in prestige . finally , under joseph mckean , grand marshall of the club and founder of the organization as it is today , the members adopted the more gentlemanly name of
porcellian .
with its early beginning and 164 years of tradition , porcellian has always represented the final club to the non - clubbed world . begun in an era when cambridge was small , isolated , and arid in entertainment , the club provided a necessary social break in the scholastic routine . the porcellian ' s motto dum vivimus vivamus was typical of the early attitude of the members - - no lofty mission , no serious purpose , just jovial pleasantry .
though porcellian frankly admitted its lack of direction , other clubs springing up in this period often claimed loftier motives . the hasty pudding club , formed in 1795 , purported to
cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism .
to serve the latter purpose , the club celebrated washington ' s birthday for many years with a program of orations , patriotic songs and speeches . under the first constitution of the club ,
two members , in alphabetical order , shall provide a pot of hasty - pudding for every meeting ,
and from this , the name .
a rival to the pudding was the institute of 1770 , an organization devoted chiefly to oratory . the club was also dubbed
the speaking club ,
but since the group wished to keep its nature secret to non - members , the name was dropped . during the first half of the nineteenth century , clubs arose , grew , and merged . the hermetic society and the i . o . h . joined the institute , the latter bringing with it an extensive library . both the serious and the social groups had begun collecting books , filling in the chinks in college libraries .
it was in this period that the clubs began to change in character . the pudding gave up much of its attempt at a scholarly tone and porcellian members began to consider the background of its candidates as well as their wit or agreeable character . this was the beginning of a welter of greek - letter fraternities . phi beta kappa had been the first in 1776 , but when other fraternities appeared they followed the lead of the established local clubs and emphasized the social over the intellectual .
since undergraduates were scattered throughout boarding houses and memorial hall was never a popular dining hall , clubs went far in focusing student activity and providing meals in congenial surroundings . as the practical value of a club to its member increased , prestige in belonging to one grew also . the size of the college was doubling every thirty years from 1860 to 1920 , and while there still were many clubs , selectivity had become the keynote in electing members .
when theodore roosevelt was discussing the marriage of his daughter to nicholas longworth , he confided boastfully to a perplexed kaiser wilhelm that he and nick had both belonged to the porc . at that time , roosevelt was not alone in considering membership an important qualification for a son - in - law . boston mothers , on the prowl for young gentlemen eligible for debutante dances , turned to the clubs to provide them . and the institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself : the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed dickeys , from the name of a secret society d . k . e . for those undergraduates with the correct background it was all - important that they be elected to the dickey - - it meant certain social success in college and afterward . and even in 1926 when the pudding and the institute merged , the club sent out a list of members , in the order which they had been elected . this ranking was published in boston and new york papers and served as a convenient method for plucking the near from the eligible .
in later years , the dickey has disappeared . hasty pudding remains as a common ground for all clubs with a membership of over 600 . members are chosen from a list of candidates put up by friends in the club and passed on by the 11 presidents of the final clubs . hasty pudding also serves meals but is chiefly popular for its extensive , reasonable - priced bar ; and leo , one of the last of the irish tenor barmen . since many of the final clubs do not permit women guests , the hasty pudding also gives dances throughout the football season .
the hasty pudding ,
says one member ,
has no particular social barrier - - the only consideration is more or less if you ' re a nice guy .
in this respect the hasty pudding differs much from the society as it existed in the 1890 ' s , and indeed from the final club in most eras . it was in the ' 90s that nation - wide fraternities were losing their grip on college chapters . the local groups wanted more independence ; the national organization , more control . throughout the 1890s ' clubs were detaching themselves from the fraternity system . porcellian and a . d . , which had broken off from the harvard chapter of alpha delta phi , were joined by other final clubs . another fraternity effort to refound alpha delta phi terminated in the phli and finally the fly club .
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zambrero opens in harvard square and warwick , rhode island , donating a meal to someone in need for every burrito or bowl sold .
on the plus side it looks like i got refunded the gems i spent .
i bought ki gold for this and i really hope i get refunded . have they said if there going to be any kind of way to get it back ?
we haven’t said a word yet . i hope to know more tomorrow . believe it or not , the snow day in portland , or is what caused this not to get reinstated today .
meanwhile down here in arkansas we’ve experienced all 4 seasons within the span of a week . today’s summer , i suppose . i’m hoping winter comes back soon .
we aren’t used to it in the northwest . they had more snow down in portland than they’ve had in the last 37 years !
the pack is back up but i still dont have my ki gold back . do we now how long the pack will be up ?
i have no idea . i just took a risk and got it when i saw it .
. that’s the twist . it’s a blind swordswoman instead of a blind swordsman . yôko matsuyama stars as oichi , a young woman who was abandoned as a child , blinded by lightning bolt and raised by a foster family . the foster family is murdered by a bad guy , oichi is saved and later trained by a wandering samurai who also left her after she got better with the sword than him . she was also hinting at marriage which might have had something to do with it . the rest of film has her wandering from town to town saving people and kicking butt .
where oichi fights an evil female bounty hunter who uses a whip . this was followed by the less successful
( 1970 ) . apparently in 1971 there was a 25 episode tv series and then the character faded into obscurity . the films have never had a north american release although there have been random versions released in other countries with bad dubs . a search on the interwebs finds nothing physical to buy in terms of dvds or blu - rays but apparently some of the sequels are available on hulu if you live in the u . s .
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a young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination . however , unbeknownst to her , the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder .
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a young blind girl is abandoned by her mother . when her guardian is killed , she learns to wield a sword from a traveling “ronin” . she travels to seek her mother and her revenge .
oichi the blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves . the official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin .
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made is a 2001 american crime comedy film written and directed by jon favreau .

it stars favreau , vince vaughn , peter falk , and sean combs .

it was favreau 's directorial debut .

made ( 2001 film )

will only enhance its grandeur . undoubtedly , it is the biggest film the industry has made till date .
kubrick’s own thoughts regarding 2001 ’s interpretation correspond with the approach by film analysts like robinson , walker and others . as kubrick once said :
while the sixth film was the most expensive to film , it was decided that the seventh book would be spilt in two , despite being shot as one film .
which is why it remains , and will remain , one of the greatest films ever made .
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richard kelly and jake gyllenhaal in 2001 . photograph : ken hively / la times via getty images
john williams was the first composer to work on the films , and is best known for creating the iconic hedwig ' s theme . when williams left to pursure other projects , patrick doyle created the soundtrack for the fourth film . nicholas hooper made soundtrack for the fifth film , while alexandre desplat made the final two , although they kept a few of williams . they were made at abbey road studios with the london symphony orchestra .
[ … ] how stanley kubrick broke the rules of classical hollywood cinema and made a better film with & # 8217… ( indieethos . wordpress . com ) [ … ]
production began in september 2000 and would keep going until the final film in december 2010 . every film was made primarily at leavesden studios , which is now open for the public to explore . heyman produced every film with his production company heyday films , while kloves wrote for every film except harry potter and the order of the phoenix , which was written by michael goldenberg .
. ed . gene d . phillips . jackson : up of mississippi , 2001 . 80 - 104 .
yet , 2001 was the second highest grossing film in 1968 , earning over $ 25 . 5 million for mgm that year alone ( boxofficereport . com ) . some went to augment acid trips with the film’s visuals . others felt a spiritual sensation during the same sequences ( see the life in pictures documentary ) . beyond these sensory experiences , the film also begs an intellectual involvement to reconcile a film that would disappoint those expecting a classical hollywood film .
the book series and film series were released over a ten year period . the philosopher ' s stone was first published in the uk in 1997 , with the final book the deathly hallows published in 2007 . likewise the first film was released in 2001 and the series concluded in 2011 with the eighth and final film .
the comic invention at work here - - vaughn ' s and favreau ' s - - make made into a rough gem .
with both movies and tv constantly mining mob life for script fodder , made never comes up with a new twist on the material .
for goblet of fire and every subsequent release , the logo appears as shiny and metallic in all non - film appearances . it is depicted as either made of stone or rusting metal in the films’ title sequences .
events that occur in the film have clear causes and effects and are unambiguous .
each film in the series has been released to critical and financial success worldwide .
made isn ' t in a particular hurry to get anywhere , but jon favreau ' s script has the feel of improvisation done right .
robinson , william r . and mary mcdermott . “ 2001 and the literary sensibility . ” 1972 . seeing beyond : movies , visions , and values . ed . richard p . sugg . new york : golden string press , 2001 . 77 - 91 .
the conclusion of the series marks the first time a book series of this length , involving an ongoing story arc , has been adapted for film in its entirety , and without profound changes being made to the original storyline .
made has some of the best dialogue . it is extremely well written and a great effort from john favreau . it is even more well put together than swingers , having a more polished feel to it . vince vaughn and john favreau ' s banter really made this a memorable movie .
gelmis , joseph . “the film director as superstar : stanley kubrick . ” 1970 .
could say that he had the honour of chronicling the film , for all time .
, the total footage shot was some 200 times the final length of the film .
‘i thought it was going straight to video’ … jake gyllenhaal , jena malone and frank the rabbit in 2001’s donnie darko . photograph : allstar
in promotional materials , such as film posters and merchandise , and on dvd / blu - ray covers , the harry potter logo appears differently than it ' s film counterpart .
as a film buff , i thought that i would enjoy writing about the planning of the film but as it turned out the shooting of the songs were the most interesting .
not long after its release , stanley kubrick’s 1968 movie 2001 : a space odyssey would gain a massive following despite some major critics’ backhanded reviews . kubrick biographer and film scholar , michel ciment documented an efficient summary of their comments :
exactly 48 years ago , on 6 april 1968 , a science fiction film directed by stanley kubrick and written by arthur c . clarke , called 2001 : a space odyssey was released . its influence on the whole space - sci - fi movie genre has been almost incalculable ; in fact , it is fair to say that almost every film that can be classified in this category made after 1968 has directly or indirectly , consciously or unconsciously , paid tribute to it .
film techniques such as editing and sound should not call attention to themselves ( 236 ) .
so said ridley scott when he was first asked to direct hannibal , the long - awaited sequel to the silence of the lambs . jill bernstein , who gained extraordinary access to the film ' s cast and crew , reveals how it came to be made
by the film’s conclusion , no questions are left unanswered that may have arisen in the plot .
we are inside the locked world of the spacecraft for most of the film , with its jaw - dropping visual effects that unfold languidly , almost casually—which in fact adds to the thrill and awe . these scenes—and many other scenes in 2001 , which defy our mundane earthly physics—are still as good as any that has been filmed since . and please remember , there was no cgi ( computer - generated imagery ) in 1968 . when 2001 was made , the power our mobile phones pack today would have needed a computer the size of the pentagon , and quite likely , if such a computer existed , it would have been deep underground , inside the pentagon . 2001 relied on pure mechanical engineering to create most of its mind - blowing effects .
' but dino , i don ' t want to make a film about elephants . . . '
just came across this as a related post . my favorite film , will surely give this a look
cinema is probably the most manipulative art form ever — it uses basic human emotions to evoke a response from the viewer . but stanley kubrick , through his non - verbal style in ‘2001 : a space odyssey’ , manages to break any barrier there is in art ; the movie connects directly with your subconscious , both metaphysically and philosophically . there is no pretense , no artistic flourishes ; everything is stripped down , displaying art at its purest . when ‘2001 : a space odyssey’ released , nobody had ever seen anything like it before . 48 years have passed ; and we are yet to see anything like it since . art is subjective ; so as such there can never be one greatest film . but i don’t have any qualms in proclaiming ‘2001 : a space odyssey’ as the most important film ever made . i don’t think anybody can argue with that !
the 2014 film interstellar , directed by christopher nolan , with access to the sort of computing power to create effects that kubrick and clarke may not have imagined would be available to film makers ( though they thought up hal , which—who ? —exists by the beginning of the 21st century ) and 3d technology , was an attempt to outdo 2001 . of course , it was visually spectacular .
the best that cinema has had to offer since 2000 as picked by 177 film critics from around the world .
suburban motherhood is not one - size - fits - all : kelly & cal — a film . . .
special thanks : director of n . y . c . mayor ' s office of film theatre , and television
may hold the unofficial hollywood record for most credited producers of any movie ever made : fourteen , including six
executive producers
, six
producers
and two
co - producers
.
how breaking the rules of hollywood film can feel more fulfilling to a viewer looking for something more at the movies .
2001 is unfathomable too , especially its last sequence , where time and space behave very differently from the way we experience them . the film leaves many questions tantalizingly unanswered . but unlike in interstellar , none of those questions have one correct provable - on - paper answer . in fact , technically , interstellar has no unanswered questions—you just have to know enough theoretical physics , that’s all . 2001 , 48 years after its release , leaves the biggest physics brains in the world mystified yet enchanted .
nordern , eric . “ playboy interview : stanley kubrick . ” stanley kubrick interviews . ed . gene d . phillips . jackson : up of mississippi , 2001 . 47 - 74 .
with 2001 : a space odyssey , kubrick decisively breaks out of these rules of the classical hollywood form to make the audience not only look deeper at his film , but experience something beyond the images . in other words , context should be projected by the audience , not dictated by explicit meanings in the narrative .
over dinner one evening , i told karan to get someone to write about the film , as they did abroad for the big hollywood flicks . i even suggested that he get someone like khalid mohammed to write about the making of the film .
this is the only shrek film to open with the dreamworks pictures logo ; later films would have the dreamworks animation logo .
for the most part the film alternates from mexico to wakefield to ayala in that order , although there are occasional variations .
when the first screening of ‘2001 : a space odyssey’ was held back in 1968 , audiences walked out expressing disgust and chastised the director’s indulgence and lack of a narrative structure . critics hated it and many even called it the worst film ever made . even the ones who loved it didn’t know what to make of it . looking back , the response isn’t surprising considering the fact that the movie broke every rule there is to break in cinema . portraying two major turning points of human evolution over millions of years , the movie has no tangible plot , no characters , and no emotional arc . what then made the movie so great ? why does it turn out to be the experience of a lifetime ? the answers aren’t so simple .
o cinema co - director kareem tabsch ( at left ) with hans morgenstern at o cinema on april 10 , 2013 lead a discussion on 2001 : a space odyssey . photo by ana morgenstern .
finally , 2001 remains a mystery of that highest order for which every solution is a valid one , or perhaps there is no solution at all , and that too is a perfectly satisfying solution .
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 .
in many advertisements , posters , and dvd / blu - ray covers for half - blood prince , the harry potter logo is shown tilted at an angle and cut off at either end . some posters also depict the logo with a bluish sheen . this film is also the first to abbreviate the film title to
hp6
, which was again done for the seventh film .
being a film buff , the idea of writing about the six stars working together on the same set , under the same director , seemed very exciting . in my opinion , india may never see another film that can boast of such a fantastic cast .
since today is pink shirt day or anti - bullying awareness day , i thought i’d share with you the most powerful film that i have ever seen that tackles the subject . and it tackles it hard . larry clark’s 2001 ‘bully’ is one of the most disturbing and hard to watch movies from my lifetime . but it’s essential .
beginning in 2001 , warner bros . pictures began releasing adaptations of the harry potter books . these films have proven to be very popular and , in less than a decade , the harry potter film series has become the highest - grossing motion picture series in history , surpassing the world - famous james bond franchise . [ 1 ]
one of the reasons for the harsh critical response toward 2001 : a space odyssey upon release comes from the fact that several popular critics of the time approached this film with an aesthetic expectations stemming from classical hollywood cinema . their complaints were all about how the film did not follow hollywood conventions , and it frustrated them . alexander walker , sybil taylor and ulrich ruchti wrote in stanley kubrick , director : a visual analysis : “the first wave of critics wrote mixed reviews . while seeing a new use of film , they reacted with responses geared to conventionally shaped films” ( walker , taylor and ruchti 162 ) .
“ 2001 … is basically a visual , nonverbal experience . it avoids intellectual verbalization and reaches the viewer’s subconscious in a way that is essentially poetic and philosophic . the film thus becomes a subjective experience which hits the viewer at an inner level of consciousness , just as music does , or painting” ( qtd . in gelmis 89 - 90 ) .
a young michael pitt turns out an awesome supporting performance here too as donny , the constantly stoned comedic relief . but even in a film such as this , the comedy eventually turns a little sad . this isn’t dazed & confused – it’s more along the lines of stoned & sad . the film has sequences of rape , graphic consensual sex , violence and so much cursing that it would give goodfellas a run for it’s money . larry clark made one hell of a movie when he released bully back in 2001 . in honour of pink shirt day – if you truly want to embrace raising anti - bullying awareness , this is by far the best and most powerful movie experience to ever handle the subject .
from the internet to followers in my hometown miami , i have long been asked to share my ma thesis that capped off my studies in american literature at florida international university , something i titled “the sublimation of the classical hollywood cinema form in 2001 : a space odyssey . ” this was a 76 - page paper based on the work of eminent film scholar david bordwell’s theory of classical hollywood cinema . i contrasted the seven rules of his theory with criticism both scholarly and popular on the film as well as published interviews with both the film’s director stanley kubrick and its co - writer arthur c . clarke . the point was to reveal how the director achieved a more profound film— philosophically , spiritually and artistically— by breaking the rules of classical hollywood cinema .
there were four directors across every film , with chris columbus directing the first and second film , and alfonso cuarón directing the third . mike newell directed the fourth with david yates staying the longest , as he directed the last four films . columbus did stay to produce the third film with heyman , and david barron produced the last four with heyman . rowling joined the team for the final two films .
[ … ] the most authoritarian piece of work directed by the maverick filmmaker stanley kubrick , ‘2001 : a space odyssey’ could aptly be described as a crazy rendezvous with mayhem and uncertainty . with themes ranging [ … ]
if ever a movie testified to the utter creative bankruptcy of the hollywood film industry , it is the abomination known as freddy got fingered .
going back to gelmis , he wrote that populist critics seemed “‘threatened’ by the film ‘because the conventional standards don’t apply’” ( 20 ) . it was that little bit of commentary that inspired me to compare bordwell’s later theoretical work in defining the classical hollywood cinema form to see how this film fits in with that approach . i wasn’t surprised to find that it does not fit in his theory of hollywood film at all .
has also been a landmark film in its own sense , with the star cast , the mounting and the mammoth budget . the success of
emma watson and rupert grint were selected from thousands of children who auditioned for the role of hermione and ron . the casting of the three is thought to be highly impressive , and one of
the best show decisions
ever made .
in a sense , this is a horror film , worse than anything andy kaufman could dream up , in which green tries to outgross himself .
donkey and fiona are the only characters to refer to shrek by name in this film . others would later do so in the other films .
cinema is adored and worshipped in india . directors , actors and writers have made our nation proud with their incandescent talents . be it aamir khan leading ‘dangal’ to international success or ray inspiring scorsese to make ‘taxi driver’ ( 1978 ) . . .
( 2001 ) comes from a peculiar cross - section of production cultures . it stars an australian woman playing an englishwoman . it was written and directed by a spaniard , backed by americans , set in jersey but filmed in spain .
film literature , especially in india , has a very niche audience and hence a very small market . how have you tried to overcome that barrier ?
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…
however there were some that understood the film as something rather different and special during an era where many independent filmmakers were redefining movie’s structure ( remember , this was the time when easy rider hit the scene ) . “newsday” film critic joseph gelmis actually wrote two reviews within days of each other reversing his position from his original review , which had a title that stated “space odyssey fails most gloriously” to admitting in his second review : “after seeing 2001 : a space odyssey a second time , i’m convinced it is a masterwork . ” ( documented on - line here ) .
an adaptation of homer ' s great epic , the film follows the assault on troy by the united greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved .
it is a common belief that just because a film is a periodical , a mythological or a sci - fi thriller a lot of research goes into it .
every major distributor passed on it at sundance in january 2001 . it was viewed as a problem film that no one knew how to market . it looked like it might go straight to video , but then newmarket picked it up . they’d done memento – another experimental film seen as a hard sell . its director , christopher nolan , convinced newmarket to give donnie darko a chance . then it got released on the halloween weekend after 9 / 11 and didn’t even make $ 1m . no one was in the mood to see any kind of movie , especially a heavy emotional one .
in other words , 2001 is the finest form of poetry in the garb of science fiction . it is a dreamscape masquerading as cold outer space . it is an experience that you immerse both your left brain—the seat of logical thinking—and right brain—the seat of creative thinking—in .
but , in his desperate bid to out - imagine clarke and kubrick , nolan crammed in so much that very few among the people across the world who watched the film , other than maybe some brilliant post - doctoral fellows in physics , understood what on earth—rather , in outer space—was going on . thorne wrote a book , explaining the physics of interstellar . but , as an american critic wrote , if you have to read a 350 - page book to understand a film , is the film really worth watching ?
the past 12 months that i have spent with the film have opened my eyes to commercial cinema . i ' m much less judgmental about its filmmakers and much less opinionated about the films . as a journalist you ' re taught to undermine anything that finds its average with the masses . the film has been a big revelation to me , personally .
the film adaptation of deathly hallows was split into two parts , the first of which was released in november , 2010 , with the second part released on 15 july , 2011 .
a file photo of stanley kubrick . 2001 is the finest form of poetry in the garb of science fiction . it is a dreamscape masquerading as cold outer space . it is an experience that you immerse both your left brain—the seat of logical thinking—and right brain—the seat of creative thinking—in . photo : reuters
the book is divided into six parts each representing the independent process of filmmaking : pre - production and scripting ; the look of the film ; the music ; the shooting of scenes ; the shooting of songs and post - production . it covers the entire journey from when karan put pen to paper to the first copy of the film , 200 pages with over 200 pictures .
quite possibly , if there hadn’t been a 2001 , there would have been no star wars . and the star wars series has earned more than $ 6 . 5 billion till date at just the box office ( various spin - offs like books , comics , toys , video games etc not included ) .
made ,
a peculiarly entertaining comedy , revisits the rapport that favreau and vaughn had in
swingers
( 1996 ) , and rotates it into a deadpan crime comedy . the movie was written , directed and produced by favreau , who plays vaughn ' s straight man and loyal friend ; think of martin and lewis .
in this film it is implied shrek lives alone because of his looks and the fact he is an ogre which frightens the villagers and this seems to upset him . however in forever after it is the exact opposite where shrek now wants to be feared again . it is possible shrek simply got used to being feared by the villagers in this film and that his life was better living alone .
; it is about how such a simple story was magnified with all the grandeur and the star cast to produce the final product . i did not have the advantage of history , the advantage of research but i think i have more than made up for it in terms of cinematic moments , which i have tried to capture and relive .
for prisoner of azkaban , the glow effect is dropped . while subtle , the logo was redesigned for azkaban . the letter p was elongated and given a different , pointed serif . also , the film started the trend of colouring the logo in various shades of silver instead of gold ( however , it is coloured bronze in some instances ) . since the tone of the film transitioned from light to dark .
beyond all the religious allegory and philosophical underlings , the movie also manages to give us one of cinema’s greatest villains , which incidentally isn’t human . the hal 9000 computer powering the spaceship following the monolith’s signals , said to be the most advanced ai ever made , becomes self - aware . for a movie which portrays scientific , technological and philosophical advancement , ‘2001 : a space odyssey’ offers a damning critique of the advancements in artificial intelligence , in turn it gives us a display of the double - edged nature of technology . in a testament to kubrick’s writing prowess , hal , with only its voice and a red camera eye , manages to create more impact than most human characters in cinema .
in march 2000 , chris columbus was selected to direct the first film , while steve kloves wrote the screenplay . rowling was given a large creative role which columbus was fine with , while heyman stayed to produce it .
consider now two spy thrillers : “spy game , ” with robert redford and brad pitt , which opened over thanksgiving , and “the tailor of panama , ” with pierce brosnan and geoffrey rush , which opened in march 2001 . both , curiously , star catherine mccormack as the girl for whom a spy risks all , or seems to , or means to .
order of the phoenix is notable for changing the font used for the subtitles , a change reflected in the film as well . however in the title sequence for the film , the title uses the old ' p ' in ' potter ' as used in the first two films . order of the phoenix is also the first to depict the logo as weathered and scratched . the old subtitle font is still used in other promotional materials besides the logo .
if the film ' s too ready to go with the flow of chris doyle ' s handheld camerawork , and sometimes seems ad hoc , its spot - on attention to the faux pas of the moment certainly raises a smile .
in chamber of secrets , the background is the sky above privet drive at sunset . chamber of secrets is the only film to depict the warner bros . pictures logo in its original colour scheme . because of the blue background of the logo , it is animated to turn on its
back
so the camera does not
go through
it . in every subsequent film , the blue background is omitted , and the camera passes between the letters of the logo .
o cinema is hosting an encore screening of 2001 : a space odyssey on saturday , april 27 at its miami shores location ( that’s a hot link for tickets and more information ) . this screening is part of o cinema’s on - going kubrick retrospective inspired by room 237 , which is also currently playing at o cinema ( see event page ) . the film , inspired by kubrick’s the shining , continues to expand this week in the miami area . it opens at the miami beach cinematheque this tuesday , apr . 23 ( see calendar ) and the cosford cinema in coral gables on friday , apr . 26 ( see calendar ) .
benjamin barry is an advertising executive and ladies ' man who , to win a big campaign , bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days . andie anderson covers the
how to
beat for
composure
magazine and is assigned to write an article on
how to lose a guy in 10 days .
they meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made .
our generation is extremely blessed to witness the works of steven spielberg and christopher nolan while they are still alive . i say this because any shootout between two film directors becomes a bit one - sided when one of them has passed away due to . . .
stuart craig was production designer for every film , helped by stephenie mcmillan . hogwarts was originally a miniature which expanded and developed into a digital model . when production of the films ended , a lot of the sets were rebuilt and transported for display at leavesden .
the opening and closing of the film have heydrich flying to and from the wannsee conference , which took place on january 20 , 1942 . however , heydrich was officially grounded by heinrich himmler after he was shot down by russian anti - aircraft in late 1941 .
josh hartnett , ewan mcgregor , jason isaacs , tom sizemore , eric bana all star in this film in which us soldiers are sent in to assist in the somalian civil war of 1993 . most notable for its realistic , long drawn out and brutal battle scenes .
they were made for each other : bobby , the earnest , plodding , analytical , seeker after success , and ricky , the clueless instigator who can ' t involve himself in a situation without making it worse . there are some people with a gift for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time , and ricky is one of them , talking when he should shut up , helpfully revealing secrets , blurting out the truth when a lie is desperately called for .
tom green ' s shtick is that you say ,
what ?
and give an uncomfortable laugh at his antics . he used this to get his own show on mtv , and he uses it here to make us empathetic to a loser character that does weird stuff . some of this i found ridiculously unneeded and deliberately stupid . sometimes i actually laughed , because why not ? there ' s also the question as to why rip torn acts like a degenerate , abusive pariah most of the film , and it ' s treated like an interesting quirk . while there ' s really no reason to watch this film , sometimes it ' s funny to laugh at the weird , the inspired , and the zany . though this film falls more under the heading of
gross
it ' s in the same vein .
indian cinema has not been chronicled as well as it should have been . twenty years down the line there would be no information , whether factual or otherwise , on films today , their stars and their interactions , save for film glossies , which have a short shelf life .
it wasn’t a conventional adulthood film in the american pie way . donnie talks about jerking off , but that’s only a part of it . his psychological journey is what’s important . that’s why it’s had this lasting power . anything psychological has a slower – but ultimately longer – burn .
in 2001 , when a third monolith is sighted in space , a spaceship is dispatched to discover its meaning and source . but the spaceship’s computer hal has become self - aware and wants to unravel the mystery first and beat human beings to the next stage of evolution . the space crew has to survive the murderous hal , reach the monolith , where , unknown to them , a whole new universe promising a higher consciousness than ours , waits .
totally unbelievable . chronologically , historically and geographically incorrect . full of innumerable inaccuracies and made up of a cast who talk as though they are not from the same continent , let alone the same country ! what more can i say ? i tell you what i can say , i thoroughly enjoyed it ! ! ! i laughed from beginning to end and was enraptured by the sense of friendship that these people displayed . i only wish we could all be like them ! i loved it .
in his essays on 2001 , robinson recognizes that kubrick was aiming to share something that could only be told through images and as such becomes impossible to explain with dialogue and words , much less the limits of conventional story - telling in cinema . as robinson said , “ [ kubrick ] had a story to tell that could be rendered , perceived , followed and completed only through moving images … he committed himself to telling the story of the active eye” ( robinson 77 ) .
the plot of 2001 , roughly based on clarke’s short story ‘the sentinel’ ( he and kubrick worked for a year on taking the premise of the story as far as they could ) is , very briefly , this . some entity , or entities , have been nudging human evolution forward by placing mysterious black monoliths in different parts of the solar system . we see the first monolith along with the ape - man . the second is found sometime in the 20th century on the moon .
and what can we really call a new classic ? what in recent vintage can hold its own on the big screen with the likes of the searchers , the godfather , the rules of the game , seven samurai or citizen kane ? some film journalists even think the movie star is a thing of the past .
in every film but philosopher ' s stone and prisoner of azkaban , the harry potter logo appears slowly floating from background to foreground , usually through a sea of clouds . in the other two films , the logo flies in from the foreground , stops as it is illuminated , then flies back into the foreground .
mtv is going full retro . today , the network announced they are developing reboots of classic tv shows such as the real world , daria , and aeon flux . the revivals are part of mtv ' s new unit , mtv studios , which will
develop and produce a full slate with a focus on beloved series , franchises and spin - offs that span mtv ' s 35 - year history .
alongside the real world , daria , and aeon flux , mtv studios is also working on an updated version of made . read more…
new york - - jon favreau will be feted with the director of the year award this month at the 2005 showeast convention in orlando .
there are very few individuals in hollywood that establish themselves as an actor , screenwriter and director ,
said mitch neuhauser , co - managing director of showeast , which runs oct . 24 - 27 .
jon has proven that he can tackle all of these disciplines .
favreau ' s acting and scripting career took off with swingers . his directorial credits include made and the comedy elf , starring will ferrell .
2001
is a story of evolution . sometime in the distant past , someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on earth ( presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well ) . evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon ' s surface , where yet another monolith is found , one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far . now a race begins between computers ( hal ) and human ( bowman ) to reach the monolith placers . the winner will achieve the next step in evolution , whatever that may be .
compared to the film version - which is strictly dark grey - the logo appears in varying shades , from black to light grey in promotional items , dvd / blu - ray covers , and the soundtrack . on some posters , it has a noticeable red tinge . for the video game and other promotional materials , the logo has a blue hue .
i thought the same way too until i wrote this book . but after putting my life on hold , travelling to london and egypt and observing the entire shoot , i know that my earlier notion was a fallacy . making a mainstream commercial film , blending varied popular tastes together and catering to every segment of your audience , is in itself a great talent .
the film took a long time to be found . it started in the uk . i’d just finished a play in london and started doing press for donnie darko . the response was so different compared with back home : brits seem to appreciate that , if you have something special , it doesn’t have to be perfect . they acted like they’d found a kindred spirit .
the harry potter logo design is based on the typeface used for the american editions of the books . in the first two films , directed by chris columbus , it was golden , however alfonso cuaron , the director of prisoner of azkaban changed the logo ' s colour to silver to reflect the film ' s darker atmosphere . this was used in later films as well .
mtv has launched a new production unit , mtv studios — and with it put in the works a batch of new shows and revivals of properties from the viacom - owned cable channel’s extensive content library . among the initial mtv studios slate is a new iteration of the animated series “ daria ” from “ inside amy schumer ” writer grace edwards ; “ teen wolf ” creator jeff davis’s reimagining of sci - fi animated series “ aeon flux ” with fellow exec producer gale anne hurd ; a revival with bunim / murray productions of reality series “the real world” ; and a new version of unscripted series “ made . ” also in the works
and it has arguably the most breathtakingly imaginative opening sequence ever . it begins with some ancestors of homo sapiens , more ape than man , and one of them throws the bone of some wild beast up into the sky . the bone whirls high in the air and as it drops , the film jumps a few million years , the bone transforming into a ship in deep space .
i had the opportunity to do that at o cinema a couple of weeks ago following a rare theatrical screening of the film during a retrospective of stanley kubrick’s films ( see event page ) . the art house’s co - director , kareem tabsch , invited me to present my argument in a discussion with an intimate audience illustrated by a presentation i designed on urltoken ( see it here ) .
i was 23 , just graduating from film school , and in a panic trying to write a screenplay to get my career started . i remembered a news story i’d read as a kid : about a huge chunk of ice that fell from the wing of a jet and hit a boy’s bedroom , but he wasn’t there and escaped being killed . that gave me the seed of an idea .
kloves and goldenberg had direct help from j . k . rowling , although she gave them great space to have their own ideas . rowling wanted them to stay true to the books , and save for a few changes , the plot and tone of each film remained the same as the books . heyman said rowling was the
best support
and that she understood some things had to be changed .
when a green ogre named shrek discovers his swamp has been ' swamped ' with all sorts of fairytale creatures by the scheming lord farquaad , shrek sets out with a very loud donkey by his side to ' persuade ' farquaad to give shrek his swamp back . instead , a deal is made . farquaad , who wants to become the king , sends shrek to rescue princess fiona , who is awaiting her true love in a tower guarded by a fire - breathing dragon . but once they head back with fiona , it starts to become apparent that not only does shrek , an ugly ogre , begin to fall in love with the lovely princess , but fiona is also hiding a huge secret .
clarke and kubrick had used their prodigal imaginations . nolan relied on prodigious quantities of purely mathematical physics to appear imaginative . he ended up with a film that certainly makes you want to know all the theory behind what’s going on on - screen , but after some time , you just give up and say : why work so hard ? so , it remains merely unfathomable , with most people not interesting in fathoming it .
prisoner of azkaban is the only film to date that does not depict either the wb or harry potter logo against a sea of clouds . they are instead set floating in front of 4 privet drive , illuminated by wand light . another noticeable difference is that the letters of the harry potter logo float around haphazardly . different from the first two films , and continuing on in the next , the logo is coloured silver .
scott may not be quite through with hannibal lecter yet . the de laurentiises have announced plans to capitalise on their investment by remaking red dragon at universal ; the studio ' s stacey snider says it will include new , lecter - related plot lines . it is very unusual for a contemporary novel to be made into a movie twice within 20 years . michael mann , who directed the original 1986 version , declined to be interviewed .
mann was informed that we were doing this ,
snider says .
we didn ' t want to be disrespectful of his earlier work .
many directors , she adds , have raised their hands for the job , and
i ' m sure dino spoke to ridley . they ' re very close .
in 1997 , david heyman received a copy of harry potter and the philosopher ' s stone . he put it on the low priority shelf , thinking the title was
rubbish
. however , when a secretary found and read it , she gave it to heyman with a positive review and he then read it . heyman was very impressed by rowling ' s work , which led to rowling selling him the film rights for four books in 1999 .
how often have we all heard that resigned expression ? how often have we said it ourselves ? ‘the death of cinema’ is debated in university film studies programs worldwide . critics lament the loss of ' small movies ' in favour of superhero spectacles . box - office analysts look for signs of an industry on the brink . studio executives fear that video - on - demand may destroy the idea of going to the cinema more than broadcast and cable tv ever did .
in order of the phoenix , the logo drifts through what appears to be blue smoke or fog instead of actual clouds . this logo is grey and stone - textured instead of metallic , a trend that continues in the following films . order of the phoenix is also the first film to use a new font for the subtitle , something that also carries over to the newer films . the background is generic , but dissolves into a sunny sky over little whinging .
art and cinema , in particular , have often explored these ideas of life and existence with varying degrees of success . movies like ‘prometheus’ , ‘contact’ and to a small extent ‘interstellar’ touch upon the idea of an advanced life form guiding us through our evolution . but the fact remains that while these movies are fascinating , none of them have successfully managed to display the scale and absolute magnificence of the ideas they promulgate . in fact , it is nearly impossible to do that , since that would require complete abdication of the human element from the art , as a means to rise above it , to portray something greater than life ; something beyond our comprehension . as i said , it is impossible , and yet that is exactly what ‘2001 : a space odyssey’ does !
it was my idea to have my real - life sister , maggie , play my sister in the film . we were going through a competitive phase , which fed into the dinner - table scenes , where she tells me : “you can go suck a fuck . ” maggie was the reason i got into acting and is the more formidable of us . yet i was the one who started my professional career first . imagine being in a movie with your obnoxious little brother as the lead .
that ' s not so say the film is without interest . it stars robert redford as a veteran cia spymaster , on his last day at work , and brad pitt as the young idealist he recruited after vietnam . now pitt is in a chinese prison , captured in the act of helping catherine mccormack escape , and it ' s redford who was responsible for her being there . the framework is 24 hours during which redford must scheme , lie and deceive in order to save pitt , who the agency plans to sacrifice ; nothing must upset top - level trade talks between the u . s . and china .
mtv is getting into the studio game to capitalize on 35 years worth of built up content . the viacom - owned network announced thursday it is launching mtv studios , a new production arm it will utilize to reboot old series like “ daria ” and the already - in - the - works return of “the real world , ” to sell to other networks and streaming platforms . the initial slate includes those two series , along with a revival of coming of age unscripted series “ made ” and the previously - announced live - action reboot of sci - fi series “aeon flux , ” from “ teen wolf ” creator jeff davis . also read : ' aeon flux ' live - action reboot series in the works at mtv the new studio will also produce a pair of fresh series : “ the valley ” ( working title ) , a coming of age docuseries in the spirit of “ the hills ” and “ siesta key ” which follows a group of young friends growing up in the valley town of nogales , arizona , a city split in half ,
i think the ending is more tonal as to what could possibly be in her mind at that moment ,
scott says , shrugging and lighting a small cigar .
he ' s quite specific . she is more enigmatic .
the film , he adds , contains
an interesting postscript , which , if nothing else , i think is fun . some people think it ' s sick .
the character of clarice became an obsession for the entire production , for two reasons : first , when the de laurentiises turned down the chance to make the silence of the lambs , they also passed on the rights to clarice . to obtain them again , they had to go through mgm , which acquired orion ' s properties after the company ' s demise . a co - production deal , including equal shares of the profits , was struck between universal and mgm .
in 1985 , the couple bought the rights to thomas harris ' s bestselling thriller red dragon , from which they produced the 1986 movie manhunter , directed by michael mann . the film , which features the first , brief screen appearance of the serial killer hannibal lecter ( then spelled lektor and played by brian cox ) , was inventive , frightening and well - received , but it grossed $ 8 . 6m , less than the cost of its print ads . the de laurentiises were disappointed .
manhunter was not red dragon ,
dino says .
manhunter was no good .
and so when harris completed the silence of the lambs , neither dino nor martha bothered to read it , even though they owned the screen rights to the lecter character ( who figured much more prominently in this new novel ) .
big mistake
is how dino now characterises this lack of interest .
we had a funny situation with gary ,
martha de laurentiis says .
he wanted a prominent credit . now , how can you do a prominent credit with hannibal ? the characters are hannibal and clarice starling . so we really couldn ' t work something out [ at first ] .
for a while oldman was out , then he came back , asking to go unbilled . his casting was announced by dino at a press conference in florence just before the start of shooting ,
so we couldn ' t deny that he was in the movie
, martha says .
they [ oldman and his camp ] got really pissed off . and to have a pissed - off actor . . .
she changes tone abruptly .
you ' ll have to see the film to see if it ' s gary oldman or not .
( oldman ' s manager declined to comment . )