Q: Build a movie plot around this: The dubbing of what was not uncommon during this time? Yes
A: Illusions depicts a fictional 1940s Hollywood studio and defines film as a powerful historian, however, one that omits many cultures from its history. The protagonist Mignon Dupree expresses the need for "films that give the public situations and characters that they can recognize as part of their own lives." Illusions is a candidly self-aware film because it takes place in a fictional studio, and its characters discuss Hollywood's film production directly. The films title refers to the faults in cinemas portrayal of reality. Furthermore, Illusions also points to its own artificiality, identifying itself as a film object. Illusions features two invisible blacks: Mignon Dupree, invisible as an African American studio executive passing for white, and Esther Jeeter, as the invisible singer hired to dub the singing parts for white film star Leila Grant.Self-reflexive films identify themselves as cinematic objects by calling attention to the filmmaking process. Using editing techniques that depart from realism and/or film content that portrays features of the filmmaking process indicate to the viewer that, in addition to a central narrative, this is a film about a film. This film begins with a slow-zoom on a rotating Oscar and the following voice-over which is a quotation from Ralph Ellison's 1949 essay The Shadow and the Act: "To direct an attack upon Hollywood would indeed be to confuse portrayal with action, image with reality. In the beginning was not the shadow, but the act, and the province of Hollywood is not action, but illusion."Parallel instances of self-reflexive images appear, that apply to the medium of film then to the film itself. Illusions begins with an aged "3-2-1" film-leader-countdown. This exact footage is repeated within the film, in the studio, when the filmmakers are reviewing the movie of Leila Grant singing. The film of the white starlet plays on a screen alongside Esther as she sings in the dark studio. This juxtaposition implies Hollywood's institutional racism and highlights an...
Question: Build a movie plot around this: What was Hendricks using as a walking cane? using his rifle
Answer: During the US civil war,a train transporting Yankee army gold is ambushed by a group of Confederate soldiers,led by a French/Mexican man,Captain Pierre Cordona (Jorge Riveiro).Yankee Colonel Cord McNally (John Wayne) leads some of his men to pursue them.As he goes off on his own into the forest,he finds Cordona but before he can capture him,he is jumped and knocked out by Sergeant Tuscarora Philips (Christopher Mitchum).They take him hostage and try to sneak through Yankee territory but as they approach a Yankee camp,McNally shouts out to the men.The confederates escape but McNally manages to pull Cordona from his horse and knock him out.Tuscarora hides under the water and when the Yankees ride passed him,he goes back to help Cordona but McNally captures him as well.He wants information from them.It's the fourth time Yankee gold has been stolen by the Confederates and he knows they're getting information from someone.Cordona and Tuscarora refuse to give him answers and are placed in a prisoner of war camp.Some time later the civil war ends.As Cordona and Tuscarora are been released,McNally greets them and invites them for a drink.He doesn't hold them responsible for the acts they committed,he considers it part of war.But he wants the traitor who was giving them information about the gold.They tell him that it was two men,but it was dark,one has black hair and one has white hair but they don't know their names.Tuscarora tells McNally that he's going to Rio Lobo to work for the old man,Phillips, (Jack Elam) who brought him up.McNally tells them he'll be in Blackthorne,Texas and if they ever have any more information for him about the traitor to look him up.Some time later,McNally gets a message from Cordona to meet him.The sheriff, Pat Cronin,(Bill Williams) tells him he's in the hotel waiting for him.As they are talking,a stagecoach pulls up in the town transporting a woman called Shasta Delaney (Jennifer O' Neill).She tells Pat that there's been a murder in Rio Lobo that was committed by one of the sheriff's...
[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What is used to demolish the Brown Building? Doesn't say
****
[A]: An unnamed man is working on the demolition of an old building. As he comes across the cornerstone of the building, he finds a box inside it. Contained within the box are a piece of paper commemorating the creating of the building in 1892, as well as a frog (still alive after more than 50 years). The man soon is amazed when the frog grabs a miniature cane, puts on a top hat, and begins to sing "Hello, My Baby." Sensing a way to get rich quickly, the man puts the frog back in the box, and sneaks away.He next ends up in the office of a talent agency, but the frog refuses to perform. After the man is kicked out of the office into an empty hallway, the frog begins to sing and dance to "The Michigan Rag." The man eagerly rushes back to let the talent agency employee see, but the frog goes silent before he can show him. Unknown to the man, the frog will only perform for him.Shortly afterwards, the man attempts to try to capitalize on the frog again. Using up all his money, he purchases a theater promoting the frog. However, when the curtain rises, the frog once again refuses to sing. The man shortly thereafter goes bankrupt, and ends up on the streets.One late evening, an officer overhears the frog singing "Largo al factotum." The officer finds the man sitting on the bench with the (now silent) frog. When the officer inquires who was disturbing the peace, the man angrily points to the frog. This causes the officer to arrest the man and have him committed to an asylum.When he finally gets out, the old man sees a new building about to be dedicated. Sneaking onto the site, he drops the box with the frog into the new building's cornerstone, and sneaks off as the frog sings "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone."Over a hundred years later, the new building is being demolished, when a worker comes across the cornerstone. Inside, like the previous man, he finds the singing frog, who sings "Hello, My Baby" just for him. Just like the previous man, this one feels he can profit from the singing amphibian, and sneaks off...
Question: Build a movie plot around this: Who was Vicky going to marry? Julian
Answer:
Victoria 'Vicky' Page (Moira Shearer) is a young, unknown dancer from an aristocratic background. At an after-ballet party, arranged by her aunt as a surreptitious audition, she meets Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), the ruthless but charismatic impresario of the Ballet Lermontov. Lermontov takes her on as a student, where she is taught by, among others, Grisha Ljubov (Leonide Massine), the company's chief choreographer.After seeing her dance in a matinee performance of Swan Lake,[4] Lermontov realises her potential and invites Vicky to go with the company to Paris and Monte Carlo. When he loses his prima ballerina (Ludmilla Tcherina) to marriage, Lermontov begins to see Vicky as a possible successor. He decides to create a starring role for her in a new ballet, The Red Shoes, the music for which is to be written by Julian Craster (Marius Goring) a brilliant young composer engaged as orchestral coach the same day that Vicky was brought into the company.As the premiere of the ballet approaches, Vicky and Julian lock horns artistically, and then fall in love. The ballet is a great success, and Lermontov talks with Vicky about her future. Lermontov revitalizes the company's repertoire with Vicky in the lead roles, with Julian composing some of the most successful scores.The tale turns toward tragedy when Lermontov begins to have personal feelings toward Vicky. Lermontov's suppressed jealousy clouds his aesthetic discrimination: he rejects Julian's latest composition as childish and vulgar, which Julian (and the viewer) knows to be untrue. Lermontov fires Julian, and Vicky decides to leave the company with him. They marry and live in London where Julian works on composing a new opera. Lermontov relents his decision to enforce Vicky's contract, and permits her to dance where and when she pleases. The one exception is The Red Shoes; Lermontov retains the rights to the ballet and ownership of Julian's music, and refuses to mount it again or allow anyone else to produce the ballet.Original publicity still...