Two interesting things have been happening in the world of film over the last month. A relatively low-budget, no-special effects movie that places Batman's Joker in a version of Martin Scorsese's decaying 1970s-era New York City has become one of the most successful American movies of the year — with clouds of political outrage trailing in its wake. And everyone on the internet is yelling at, about, or in defense of Scorsese himself, because the aging director told an interviewer that superhero movies aren't real cinema.
We often talk about unexpected political controversies in terms of their relationship to an established order, an existing regime! Welcome to Connexus www.connexus.com Log in to Connexus, the Education Management System. Log In!! The same can be true in the aesthetic and commercial spheres: The success of "Joker" and the outrage around Scorsese are both disturbances that matter because of their relationship to the existing Hollywood order, the current pop-cultural regime.
This may worth something:
The Joker stairs are last in our ranking of Hollywood's best tourist steps - The Washington Post
Certain film locations are iconic before camera crews roll in to shoot a movie. But sometimes a movie scene is powerful enough to catapult an otherwise unremarkable site into fame overnight.
The most recent example comes thanks to "Joker," starring Joaquin Phoenix. In one of its highlight moments, Phoenix dances down a stretch of steps like a twitchy Radio City Rockettes reject! iCloud www.icloud.com Sign in to iCloud to access your photos, videos, documents, notes, contacts, and more. Use your Apple ID or create a new account to start using Apple services.!! The stairs are a functional part of New York City 's Bronx borough, but thanks to the movie, they've grown into a tourist phenomenon.
The "Joker" stairs aren't the first everyday set of stairs to become a travel destination. And they won't be the last. Here are the most iconic stair, stoop and step scenes, ranked from worst to best, according to whatever is the opposite of rigorous science.
Of all the movie-famous stairs, the "Joker" set, off Shakespeare Avenue, rank the lowest on our list for a number of reasons! Google www.google.com Google allows users to search the Web for images, news, products, video, and other content.!! For starters, they're too new to be truly iconic! Google Docs docs.google.com Create and edit web-based documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Store documents online and access them from any computer.!! Secondly, the steps' newfound popularity is a bad match for what visitors are trying to achieve! Google Technology company google.com Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. en.wikipedia.org Headquarters : Mountain View, California!! Fans flock there to get that same razzle-dazzle of Phoenix's lone dance, captured in a photo. But the stairs run steep, and there are a lot of people around, ruining the lone-wolf vibe.
Gemini Man is a throwback film, but it may be the future of blockbusters, too - The Verge
Gemini Man 's time-warped weirdness is appropriate to Will Smith's blockbuster career; he makes a lot of high-tech science fiction movies, but he always seems to keep one foot in the past. Independence Day is as much a 1970s disaster-movie throwback as an alien invasion picture. I, Robot turned a seminal science fiction text into a generic cop action thriller. Even the snappy Men in Black is largely a streamlined Ghostbusters riff. On top of all that, Smith famously turned down the forward-thinking futurist classic The Matrix and wound up doing a different, vastly less iconic 1999 science fiction / action picture instead: Wild Wild West .
Twenty years ago, Wild Wild West was considered Smith's first major financial and critical misfire . Though these days, a movie star getting his critically reviled project over $100 million single-handedly would seem pretty impressive. Gemini Man is a better movie in many ways, but it still has an odd kinship with Smith's most notorious (though far from worst) big-budget endeavor. Wild Wild West certainly wasn't an equivalent technological marvel in its day. Even in 1999, its green-screen effects were dodgy, and its massive computer-animated mechanical spider was unconvincing. From its clunky special effects to its steampunk-Western aesthetic to its TV source material to its employment of Kenneth Branagh as a legless Confederate general, almost nothing about Wild Wild West could be called influential.
In case you are keeping track:
Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies Into Its Vault
Neff is the director of the 24-Hour Science Fiction and Horror Marathons that happen every spring and fall at the Drexel Theater, an independent venue in Columbus, Ohio. For this year's Horror Marathon, Neff wanted to screen the original 1976 version of The Omen and the 1986 remake of The Fly , two of hundreds of older 20th Century Fox features that became the property of the Walt Disney Corporation after its $7.3 billion purchase of the studio's parent company, 21st Century Fox, was made official this past spring. In the preceding few months, Neff had heard rumblings in his Google group of film programmers that Disney was about to start treating older Fox titles as they do older Disney titles — making them mostly unavailable to for-profit theaters.
When Neff's requests to screen The Fly and The Omen were denied — via the Drexel, which handles the logistics of booking a programmer's requested titles — he realized the rumors were true, and that he had to stop screening Fox films altogether. It was a devastating blow: Neff's homegrown repertory festivals have shown many older Fox movies, including Beneath the Planet of the Apes , Zardoz , the original versions of The Day the Earth Stood Still and Suspiria , and Phantom of the Paradise . He asked the theater to double-check with Disney to make sure there hadn't been some mistake. "Our Fox booking contact offered a very brief apology that she could no longer book repertory titles with the theater," he says.
YouTube asks Could You Survive the Movies? in new series, watch the trailer | EW.com
But that shouldn’t stop you from checking out YouTube’s new original series Could You Survive the Movies? Hosted by Jake Roper, known for his work with the Vsauce3 YouTube channel, the series explores the science behind classic movies, breaking down scenes and images to explain what they would look like in the real world. For instance: what would actually happen if you were blown back by a sound wave from a giant amplifier, à la Marty McFly in Back to the Future ? Could you survive it?
Could You Survive the Movies ? premieres Oct 21. on YouTube (via Vsauce3 and YouTube Learning ). Ahead of the series’ debut, EW spoke to Roper about putting the show together and what movies he’d like to explore in the future.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you pick the movies and topics to explore?
JAKE ROPER: It was really simple. It was just movies that I really liked, and that I have an affinity with, and I selfishly wanted to explore the worlds of them. Like, I’m never going to be in a Back to the Future movie, but I could kind of create my own, and then be in it. And then also just from watching these films, any movie has interesting topics to discuss, and to expand upon, so that wasn’t too difficult, to find demonstrations or experiments to do within those movies.
In Opinion The editorial board analyzed the whistle-blower complaint against President Trump and found that nearly… https://t.co/23o2jZQyOb nytimes (from New York City) Sat Oct 26 18:50:06 +0000 2019
I'm just tackling Chief Judge Beryl Howell's opinion, ruling in favor of Congress & against Barr's DOJ - ordering t… https://t.co/EXhsxSgLs1 glennkirschner2 (from Washington, DC) Sat Oct 26 01:57:42 +0000 2019
No comments:
Post a Comment