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Titanic Comes Again In Theaters
Titanic Movie comes again theaters and now it is coming in 3D features, which attracts people to watch this movie again. A very famous and heart touching romantic movie and at that time this movie broke all previous records in all categories.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Marilyn Monroe: the sale of breast ayksrun
America in a world renowned actress Marilyn Monroe auction chest X pyntalys three thousand dollars have been sold.
Memorial in Hollywood films plynt high bid of goods sold Marilyn Monroe's breast in the mammogram snh nineteen hundred fifty were sent down.
Ayksrun evaluate their bids to three thousand dollars was imposed.
Bid on a chair that was Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot has been sold for thirty thousand dollars.
In addition, the film Titanic actress Kate unslyt used in earrings were sold in twenty-five thousand dollars.
Earlier Monday, King of Pop Michael Jackson dstanh nineteen hundred carfax which He wore in his Victory Tour ninety one hundred thousand dollars was sold.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Avatar: A Predictable Storyline With A Powerful Political Message
After its win at the Golden Globes for best director and best film, and also its record breaking performance at the box office worldwide, Avatar seems to be well positioned for a very big win at the Oscars. Judging by his behavior at the Golden Globes awards ceremony, Avatar’s director, James Cameron, has mellowed with age or at least kept the megalomaniac side of his personality in check for the evening.
Yet the self proclaimed “King of the world” director of Titanic still behaves like he is a few notches above Hollywood’s fray. For weeks, James Cameron was refusing for “Avatar” to be sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture and other guilds members as a DVD, insisting that his film should be seen on the big screen only. He eventually gave in to pressure, and a few days ago I was able to watch “Avatar” on my reasonably decent TV screen.
I am sure that the viewing experience would have been at least visually more exiting in 3 D and on a giant screen, but regardless of this, after around 10 minutes into James Cameron’s film I was able to guess the story line from A to Z. It is indeed a familiar and to some extend conventional story with some clever twists to it.
Avatar is in a nutshell a futuristic transposition of the conquest of the Americas, and the genocide of the American Indians for land and resources orchestrated in North America by British and French “explorers”, and in Central & South America by Spain’s Conquistadors.
British and French took the land from the tribes, and put they best efforts in converting “the savages” into Christians. The Spaniards had more tangible goals: Taking the gold and the silver from the native populations. In Avatar, the resource is a precious mineral of planet Pandora which the management of a ruthless corporation is willing to take by all means necessary, including deadly force. In order to achieve this, they found a way to infiltrate the tribe of the giant and lanky blue creatures , which most sacred land happens to be the richest depository for the mineral in question.
The devise used by James Cameron to transport humans to the world of the blue creatures is crude. It looks pretty much like a self tanning machine, but it none less successfully functions as a portal to the other world. Sigourney Weaver plays the scientist/anthropologist in charge of the experiment of learning the blue aliens’ language and culture. The semi-militarized corporation’s (think Halliburton & Blackwater combined in a futuristic nightmare) leadership thinks it is a waste of time, and decides to infiltrate the pool of scientists with a former Marine crippled and in a wheel chair.
The ex-Marine quickly discovers planet Pandora’s magical world where not only he can walk again, but where all of his senses are increased 100 folds. But then the predictability of the story comes again when he meets a blue alien version of Pocahontas. His mission was to infiltrate the tribe by sharing their appearance, but instead he quickly becomes seduced not only by his new love interest but also by the giant blue aliens primitive but powerful culture. In this formulaic version of the “forbidden love” between two species love of course shall triumph at the end.
As the story unfold, our hero is slowly but surely switching side from working on the behalf of the greedy and brutal invaders to being seduced and finally helping the “savage” aliens. Having at their disposal only primitive weapons, the blue creatures should be easily outgunned by the might of the nasty industrial-military complex which the fictional corporation represents well. However, the blue creatures have strong allies in the magical jungle they inhabit. Most of the dangerous animal like creatures of Pandora’s jungle seem to be coming not only from James Cameron’s imagination but also from planet earth circa pre-historic time. They are vicious pit bulls/hyena like snarling creatures on steroid, giant Rhinoceros with a double hammer head and voracious Dinosaur like giant birds which the blue aliens ride like American Indians did with wild mustangs.
Because Avatar is after all an Hollywood movie, it does provide a happy ending of some sort. In this eternal tale of the fight between the good “savages aliens” and the evil neo-military corporation, the blue giants ultimately prevail. And this is the political message which, beside the visual feast created by Cameron, has brought so many people to watch this movie worldwide, and also probably gave Avatar 9 Oscar nominations.
Cameron has picked an appropriate name for the mythical universe he paints with visual gusto as planet Pandora, because despite some of the formulaic aspects of the film, he does manage to open a global political Pandora’s box. James Cameron makes a bold attack on war, greed, violence, and offers a slightly predictable, but none less potent and stunning manifesto against our current model of development which is built on exploitation, social injustice and the rape of our own planet for the narrow minded profit of a few but against the long term interest of all.
Yet the self proclaimed “King of the world” director of Titanic still behaves like he is a few notches above Hollywood’s fray. For weeks, James Cameron was refusing for “Avatar” to be sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture and other guilds members as a DVD, insisting that his film should be seen on the big screen only. He eventually gave in to pressure, and a few days ago I was able to watch “Avatar” on my reasonably decent TV screen.
I am sure that the viewing experience would have been at least visually more exiting in 3 D and on a giant screen, but regardless of this, after around 10 minutes into James Cameron’s film I was able to guess the story line from A to Z. It is indeed a familiar and to some extend conventional story with some clever twists to it.
Avatar is in a nutshell a futuristic transposition of the conquest of the Americas, and the genocide of the American Indians for land and resources orchestrated in North America by British and French “explorers”, and in Central & South America by Spain’s Conquistadors.
British and French took the land from the tribes, and put they best efforts in converting “the savages” into Christians. The Spaniards had more tangible goals: Taking the gold and the silver from the native populations. In Avatar, the resource is a precious mineral of planet Pandora which the management of a ruthless corporation is willing to take by all means necessary, including deadly force. In order to achieve this, they found a way to infiltrate the tribe of the giant and lanky blue creatures , which most sacred land happens to be the richest depository for the mineral in question.
The devise used by James Cameron to transport humans to the world of the blue creatures is crude. It looks pretty much like a self tanning machine, but it none less successfully functions as a portal to the other world. Sigourney Weaver plays the scientist/anthropologist in charge of the experiment of learning the blue aliens’ language and culture. The semi-militarized corporation’s (think Halliburton & Blackwater combined in a futuristic nightmare) leadership thinks it is a waste of time, and decides to infiltrate the pool of scientists with a former Marine crippled and in a wheel chair.
The ex-Marine quickly discovers planet Pandora’s magical world where not only he can walk again, but where all of his senses are increased 100 folds. But then the predictability of the story comes again when he meets a blue alien version of Pocahontas. His mission was to infiltrate the tribe by sharing their appearance, but instead he quickly becomes seduced not only by his new love interest but also by the giant blue aliens primitive but powerful culture. In this formulaic version of the “forbidden love” between two species love of course shall triumph at the end.
As the story unfold, our hero is slowly but surely switching side from working on the behalf of the greedy and brutal invaders to being seduced and finally helping the “savage” aliens. Having at their disposal only primitive weapons, the blue creatures should be easily outgunned by the might of the nasty industrial-military complex which the fictional corporation represents well. However, the blue creatures have strong allies in the magical jungle they inhabit. Most of the dangerous animal like creatures of Pandora’s jungle seem to be coming not only from James Cameron’s imagination but also from planet earth circa pre-historic time. They are vicious pit bulls/hyena like snarling creatures on steroid, giant Rhinoceros with a double hammer head and voracious Dinosaur like giant birds which the blue aliens ride like American Indians did with wild mustangs.
Because Avatar is after all an Hollywood movie, it does provide a happy ending of some sort. In this eternal tale of the fight between the good “savages aliens” and the evil neo-military corporation, the blue giants ultimately prevail. And this is the political message which, beside the visual feast created by Cameron, has brought so many people to watch this movie worldwide, and also probably gave Avatar 9 Oscar nominations.
Cameron has picked an appropriate name for the mythical universe he paints with visual gusto as planet Pandora, because despite some of the formulaic aspects of the film, he does manage to open a global political Pandora’s box. James Cameron makes a bold attack on war, greed, violence, and offers a slightly predictable, but none less potent and stunning manifesto against our current model of development which is built on exploitation, social injustice and the rape of our own planet for the narrow minded profit of a few but against the long term interest of all.
“The Hurt Locker” Wins Oscar For Best Picture. “Avatar” Gets Snubbed
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences selected “The Hurt Locker” as the Best Picture for 2010. The movie is about a U.S. Army bomb technician who lives for the adrenaline of being able to defuse bombs in what is supposedly the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The film was shot in Jordan.
The movie also won 7 other Oscars, including Best Director.
“Avatar” had a good chance and was expected by many to win the Oscar for Best Picture. But the movie — the highest grossing of all time — only won 3 Oscars, including Best Visual Effects.
“Avatar” was the opposite of what “The Hurt Locker” is about. It focuses on the struggles of indigenous inhabitants of the moon “Pandorum” who fight to preserve their land.
Many progressives liked “Avatar” because of it’s environmental message. Yet, a more violent film, “The Hurt Locker” managed to beat it.
“The Hurt Locker” was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who also directed the 1991 movie, “Point Break” starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. Her win as Best Director also makes her the first female to receive such an award. She was also once married to James Cameron, who directed “Avatar.”
Another movie that progressives were rooting for was “Food Inc.” The documentary exposes who is behind the junk that Americans eat. “Food Inc.” was nominated for Best Feature Documentary, but it lost over “The Cove,” a documentary about dolphins.
Another upset, and a source of disappointment for most of our editorial staff at The News Junkie Post, was the fact that the Academy of Motion Picture members failed to give some well deserved attention to the film ” District 9″ which was nominated in the best picture and best adapted screenplay categories. Regardless, “District 9″ is likely, in due time, to become a classic despite its snubbing by the Academy.
There is a great irony about the win of “The Hurt Locker” over “Avatar”. As Americans are dealing with the permanent anxiety and stress created by the wars in Iraq (the topic of Kathryn Bigelow’s film) and Afghanistan, and as the Obama administration is trying to get the US troops out of Iraq; more members of the Academy decided to vote for a film dragging us back to Iraq as opposed to one, “Avatar”, which despite it flows has a soulful uplifting message taking us to a better place. One would wonder if a lot of Academy members suffer from second hand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The movie also won 7 other Oscars, including Best Director.
“Avatar” had a good chance and was expected by many to win the Oscar for Best Picture. But the movie — the highest grossing of all time — only won 3 Oscars, including Best Visual Effects.
“Avatar” was the opposite of what “The Hurt Locker” is about. It focuses on the struggles of indigenous inhabitants of the moon “Pandorum” who fight to preserve their land.
Many progressives liked “Avatar” because of it’s environmental message. Yet, a more violent film, “The Hurt Locker” managed to beat it.
“The Hurt Locker” was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who also directed the 1991 movie, “Point Break” starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. Her win as Best Director also makes her the first female to receive such an award. She was also once married to James Cameron, who directed “Avatar.”
Another movie that progressives were rooting for was “Food Inc.” The documentary exposes who is behind the junk that Americans eat. “Food Inc.” was nominated for Best Feature Documentary, but it lost over “The Cove,” a documentary about dolphins.
Another upset, and a source of disappointment for most of our editorial staff at The News Junkie Post, was the fact that the Academy of Motion Picture members failed to give some well deserved attention to the film ” District 9″ which was nominated in the best picture and best adapted screenplay categories. Regardless, “District 9″ is likely, in due time, to become a classic despite its snubbing by the Academy.
There is a great irony about the win of “The Hurt Locker” over “Avatar”. As Americans are dealing with the permanent anxiety and stress created by the wars in Iraq (the topic of Kathryn Bigelow’s film) and Afghanistan, and as the Obama administration is trying to get the US troops out of Iraq; more members of the Academy decided to vote for a film dragging us back to Iraq as opposed to one, “Avatar”, which despite it flows has a soulful uplifting message taking us to a better place. One would wonder if a lot of Academy members suffer from second hand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Jeff Bridges Deserves An Oscar For “Crazy Heart”
The main difference between movie stars and actors is that, too often, movie stars make the characters they play fit into their own persona. True actors do the opposite by going under the skin of the characters they inhabit on the silver screen. Great actors, such as Jeff Bridges, make this intense psychological challenge of becoming someone else seem effortless.
In “Crazy Heart”, Jeff Bridges accomplished this magical metamorphosis by embodying Bad Blake a down-on-his-luck hard drinking small time country singer. Jeff Bridges is so much at the top of his game in “Crazy Heart” that we can almost smell the tobacco on his clothes and hair, and get a strong whiff of booze from his breath.
The perfect little gem that is “Crazy Heart” finds Bad Blake at the end of his rope. Bad Blake is barely surviving drifting from one small time gig to the next in his beat up old Suburban. Blake is out of control, fading fast and seems to be about to lose his grip on life. But then he meets a young reporter who sees the talent and even the humor of Blake under the crumbling facade, and despite the obvious wreckage of his life.
“Life is funny and tragic, and the humor in the movie gets you a relief from the downside, but it also sort of sets you up for the next hard moment. It makes it a bit off kilter- you are laughing, and then heartbreak comes. It is like great country music,” said Bridges.
And like great country music, this terrific movie is about raw emotions, heartbreaks and trying to overcome adversity. Jeff Bridges drew his inspiration from several country singers to become Bad Blake on the screen.
“One of the direction that “Crazy Heart” writer/director, Scott Cooper, gave me was to to think of the Highwaymen- Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johny Cash and Kris Kristofferson- and to think that, in our alternate universe, Bad Blake would have been the fifth Highwayman. All of those guys and other people went into it. Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan. There are aspects of myself too. That is where I start with all the parts I do. I look for the places where my character and I overlap. That is always the beginning point,” said Bridges.
An Oscar win is long overdue for Jeff Bridges. During his long career, the 60 years old actor has had four Oscar nominations. One for lead actor in “Starman” (1984), and three for supporting roles in “The Last Picture Show”(1971), “Thunderbolt & Light-Foot”(1974) and “The Contender” (2000).
“Crazy Heart” is based on a novel by Thomas Cobb and was written and directed by first time director Scott Cooper. The small budget movie was shot in just 24 days, but it is likely to become a film classic. It is a throw back to gritty, unpretentious American cinema with rich multidimensional characters, which are not cardboard cutouts like in so many big Hollywood films. “Crazy Heart” oozes with the richness of its characters, it is about life, love, heartbreak and ultimately the triumph of the human spirit over life’s curve balls.
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