Olly Moss. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian title: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles respectively.[3] The screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping widescreen cinematography and Ennio Morricone composed the famous film score, including its main theme. It is the third film in the Dollars Trilogy following A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965).
The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in buried Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of gunfights, hangings, American Civil War battles and prison camps.[4] The film was a co-production between companies in Italy, Spain and West Germany. Plot[edit] Cast[edit] The trio[edit] Supporting cast[edit] Clint Eastwood. Sergio Leone. Ghost in the Shell. Title[edit] Shirow has stated that he had always wanted the title of his manga to be "GHOST IN THE SHELL", even in Japan, but his original publishers preferred Kōkaku Kidōtai (攻殻機動隊?).
He had chosen "Ghost in the Shell" in homage to Arthur Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine, from which he also drew inspiration.[1] Setting[edit] Primarily set in the mid-twenty-first century in the fictional Japanese city of Niihama, Niihama Prefecture (新浜県新浜市, Niihama-ken Niihama-shi?) ,[Note 1] otherwise known as New Port City (ニューポートシティ, Nyū Pōto Shiti?)
, the manga and the many anime adaptations follow the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. In this post-cyberpunk iteration of a possible future, computer technology has advanced to the point that many members of the public possess cyberbrains, technology that allows them to interface their biological brain with various networks. Media[edit] Original manga[edit] Mamoru Oshii. Currently, Oshii lives in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan with his dog – a mutt named Daniel.[1] Career[edit] Early career (1977 - 1982)[edit] As a student, Mamoru Oshii was fascinated by the film La jetée by Chris Marker.[2] He also repeatedly watched European cinema, such as films by Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Jean-Pierre Melville.[3] These filmmakers, together with Jean-Luc Godard, Andrei Tarkovsky and Jerzy Kawalerowicz,[4] would later serve as influences for Oshii's own cinematic career.[5] In 1976, he graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University.
The following year, he entered Tatsunoko Productions and worked on his first anime as a storyboard artist on Ippatsu Kanta-kun.[6] During this period at Tatsunoko, Oshii worked on many anime as a storyboard artist, most of which were part of the Time Bokan television series. Success with Urusei Yatsura (1981 - 1984)[edit] Dallos, Angel's Egg & Anchor (1983 - 1985)[edit] Patlabor & live-action (1987 - 1993)[edit] Kenji Kawai. Career[edit] Description of selected albums[edit] Ghost in the Shell (1995)[edit] Avalon[edit] Ghost in the Shell – Innocence[edit] Following on from Ghost in the Shell, the score again makes use of female vocals and percussion, though featuring a different melody. Vampire Princess Miyu – TV OST[edit] This CD includes 34 tracks.
List of works[edit] Years 1985–1990[edit] Years 1991–2000[edit] Years 2001 – current[edit] See also[edit] External links[edit] Ghost in the Shell (film) Ghost in the Shell follows the hunt of the public security agency Section 9 for a mysterious hacker known as the Puppet Master. With the assistance of her team, Motoko Kusanagi tracks and finds their suspect, only to be drawn into a complex sequence of political intrigue and a cover-up as to the identity and goals of the Puppet Master. The overarching philosophical themes of the film include sex/gender identity and self-identity in a technologically advanced world. The music, composed by Kenji Kawai, included an ancient Japanese language in a wedding song that serves as a key piece of music leading up to the climax of the movie and serves to set the tone for the creation of a new type of lifeform.
Ghost in the Shell was received positively by critics, who praised its visuals, which at the time were the most effective synthesis of traditional cel animation and CG animation. The world has become interconnected by a vast electronic network that permeates every aspect of life. Saving Private Ryan. Rodat conceived the film's story in 1994 when he saw a monument dedicated to eight siblings killed in the American Civil War.
Rodat imagined a similar sibling narrative set in World War II. The script was submitted to producer Mark Gordon, who handed it to Hanks. It was finally given to Spielberg, who decided to direct. Saving Private Ryan received universal critical acclaim, winning several awards for film, cast, and crew as well as earning significant returns at the box office. The film grossed US$481.8 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing domestic film of the year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated the film for eleven Academy Awards; Spielberg's direction won him a second Academy Award for Best Director, with four more awards going to the film. Plot[edit] On the morning of June 6, 1944, the beginning of the Normandy invasion, American soldiers prepare to land on Omaha Beach.
Elements of the 2nd SS Panzer Division arrive with infantry and armor. Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan opens and closes with an identical image -- an American flag, rippling in the wind. Given that we too often take images at face value, it's easy to figure this for stock patriotism. But look more closely. This isn't standard-issue symbology. The flag is blasted out, leached of all color. It signals that something fundamental has been lost forever, bled from our national psyche. But its mere presence in the frame insists that something else -- perhaps something still more important -- remains behind. That "something else" may be America as concept, the United States as an abstract entity worth dying for in the mud of another continent. If war strategies are mathematical, then Saving Private Ryan's opening battle sequence is the epitome of chaos.
And what he gets amounts to a harrowing marvel. How else to film a war? The main storyline of Saving Private Ryan may seem appalling on its own random terms. Steven Spielberg. The Big Sleep (1946 film) The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir[2][3] directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as the female lead in a story about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its results. "[4] William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay. In 1997, the U.S. Private detective Philip Marlowe (Bogart) is summoned to the mansion of his new client General Sternwood (Waldron). Marlowe goes to Geiger's rare book shop. Vivian comes to Marlowe's office the next morning with scandalous pictures of Carmen she received with a blackmail demand for the negatives.
Marlowe follows Vivian to the apartment of Joe Brody, where he finds Brody armed, and Agnes and Vivian initially hiding. Marlowe visits Mars' casino, where he asks about Regan, who is supposed to have run off with Mars' wife. The Big Sleep is known for its convoluted plot. Humphrey Bogart. Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957)[1][2] was an American actor[3] and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon.[4][5] In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.
Early life[edit] Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart (July 1867, Watkins Glen, New York – September 8, 1934, Tudor City apartments, New York City) and Maud Humphrey (1868–1940). Belmont and Maud married in June 1898. The name “Bogart” comes from the Dutch surname “Bogaert”. It is derived from the word “bogaard”, a short name for “boomgaard”, which means “orchard”.[6] Bogart's father was a Presbyterian of English and Dutch descent; his mother was an Episcopalian of English descent. Bogart's birthday has been a matter of dispute; according to Warner Bros, he was born on Christmas Day, 1899. Bogart's father, Belmont, was a cardiopulmonary surgeon. [edit] Lauren Bacall. In 1999, Bacall was ranked #20 of the 25 actresses on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures.
" Early life[edit] Career[edit] Breakthrough[edit] On the set, Humphrey Bogart, who was married to Mayo Methot, initiated a relationship with Bacall several weeks into shooting and they began seeing each other. 1950s[edit] During 1951-52, Bacall co-starred with Bogart in the syndicated action-adventure radio series Bold Venture. Bacall, Bogart and Henry Fonda in the television version of The Petrified Forest Written on the Wind, directed by Douglas Sirk in 1956, is now considered a classic tear-jerker.[23] Appearing with Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack, Bacall played a career woman whose life is unexpectedly turned around by a family of oil magnates. 1960s and 1970s[edit]