5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy Who Was He? Born to a family of redneck farmers from Tennessee, Alvin York spent much of his youth getting piss drunk in bars and getting into crazy barfights. When his friend got killed in one of the aforementioned barfights, he swore off the liquor, and became a pacifist. About a year later, he was one of 17 men designated to sneak around and take out a fortified machine-gun encampment guarding a German railroad. What's left of York's troupe. The few survivors that didn't have enormous balls of steel ran away, leaving York standing there taking fire from 32 heavy machine gunners. "I didn't have time to dodge behind a tree or dive into the brush, I didn't even have time to kneel or lie down. After he killed the first 20 men or so, a German lieutenant got five guys together to try to take this guy from the side. At this point lieutenant Paul Jurgen Vollmer yelled out over the noise asking if York was English. The Best Hollywood Could Come Up With: John Rambo from Rambo.
Early Movie Concept Art: See What Your Favorite Characters Could've Looked Like Just as with scripts, movie concept artists go through many a draft until they get the final approval for their character portrayals. Take Shrek for example. A recent photo posted to Reddit revealed that our favorite green ogre with a hero’s heart started out looking more like the star of ‘Coneheads.’ And Yoda, ‘Star Wars” supreme Jedi master, was originally depicted as a combination of hobbit and elf from the upcoming ‘Hobbit‘ trilogy. It’s safe to say that if things had gone differently — maybe if one day Pixar studio reps had drank too much coffee than usual and approved the wrong sketches — all these classic characters, from ‘X-Men‘ mutants to Woody and Buzz in ‘Toy Story,’ wouldn’t have looked the way they do today. So, just for fun, we’ve tracked down some early (and we mean early) movie concept art and sketches to see what was going on in these artists’ heads when they first started imagining characters into existence. Shrek, ‘Shrek’ Yoda, ‘Star Wars’ Chewbacca, ‘Star Wars’
The 23 best film directors in the world today | Film 1 - Paul Thomas Anderson Though he's released only five films over a 16-year career, Paul Thomas Anderson has risen from promising young whiz-kid to Hollywood royalty with barely a bump along the way. As the scope of his work has tightened – from the sprawling ensembles of Boogie Nights and Magnolia through the intimate duologue of Punch-Drunk Love to the all-consuming solipsism of There Will Be Blood – so his dedication to his craft has intensified, with his disdain for PR and celebrity marking him out as the most devout film-maker of his generation (as well as the owner of one of Wikipedia's most glitz-free "personal life" sections). His upcoming film The Master, a controversial look at the birth of a cult not entirely dissimilar to the Church of Scientology, should make that title inarguable. 2 - Lynne Ramsay When it was first announced that Lynne Ramsay was to direct an adaptation of We Need To Talk About Kevin, there were enormous sighs of relief all round: "It's in safe hands."
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6 Most Stunning Actress Transformations Disclosure: This post is part of an upcoming sponsorship with the movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. While we’re all used to seeing Hollywood actresses dolled up for red carpet events like the Oscars or the Golden Globes, we’re more amazed when they leave all that glitz and glamour behind to transform themselves into something completely different. Today, we’ve compiled a list of modern-day actresses who have done just that. While in some cases they’ve endured hours in the make-up chair, other times they’ve taken drastic, highly disciplined steps to morph right in front of our very eyes. Here, then, is our list of the six most stunning actress transformations from recent and upcoming movies. Rooney Mora as Lisbeth (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) How does a seemingly sweet girl who was last seen as Mark Zuckerberg's pretty, quick-witted girlfriend in The Social Network, show that she can play a androgynous, bisexual computer hacker? Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl (A Mighty Heart)
30 Essential Films Missing From The Sight & Sound Top 100 The trouble with a list is that not everyone is going to agree. What's often offered as a personal selection of favorites can often be taken by a reader as a personal affront, a sign of snobbery or boorishness, even if a list is a compilation from multiple contributors. And as the fuss over the Sight & Sound Greatest Films Of All Time poll reminds us, that'll likely always be the case. After all, we know that it's all just a fun exercise, and yet looking over the full list (published today on the magazine's website along with the 800-odd submissions from critics all of the world), we still feel the pang of the absence of some of our own favorites. So with the publication of the full poll today, we thought we'd politely offer our own suggestions of films missing from the list altogether, as well as another selection that got into the 250, but haven't yet cracked the top 100 (but could do in future years, given a film only needs a few dozen votes to make it in). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Manvotional: 4 Rules on How to Make the Most of Life “How to Make the Most of Life” From Every-day Religion, 1886 By James Freeman Clarke Some persons make a great deal of life; others very little. To some it is intensely interesting; to others, very vapid. Some are tired of life before they have begun to live. This…is the first rule for making the most of life: Forget yourself in some interest outside of yourself. But, you may say, we cannot all be inspired apostles or great philosophers. In the great storms which have lately swept over the north Atlantic, a steamer from our shores discovered another, dismasted and rudderless, drifting before the gale, its decks swept by terrible seas. The poor steamer foundered because it drifted; because its steering apparatus was lost. These men, however, it may be said, were enthusiasts; they had enthusiasm for some pursuit, to which they devoted themselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson is another striking instance in our times of a man who made the most of life.
If the rest of this years movie posters told the truth It's been far too long since our last movie poster TRUTH-BOMBING: here's a round-up of the remaining movies that have dodged our rapist rapier wit so far this year. Attention Stumblers! We have a new feature we think you'll like: If 2012's Oscar posters told the truth. In conclusion, I have far too much time on my hands. Attention Stumblers! New York movies: The 100 best films set in New York City By David Fear, Stephen Garrett, Joshua Rothkopf, Keith Uhlich and Alison Willmore Tue Jul 3 2012 Paradise and prison, bustling metropolis and the loneliest place on earth: New York City has a cinematic identity that infuses all walks of life. Even as we write our own narratives in this most famous of locations, we walk alongside fictional characters (and sometimes real ones, too, if we’re lucky). In selecting the 100 most essential New York movies, we kept the city’s boldness in mind. TONY Film staffers David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf and Keith Uhlich teamed up with movie experts Stephen Garrett and Alison Willmore to gather titles from all genres and eras—the widely known and the obscure—in pursuit of a complete picture of NYC on film. Our only parameter: The movie had to be set in New York City, not Metropolis (sorry, Superman fans), Oz (ditto, you Wiz diehards), nor anywhere else.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Towels The Top 100 Films of the Noughties Director:Shane Meadows Starring:Thomas Turgoose,Stephen Graham, Frank Harper, Joseph Gilgun, Keiran Hardcastle, Jo Hartley, Vicky McLure, Jack O'Connell, George Newton, Andrew Shim, Andrew Ellis. Shane Meadows continues to justify his tag as the British Martin Scorsese with this riveting portrayal of life in Thatchers Britain circa 1983. Thomas Turgoose plays Shaun, a 12 year old boy a troubled and alienated boy who is bullied at school.