Now this is a movie that showcases both great acting and fantastic direction – and does so in such a way that neither calls attention to itself. The end result is a movie that doesn’t look or feel like a movie. A Beautiful Mind is a an incredibly moving experience. For me, a lot of […]
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A Beautiful Mind
November 1st, 2009 · No Comments · 2001, A Beautiful Mind, Adaptation, Color, Composer: James Horner, Drama, Dreamworks Pictures, Ed Harris, James Horner, John Nash, Mid-Point, Plot Point I, Plot Point II, Ron Howard, Russell Crowe, Screenplay Structure
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Titanic
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · 1997, Bernard Hill, Celine Dion, Color, Composer: James Horner, Drama, James Cameron, James Horner, Kate Winslet, Nudity, Original Screenplay, Sex, Tearjerker, THX, Titanic, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Most of the movies in the 1990s have something in common: they’re tearjerkers. Epic tearjerkers at that. Dances With Wolves is emotional. Schindler’s List is emotional. Forrest Gump is emotional. Braveheart is emotional. The English Patient is boring, but emotional. And then there’s Titanic… Ah, Titanic. It jerks enough tears to fill the Atlantic Ocean, […]
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Braveheart
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · 1995, Braveheart, Color, Composer: James Horner, Drama, F-Word, Freedom, James Horner, Mel Gibson, Original Screenplay, Paramount Pictures, Scotland, William Wallace
“The problem with Scotland is that it is full of Scots,” says Longshanks, King Edward I at the start of Braveheart. And so the king sets out to break the spirit of the savages in Scotland by taxing them, beating them, and raping their women. At first William Wallace (Mel Gibson) wants no part of […]
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