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The Comedy of Errors

2010-07-15T21:28:20Z

Additioner: Synopsis

'''''The Comedy of Errors''''' is a play by [[William Shakespeare]] and one of his earlier comedies (and one of his shortest), from 1589. It involves ridiculous coincidences, when two twin brothers and their twin servants are mistaken for each other.

==Synopsis==
The play opens with an elderly merchant from Syracuse, Aegeon, being condemned by the Duke of Ephesus, because of the rivalries between the two cities. Before he is executed, the Duke asks Aegeon to explain why he came to Ephesus. Aegeon tells how he had been a merchant with a wife called Aemilia. On one trip, his wife became pregnant and delivered identical twin sons. Coincidentally, in the same inn, a poor woman had two identical twins. Since she was so poor, Aegeon bought them as slaves for his sons. On the trip home, a great storm split their ship in half. On one side was Aegeon, one son and his slave and on the other side Adriana, one son and his slave. They were both saved by different seafarers. After many years, Aegeon's son, Antipholus of Syracuse, eventually went searching for them and became lost to Aegeon. Aegeon tried to find his son and ended up by mishap in Ephesus. The Duke of Ephesus naturally pities Aegeon's sad tale and gives him one day to pay a thousand marks to ransom his life.

That very day, Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio, arrive in Ephesus. The errors begin immediately. Dromio of Ephesus tries to bring Antipholus of Syracuse to dinner, making Antipholus think his servant is joking around. This often ends in both Dromios being beaten. Antipholus of Syracuse ends up dining with his brother’s wife, Adriana and her sister, Luciana. To complicate matters, Antipholus of Syracuse falls in love with Luciana, while Antipholus of Ephesus is kept outside of his own home and has to dine elsewhere. The matter is also complicated when a Jeweler named Angelo tries to give Antipholus a golden chain before having him pay for it. Eventually, Adriana and Luciana are convinced that her husband and his servant must be mad and have them bound. Eventually, Antipholus of Syracuse are chased into an Abbey, where the Abbess decides to offer them sanctuary.

At the end of the day, the Duke comes with Aegeon and hears everybody’s varied accounts of the day. He is perplexed and the confusion is added to when Aegeon mistakes Antipholus of Ephesus for the son he raised. However the matters are instantaneously cleared when the Abbess brings out the twin brothers. The play ends with the characters untangling the day’s confusion. The Abbess it turns out is Aegeon's wife Aemilia and they soon identify their sons. They have a feast of celebration.

===External Links===
[http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/The_Comedy_of_Errors/index.html/ Full text of The Comedy of Errors]

[http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/playmenu.php?WorkID=comedyerrors Open Source Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors ]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Comedy of Erros, A}}
[[Category: Plays of Shakespeare]]

Minority Report

2010-06-05T11:53:06Z

Additioner: cast

{{Infobox Film
| name=Minority Report
| image=
| caption=
| director=[[Steven Spielberg]]
| producer=Jan de Bont Bonnie Curtis Gary Goldman Gerald R. Molen Walter F. Parkes Ronald Shusett
| writer=[[Philip K. Dick]] (creator) Scott Frank John Cohen
| narrator=
| starring=[[Tom Cruise]] Colin Farrell Max von Sydow
| music=[[John Williams]]
| cinematography=Januz Kaminski
| editing=Michael Kahn
| distributor=[[20th Century Fox]] DreamWorks SKG
| released=June 21, 2002
| runtime=145 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$102,000,000
| gross= $358,372,926
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0181689
}}

'''Minority Report''' is a 2002 Steven Spielberg film about a world where the police prevent murders before they actually happen (called Pre-crime.)

==Plot==
The story opens with a fuzzily seen murder of a woman and her lover by a mysterious being called a precog. A group of police officers, led by a man named John Anderton, examine the evidence surrounding the murder to find out where it ''will'' happen. The police manage to enter the room where a husband witnesses his wife have an affair, just before the tape said he would murder the lovers. He is arrested before he can actually do anything.

John Anderton, is the insecure leader of the precrime forces, having lost his son one day to a kidnapper. He is divorced and apparently on drugs. However, he successfully prevents most of the murders through precrime, under precrime director, Lamar Burgess. One day, an agent from the department of justice, Danny Witwer, inspects the system. Witwer, a former seminary student who lost his father, believes the system has a flaw of some sort. One of the precogs, Agatha, mysteriously shows images of the murder of a woman named Ann Lively.

John Anderton is investigating the facts of another murder, but the tape ends when ''he'' shoots a man named Leo Crowe. Anderton runs from precrime, pursued by Witwer. Anderton finds Iris Hineman, the other person who founded precrime with Burgess. Hineman tells Anderton his only hope is a minority report, a report seen by Agatha the precog, which is another possible choice the person could make. Since everyone is subject to eye scans, Anderton finds a doctor who replaces his eyes and then Anderton (facially disguised) goes to precrime and takes Agatha away, thereby impairing precrime.

Anderton tries to get his own minority report, but Agatha only shows the same murder again. Anderton finds Crow's address and finds evidence that Crow was the one who took his son and he now wants to shoot Crow. However, Agatha tells Anderton that he too "can choose." Anderton is about to kill Crow, but instead simply arrests him. Crow then begs Anderton to shoot him, because he has a fatal disease and his family will be taken care of if he dies. Crow ends up committing suicide.

Witwer examines the scene at Crow's hotel room, but realizes it was a set up. He investigates and discovers the murder of Ann Lively. He realizes that her murder had been altered so the real offender could get away with the murder. He makes the mistake of showing his findings to Lamar Burgess, who shoots Witwer to keep him silent.

Anderton and Agatha hide at Anderton's ex-wife Lara's house, but they are soon captured by precrime. Agatha is returned to precrime and Anderton is imprisoned. Burgess reveals to Lara that he knew about Ann Lively's murder. During a ceremony to honor Burgess just before precrime goes national, Lara sets Anderton free and they play back the murder in front of the press.

A new murder is seen at precrime, with Burgess killing Anderton. Burgess leaves with a gun and meets Anderton. Anderton tells him he too can choose and Burgess decides to commit suicide. Precrime disbands, with Lara remarried to Anderton and the precogs living a normal life.

==Cast==

Tom Cruise - Chief John Anderton

Max von Sydow - Director Lamar Burgess

Colin Farrell - Danny Witwer

Samantha Morton - Agatha

Lois Smith - Dr. Iris Hineman

Kathryn Morris - Lara Clarke

Mike Binder - Leo Crow

[[Category: Movies]]

Minority Report

2010-06-05T11:48:17Z

Additioner: Plot added

Minority Report

2010-06-05T11:03:25Z

Additioner: improved template

Gladiator (2000 film)

2010-06-05T00:49:49Z

Additioner: improved template

{{Infobox Film
| name=Gladiator
| image=
| caption=
| director=[[Ridley Scott]]
| producer=David Franzoni Branko Lustig Laurie MacDonald Walter F. Parkes Douglas Wick Ridley Scott (uncredited)
| writer=David Franzoni (creator) John Logan William Nicholson
| narrator=
| starring=[[Russell Crowe]] Joaquin Phoenix Connie Nielsen
| music=Lisa Gerrard Hans Zimmer
| cinematography=John Mathieson
| editing=Pietro Scalia
| distributor=DreamWorks SKG
| released=May 5, 2000
| runtime=155 min.
| country=[[UK]] [[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$103,000,000
| gross=$457,640,427
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'''Gladiator''' is a 2000 film about a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] general named Maximus, played by Russell Crowe. After a war with Germanic tribes, the Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]] adopts Maximus as his heir. Aurelius's son, Commodus, grows jealous, assassinates Aurelius, and hangs Maximus's wife and son. Maximus is sold into slavery, but exploits the gladiatorial system and Commodus’s decadence to exact vengeance.

This film is not historical, but uses the names of existing Romans (such as Aurelius, Commodus, and Lucius). It portrays the pagan concept of Elysium as being real. Scriptwriter John Franzoni said, "The film is about a hero who has morality, but that morality is a secular morality." <ref> Quoted in "Hollywood Worldviews" ''Watching films with wisdom and discernment,'' Brian Godawa, InterVarsity Press, p. 141 </ref> The film was rated "R" for intense graphic combat. The film won 5 [[Oscars]] for Best Actor in Leading Role, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Picture and Best Sound and was nominated for another 7 Oscars. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/awards </ref>

==Plot==
The film begins with a with the Roman legions, led by General Maximus, conquering the last remnants of rebellion in [[Germania]] against Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]]. After the battle, the Emperor is met by his children, [[Commodus]] and Lucilla. The aged Emperor is on the verge of naming an heir for the throne. Against lineage, Aurelius asks Maximus to consider becoming Emperor in order to give Rome back to the people, returning it to democracy. Maximus is reluctant, because he wants to be with his wife and son on his farm again, but prepares to accept. However, Commodus learns his father's plans and bitterly suffocates his father, becoming Emperor.

When Maximus rejects Commodus, knowing him to be a murderer, Commodus orders him and his family to be executed. While Maximus escapes, his family is brutally slaughtered. Maximus is found by a group of traders who sell him to a man named Proximo, who trains gladiators. Maximus does well in the games, but is reluctant to please the crowd with his bloody endeavors. Proximo, a former gladiator who was freed by Aurelius, advises him to change his attitude.

Meanwhile, Commodus returns to Rome as Emperor. To win the peoples love, against good policy, Commodus throws hundreds of fights in Rome for the people. Proximo and his Gladiators arrive in Rome and Maximus allies with several gladiators to defeat their opponents. Impressed by Maximus, Commodus enters the arena and meets Maximus face to face. Although he wants to kill him, the spectators are enamored with his performance and Commodus needs to spare his life.

Even after pitting Maximus against several challenging fighters, Commodus cannot kill Maximus. Maximus plots with Senator Gracchus and Lucilla to overthrow Commodus by reuniting him with his army. However, their plans fail and Commodus captures Maximus, imprisons Gracchus and threatens Lucilla's son.

{{Spoiler}}

Commodus then challenges Maximus in a duel in the Colliseum, but not before seriously wounding him. Commodus desperately tries to kill Maximus, but none of his guards aid him and Maximus is victorious. Maximus then gives the message of Marcus Aurelius, desiring that Rome return to democracy. Maximus falls to the ground dying, but seeing his family again after death. He is honored by Rome as a hero.

==Cast==

[[Russell Crowe]] - Maximus

Joaquin Phoenix - Commodus

Connie Nielsen - Lucilla

Oliver Reed - Proximo

Richard Harris - Marcus Aurelius

Derek Jacobi - Gracchus

Djimon Hounsou - Juba

Spencer Treat Clark - Lucius

=====References=====
<references/>

[[Category: Movies]]

Gladiator (2000 film)

2010-06-05T00:45:22Z

Additioner: Cast

{{Infobox Film
| name=Gladiator
| image=
| caption=
| director=[[Ridley Scott]]
| producer=David Franzoni Branko Lustig Laurie MacDonald Walter F. Parkes Douglas Wick Ridley Scott (uncredited)
| writer=David Franzoni (creator) John Logan William Nicholson
| starring=[[Russell Crowe]] Joaquin Phoenix Connie Nielsen
| music=Lisa Gerrard Hans Zimmer
| cinematography=John Mathieson
| editing=Pietro Scalia
| distributor=DreamWorks SKG
| release date(s)=May 5, 2000
| running time=155 min.
| language=English}}

'''Gladiator''' is a 2000 film about a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] general named Maximus, played by Russell Crowe. After a war with Germanic tribes, the Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]] adopts Maximus as his heir. Aurelius's son, Commodus, grows jealous, assassinates Aurelius, and hangs Maximus's wife and son. Maximus is sold into slavery, but exploits the gladiatorial system and Commodus’s decadence to exact vengeance.

This film is not historical, but uses the names of existing Romans (such as Aurelius, Commodus, and Lucius). It portrays the pagan concept of Elysium as being real. Scriptwriter John Franzoni said, "The film is about a hero who has morality, but that morality is a secular morality." <ref> Quoted in "Hollywood Worldviews" ''Watching films with wisdom and discernment,'' Brian Godawa, InterVarsity Press, p. 141 </ref> The film was rated "R" for intense graphic combat. The film won 5 [[Oscars]] for Best Actor in Leading Role, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Picture and Best Sound and was nominated for another 7 Oscars. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/awards </ref>

==Plot==
The film begins with a with the Roman legions, led by General Maximus, conquering the last remnants of rebellion in [[Germania]] against Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]]. After the battle, the Emperor is met by his children, [[Commodus]] and Lucilla. The aged Emperor is on the verge of naming an heir for the throne. Against lineage, Aurelius asks Maximus to consider becoming Emperor in order to give Rome back to the people, returning it to democracy. Maximus is reluctant, because he wants to be with his wife and son on his farm again, but prepares to accept. However, Commodus learns his father's plans and bitterly suffocates his father, becoming Emperor.

When Maximus rejects Commodus, knowing him to be a murderer, Commodus orders him and his family to be executed. While Maximus escapes, his family is brutally slaughtered. Maximus is found by a group of traders who sell him to a man named Proximo, who trains gladiators. Maximus does well in the games, but is reluctant to please the crowd with his bloody endeavors. Proximo, a former gladiator who was freed by Aurelius, advises him to change his attitude.

Meanwhile, Commodus returns to Rome as Emperor. To win the peoples love, against good policy, Commodus throws hundreds of fights in Rome for the people. Proximo and his Gladiators arrive in Rome and Maximus allies with several gladiators to defeat their opponents. Impressed by Maximus, Commodus enters the arena and meets Maximus face to face. Although he wants to kill him, the spectators are enamored with his performance and Commodus needs to spare his life.

Even after pitting Maximus against several challenging fighters, Commodus cannot kill Maximus. Maximus plots with Senator Gracchus and Lucilla to overthrow Commodus by reuniting him with his army. However, their plans fail and Commodus captures Maximus, imprisons Gracchus and threatens Lucilla's son.

{{Spoiler}}

Commodus then challenges Maximus in a duel in the Colliseum, but not before seriously wounding him. Commodus desperately tries to kill Maximus, but none of his guards aid him and Maximus is victorious. Maximus then gives the message of Marcus Aurelius, desiring that Rome return to democracy. Maximus falls to the ground dying, but seeing his family again after death. He is honored by Rome as a hero.

==Cast==

[[Russell Crowe]] - Maximus

Joaquin Phoenix - Commodus

Connie Nielsen - Lucilla

Oliver Reed - Proximo

Richard Harris - Marcus Aurelius

Derek Jacobi - Gracchus

Djimon Hounsou - Juba

Spencer Treat Clark - Lucius

=====References=====
<references/>

[[Category: Movies]]

Gladiator (2000 film)

2010-06-05T00:41:52Z

Additioner:

{{Infobox Film
| name=Gladiator
| image=
| caption=
| director=[[Ridley Scott]]
| producer=David Franzoni Branko Lustig Laurie MacDonald Walter F. Parkes Douglas Wick Ridley Scott (uncredited)
| writer=David Franzoni (creator) John Logan William Nicholson
| starring=[[Russell Crowe]] Joaquin Phoenix Connie Nielsen
| music=Lisa Gerrard Hans Zimmer
| cinematography=John Mathieson
| editing=Pietro Scalia
| distributor=DreamWorks SKG
| release date(s)=May 5, 2000
| running time=155 min.
| language=English}}

'''Gladiator''' is a 2000 film about a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] general named Maximus, played by Russell Crowe. After a war with Germanic tribes, the Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]] adopts Maximus as his heir. Aurelius's son, Commodus, grows jealous, assassinates Aurelius, and hangs Maximus's wife and son. Maximus is sold into slavery, but exploits the gladiatorial system and Commodus’s decadence to exact vengeance.

This film is not historical, but uses the names of existing Romans (such as Aurelius, Commodus, and Lucius). It portrays the pagan concept of Elysium as being real. Scriptwriter John Franzoni said, "The film is about a hero who has morality, but that morality is a secular morality." <ref> Quoted in "Hollywood Worldviews" ''Watching films with wisdom and discernment,'' Brian Godawa, InterVarsity Press, p. 141 </ref> The film was rated "R" for intense graphic combat. The film won 5 [[Oscars]] for Best Actor in Leading Role, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Picture and Best Sound and was nominated for another 7 Oscars. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/awards </ref>

==Plot==
The film begins with a with the Roman legions, led by General Maximus, conquering the last remnants of rebellion in [[Germania]] against Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]]. After the battle, the Emperor is met by his children, [[Commodus]] and Lucilla. The aged Emperor is on the verge of naming an heir for the throne. Against lineage, Aurelius asks Maximus to consider becoming Emperor in order to give Rome back to the people, returning it to democracy. Maximus is reluctant, because he wants to be with his wife and son on his farm again, but prepares to accept. However, Commodus learns his father's plans and bitterly suffocates his father, becoming Emperor.

When Maximus rejects Commodus, knowing him to be a murderer, Commodus orders him and his family to be executed. While Maximus escapes, his family is brutally slaughtered. Maximus is found by a group of traders who sell him to a man named Proximo, who trains gladiators. Maximus does well in the games, but is reluctant to please the crowd with his bloody endeavors. Proximo, a former gladiator who was freed by Aurelius, advises him to change his attitude.

Meanwhile, Commodus returns to Rome as Emperor. To win the peoples love, against good policy, Commodus throws hundreds of fights in Rome for the people. Proximo and his Gladiators arrive in Rome and Maximus allies with several gladiators to defeat their opponents. Impressed by Maximus, Commodus enters the arena and meets Maximus face to face. Although he wants to kill him, the spectators are enamored with his performance and Commodus needs to spare his life.

Even after pitting Maximus against several challenging fighters, Commodus cannot kill Maximus. Maximus plots with Senator Gracchus and Lucilla to overthrow Commodus by reuniting him with his army. However, their plans fail and Commodus captures Maximus, imprisons Gracchus and threatens Lucilla's son.

{{Spoiler}}

Commodus then challenges Maximus in a duel in the Colliseum, but not before seriously wounding him. Commodus desperately tries to kill Maximus, but none of his guards aid him and Maximus is victorious. Maximus then gives the message of Marcus Aurelius, desiring that Rome return to democracy. Maximus falls to the ground dying, but seeing his family again after death. He is honored by Rome as a hero.

=====References=====
<references/>

[[Category: Movies]]

Gladiator (2000 film)

2010-06-05T00:41:01Z

Additioner: Plot

{{Infobox Film
| name=Gladiator
| image=
| caption=
| director=[[Ridley Scott]]
| producer=David Franzoni Branko Lustig Laurie MacDonald Walter F. Parkes Douglas Wick Ridley Scott (uncredited)
| writer=David Franzoni (creator) John Logan William Nicholson
| starring=[[Russell Crowe]] Joaquin Phoenix Connie Nielsen
| music=Lisa Gerrard Hans Zimmer
| cinematography=John Mathieson
| editing=Pietro Scalia
| distributor=DreamWorks SKG
| release date(s)=May 5, 2000
| running time=155 min.
| language=English}}

'''Gladiator''' is a 2000 film about a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] general named Maximus, played by Russell Crowe. After a war with Germanic tribes, the Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]] adopts Maximus as his heir. Aurelius's son, Commodus, grows jealous, assassinates Aurelius, and hangs Maximus's wife and son. Maximus is sold into slavery, but exploits the gladiatorial system and Commodus’s decadence to exact vengeance.

This film is not historical, but uses the names of existing Romans (such as Aurelius, Commodus, and Lucius). It portrays the pagan concept of Elysium as being real. Scriptwriter John Franzoni said, "The film is about a hero who has morality, but that morality is a secular morality." <ref> Quoted in "Hollywood Worldviews" ''Watching films with wisdom and discernment,'' Brian Godawa, InterVarsity Press, p. 141 </ref> The film was rated "R" for intense graphic combat. The film won 5 [[Oscars]] for Best Actor in Leading Role, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Picture and Best Sound and was nominated for another 7 Oscars. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/awards </ref>

==Plot==
The film begins with a with the Roman legions, led by General Maximus, conquering the last remnants of rebellion in [[Germania]] against Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]]. After the battle, the Emperor is met by his children, [[Commodus]] and Lucilla. The aged Emperor is on the verge of naming an heir for the throne. Against lineage, Aurelius asks Maximus to consider becoming Emperor in order to give Rome back to the people, returning it to democracy. Maximus is reluctant, because he wants to be with his wife and son on his farm again, but prepares to accept. However, Commodus learns his father's plans and bitterly suffocates his father, becoming Emperor.

When Maximus rejects Commodus, knowing him to be a murderer, Commodus orders him and his family to be executed. While Maximus escapes, his family is brutally slaughtered. Maximus is found by a group of traders who sell him to a man named Proximo, who trains gladiators. Maximus does well in the games, but is reluctant to please the crowd with his bloody endeavors. Proximo, a former gladiator who was freed by Aurelius, advises him to change his attitude.

Meanwhile, Commodus returns to Rome as Emperor. To win the peoples love, against good policy, Commodus throws hundreds of fights in Rome for the people. Proximo and his Gladiators arrive in Rome and Maximus allies with several gladiators to defeat their opponents. Impressed by Maximus, Commodus enters the arena and meets Maximus face to face. Although he wants to kill him, the spectators are enamored with his performance and Commodus needs to spare his life.

Even after pitting Maximus against several challenging fighters, Commodus cannot kill Maximus. Maximus plots with Senator Gracchus and Lucilla to overthrow Commodus by reuniting him with his army. However, their plans fail and Commodus captures Maximus, imprisons Gracchus and threatens Lucilla's son.

{{Spoilers}}
Commodus then challenges Maximus in a duel in the Colliseum, but not before seriously wounding him. Commodus desperately tries to kill Maximus, but none of his guards aid him and Maximus is victorious. Maximus then gives the message of Marcus Aurelius, desiring that Rome return to democracy. Maximus falls to the ground dying, but seeing his family again after death. He is honored by Rome as a hero.

=====References=====
<references/>

[[Category: Movies]]

The Shawshank Redemption

2010-06-04T22:09:36Z

Additioner: added cast

{{Infobox Film
| name=The Shawshank Redemption
| image=
| caption=
| director=Frank Darabont
| producer=Nicki Marvin
| writer=[[Stephen King]](creator) Frank Darabont
| narrator=[[Morgan Freeman]] (as the character Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding)
| starring=Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman
| music=Thomas Newman
| cinematography=Roger Deakins
| editing=Richard Francis-Bruce
| distributor=Castle Rock Entertainment
| released=September 23, 1994
| runtime=142 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$25,000,000
| gross=$58,500,000
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0111161
}}

'''The Shawshank Redemption''' is a 1994 film about a innocent man named Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins), who gets sentenced to a life-time in jail for murder. (The film was rated "R" by the MPAA for language and prison violence.)

==Plot==
The film opens with flashbacks of a drunken man named Andy Dufresne sitting alone in his car with a gun. Later, in court he is sentenced to jail for killing his separated wife and her lover. He protests his innocence but is sentenced to Shawshank penitentiary, where he is spotted by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, a long-time inmate who is consistently refused parole.

Andy is introduced to the stern [[Evangelical]] Warden Norton and the cruel Captain, Hadley. He and several others are marched naked into prison and one pitiful prisoner weeps so much he is beaten to death by Hadley. Andy gets to meet the inmates, such as the librarian, Brooks, the crass Heywood and the homosexual rapist Bogs. Andy makes friends with Red and asks for a rock-hammer so that he can work on rocks while in prison. Although he resists, he is raped by Bogs and is forced to enter into a dismal routine.

The turning point is when Andy and several inmates are invited to work on a roof outside the prison. During this job, Andy helps Hadley with financial affairs. His favor helps him against Bogs, who Hadley beats so badly that he needs to be moved permanently to a hospital. Andy gains favor with both the prisoners who get him rocks and posters and also with the Warden. He works in both the library and with Norton's financial business. The old librarian, Brooks, is set free from Shawshank, but cannot cope with life outside jail and decides to commit suicide. Red says it's because he was institutionalized in such a way he could not have anything to live for outside the prison.

Andy continues to thrive, helping some of Norton's shadier dealings and helping a young man named Tommy to get an education. Tommy mentions that he once met the man who really murdered Andy's wife and her lover. Norton, who does not want to lose Andy's services, refuses to believe Tommy and shoots him to keep him quiet. Andy talks to Red and decides "it all comes down to a simple choice: either get busy living or get busy dying." He tells Red if he gets out of prison to go to a field and find a distinctive rock for a message. He finishes his days work and then goes into his cell with a rope.

{{Spoiler}}

In the morning, Andy has mysteriously escaped in a tunnel through the wall. Via flashback, we are revealed that Andy used his rock hammer to make a hole in the wall that he covered with several posters over the years. When Tommy was shot, he decided to make his escape. He took with him incriminating evidence on Norton and sent it to the authorities. Hadley his arrested and Norton commits suicide.

After several years, Red is released from jail and put on parole. Just like Brooks, he finds he cannot adjust to life outside jail. He makes one last trip to the field Andy told him about and finds a letter from Andy telling him he should find him near the pacific ocean. Red makes the journey and finally reaches Andy next to the Pacific in Zihantanejo.

==Cast==

Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne

[[Morgan Freeman]] - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

Bob Gunton - Warden Norton

William Sadler - Heywood

Clancy Brown - Captain Hadley

Gil Bellows - Tommy

Mark Rolston - Bogs Diamond

James Whitmore - Brooks Hatlen

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shawshank Redemption, The}}
[[Category: Movies]]

The Shawshank Redemption

2010-06-04T22:06:56Z

Additioner: improved template

{{Infobox Film
| name=The Shawshank Redemption
| image=
| caption=
| director=Frank Darabont
| producer=Nicki Marvin
| writer=[[Stephen King]](creator) Frank Darabont
| narrator=[[Morgan Freeman]] (as the character Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding)
| starring=Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman
| music=Thomas Newman
| cinematography=Roger Deakins
| editing=Richard Francis-Bruce
| distributor=Castle Rock Entertainment
| released=September 23, 1994
| runtime=142 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$25,000,000
| gross=$58,500,000
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0111161
}}

'''The Shawshank Redemption''' is a 1994 film about a innocent man named Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins), who gets sentenced to a life-time in jail for murder. (The film was rated "R" by the MPAA for language and prison violence.)

==Plot==
The film opens with flashbacks of a drunken man named Andy Dufresne sitting alone in his car with a gun. Later, in court he is sentenced to jail for killing his separated wife and her lover. He protests his innocence but is sentenced to Shawshank penitentiary, where he is spotted by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, a long-time inmate who is consistently refused parole.

Andy is introduced to the stern [[Evangelical]] Warden Norton and the cruel Captain, Hadley. He and several others are marched naked into prison and one pitiful prisoner weeps so much he is beaten to death by Hadley. Andy gets to meet the inmates, such as the librarian, Brooks, the crass Heywood and the homosexual rapist Bogs. Andy makes friends with Red and asks for a rock-hammer so that he can work on rocks while in prison. Although he resists, he is raped by Bogs and is forced to enter into a dismal routine.

The turning point is when Andy and several inmates are invited to work on a roof outside the prison. During this job, Andy helps Hadley with financial affairs. His favor helps him against Bogs, who Hadley beats so badly that he needs to be moved permanently to a hospital. Andy gains favor with both the prisoners who get him rocks and posters and also with the Warden. He works in both the library and with Norton's financial business. The old librarian, Brooks, is set free from Shawshank, but cannot cope with life outside jail and decides to commit suicide. Red says it's because he was institutionalized in such a way he could not have anything to live for outside the prison.

Andy continues to thrive, helping some of Norton's shadier dealings and helping a young man named Tommy to get an education. Tommy mentions that he once met the man who really murdered Andy's wife and her lover. Norton, who does not want to lose Andy's services, refuses to believe Tommy and shoots him to keep him quiet. Andy talks to Red and decides "it all comes down to a simple choice: either get busy living or get busy dying." He tells Red if he gets out of prison to go to a field and find a distinctive rock for a message. He finishes his days work and then goes into his cell with a rope.

{{Spoiler}}

In the morning, Andy has mysteriously escaped in a tunnel through the wall. Via flashback, we are revealed that Andy used his rock hammer to make a hole in the wall that he covered with several posters over the years. When Tommy was shot, he decided to make his escape. He took with him incriminating evidence on Norton and sent it to the authorities. Hadley his arrested and Norton commits suicide.

After several years, Red is released from jail and put on parole. Just like Brooks, he finds he cannot adjust to life outside jail. He makes one last trip to the field Andy told him about and finds a letter from Andy telling him he should find him near the pacific ocean. Red makes the journey and finally reaches Andy next to the Pacific in Zihantanejo.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shawshank Redemption, The}}
[[Category: Movies]]

The Shawshank Redemption

2010-06-04T22:01:58Z

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{{Infobox Film
| name=The Shawshank Redemption
| image=
| caption=
| director=Frank Darabont
| producer=Nicki Marvin
| writer=[[Stephen King]](creator) Frank Darabont
| starring=Tim Robbins [[Morgan Freeman]]
| music=Thomas Newman
| cinematography=Roger Deakins
| editing=Richard Francis-Bruce
| distributor=Castle Rock Entertainment
| release date(s)=September 23, 1994
| running time=142 min
| language=English}}

'''The Shawshank Redemption''' is a 1994 film about a innocent man named Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins), who gets sentenced to a life-time in jail for murder. (The film was rated "R" by the MPAA for language and prison violence.)

==Plot==
The film opens with flashbacks of a drunken man named Andy Dufresne sitting alone in his car with a gun. Later, in court he is sentenced to jail for killing his separated wife and her lover. He protests his innocence but is sentenced to Shawshank penitentiary, where he is spotted by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, a long-time inmate who is consistently refused parole.

Andy is introduced to the stern [[Evangelical]] Warden Norton and the cruel Captain, Hadley. He and several others are marched naked into prison and one pitiful prisoner weeps so much he is beaten to death by Hadley. Andy gets to meet the inmates, such as the librarian, Brooks, the crass Heywood and the homosexual rapist Bogs. Andy makes friends with Red and asks for a rock-hammer so that he can work on rocks while in prison. Although he resists, he is raped by Bogs and is forced to enter into a dismal routine.

The turning point is when Andy and several inmates are invited to work on a roof outside the prison. During this job, Andy helps Hadley with financial affairs. His favor helps him against Bogs, who Hadley beats so badly that he needs to be moved permanently to a hospital. Andy gains favor with both the prisoners who get him rocks and posters and also with the Warden. He works in both the library and with Norton's financial business. The old librarian, Brooks, is set free from Shawshank, but cannot cope with life outside jail and decides to commit suicide. Red says it's because he was institutionalized in such a way he could not have anything to live for outside the prison.

Andy continues to thrive, helping some of Norton's shadier dealings and helping a young man named Tommy to get an education. Tommy mentions that he once met the man who really murdered Andy's wife and her lover. Norton, who does not want to lose Andy's services, refuses to believe Tommy and shoots him to keep him quiet. Andy talks to Red and decides "it all comes down to a simple choice: either get busy living or get busy dying." He tells Red if he gets out of prison to go to a field and find a distinctive rock for a message. He finishes his days work and then goes into his cell with a rope.

{{Spoiler}}

In the morning, Andy has mysteriously escaped in a tunnel through the wall. Via flashback, we are revealed that Andy used his rock hammer to make a hole in the wall that he covered with several posters over the years. When Tommy was shot, he decided to make his escape. He took with him incriminating evidence on Norton and sent it to the authorities. Hadley his arrested and Norton commits suicide.

After several years, Red is released from jail and put on parole. Just like Brooks, he finds he cannot adjust to life outside jail. He makes one last trip to the field Andy told him about and finds a letter from Andy telling him he should find him near the pacific ocean. Red makes the journey and finally reaches Andy next to the Pacific in Zihantanejo.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shawshank Redemption, The}}
[[Category: Movies]]

The Princess Bride

2010-06-04T21:40:07Z

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{{Infobox Film
| name=The Princess Bride
| image=
| caption=
| director=Rob Reiner
| producer=Rob Reiner Andrew Shceinman Norman Lear
| writer=William Goldman (creator)
| narrator=Peter Falk (as the character of the Grandfather)
| starring=Robin Wright Penn Cary Elwes
| music=Mark Knopfler
| cinematography=Adrian Biddle
| editing=Robert Leighton
| distributor=[[20th Century Fox]]
| released=September 25, 1987
| runtime=98 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$16,000,000
| gross=$30,857,814 (USA)
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=093779
}}

'''The Princess Bride''' is a 1987 film about a sick grandson, whose grandfather comes to tell him a story. The story includes according to the grandfather, "fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles."

==Plot==
The film begins with a grandfather visiting his sick, grumpy grandson and offering to read him a story called 'The Princess Bride.' The story begins with the budding romance of a country girl named Buttercup and a farm boy named Wesley. (This disgusts the grandson.) However, Wesley leaves to make his fortunes in the world, only to be murdered by pirates. Several years later, Prince Humpadink announces his engagement to Buttercup; the new princess does not love the prince. One day she is kidnapped by three vagabonds hired to start a war by killing the Princess and blaming it on another country. The trio consists of a temperamental [[Sicilian]] named Vizzini, a giant named Fezzik and a Spaniard named Inigo Montoya.

The group is trailed by a mysterious man dressed in black as well as by Prince Humpadink's knights. The man in black defeats Inigo in fencing, out-wrestles Fezzik and kills Vizzini in a 'battle of wits.' He takes the Princess with him and eventually reveals that he is Wesley. The two run from the Prince into the fire-swamp and although they survive, the Prince still manages to surround them. Buttercup gives in to the Prince saying that if he spares Wesley she will marry. Although Humpadink appeases Buttercup, he orders Wesley taken to the 'Pit of Despair' to be used for experimentation on torture.

Safe in the castle, Buttercup regrets agreeing to marry the Prince and eventually comes out and tells him he is a coward. In response, Humpadink kills Wesley in the pit of despair. In the meantime, Inigo, who is looking for the man who long ago murdered his father for years, tries to find Wesley. He and Fezzik find him dead, but manage to get Miracle Max to restore him to life, although somewhat weakened.

Since it is the night of the wedding, the three prepare to take the castle by surprise.

==Cast==
Robin Wright - Princess Buttercup

Cary Elwes - Wesley

Mandy Patinkin - Inigo Montoya

Wallace Shawn - Vizzini

André the Giant - Fezzik

Chris Sarandon - Prince Humperdinck

Christopher Guest - Count Rugen

Peter Falk - The Grandfather / Narrator

Fred Savage - The Grandson

Peter Cook - The Impressive Clergyman

Mel Smith - The Albino

Carol Kane - Valerie

[[Billy Crystal]] - Miracle Max

==Reception==
The film was only a mild success, grossing only $30,857,814 in the USA. The film was nominated for only one [[Academy Award]] for Best Music/Original Song.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Princess Bride, The}}

[[Category: Movies]]

The Princess Bride

2010-06-04T21:37:01Z

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{{Infobox Film
| name=The Princess Bride
| image=
| caption=
| director=Rob Reiner
| producer=Rob Reiner Andrew Shceinman Norman Lear
| writer=William Goldman (creator)
| narrator=Peter Falk (as the character of the Grandfather)
| starring=Robin Wright Penn Cary Elwes
| music=Mark Knopfler
| cinematography=Adrian Biddle
| editing=Robert Leighton
| distributor=[[20th Century Fox]]
| released=September 25, 1987
| runtime=98 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$16,000,000
| gross=$30,857,814 (USA)
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
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}}

'''The Princess Bride''' is a 1987 film about a sick grandson, whose grandfather comes to tell him a story. The story includes according to the grandfather, "fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles."

==Plot==
The film begins with a grandfather visiting his sick, grumpy grandson and offering to read him a story called 'The Princess Bride.' The story begins with the budding romance of a country girl named Buttercup and a farm boy named Wesley. (This disgusts the grandson.) However, Wesley leaves to make his fortunes in the world, only to be murdered by pirates. Several years later, Prince Humpadink announces his engagement to Buttercup; the new princess does not love the prince. One day she is kidnapped by three vagabonds hired to start a war by killing the Princess and blaming it on another country. The trio consists of a temperamental [[Sicilian]] named Vizzini, a giant named Fezzik and a Spaniard named Inigo Montoya.

The group is trailed by a mysterious man dressed in black as well as by Prince Humpadink's knights. The man in black defeats Inigo in fencing, out-wrestles Fezzik and kills Vizzini in a 'battle of wits.' He takes the Princess with him and eventually reveals that he is Wesley. The two run from the Prince into the fire-swamp and although they survive, the Prince still manages to surround them. Buttercup gives in to the Prince saying that if he spares Wesley she will marry. Although Humpadink appeases Buttercup, he orders Wesley taken to the 'Pit of Despair' to be used for experimentation on torture.

Safe in the castle, Buttercup regrets agreeing to marry the Prince and eventually comes out and tells him he is a coward. In response, Humpadink kills Wesley in the pit of despair. In the meantime, Inigo, who is looking for the man who long ago murdered his father for years, tries to find Wesley. He and Fezzik find him dead, but manage to get Miracle Max to restore him to life, although somewhat weakened.

Since it is the night of the wedding, the three prepare to take the castle by surprise.

==Cast==
Robin Wright - Princess Buttercup

Cary Elwes - Wesley

Mandy Patinkin - Inigo Montoya

Wallace Shawn - Vizzini

André the Giant - Fezzik

Chris Sarandon - Prince Humperdinck

Christopher Guest - Count Rugen

Peter Falk - The Grandfather / Narrator

Fred Savage - The Grandson

Peter Cook - The Impressive Clergyman

Mel Smith - The Albino

Carol Kane - Valerie

[[Billy Crystal]] - Miracle Max

{{DEFAULTSORT:Princess Bride, The}}

[[Category: Movies]]

The Princess Bride

2010-06-04T21:27:07Z

Additioner: changed template

{{Infobox Film
| name=The Princess Bride
| image=
| caption=
| director=Rob Reiner
| producer=Rob Reiner Andrew Shceinman Norman Lear
| writer=William Goldman (creator)
| narrator=
| starring=Robin Wright Penn Cary Elwes
| music=Mark Knopfler
| cinematography=Adrian Biddle
| editing=Robert Leighton
| distributor=[[20th Century Fox]]
| released=September 25, 1987
| runtime=98 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$16,000,000
| gross=$30,857,814 (USA)
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=093779
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'''The Princess Bride''' is a 1987 film about a sick grandson, whose grandfather comes to tell him a story. The story includes according to the grandfather, "fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles."

==Plot==
The film begins with a grandfather visiting his sick, grumpy grandson and offering to read him a story called 'The Princess Bride.' The story begins with the budding romance of a country girl named Buttercup and a farm boy named Wesley. (This disgusts the grandson.) However, Wesley leaves to make his fortunes in the world, only to be murdered by pirates. Several years later, Prince Humpadink announces his engagement to Buttercup; the new princess does not love the prince. One day she is kidnapped by three vagabonds hired to start a war by killing the Princess and blaming it on another country. The trio consists of a temperamental [[Sicilian]] named Vizzini, a giant named Fezzik and a Spaniard named Inigo Montoya.

The group is trailed by a mysterious man dressed in black as well as by Prince Humpadink's knights. The man in black defeats Inigo in fencing, out-wrestles Fezzik and kills Vizzini in a 'battle of wits.' He takes the Princess with him and eventually reveals that he is Wesley. The two run from the Prince into the fire-swamp and although they survive, the Prince still manages to surround them. Buttercup gives in to the Prince saying that if he spares Wesley she will marry. Although Humpadink appeases Buttercup, he orders Wesley taken to the 'Pit of Despair' to be used for experimentation on torture.

Safe in the castle, Buttercup regrets agreeing to marry the Prince and eventually comes out and tells him he is a coward. In response, Humpadink kills Wesley in the pit of despair. In the meantime, Inigo, who is looking for the man who long ago murdered his father for years, tries to find Wesley. He and Fezzik find him dead, but manage to get Miracle Max to restore him to life, although somewhat weakened.

Since it is the night of the wedding, the three prepare to take the castle by surprise.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Princess Bride, The}}

[[Category: Movies]]

The Princess Bride

2010-06-04T11:55:35Z

Additioner: Plot

{{Infobox Film
| name=The Princess Bride
| image=
| caption=
| director=Rob Reiner
| producer=Rob Reiner Andrew Shceinman Norman Lear
| writer=William Goldman (creator)
| starring=Robin Wright Penn Cary Elwes
| music=Mark Knopfler
| cinematography=Adrian Biddle
| editing=Robert Leighton
| distributor=[[20th Century Fox]]
| release date(s)=September 25, 1987
| running time=98 min
| language=English}}

'''The Princess Bride''' is a 1987 film about a sick grandson, whose grandfather comes to tell him a story. The story includes according to the grandfather, "fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles."

==Plot==
The film begins with a grandfather visiting his sick, grumpy grandson and offering to read him a story called 'The Princess Bride.' The story begins with the budding romance of a country girl named Buttercup and a farm boy named Wesley. (This disgusts the grandson.) However, Wesley leaves to make his fortunes in the world, only to be murdered by pirates. Several years later, Prince Humpadink announces his engagement to Buttercup; the new princess does not love the prince. One day she is kidnapped by three vagabonds hired to start a war by killing the Princess and blaming it on another country. The trio consists of a temperamental [[Sicilian]] named Vizzini, a giant named Fezzik and a Spaniard named Inigo Montoya.

The group is trailed by a mysterious man dressed in black as well as by Prince Humpadink's knights. The man in black defeats Inigo in fencing, out-wrestles Fezzik and kills Vizzini in a 'battle of wits.' He takes the Princess with him and eventually reveals that he is Wesley. The two run from the Prince into the fire-swamp and although they survive, the Prince still manages to surround them. Buttercup gives in to the Prince saying that if he spares Wesley she will marry. Although Humpadink appeases Buttercup, he orders Wesley taken to the 'Pit of Despair' to be used for experimentation on torture.

Safe in the castle, Buttercup regrets agreeing to marry the Prince and eventually comes out and tells him he is a coward. In response, Humpadink kills Wesley in the pit of despair. In the meantime, Inigo, who is looking for the man who long ago murdered his father for years, tries to find Wesley. He and Fezzik find him dead, but manage to get Miracle Max to restore him to life, although somewhat weakened.

Since it is the night of the wedding, the three prepare to take the castle by surprise.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Princess Bride, The}}

[[Category: Movies]]

The Best Years of Our Lives

2010-06-04T11:38:00Z

Additioner: improved template and added cast, separated reception from prologue

{{Infobox Film
| name=''The Best Year of Our Lives''
| image=
| caption=
| director=[[William Wyler]]
| producer=Samuel Goldwyn
| writer=MacKinlay Kantor (uncredited) Robert E. Sherwood
| narrator=
| starring=Myrna Loy [[Frederic March]] Dana Andrews Teresa Wright
| music=Hugo Friedhofer
| cinematography=Gregg Toland
| editing=Daniel Mandell
| distributor=The Samuel Goldwyn Company
| released=November 21, 1946
| runtime=172 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$2,100,000
| gross=$23,600,000 (US)
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0036868
}}

'''''The Best Years of Our Lives''''' is a 1946 film directed by William Wyler, about three military veterans returning home after [[World War II]] and their difficulties in re-adjusting to civilian life.

The film starred an ensemble cast, including several prominent stars of the day, including Myrna Loy, Frederic March and musician Hoagy Carmichael. The film also starred first-time Hollywood actor Harold Russell, a real-life military veteran who lost both hands during the war.

== Plot ==

Air Force bomardier Fred Darry, army Sergeant Al Stephenson and sailor Homer Parrish meet on the voyage back to their shared hometown, the fictional Boone City. After their initial return, each begins to grapple with some of the problems of postwar civilian life: Darry, a former soda jerk at a local drugstore is unable to find a job. Lacking experience in anything besides making ice cream floats and dropping bombs, he is continually frustrated in his search for work. Meanwhile, his wife constantly pressures him to go out on the town, putting greater pressure on his dwindling finances.

Parrish returns home to a loving family and girlfriend, but is self-conscious about the prosthetic hooks replacing his hands. He withdraws from his family and his girlfriend Peggy, not wanting to be a burden on them. Before the war, Parrish promised his girlfriend that they would be married, but he avoids her and is noncommittal about their relationship.

Stephenson is invited to return to his job at a bank, but has difficulty separating his personal feelings from bank policy when it comes to granting loans to veterans. He drinks heavily and endangers his job.

As Darry's marriage crumbles, he falls in love with Stephenson's daughter Wilma, who returns his affections. Stephenson opposes the romance and forbids Darry from associating with his daughter.

Ultimately, Parrish's girlfriend approaches him and insists she wants to be part of his life, despite his disability. Darry and his wife divorce, and the film closes with Stephenson embracing Wilma at Parrish's wedding.

==Cast==
Myrna Loy - Milly Stephenson

[[Frederic March]] - Al Stephenson

Dana Andrews - Fred Derry

Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson

Virginia Mayo - Marie Derry

Cathy O'Donnell - Wilma Cameron

Hoagy Carmichael - Butch Engle

Harold Russell - Homer Parrish

Gladys George - Hortense Derry

Roman Bohnen - Pat Derry

==Reception==
It was a critical and commercial success, winning seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (March), Best Editing and Best Supporting actor for newcomer Russell. Russell also won an honorary Oscar for "bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans." He is the only actor to ever win two Oscars for the same role.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/awards </ref>

===References===
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{{DEFAULTSORT: Best Years of Our Lives, The}}
[[Category: Movies]]

Amadeus

2010-06-04T11:21:22Z

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{{Infobox Film
| name=Amadeus
| image=
| caption=
| director=Miloš Forman
| producer=Saul Zaentz
| writer=Peter Shaffer (creator)
| narrator=
| starring=F. Murray Abraham Tom Hulce Elizabeth Berridge
| music=
| cinematography=Miroslav Ondricek
| editing=Michael Chandler Nena Danevic
| distributor=Saul Zaentz company
| released=September 19, 1984
| runtime=160 min., 180 min. (Director's Cut)
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$18,000,000
| gross=$51,973,029 (US)
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0086879
}}

'''Amadeus''' is a 1984 movie loosely based on [[Mozart]]'s life, using the plot device of a supposed rivalry with [[Antonio Salieri]] (the first 10% of the movie is all about Salieri, even his encounter with the "giggling, dirty minded creature crawling on the floor"). The movie is based on the play of the same name by Peter Shaffer.

Salieri is jealous when the monarch employing him as a court composer commissions Mozart to write an opera in German. He is astounded to read some original [[sheet music]] (brought secretly by Mozart's wife); there are no corrections in them, as if he had the finished music in his head and was simply transcribing it.

==Awards==
The film was a critical success, earning 8 Oscars; Best Actor in a Leading Role (F. Murray Abraham), Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Makeup, Best Picture, Best Sound, and Best Writing, Screenplay Material based on another medium. It was also nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Tom Hulce) in a rare double nomination.

The film made about $51,973,029 in the United States alone. <ref> http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=amadeus.htm </ref>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Drama]]
[[Category: Movies]]

The Truman Show

2010-06-04T01:06:37Z

Additioner: cast

{{Infobox Film
| name= The Truman Show
| image=
| caption=
| director=Peter Weir
| producer=Edward S. Feldman Andrew Niccol Scott Rudin Adam Schroeder
| writer=Andrew Niccol (creator)
| narrator=
| starring=[[Jim Carrey]] Laura Linney Ed Harris
| music=Burkhard von Dallwitz
| cinematography=Peter Biziou
| editing=William M. Anderson Lee Smith
| distributor=Paramount Pictures
| released=June 5, 1998
| runtime=103 min
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$60,000,000
| gross=$264,118,201
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0120382
}}

'''The Truman Show''' is a 1998 [[comedy]] about a man, played by Jim Carrey, who discovers that his whole life is a 24/7 reality TV show for the world.

The names are symbolic. "Christoff" (i.e. Christ-off, or not-Christ) plays God with "Truman"--but the true-man breaks free from the fake heaven.

==Plot==
{{Spoiler}}
The film shows several people, Christof (Ed Harris), Mery Burbank (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich) discussing "The Truman Show", claiming that nothing is rehearsed and everything is genuine. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is a normal and friendly person, watched by millions of people 24 hours a day. He has a nice wife, close friend, good job and home in Seahaven. However, he also has a mysterious longing. He wants to find a girl named Sylvia, who he once met long ago. She had tried to explain something to him, when she was abruptly taken away by her "father" to Fiji. Truman is given several clues, such as a fallen light, his dead father alive, mysterious "accidents" that prevent him from leaving the island. Finally, he brings his "wife" to tears and is on the verge of realizing the truth.

He is pondering on the bizarre events with Marlon, when his father reappears to meet him. Suddenly, the audience is transported to the studio of Christof, the man shaping the TV program of Truman’s life. Far away, Sylvia calls Christof on an exclusive interview, saying he’s imprisoned Truman. Christof protests that if Truman wanted to leave, he could. Truman sneaks out of his set and sets sail to leave. Christof tries to stop Truman by sending a huge storm toward him. Nonetheless, Truman survives and comes to the walls of the sky that define the limits of the set. Christof confronts Truman using a voice from the clouds. He tells Truman that the world outside his show is broken and that his world is the way things are supposed to be. The television audience, including Sylvia, tensely watches and prays that Truman dare to leave.

Truman walks out to the cheers of the crowd and the shock of Christof.

==Cast==
[[Jim Carrey]] - Truman Burbank

Laura Linney - Meryl Burbank/Hannah Gill

Noah Emmerich - Marlon

Natascha McElhone - Lauren/Sylvia

Brian Delate - Truman's Father

Ed Harris - Christof

==Reception==
The film did well at the box office grossing $125,618,201 in the U.S. and $264,118,201 worldwide.<ref> http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=trumanshow.htm </ref> It was nominated for three [[Academy Awards]]: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director and Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for Screen.

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT: Truman Show, The}}
[[Category: Movies]]
[[Category: Comedy]]

The Truman Show

2010-06-04T01:01:54Z

Additioner: changed template

{{Infobox Film
| name= The Truman Show
| image=
| caption=
| director=Peter Weir
| producer=Edward S. Feldman Andrew Niccol Scott Rudin Adam Schroeder
| writer=Andrew Niccol (creator)
| narrator=
| starring=[[Jim Carrey]] Laura Linney Ed Harris
| music=Burkhard von Dallwitz
| cinematography=Peter Biziou
| editing=William M. Anderson Lee Smith
| distributor=Paramount Pictures
| released=June 5, 1998
| runtime=103 min
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget=$60,000,000
| gross=$264,118,201
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0120382
}}

'''The Truman Show''' is a 1998 [[comedy]] about a man, played by Jim Carrey, who discovers that his whole life is a 24/7 reality TV show for the world.

The names are symbolic. "Christoff" (i.e. Christ-off, or not-Christ) plays God with "Truman"--but the true-man breaks free from the fake heaven.

==Plot==
{{Spoiler}}
The film shows several people, Christof (Ed Harris), Mery Burbank (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich) discussing "The Truman Show", claiming that nothing is rehearsed and everything is genuine. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is a normal and friendly person, watched by millions of people 24 hours a day. He has a nice wife, close friend, good job and home in Seahaven. However, he also has a mysterious longing. He wants to find a girl named Sylvia, who he once met long ago. She had tried to explain something to him, when she was abruptly taken away by her "father" to Fiji. Truman is given several clues, such as a fallen light, his dead father alive, mysterious "accidents" that prevent him from leaving the island. Finally, he brings his "wife" to tears and is on the verge of realizing the truth.

He is pondering on the bizarre events with Marlon, when his father reappears to meet him. Suddenly, the audience is transported to the studio of Christof, the man shaping the TV program of Truman’s life. Far away, Sylvia calls Christof on an exclusive interview, saying he’s imprisoned Truman. Christof protests that if Truman wanted to leave, he could. Truman sneaks out of his set and sets sail to leave. Christof tries to stop Truman by sending a huge storm toward him. Nonetheless, Truman survives and comes to the walls of the sky that define the limits of the set. Christof confronts Truman using a voice from the clouds. He tells Truman that the world outside his show is broken and that his world is the way things are supposed to be. The television audience, including Sylvia, tensely watches and prays that Truman dare to leave.

Truman walks out to the cheers of the crowd and the shock of Christof.

==Reception==
The film did well at the box office grossing $125,618,201 in the U.S. and $264,118,201 worldwide.<ref> http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=trumanshow.htm </ref> It was nominated for three [[Academy Awards]]: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director and Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for Screen.

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT: Truman Show, The}}
[[Category: Movies]]
[[Category: Comedy]]

Pixar

2010-06-04T00:48:53Z

Additioner: /* Filmography */ added Up

'''Pixar Animation Studios''' is an animation studio headquartered in Emeryville. [[California]]. It was founded by [[Steve Jobs]], who also founded Apple Computer. Today, Pixar is now a subsidiary of the [[Walt Disney Company]].

Pixar is very well known worldwide for its computer-animated films, which has earned them considerable critical acclaim.

==Filmography==
*''[[Toy Story]]'' (1995)
*''[[A Bug's Life]]'' (1998)
*''[[Toy Story 2]]'' (1999)
*''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' (2001)
*''[[Finding Nemo]]'' (2003)
*''[[The Incredibles]]'' (2004)
*''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]'' (2005)
*''[[Ratatouille (film)|Ratatouille]]'' (2006)
*''[[WALL-E]]'' (2008)
*''[[Up]]'' (2009)

[[Category: Animation Studios]]

The Incredibles

2010-06-03T20:57:09Z

Additioner:

{{Infobox Film
| name= The Incredibles
| image=
| caption=
| director=Brad Bird
| producer=John Lasseter John Walker
| writer=Brad Bird
| narrator=
| starring=Craig T. Nelson Holly Hunter [[Samuel L. Jackson]]
| music=Michael Giacchino
| cinematography=Andrew Jimenez Patrick Lin Janet Lucroy
| editing=Stephen Schaffer
| distributor=Buena Vista Pictures
| released=November 5, 2004
| runtime=115 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget= $92,000,000
| gross= $631,442,092
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/incredibles/
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0317705
}}

'''The Incredibles''' is a 2004 animated [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their superpowers, until a threat brings them out of hiding.

==Plot==
The film begins during a time when heroes, such as Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl and Frozone, routinely saved the day. We focus especially on Mr. Incredible (alias Bob Parr), a superhero with amazing strength, who works strictly alone. Even on his wedding night, he takes time to intervene in car chases, save a suicidal man and thwart bomb-throwing villains. He is only hampered in his actions by a kid named Buddy, who is his would-be-sidekick, Incrediboy. Life seems perfect as he marries fellow superhero, Elastigirl and prepares to start a family. However, the public suddenly turns against superheroes in a series of frivolous lawsuits against them. All superheroes are forced to assimilate into the culture as regular citizens, keeping their powers hidden.

Several years later into the future, we see Mr. Incredible working in a insurance company that rejects old ladies' for insurance thanks to loop-holes. Mr. Incredible usually angers his temperamental boss by helping customers instead of exploiting them. His wife is a stay-at-home mother of three children. The oldest, Violet, has the ability to become invisible and create "force-fields", but is socially insecure. The second, Dashiell or "Dash", can run super-fast, but is over-precocious and often ends up in the principal’s office. The youngest is the baby, Jack-Jack, who is completely normal. Mr. Incredible spends the occasional evening with his old super-friend, Frozone, listening to the radio for crises to secretly help save. Mrs. Incredible is disturbed with his night-time antics and believes it is tearing the family apart.

Mr. Incredible finally looses his temper at work and seriously injures his boss, leaving himself jobless. However, when he empties his brief-case, he finds a mysterious offer from a woman named Mirage to return to super-work. Mr. Incredible lies to his wife, saying he’s going to a conference. Mirage acquaints him with his mission at a secret government facility on a volcanic island. Apparently, a unusually intelligent robot decided to assert it’s independence and is wrecking havoc on their island. Mr. Incredible fights the robot and only manages to defeat it by entering inside and having it destroy itself. Mr. Incredible returns home and enjoys life as usual with his family. On the side, he gets himself in shape and asks his old outfit-designer, Edna, to fix his suit. (Edna calls his old get-up a “hobo-suit” and makes a completely new one.)

Mr. Incredible leaves for the facility for more work. Shortly after he arrives, he is attacked by a new and improved robot and its creator: Syndrome (a.k.a. Buddy.) Syndrome is bitter for how Mr. Incredible treated him and has become a clever weapons designer. He has spent his time exterminating superheroes. Mr. Incredible manages to escape him temporarily and even get to the computer files showing another of Syndrome’s mysterious plans. Meanwhile, Mrs. Incredible has noticed that Edna mended her husband’s old suit. Edna, encouraged by her work on the “new suit”, has created a suit for each member of the family. Mrs. Incredible realizes that her husband had returned to superhero work. Edna provides her with a homing device that allows her to know the location of Mr. Incredible. Unfortunately, the homing device allows Syndrome to capture Mr. Incredible.
Mrs. Incredible, frustrated and even suspecting her husband of infidelity, decides to go to the island. Her children are surprised at her sudden action and discover the suits Edna custom-made for them. Mrs. Incredible boards a jet and heads to the island. When she hears no response she puts on Edna’s custom-made suit. She also finds that Violet and Dash stowed aboard the jet, leaving Jack-Jack with a baby sitter. Hearing their approach, Syndrome decides to shoot them down. While the jet is destroyed, the Incredibles manage to escape to the island alive.

Meanwhile, Mr. Incredible is heart-broken by the news of his family’s death. Mr. Incredible manages to grab Mirage and threatens her across from Syndrome. However, he cannot actually bear to kill her. Mrs. Incredible sneaks into the factory and finds Mr. Incredible being released by Mirage. She assumes the worst, but Mr. Incredible is very happy to see her. In the meantime, Violet and Dash trigger the alarms and use their super-powers while running for their lives. However, even though the family is reunited, Syndrome still manages to capture them all and reveals his plan. He intends to become the new super-hero using the robot as a set-up “nemesis” to be defeated by him and his inventions.

{{Spoiler}}
While Sydnrome leaves to “save the day”, Mr. Incredible breaks down and apologizes for not valuing his family and not telling them the truth. The super-heroes family escapes and even manages to travel via a rocket and bus to the scene of chaos. Syndrome’s plan fails and the robot turns on him. The Incredibles and Frozone fight a long action sequence and manage to use one of the disconnected arms of the robot to de-capacitate it. Thanks to their actions the superheroes are welcomed back by the public. However, the Incredibles find Syndrome kidnapping Jack-Jack. However, Jack-Jack has the ability to turn into different things and stalls Syndrome’s escape long enough for them to get Jack-Jack back. Syndrome ends up getting sucked into his rocket engines because of his cape (an item Edna earlier insisted Mr. Incredible not wear.)

The film closes as the supers feel adapted to life now, ready for whatever crisis comes next…

==Voices Cast==
Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible

Holly Hunter - Helen Parr/Elastigirl

[[Samuel L. Jackson]] - Lucius Best/Frozone

Jason Lee - Buddy Pine/Syndrome

Sarah Vowel - Violet Parr

Spencer Fox - Dashiell 'Dash' Parr

Eli Fucile/Maeve Andrews - Jack Jack Parr

Elizabeth Pena - Mirage

Wallace Shawn - Gilbert Huph

Brad Bird - Edna 'E' Mode

==Reception==
The film was rated PG by the MPAA for action violence. The film was released on November 5th and became an instant hit, managing to gross $261,441,092 domestically and $631,442,092 worldwide. <ref> http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incredibles.htm </ref>

==Awards==
The film received two Oscar awards for Best Achievement in Sound Editing and Best Animated Feature film of the year. It was also nominated for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/awards </ref>

==Anti-Egalitarian Themes==
The movie ''The Incredibles'' contains what some have discerned to be anti-[[egalitarian]] themes. Part of the twist in the film is that the superheroes are sued for injuring victims while saving them. The Incredibles family takes on the alias "Parr" and be "live everybody else." Critic [[Roger Ebert]] noted, the film "has special qualities, especially in the subtle ways it observes its gifted characters trying to dumb down and join the crowd."<ref> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041104/REVIEWS/41006004 </ref> [[New York Times]] film critic, A.O. Scott, noted that, "In the movie's view of things, this kind of misguided egalitarianism, enforced in petty ways at school and work, is not just stultifying but actively, murderously evil."<ref> http://movies.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/movies/05incr.html </ref>

The goal of the villian, Syndrome, is to destroy all the 'real' superheroes so that he can be one himself. When Mr. Incredible accuses him of not being a real superhero, Syndrome responds:
{{Cquote|Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super - [chuckles] -no one will}}

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT: Increbiles, The}}

[[Category: Movies]]
[[Category: Animated Movies]]

The Incredibles

2010-06-03T20:56:00Z

Additioner: Cast added

{{Infobox Film
| name= The Incredibles
| image=
| caption=
| director=Brad Bird
| producer=John Lasseter John Walker
| writer=Brad Bird
| narrator=
| starring=Craig T. Nelson Holly Hunter [[Samuel L. Jackson]]
| music=Michael Giacchino
| cinematography=Andrew Jimenez Patrick Lin Janet Lucroy
| editing=Stephen Schaffer
| distributor=Buena Vista Pictures
| released=November 5, 2004
| runtime=115 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget= $92,000,000
| gross= $631,442,092
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| website=http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/incredibles/
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0317705
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'''The Incredibles''' is a 2004 animated [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their superpowers, until a threat brings them out of hiding.

==Plot==
The film begins during a time when heroes, such as Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) and Frozone ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]), routinely saved the day. We focus especially on Mr. Incredible (alias Bob Parr), a superhero with amazing strength, who works strictly alone. Even on his wedding night, he takes time to intervene in car chases, save a suicidal man and thwart bomb-throwing villains. He is only hampered in his actions by a kid named Buddy (Jason Lee), who is his would-be-sidekick, Incrediboy. Life seems perfect as he marries fellow superhero, Elastigirl and prepares to start a family. However, the public suddenly turns against superheroes in a series of frivolous lawsuits against them. All superheroes are forced to assimilate into the culture as regular citizens, keeping their powers hidden.

Several years later into the future, we see Mr. Incredible working in a insurance company that rejects old ladies' for insurance thanks to loop-holes. Mr. Incredible usually angers his temperamental boss by helping customers instead of exploiting them. His wife is a stay-at-home mother of three children. The oldest, Violet, has the ability to become invisible and create "force-fields", but is socially insecure. The second, Dashiell or "Dash", can run super-fast, but is over-precocious and often ends up in the principal’s office. The youngest is the baby, Jack-Jack, who is completely normal. Mr. Incredible spends the occasional evening with his old super-friend, Frozone, listening to the radio for crises to secretly help save. Mrs. Incredible is disturbed with his night-time antics and believes it is tearing the family apart.

Mr. Incredible finally looses his temper at work and seriously injures his boss, leaving himself jobless. However, when he empties his brief-case, he finds a mysterious offer from a woman named Mirage to return to super-work. Mr. Incredible lies to his wife, saying he’s going to a conference. Mirage acquaints him with his mission at a secret government facility on a volcanic island. Apparently, a unusually intelligent robot decided to assert it’s independence and is wrecking havoc on their island. Mr. Incredible fights the robot and only manages to defeat it by entering inside and having it destroy itself. Mr. Incredible returns home and enjoys life as usual with his family. On the side, he gets himself in shape and asks his old outfit-designer, Edna, to fix his suit. (Edna calls his old get-up a “hobo-suit” and makes a completely new one.)

Mr. Incredible leaves for the facility for more work. Shortly after he arrives, he is attacked by a new and improved robot and its creator: Syndrome (a.k.a. Buddy.) Syndrome is bitter for how Mr. Incredible treated him and has become a clever weapons designer. He has spent his time exterminating superheroes. Mr. Incredible manages to escape him temporarily and even get to the computer files showing another of Syndrome’s mysterious plans. Meanwhile, Mrs. Incredible has noticed that Edna mended her husband’s old suit. Edna, encouraged by her work on the “new suit”, has created a suit for each member of the family. Mrs. Incredible realizes that her husband had returned to superhero work. Edna provides her with a homing device that allows her to know the location of Mr. Incredible. Unfortunately, the homing device allows Syndrome to capture Mr. Incredible.
Mrs. Incredible, frustrated and even suspecting her husband of infidelity, decides to go to the island. Her children are surprised at her sudden action and discover the suits Edna custom-made for them. Mrs. Incredible boards a jet and heads to the island. When she hears no response she puts on Edna’s custom-made suit. She also finds that Violet and Dash stowed aboard the jet, leaving Jack-Jack with a baby sitter. Hearing their approach, Syndrome decides to shoot them down. While the jet is destroyed, the Incredibles manage to escape to the island alive.

Meanwhile, Mr. Incredible is heart-broken by the news of his family’s death. Mr. Incredible manages to grab Mirage and threatens her across from Syndrome. However, he cannot actually bear to kill her. Mrs. Incredible sneaks into the factory and finds Mr. Incredible being released by Mirage. She assumes the worst, but Mr. Incredible is very happy to see her. In the meantime, Violet and Dash trigger the alarms and use their super-powers while running for their lives. However, even though the family is reunited, Syndrome still manages to capture them all and reveals his plan. He intends to become the new super-hero using the robot as a set-up “nemesis” to be defeated by him and his inventions.

{{Spoiler}}
While Sydnrome leaves to “save the day”, Mr. Incredible breaks down and apologizes for not valuing his family and not telling them the truth. The super-heroes family escapes and even manages to travel via a rocket and bus to the scene of chaos. Syndrome’s plan fails and the robot turns on him. The Incredibles and Frozone fight a long action sequence and manage to use one of the disconnected arms of the robot to de-capacitate it. Thanks to their actions the superheroes are welcomed back by the public. However, the Incredibles find Syndrome kidnapping Jack-Jack. However, Jack-Jack has the ability to turn into different things and stalls Syndrome’s escape long enough for them to get Jack-Jack back. Syndrome ends up getting sucked into his rocket engines because of his cape (an item Edna earlier insisted Mr. Incredible not wear.)

The film closes as the supers feel adapted to life now, ready for whatever crisis comes next…

==Voices Cast==
Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible

Holly Hunter - Helen Parr/Elastigirl

[[Samuel L. Jackson]] - Lucius Best/Frozone

Jason Lee - Buddy Pine/Syndrome

Sarah Vowel - Violet Parr

Spencer Fox - Dashiell 'Dash' Parr

Eli Fucile/Maeve Andrews - Jack Jack Parr

Elizabeth Pena - Mirage

Wallace Shawn - Gilbert Huph

Brad Bird - Edna 'E' Mode

==Reception==
The film was rated PG by the MPAA for action violence. The film was released on November 5th and became an instant hit, managing to gross $261,441,092 domestically and $631,442,092 worldwide. <ref> http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incredibles.htm </ref>

==Awards==
The film received two Oscar awards for Best Achievement in Sound Editing and Best Animated Feature film of the year. It was also nominated for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/awards </ref>

==Anti-Egalitarian Themes==
The movie ''The Incredibles'' contains what some have discerned to be anti-[[egalitarian]] themes. Part of the twist in the film is that the superheroes are sued for injuring victims while saving them. The Incredibles family takes on the alias "Parr" and be "live everybody else." Critic [[Roger Ebert]] noted, the film "has special qualities, especially in the subtle ways it observes its gifted characters trying to dumb down and join the crowd."<ref> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041104/REVIEWS/41006004 </ref> [[New York Times]] film critic, A.O. Scott, noted that, "In the movie's view of things, this kind of misguided egalitarianism, enforced in petty ways at school and work, is not just stultifying but actively, murderously evil."<ref> http://movies.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/movies/05incr.html </ref>

The goal of the villian, Syndrome, is to destroy all the 'real' superheroes so that he can be one himself. When Mr. Incredible accuses him of not being a real superhero, Syndrome responds:
{{Cquote|Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super - [chuckles] -no one will}}

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT: Increbiles, The}}

[[Category: Movies]]
[[Category: Animated Movies]]

The Incredibles

2010-06-03T20:45:59Z

Additioner: Bigger Template

{{Infobox Film
| name= The Incredibles
| image=
| caption=
| director=Brad Bird
| producer=John Lasseter John Walker
| writer=Brad Bird
| narrator=
| starring=Craig T. Nelson Holly Hunter [[Samuel L. Jackson]]
| music=Michael Giacchino
| cinematography=Andrew Jimenez Patrick Lin Janet Lucroy
| editing=Stephen Schaffer
| distributor=Buena Vista Pictures
| released=November 5, 2004
| runtime=115 min.
| country=[[USA]]
| language=[[English]]
| budget= $92,000,000
| gross= $631,442,092
| preceded_by=
| followed_by=
| website=http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/incredibles/
| amg_id=
| imdb_id=0317705
}}

'''The Incredibles''' is a 2004 animated [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their superpowers, until a threat brings them out of hiding.

==Plot==
The film begins during a time when heroes, such as Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) and Frozone ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]), routinely saved the day. We focus especially on Mr. Incredible (alias Bob Parr), a superhero with amazing strength, who works strictly alone. Even on his wedding night, he takes time to intervene in car chases, save a suicidal man and thwart bomb-throwing villains. He is only hampered in his actions by a kid named Buddy (Jason Lee), who is his would-be-sidekick, Incrediboy. Life seems perfect as he marries fellow superhero, Elastigirl and prepares to start a family. However, the public suddenly turns against superheroes in a series of frivolous lawsuits against them. All superheroes are forced to assimilate into the culture as regular citizens, keeping their powers hidden.

Several years later into the future, we see Mr. Incredible working in a insurance company that rejects old ladies' for insurance thanks to loop-holes. Mr. Incredible usually angers his temperamental boss by helping customers instead of exploiting them. His wife is a stay-at-home mother of three children. The oldest, Violet, has the ability to become invisible and create "force-fields", but is socially insecure. The second, Dashiell or "Dash", can run super-fast, but is over-precocious and often ends up in the principal’s office. The youngest is the baby, Jack-Jack, who is completely normal. Mr. Incredible spends the occasional evening with his old super-friend, Frozone, listening to the radio for crises to secretly help save. Mrs. Incredible is disturbed with his night-time antics and believes it is tearing the family apart.

Mr. Incredible finally looses his temper at work and seriously injures his boss, leaving himself jobless. However, when he empties his brief-case, he finds a mysterious offer from a woman named Mirage to return to super-work. Mr. Incredible lies to his wife, saying he’s going to a conference. Mirage acquaints him with his mission at a secret government facility on a volcanic island. Apparently, a unusually intelligent robot decided to assert it’s independence and is wrecking havoc on their island. Mr. Incredible fights the robot and only manages to defeat it by entering inside and having it destroy itself. Mr. Incredible returns home and enjoys life as usual with his family. On the side, he gets himself in shape and asks his old outfit-designer, Edna, to fix his suit. (Edna calls his old get-up a “hobo-suit” and makes a completely new one.)

Mr. Incredible leaves for the facility for more work. Shortly after he arrives, he is attacked by a new and improved robot and its creator: Syndrome (a.k.a. Buddy.) Syndrome is bitter for how Mr. Incredible treated him and has become a clever weapons designer. He has spent his time exterminating superheroes. Mr. Incredible manages to escape him temporarily and even get to the computer files showing another of Syndrome’s mysterious plans. Meanwhile, Mrs. Incredible has noticed that Edna mended her husband’s old suit. Edna, encouraged by her work on the “new suit”, has created a suit for each member of the family. Mrs. Incredible realizes that her husband had returned to superhero work. Edna provides her with a homing device that allows her to know the location of Mr. Incredible. Unfortunately, the homing device allows Syndrome to capture Mr. Incredible.
Mrs. Incredible, frustrated and even suspecting her husband of infidelity, decides to go to the island. Her children are surprised at her sudden action and discover the suits Edna custom-made for them. Mrs. Incredible boards a jet and heads to the island. When she hears no response she puts on Edna’s custom-made suit. She also finds that Violet and Dash stowed aboard the jet, leaving Jack-Jack with a baby sitter. Hearing their approach, Syndrome decides to shoot them down. While the jet is destroyed, the Incredibles manage to escape to the island alive.

Meanwhile, Mr. Incredible is heart-broken by the news of his family’s death. Mr. Incredible manages to grab Mirage and threatens her across from Syndrome. However, he cannot actually bear to kill her. Mrs. Incredible sneaks into the factory and finds Mr. Incredible being released by Mirage. She assumes the worst, but Mr. Incredible is very happy to see her. In the meantime, Violet and Dash trigger the alarms and use their super-powers while running for their lives. However, even though the family is reunited, Syndrome still manages to capture them all and reveals his plan. He intends to become the new super-hero using the robot as a set-up “nemesis” to be defeated by him and his inventions.

{{Spoiler}}
While Sydnrome leaves to “save the day”, Mr. Incredible breaks down and apologizes for not valuing his family and not telling them the truth. The super-heroes family escapes and even manages to travel via a rocket and bus to the scene of chaos. Syndrome’s plan fails and the robot turns on him. The Incredibles and Frozone fight a long action sequence and manage to use one of the disconnected arms of the robot to de-capacitate it. Thanks to their actions the superheroes are welcomed back by the public. However, the Incredibles find Syndrome kidnapping Jack-Jack. However, Jack-Jack has the ability to turn into different things and stalls Syndrome’s escape long enough for them to get Jack-Jack back. Syndrome ends up getting sucked into his rocket engines because of his cape (an item Edna earlier insisted Mr. Incredible not wear.)

The film closes as the supers feel adapted to life now, ready for whatever crisis comes next…

==Reception==
The film was rated PG by the MPAA for action violence. The film was released on November 5th and became an instant hit, managing to gross $261,441,092 domestically and $631,442,092 worldwide. <ref> http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incredibles.htm </ref>

==Awards==
The film received two Oscar awards for Best Achievement in Sound Editing and Best Animated Feature film of the year. It was also nominated for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/awards </ref>

==Anti-Egalitarian Themes==
The movie ''The Incredibles'' contains what some have discerned to be anti-[[egalitarian]] themes. Part of the twist in the film is that the superheroes are sued for injuring victims while saving them. The Incredibles family takes on the alias "Parr" and be "live everybody else." Critic [[Roger Ebert]] noted, the film "has special qualities, especially in the subtle ways it observes its gifted characters trying to dumb down and join the crowd."<ref> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041104/REVIEWS/41006004 </ref> [[New York Times]] film critic, A.O. Scott, noted that, "In the movie's view of things, this kind of misguided egalitarianism, enforced in petty ways at school and work, is not just stultifying but actively, murderously evil."<ref> http://movies.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/movies/05incr.html </ref>

The goal of the villian, Syndrome, is to destroy all the 'real' superheroes so that he can be one himself. When Mr. Incredible accuses him of not being a real superhero, Syndrome responds:
{{Cquote|Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super - [chuckles] -no one will}}

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT: Increbiles, The}}

[[Category: Movies]]
[[Category: Animated Movies]]

The Incredibles

2010-06-03T20:28:53Z

Additioner: /* Reception */

{{infobox Film
|director=Brad Bird
|writer=Brad Bird
|music=Michael Giacchino
|released=November 5, 2004
|runtime=115 min.
|website=http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/incredibles/
||imdb_id=0317705
}}
'''The Incredibles''' is a 2004 animated [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their superpowers, until a threat brings them out of hiding.

==Plot==
The film begins during a time when heroes, such as Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) and Frozone ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]), routinely saved the day. We focus especially on Mr. Incredible (alias Bob Parr), a superhero with amazing strength, who works strictly alone. Even on his wedding night, he takes time to intervene in car chases, save a suicidal man and thwart bomb-throwing villains. He is only hampered in his actions by a kid named Buddy (Jason Lee), who is his would-be-sidekick, Incrediboy. Life seems perfect as he marries fellow superhero, Elastigirl and prepares to start a family. However, the public suddenly turns against superheroes in a series of frivolous lawsuits against them. All superheroes are forced to assimilate into the culture as regular citizens, keeping their powers hidden.

Several years later into the future, we see Mr. Incredible working in a insurance company that rejects old ladies' for insurance thanks to loop-holes. Mr. Incredible usually angers his temperamental boss by helping customers instead of exploiting them. His wife is a stay-at-home mother of three children. The oldest, Violet, has the ability to become invisible and create "force-fields", but is socially insecure. The second, Dashiell or "Dash", can run super-fast, but is over-precocious and often ends up in the principal’s office. The youngest is the baby, Jack-Jack, who is completely normal. Mr. Incredible spends the occasional evening with his old super-friend, Frozone, listening to the radio for crises to secretly help save. Mrs. Incredible is disturbed with his night-time antics and believes it is tearing the family apart.

Mr. Incredible finally looses his temper at work and seriously injures his boss, leaving himself jobless. However, when he empties his brief-case, he finds a mysterious offer from a woman named Mirage to return to super-work. Mr. Incredible lies to his wife, saying he’s going to a conference. Mirage acquaints him with his mission at a secret government facility on a volcanic island. Apparently, a unusually intelligent robot decided to assert it’s independence and is wrecking havoc on their island. Mr. Incredible fights the robot and only manages to defeat it by entering inside and having it destroy itself. Mr. Incredible returns home and enjoys life as usual with his family. On the side, he gets himself in shape and asks his old outfit-designer, Edna, to fix his suit. (Edna calls his old get-up a “hobo-suit” and makes a completely new one.)

Mr. Incredible leaves for the facility for more work. Shortly after he arrives, he is attacked by a new and improved robot and its creator: Syndrome (a.k.a. Buddy.) Syndrome is bitter for how Mr. Incredible treated him and has become a clever weapons designer. He has spent his time exterminating superheroes. Mr. Incredible manages to escape him temporarily and even get to the computer files showing another of Syndrome’s mysterious plans. Meanwhile, Mrs. Incredible has noticed that Edna mended her husband’s old suit. Edna, encouraged by her work on the “new suit”, has created a suit for each member of the family. Mrs. Incredible realizes that her husband had returned to superhero work. Edna provides her with a homing device that allows her to know the location of Mr. Incredible. Unfortunately, the homing device allows Syndrome to capture Mr. Incredible.
Mrs. Incredible, frustrated and even suspecting her husband of infidelity, decides to go to the island. Her children are surprised at her sudden action and discover the suits Edna custom-made for them. Mrs. Incredible boards a jet and heads to the island. When she hears no response she puts on Edna’s custom-made suit. She also finds that Violet and Dash stowed aboard the jet, leaving Jack-Jack with a baby sitter. Hearing their approach, Syndrome decides to shoot them down. While the jet is destroyed, the Incredibles manage to escape to the island alive.

Meanwhile, Mr. Incredible is heart-broken by the news of his family’s death. Mr. Incredible manages to grab Mirage and threatens her across from Syndrome. However, he cannot actually bear to kill her. Mrs. Incredible sneaks into the factory and finds Mr. Incredible being released by Mirage. She assumes the worst, but Mr. Incredible is very happy to see her. In the meantime, Violet and Dash trigger the alarms and use their super-powers while running for their lives. However, even though the family is reunited, Syndrome still manages to capture them all and reveals his plan. He intends to become the new super-hero using the robot as a set-up “nemesis” to be defeated by him and his inventions.

{{Spoiler}}
While Sydnrome leaves to “save the day”, Mr. Incredible breaks down and apologizes for not valuing his family and not telling them the truth. The super-heroes family escapes and even manages to travel via a rocket and bus to the scene of chaos. Syndrome’s plan fails and the robot turns on him. The Incredibles and Frozone fight a long action sequence and manage to use one of the disconnected arms of the robot to de-capacitate it. Thanks to their actions the superheroes are welcomed back by the public. However, the Incredibles find Syndrome kidnapping Jack-Jack. However, Jack-Jack has the ability to turn into different things and stalls Syndrome’s escape long enough for them to get Jack-Jack back. Syndrome ends up getting sucked into his rocket engines because of his cape (an item Edna earlier insisted Mr. Incredible not wear.)

The film closes as the supers feel adapted to life now, ready for whatever crisis comes next…

==Reception==
The film was rated PG by the MPAA for action violence. The film was released on November 5th and became an instant hit, managing to gross $261,441,092 domestically and $631,442,092 worldwide. <ref> http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incredibles.htm </ref>

==Awards==
The film received two Oscar awards for Best Achievement in Sound Editing and Best Animated Feature film of the year. It was also nominated for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/awards </ref>

==Anti-Egalitarian Themes==
The movie ''The Incredibles'' contains what some have discerned to be anti-[[egalitarian]] themes. Part of the twist in the film is that the superheroes are sued for injuring victims while saving them. The Incredibles family takes on the alias "Parr" and be "live everybody else." Critic [[Roger Ebert]] noted, the film "has special qualities, especially in the subtle ways it observes its gifted characters trying to dumb down and join the crowd."<ref> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041104/REVIEWS/41006004 </ref> [[New York Times]] film critic, A.O. Scott, noted that, "In the movie's view of things, this kind of misguided egalitarianism, enforced in petty ways at school and work, is not just stultifying but actively, murderously evil."<ref> http://movies.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/movies/05incr.html </ref>

The goal of the villian, Syndrome, is to destroy all the 'real' superheroes so that he can be one himself. When Mr. Incredible accuses him of not being a real superhero, Syndrome responds:
{{Cquote|Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super - [chuckles] -no one will}}

==References==
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[[Category: Animated Movies]]

The Incredibles

2010-06-03T20:26:25Z

Additioner: /* Anti-Egalitarian Themes */ I've added another well-known critic who noticed these themes

{{infobox Film
|director=Brad Bird
|writer=Brad Bird
|music=Michael Giacchino
|released=November 5, 2004
|runtime=115 min.
|website=http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/incredibles/
||imdb_id=0317705
}}
'''The Incredibles''' is a 2004 animated [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their superpowers, until a threat brings them out of hiding.

==Plot==
The film begins during a time when heroes, such as Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) and Frozone ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]), routinely saved the day. We focus especially on Mr. Incredible (alias Bob Parr), a superhero with amazing strength, who works strictly alone. Even on his wedding night, he takes time to intervene in car chases, save a suicidal man and thwart bomb-throwing villains. He is only hampered in his actions by a kid named Buddy (Jason Lee), who is his would-be-sidekick, Incrediboy. Life seems perfect as he marries fellow superhero, Elastigirl and prepares to start a family. However, the public suddenly turns against superheroes in a series of frivolous lawsuits against them. All superheroes are forced to assimilate into the culture as regular citizens, keeping their powers hidden.

Several years later into the future, we see Mr. Incredible working in a insurance company that rejects old ladies' for insurance thanks to loop-holes. Mr. Incredible usually angers his temperamental boss by helping customers instead of exploiting them. His wife is a stay-at-home mother of three children. The oldest, Violet, has the ability to become invisible and create "force-fields", but is socially insecure. The second, Dashiell or "Dash", can run super-fast, but is over-precocious and often ends up in the principal’s office. The youngest is the baby, Jack-Jack, who is completely normal. Mr. Incredible spends the occasional evening with his old super-friend, Frozone, listening to the radio for crises to secretly help save. Mrs. Incredible is disturbed with his night-time antics and believes it is tearing the family apart.

Mr. Incredible finally looses his temper at work and seriously injures his boss, leaving himself jobless. However, when he empties his brief-case, he finds a mysterious offer from a woman named Mirage to return to super-work. Mr. Incredible lies to his wife, saying he’s going to a conference. Mirage acquaints him with his mission at a secret government facility on a volcanic island. Apparently, a unusually intelligent robot decided to assert it’s independence and is wrecking havoc on their island. Mr. Incredible fights the robot and only manages to defeat it by entering inside and having it destroy itself. Mr. Incredible returns home and enjoys life as usual with his family. On the side, he gets himself in shape and asks his old outfit-designer, Edna, to fix his suit. (Edna calls his old get-up a “hobo-suit” and makes a completely new one.)

Mr. Incredible leaves for the facility for more work. Shortly after he arrives, he is attacked by a new and improved robot and its creator: Syndrome (a.k.a. Buddy.) Syndrome is bitter for how Mr. Incredible treated him and has become a clever weapons designer. He has spent his time exterminating superheroes. Mr. Incredible manages to escape him temporarily and even get to the computer files showing another of Syndrome’s mysterious plans. Meanwhile, Mrs. Incredible has noticed that Edna mended her husband’s old suit. Edna, encouraged by her work on the “new suit”, has created a suit for each member of the family. Mrs. Incredible realizes that her husband had returned to superhero work. Edna provides her with a homing device that allows her to know the location of Mr. Incredible. Unfortunately, the homing device allows Syndrome to capture Mr. Incredible.
Mrs. Incredible, frustrated and even suspecting her husband of infidelity, decides to go to the island. Her children are surprised at her sudden action and discover the suits Edna custom-made for them. Mrs. Incredible boards a jet and heads to the island. When she hears no response she puts on Edna’s custom-made suit. She also finds that Violet and Dash stowed aboard the jet, leaving Jack-Jack with a baby sitter. Hearing their approach, Syndrome decides to shoot them down. While the jet is destroyed, the Incredibles manage to escape to the island alive.

Meanwhile, Mr. Incredible is heart-broken by the news of his family’s death. Mr. Incredible manages to grab Mirage and threatens her across from Syndrome. However, he cannot actually bear to kill her. Mrs. Incredible sneaks into the factory and finds Mr. Incredible being released by Mirage. She assumes the worst, but Mr. Incredible is very happy to see her. In the meantime, Violet and Dash trigger the alarms and use their super-powers while running for their lives. However, even though the family is reunited, Syndrome still manages to capture them all and reveals his plan. He intends to become the new super-hero using the robot as a set-up “nemesis” to be defeated by him and his inventions.

{{Spoiler}}
While Sydnrome leaves to “save the day”, Mr. Incredible breaks down and apologizes for not valuing his family and not telling them the truth. The super-heroes family escapes and even manages to travel via a rocket and bus to the scene of chaos. Syndrome’s plan fails and the robot turns on him. The Incredibles and Frozone fight a long action sequence and manage to use one of the disconnected arms of the robot to de-capacitate it. Thanks to their actions the superheroes are welcomed back by the public. However, the Incredibles find Syndrome kidnapping Jack-Jack. However, Jack-Jack has the ability to turn into different things and stalls Syndrome’s escape long enough for them to get Jack-Jack back. Syndrome ends up getting sucked into his rocket engines because of his cape (an item Edna earlier insisted Mr. Incredible not wear.)

The film closes as the supers feel adapted to life now, ready for whatever crisis comes next…

==Reception==
The film was rated PG by the MPAA for action violence. The film was released on November 5th and became an instant hit. It managed to gross $631,442,092. <ref> http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incredibles.htm </ref>

==Awards==
The film received two Oscar awards for Best Achievement in Sound Editing and Best Animated Feature film of the year. It was also nominated for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/awards </ref>

==Anti-Egalitarian Themes==
The movie ''The Incredibles'' contains what some have discerned to be anti-[[egalitarian]] themes. Part of the twist in the film is that the superheroes are sued for injuring victims while saving them. The Incredibles family takes on the alias "Parr" and be "live everybody else." Critic [[Roger Ebert]] noted, the film "has special qualities, especially in the subtle ways it observes its gifted characters trying to dumb down and join the crowd."<ref> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041104/REVIEWS/41006004 </ref> [[New York Times]] film critic, A.O. Scott, noted that, "In the movie's view of things, this kind of misguided egalitarianism, enforced in petty ways at school and work, is not just stultifying but actively, murderously evil."<ref> http://movies.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/movies/05incr.html </ref>

The goal of the villian, Syndrome, is to destroy all the 'real' superheroes so that he can be one himself. When Mr. Incredible accuses him of not being a real superhero, Syndrome responds:
{{Cquote|Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super - [chuckles] -no one will}}

==References==
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[[Category: Movies]]
[[Category: Animated Movies]]

The Incredibles

2010-06-02T00:42:20Z

Additioner: Added a section on its anti-egalitarian themes, I tried to include at least one reference to a critic, but I'd enjoy seeing more scholarly expansion.

{{infobox Film
|director=Brad Bird
|writer=Brad Bird
|music=Michael Giacchino
|released=November 5, 2004
|runtime=115 min.
|website=http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/incredibles/
||imdb_id=0317705
}}
'''The Incredibles''' is a 2004 animated [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their superpowers, until a threat brings them out of hiding.

==Plot==
The film begins during a time when heroes, such as Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) and Frozone ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]), routinely saved the day. We focus especially on Mr. Incredible (alias Bob Parr), a superhero with amazing strength, who works strictly alone. Even on his wedding night, he takes time to intervene in car chases, save a suicidal man and thwart bomb-throwing villains. He is only hampered in his actions by a kid named Buddy (Jason Lee), who is his would-be-sidekick, Incrediboy. Life seems perfect as he marries fellow superhero, Elastigirl and prepares to start a family. However, the public suddenly turns against superheroes in a series of frivolous lawsuits against them. All superheroes are forced to assimilate into the culture as regular citizens, keeping their powers hidden.

Several years later into the future, we see Mr. Incredible working in a insurance company that rejects old ladies' for insurance thanks to loop-holes. Mr. Incredible usually angers his temperamental boss by helping customers instead of exploiting them. His wife is a stay-at-home mother of three children. The oldest, Violet, has the ability to become invisible and create "force-fields", but is socially insecure. The second, Dashiell or "Dash", can run super-fast, but is over-precocious and often ends up in the principal’s office. The youngest is the baby, Jack-Jack, who is completely normal. Mr. Incredible spends the occasional evening with his old super-friend, Frozone, listening to the radio for crises to secretly help save. Mrs. Incredible is disturbed with his night-time antics and believes it is tearing the family apart.

Mr. Incredible finally looses his temper at work and seriously injures his boss, leaving himself jobless. However, when he empties his brief-case, he finds a mysterious offer from a woman named Mirage to return to super-work. Mr. Incredible lies to his wife, saying he’s going to a conference. Mirage acquaints him with his mission at a secret government facility on a volcanic island. Apparently, a unusually intelligent robot decided to assert it’s independence and is wrecking havoc on their island. Mr. Incredible fights the robot and only manages to defeat it by entering inside and having it destroy itself. Mr. Incredible returns home and enjoys life as usual with his family. On the side, he gets himself in shape and asks his old outfit-designer, Edna, to fix his suit. (Edna calls his old get-up a “hobo-suit” and makes a completely new one.)

Mr. Incredible leaves for the facility for more work. Shortly after he arrives, he is attacked by a new and improved robot and its creator: Syndrome (a.k.a. Buddy.) Syndrome is bitter for how Mr. Incredible treated him and has become a clever weapons designer. He has spent his time exterminating superheroes. Mr. Incredible manages to escape him temporarily and even get to the computer files showing another of Syndrome’s mysterious plans. Meanwhile, Mrs. Incredible has noticed that Edna mended her husband’s old suit. Edna, encouraged by her work on the “new suit”, has created a suit for each member of the family. Mrs. Incredible realizes that her husband had returned to superhero work. Edna provides her with a homing device that allows her to know the location of Mr. Incredible. Unfortunately, the homing device allows Syndrome to capture Mr. Incredible.
Mrs. Incredible, frustrated and even suspecting her husband of infidelity, decides to go to the island. Her children are surprised at her sudden action and discover the suits Edna custom-made for them. Mrs. Incredible boards a jet and heads to the island. When she hears no response she puts on Edna’s custom-made suit. She also finds that Violet and Dash stowed aboard the jet, leaving Jack-Jack with a baby sitter. Hearing their approach, Syndrome decides to shoot them down. While the jet is destroyed, the Incredibles manage to escape to the island alive.

Meanwhile, Mr. Incredible is heart-broken by the news of his family’s death. Mr. Incredible manages to grab Mirage and threatens her across from Syndrome. However, he cannot actually bear to kill her. Mrs. Incredible sneaks into the factory and finds Mr. Incredible being released by Mirage. She assumes the worst, but Mr. Incredible is very happy to see her. In the meantime, Violet and Dash trigger the alarms and use their super-powers while running for their lives. However, even though the family is reunited, Syndrome still manages to capture them all and reveals his plan. He intends to become the new super-hero using the robot as a set-up “nemesis” to be defeated by him and his inventions.

{{Spoiler}}
While Sydnrome leaves to “save the day”, Mr. Incredible breaks down and apologizes for not valuing his family and not telling them the truth. The super-heroes family escapes and even manages to travel via a rocket and bus to the scene of chaos. Syndrome’s plan fails and the robot turns on him. The Incredibles and Frozone fight a long action sequence and manage to use one of the disconnected arms of the robot to de-capacitate it. Thanks to their actions the superheroes are welcomed back by the public. However, the Incredibles find Syndrome kidnapping Jack-Jack. However, Jack-Jack has the ability to turn into different things and stalls Syndrome’s escape long enough for them to get Jack-Jack back. Syndrome ends up getting sucked into his rocket engines because of his cape (an item Edna earlier insisted Mr. Incredible not wear.)

The film closes as the supers feel adapted to life now, ready for whatever crisis comes next…

==Reception==
The film was rated PG by the MPAA for action violence. The film was released on November 5th and became an instant hit. It managed to gross $631,442,092. <ref> http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incredibles.htm </ref>

==Awards==
The film received two Oscar awards for Best Achievement in Sound Editing and Best Animated Feature film of the year. It was also nominated for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/awards </ref>

==Anti-Egalitarian Themes==
The movie ''The Incredibles'' contains what some have discerned to be anti-[[egalitarian]] themes. Part of the twist in the film is that the superheroes are sued for injuring victims while saving them. The Incredibles family takes on the alias "Parr" and be "live everybody else." As critic [[Roger Ebert]] noted, the film "has special qualities, especially in the subtle ways it observes its gifted characters trying to dumb down and join the crowd." <ref> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041104/REVIEWS/41006004 </ref>

The goal of the villian, Syndrome, is to destroy all the 'real' superheroes so that he can be one himself. When Mr. Incredible accuses him of not being a real superhero, Syndrome responds:
{{Cquote|Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super - [chuckles] -no one will}}

==References==
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The Dark Knight

2010-05-13T11:48:01Z

Additioner:

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| name= Batman Begins
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| director=[[Christopher Nolan]]
| producer=Kevin De La Noy Benjamin Melniker Christopher Nolan Lorne Orleans Charles Roven Emma Thomas Thomas Tull Michael E. Uslan
| writer=Bob Kane (original) David S. Goyer Christopher Nolan Jonathan Nolan
| narrator=
| starring=Christian Bale [[Heath Ledger]] Aaron Ekhart Michael Caine Maggie Gyllenhaal Gary Oldman [[Morgan Freeman]]
| music= Hans Zimmer James Newton Howard
| cinematography=Wally Pfister
| editing=Lee Smith
| distributor=[[Warner Brothers]]
| released=July 18, 2008
| runtime=152 min
| country=[[United States]]
| language=[[English]]
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'''The Dark Knight''' is a 2008 [[superhero]] film, directed by Christopher Nolan as a sequel to his earlier film, ''Batman Begins''. [[Heath Ledger]] in his last completed performance portrayed [[Joker (comics)|the Joker]] as a dark, insane criminal. Ledger died during post Production and won a posthumous [[Academy Award]] for Best Supporting Actor. The film also won another Oscar for Best Achievment in Sound Editing and was nominated for another six academy awards. The film was rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace.

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Joker (comics)

2010-05-13T11:47:05Z

Additioner: /* Next film adaptions */

[[File:Bolland Joker.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Joker, detail of a panel from the graphic novel ''Batman: The Killing Joke'' (Brian Bolland / DC Comics)]]
The '''Joker''' is a comic book character first published in the spring 1940 issue of ''Batman'' #1 by DC Comics, and was the creation of Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Frank Robinson. The chief nemesis of Batman, and the personification of destruction and chaos, the Joker has become one of the best-known villains in comics, novels, and film; his portrayal by actor [[Heath Ledger]] in ''The Dark Knight'' earned for him critical praise and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

==History==
Kane, Finger, and Robinson are credited with the creation of the Joker, but what exactly transpired is a bit of a mystery. Robinson, according to some sources, produced a playing card bearing the image of a joker and suggested that it was DC's next villain. Kane, the creator of Batman, insisted that it was himself who had done so, basing his interpretation on a character named Gwynplaine from a 1928 silent film titled ''The Man Who Laughs''[http://laughingsquid.com/the-original-inspiration-for-batmans-joker-german-actor-conrad-veidt/]. The image of an unearthly, knife-carved grin - as portrayed by German actor Conrad Veidt - stuck with Kane, and were reflected in the panels of the Joker drawn for ''Batman'' #1[http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/comic-books/joker.htm].

The Joker was portrayed as a psycopathic murderer who left an unusual calling card: the bodies of his victims with their faces contorted in a grotesque smile, but his actual origins were not established until much later. In 1951 ''Detective Comics'' #168 presented "The Man Behind the Red Hood", which placed Batman against a criminal who struck once more after a ten-year hiatus. The revealing of the Red Hood to be the Joker also revealed his origins: once a lab worker, he was going to retire off of a million dollars stolen from a nearby playing card company, but his escape with the loot through chemical wastes had altered his appearance, bleaching his skin white and turning his hair green.

In the mid-1950's public backlash against comics in the wake of Dr. Frederic Wertham's book ''Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today's Youth'' forced many comic publishers to either change their format or go out of business; indeed, much of what was published - either in mainstream comics or so-called "underground" versions - was dark, violent, and sometimes gory. The Joker went through a change as a result: the insane, homicidal character was reduced to a campy prankster who used a lot of jokes and puzzles in his crazy, yet seemingly harmless, crimes. The additions of a "Joker-mobile" or a Batman-like utility belt didn't help his stories, either, and when Julius Schwartz - who hated the Joker - took over the Batman editorial position, the Clown Prince of Crime was relegated to the trash can.

==First film adaptions==
But the Joker wouldn't die so quickly, as producer William Dozier placed the Joker in the fifth episode of his 1966-69 television series ''Batman''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/]. Played by veteran actor Caesar Romero[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003110/], this new film version kept in line with the campyness of the comic character. One of the big-name stars who was attracted to film guest appearences in the series (Burgess Meredith, Julie Newmar, Frank Gorshin, Vincent Price among others), Romero had an unusual trait which he insisted not be touched: a well-groomed mustache, which was hidden under his white make up.

With ''Batman'' still in primetime as a live-action series for ABC in 1968, the animation company Filmation brought to CBS Saturday mornings ''The Batman/Superman Hour'', a cartoon series featuring the main DC superheroes in various seven-minute shorts; Joker appeared in several and was voiced by veteran comic actor Larry Storch. This very-tame version of the Joker was carried over to an episode of Hanna-Barbera's ''New Scooby Doo Movies'' in 1972, where he and fellow villain Penguin run a counterfeiting ring while enjoying their new stolen "ride": the Batmobile. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010330091127/www.cartoonnetwork.com/doc/newscoobydoo/fe.html]

====1970's remake====
In 1973 DC did an extensive revamping of the Batman series and characters, returning to their earlier roots of dark and compelling stories. Brought out of the trash can, the Joker committed his homicides once again according to the writer-artist team of Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams in the pages of ''Batman'' #251 (Sept. 1973), in an instant classic titled "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge." Escaping from the "state hospital for the criminally insane" - the first instance of what wold be called Arkham Asylam - the Joker hunts down his former henchmen in an effort to get revenge on the man who put him there for twenty years, with the added pleasure of taunting both the police and Batman to stop him in a dark format that O'Neal and Adams have deliberately made to be as close as possible to ''film noir''.

In the story "The Laughing Fish," (''Detective Comics #475, March 1978), writer Steve Englehart and and artist Marshall Rogers defined the Joker's psychosis further, in which the Joker had applied for a patent for a chemical which causes a wicked grin in fish, of which he woud be able to collect royalties for his "invention," with the added joke that he would kill anyone who pointed out just how crazy his invention was. Although a two-part story with no more than three murders, "The Laughing Fish" left an impression on readers: the Joker's madness had risen to new levels, and the stories were getting more compelling.

====1980's====
In the 1980's Frank Miller was an artist/writer for Marvel Comics; he had revamped the character of Wolverine and placed a ''film noir'' look in Daredevil - creating a love interest with Electra along the way - to critical acclaim. When he moved to DC he had the beginnings of a story that would set the comics industry on fire, and the Joker was part of it. In ''Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'' the Joker had spent ten years of a dystopian future locked away a Arkham as a mere dormant shell of a man, while the Batman had made a similar disappearence. The news of Batman's return to fight crime once more has the Joker convincing his doctors that he has been rehabilitated; his release into the public allows him a killing spree like Gotham had never seen before.

At the same time as ''The Dark Knight Returns'', another influential tale hit the stands: ''Batman: The Killing Joke'' (1986). Essentially a graphic novel, writer Alan Moore elaborated on the Joker's origin from the earlier "Red Hood" story, and changed him to a stand-up comedian who turns to crime after he fails on the stage, becoming a victim of a chemical bath when a factory break-in goes wrong. The central point of ''The Killing Joke'' was the Joker's attempt to prove to Batman that given the right conditions anyone can go insane, and he nearly proves it by the kidnapping and paralyzing of Commissioner Gordon's daughter, Barbara.

As ''The Killing Joke'' was gaining critical reviews, ''A Death in the Family'' was released as a normal four-part comic. According to the story, Jason Todd - Robin - had embarked on a search for his mother, an aid worker in Ethiopia then being embezzeled by the Joker, who holds both hostage, beating Robin nearly to death while taunting Batman, before killing him off with a bomb explosion. This story had the added twist of fan participation to determine if Robin lived or died, via a pair of toll-free numbers to D.C.

==Next film adaptions==
In 1989 Tim Burton's ''Batman'' was released, with Jack Nicholson going all out as the Joker in a performance that many felt upstaged the title character. In this film the Joker's origins are slightly-modified; he is given a name - Jack Napier - and is portrayed as a mob enforcer who is double-crossed by his boss while attempting to fake a case of industrial espionage at a chemical factory. A police raid on the factory, as well as the arrival of Batman, ends with Napier falling into a chemical tank...and the creation of the Joker. Burton's version also has Napier as a much-younger man (played by Hugo Blick) commit the act of murder on Bruce Wayne's parents, the child of whom would grow up to become Batman.

Tim Burton's series of four movies eventually departed to the camp of the 1960's television series with the release of ''Batman and Robin'' in 1997, a critical and financial flop. Rebooting the franchise led to the [[Christopher Nolan]] film ''[[Batman Begins]]'' in 2005; the success of which enabled a sequel which was released in 2008. Using the comic book stories ''The Long Halloween'' and ''The Killing Joke'' as inspirations, Nolan returned the Joker to the big screen in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/]. Almost universally lauded by critics and shattering numerous box-office records, ''The Dark Knight'' featured the final performance of [[Heath Ledger]] as a monstrous version of the Joker, a psychotic who thinks the only sane way to live is without rules and wants to prove it to the world - and at the same time giving the artists and writers who penned the Batman stories a version of the Joker they thought was closest to their own. Beginning in a hopeful manner with the arrests of mob figures and the reduction of crime, conditions spiral downward as the self-described "agent of chaos" places Gotham City on the brink of destruction, and leaving many to wonder if it is Batman who deserves the blame.

The effect of Ledger's performance has caused some fans to ask Warner Brothers to cease placing the Joker in any future films.[http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/02/heath-ledger-nu/]

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[[Image:ARoss Batman.png|right|300px|thumb|''Batman'', by Alex Ross]]
'''Batman''' is a fictional [[superhero]] first appearing in ''Detective Comics'' in May, 1939. The creation of artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, Batman remains one of the most famous and recognizable of the superhero genre, resulting in the creation of several television series, motion pictures, and graphic novels. The original comics are highly-prized by collectors and routinely fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars on the auction block.

==Comics lore==
The man who was to become Batman is Bruce Wayne, a Gotham City socialite who inherited his wealth from his father, a prominent doctor and philanthropist named Thomas Wayne. A trip to the movies with the family ended in tragedy: Thomas and his wife Martha are murdered by a common thug in front of Bruce, whose childhood effectively ends at the age of eight.
Wayne's anger at his parent's murder causes him to vow revenge against the criminal element in all of its forms.

Growing up in the care of his father's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, he inherits a vast fortune, his father's business and philanthropic empire.
Wayne uses his wealth to travel the world during his teenage years, seeking out instruction from experts in various fields including martial arts, chemistry, psychology, forensics, meditation and engineering among other things. He returns to his home of Gotham city and is nearly killed as he attempts to stop a robbery.

While recovering in his study at Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne's brooding is disturbed by a bat as it crashes through the window of his room. He reflects, "Criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot."
The bat inspires Wayne to create an alter ego for himself, one that will create fear and panic in those he targets, he decides to become the Batman. Wayne fashions himself a costume and arms himself with a small arsenal of bat related weapons and gear, specifically shunning guns. The refusal of Wayne to use guns stems not only from his professed belief that they are tools of the weak and cowardly, but also from a psychological block against them due to the one used in his parents' murder. In the last issue of the DC series Final Crises, Batman overcomes his disdain of guns and uses a special bullet to mortally wound the villain Darkseid. Batman is seemingly killed by Darkseid in the process and as of yet his fate is unknown.

Batman is unusual for superheroes in that he has no superhuman powers, though he is certainly an unusually gifted human being: an athlete who would "win or place" in any Olympic event, master of a dizzying array of martial arts forms, genius detective and capable scientist, and a billionaire to top it off. Despite this, he uses his brains, training, and resources to not only keep up but excel in comparison with many heroes with great superpowers, a testament to man's will in the face of adversity.

==Publication history==
[[File:87 4 000027.jpg|right|200px|thumb|''Detective Comics'' number 27, the first appearance of Batman]]
Vin Sullivan was the publisher of National Periodical (the forerunner of DC Comics), and during the end of the 1930's was basking in the success of [[Superman]], the first true comic book superhero; Sullivan was looking for another such character to publish. The ''Detective Comics'' series would soon provide him with one, a costumed hero no less, having great intellect but without Superman's strength. Bob Kane, influenced by [[Sherlock Holmes]], [[Zorro]], a recent comic character called "The Shadow", the sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci, and a film titled ''The Bat'', came up with a character in a gray suit, black boots, and a black cape and cowl; the creation was called ''the Bat-Man''. The drawings were taken to artist/writer Bill Finger, and by May 1939 an excited Sullivan published the character in a story called "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate," part of several stories in ''Detective Comics'' issue number 27, which became an immediate and successful hit.

By November of that year, Batman's origin story - the murder of his parents - was set; this storyline of a boy growing up to avenge his parents struck a chord with readers, and sales of the comics grew. The following year he appeared in his own series under the "Batman" name - published alongside ''Detective Comics'' - which also introduced "Robin, the Boy Wonder", a successful attempt to gain younger readers as well as creating the popularity of the "sidekick" in the comics industry; Green Arrow and Speedy, the Human Torch and Toro, and [[Captain America]] and Bucky would be prime examples of this trend.

The combination of Bob Kane and Bill Finger (Finger was largely uncredited after Batman's creation) in the early 1940's also introduced to the comics world several of the most recognizable villains in fiction. Created were "Two-Face", a scarred villain reportedly based upon [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''; the "Cat", a sensuous woman who became better known as "Catwoman"; and the "[[Joker (comics)|Joker]]" - which Kane based upon the image he saw of actor Conrad Veidt in the silent film ''The Man Who Laughs'' - a nightmarish version of a clown who is the antithesis of everything Batman is, and who became one of the best known villians in fiction.

==Film and television==
The first dramatic appearance of Batman appeared as a reoccurring guest star on the "Superman" radio series. Interestingly, during the initial story line, Batman and Robin didn't interact with Superman, but Clark Kent. Batman's young side-kick, "Robin", was created specifically as an exposition device, desperately needed in radio. Although a pilot episode was recorded, Batman never received his own radio series.

====Film serials====
[[File:Batman 1943.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Lewis Wilson as Batman and Douglas Croft as Robin from the 1943 12-chapter serial ''Batman'' (copyright 1943 Columbia Pictures)]]
[[File:Batman-west-ward.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, from the 1966 television series ''Batman'' (copyright 1966 William Dozier/20th Century Fox)]]
[[File:Quiz1053outcome1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Michael Keaton in the 1992 film ''Batman Returns'' (copyright 1992 Warner Brothers)]]
[[File:Dead end batman.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Clark Bartram in the 2003 Collora fan-film ''Batman: Dead End'']]
[[File:Batman-begins01.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Batman (Christian Bale) interrogating in his own way a corrupt police detective in the film ''Batman Begins'' (copyright 2005 Legendary Films/Warner Brothers)]]
The first film dealing with the Caped Crusader was a 1943 12-chapter serial from Columbia Pictures starring Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft as Batman and Robin. The plot of the film centered on a nefarious, stereotypical Asian scientist, Dr. Daka (J. Carrol Naish), who has a plan to steal valuable resources from the United States in order to support the Axis during the World War II. Although low-budget, ''Batman'' introduced the concept of the Batcave (called the "Bat's Cave" in the film) and the hidden entry to it, as well as altering the appearance of Alfred from a portly servant to a leaner, robust individual. ''Batman and Robin'' would follow it in 1949, also as a serial, starring Robert Lowery and Johnny Duncan (Muir, 9; 72)

====''Batman'' television series====
In January 1966, ABC released a "Batman" television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward. During the series pre-production, there was a heated debate over which direction the Caped Crusader should be taken. Eventually, Producer William Dozier's vision won out - "Batman" would be a high budgeted, camp series which often made the character more droll than stern. This portrayal of the character, while it was in line with the comics of the time, came in later years to be reviled by fans, particularly during the '80s and '90s. During the summer of 1966, Dozier released a "Batman" feature film, also starring Adam West.

Although the series caught on quickly, its ratings fell just as suddenly. During the series' third season, Yvonne Craig was hired to portray "Batgirl", but this did nothing to slow the ratings plunge. The last few episode of "Batman" were among the lowest rated television series of the 60s.

For decades after, the "Batman" television series defined the filmed comic book template, which can be seen feature films such as "[[Doc Savage]]" and the television productions of "The Justice League" and "The Spirit". In 1978 Adam West and Burt Ward would both be reunited in the two-part television special "The Legend of the Superheroes", in which Batman and Robin were part of a group of DC superheroes thwarting the attempts of a rival collection of villains to take over the world in a combination of camp and comedy; the second part of the special has both groups in a celebratory roast by Ed McMahon. The camp-template was broken with the success of 1978's "[[The Incredible Hulk]]" starring [[Bill Bixby]], and based on the character owned by rival publisher [[Marvel Comics]]. Meanwhile, the course of the character in the comics since 1973 had returned him to his darker roots as writers and artists placed him in more compelling storylines and situations, culminating in 1986's four-part ''The Dark Knight Returns'' by Frank Miller, a work which helped influence director Tim Burton prior to putting Batman on the big screen once more.

====Early animation====
Batman also found a new home on Saturday mornings, courtesy of the Filmation and Hanna-Barbera studios. In 1968, Batman appeared with Superman in Filmation's "Batman/Superman Hour", a program divided into individual shorts featuring "Dragnet" character-actor Olan Soule as the voice of Batman, and radio disk jockey Casey Kasem as Robin. The following year the show would be cut to thirty minutes, with just the Batman shorts in Filmation's newly-titled "Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder", also lasting a year.

Hanna-Barbera created the "Superfriends" in 1973, again using Soule and Kasem for voice work, and placed Batman and Robin alongside Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman in a "hall of justice" as the team fought minor villains around the world with a built-in moral message for children watching it. The "Superfriends" proved a success, ultimately spinning off several creations through the early-1980s.

====Tim Burton films====
''Batman'' film took a darker turn in 1989, when the [[Tim Burton]]-directed [[Batman (film, 1989)|film]], starring [[Michael Keaton]], portrayed Bruce Wayne as a reclusive, quirky billionaire who probably was not entirely sane. While at first wary of an actor known primarily for comedies playing Batman, some fans ended up going to other movies before its release just to see the trailer for the Batman film, and then walked out, not even watching the movie they paid for. The film was a success, and was widely-lauded for [[Jack Nicholson]]'s portrayal of Batman's nemesis, the Joker. It was followed up with 1992's ''Batman Returns'', which, while not as well-reviewed or successful, was still accepted by the fans, and brought the iconic figures of Catwoman and the Penguin into the movie universe.

Tim Burton was replaced with Joel Schumacher for the third Batman movie in the new movie canon, ''Batman Forever'' (1995), which introduced Robin (Batman's iconic sidekick), and the villains the Riddler and Two-Face. Whereas Burton had tried for a more dark and Gothic look, Schumacher went with bright neon colors and brought back some of the camp of the '60s TV series. The movie did well at the box office, but received mixed reviews. The fourth and final film of this "universe" was ''Batman and Robin'', released in 1997. Widely regarded as the worst of the series by fan and critic alike, ''Batman and Robin'' returned fully to the campy tone of the TV series, featuring "candy-coated" sets, poor special effects, weirder science than normal from Bat-Media, character derailment, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as the lead villain Mr. Freeze, with barely 100 lines of dialogue, over half of which centered around cold-themed puns. This film was reviled for years as having "killed" the franchise, and performed relatively poorly in ticket sales.

The tone of the new movies influenced the 1991 critically-acclaimed ''Batman: The Animated Series'', a cartoon shown at first in prime time. Some of its takes on certain villains - such as Mr. Freeze - became iconic, and it introduced several characters that eventually "immigrated" to the comics, such as Detective Renee Montoya, and the Joker's hench-girlfriend, Harley Quinn.

====Sandy Collora short====
Attempting to get attention for his directing skills, Sandy Collora spent $30,000 dollars to create a demonstration reel strictly for the fans. The result was the 2003 short ''Batman: Dead End'', a film which drew on the imagery of comic artist Alex Ross, in addition to previously-published work by Dark Horse Comics, which pitted Batman against the Alien and Predator from the Hollywood films of the same names. Starring Clark Bartram as Batman and Andrew Koenig as an escaped Joker, the film earned critical praise from comic veterans and fans alike.[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/nextnews/archive/next030807.htm][http://www.collorastudios.com/projects/bde/bdemain.htm]

====Christopher Nolan films====
The film series was rebooted again in 2005, with ''[[Batman Begins]]'', a grittier, more "realistic" take on Batman. In this film, director [[Christopher Nolan]] took Bruce Wayne, played by Christian Bale, halfway around the world in search of the answer to the riddle of criminality. He learns to fight multiple opponents, conceal himself, and gains the will to act in defense of others. Returning to Gotham after being declared legally dead, he deftly maneuvers himself back into the control of his murdered father's company and resolves to terrify the criminal element by making himself seem inhuman...and chooses the mantle of a bat, because bats scare ''him''.

Several critically-acclaimed comic book stories - among them ''The Long Halloween'' and ''The Killing Joke'' - were used as in the most recent entry in Nolan's series, ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', which has thus far exceeded all expectations. Almost universally lauded by critics and shattering numerous box-office records, ''The Dark Knight'' featured the final performance of [[Heath Ledger]], who died from a drug overdose after filming, as a monstrous version of the Joker, a psychotic who thinks the only sane way to live is without rules and wants to prove it to the world - and at the same time gave artists and writers who penned the Batman stories the version of the Joker they thought was closest to their own. Though the tone at the start of the film is hopeful - Batman has inspired citizens to stand up for themselves again and has organized crime in the city reeling - it quickly spirals downward, embodying the theme that Nolan chose for the movie: things have to get worse before they get better.

==References==
*Kane, Bob (with Tom Andrae). ''Batman & Me'', Eclipse Books, Forestville, California (1989).
*Goulart, Ron. ''Comic Book Encyclopedia'', Harper Entertainment, New York (2004).
*Muir, John Kenneth. ''The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television'', McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina (2004)
*[http://www.collorastudios.com/projects/bde/bdemain.htm Collora Studios: ''Batman: Dead End'']
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsLQcOV2YeU ''The Man Who Laughs'', uploaded to YouTube]

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Batman Begins

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| producer=Larry J. Franco Benjamin Melniker Lorne Orleans Charles Roven Emma Thomas Cheryl A. Tkach Michael E. Uslan
| writer=Bob Kane (original) David S. Goyer Christopher Nolan
| narrator=
| starring=Christian Bale Michael Caine Liam Neeson Katie Holmes Gary Oldman [[Morgan Freeman]]
| music= James Newton Howard Hans Zimmer
| cinematography=Wally Pfister
| editing=Lee Smith
| distributor=[[Warner Brothers]]
| released=June 15, 2005
| runtime=140 min
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'''Batman Begins''' is a 2005 [[superhero]] film telling the story of the origins of [[Batman]]. Unlike the Gothic style of Tim Burton's [[Batman (film, 1989)|original Batman film]], Nolan aimed for a more realistic style. The film was rated PG-13 for intense action violence, disturbing images and some thematic elements.

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Memento (2000 film)

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| director=[[Christopher Nolan]]
| producer=Aaron Ryder Jennifer Todd Suzanne Todd
| writer=Jonathan Nolan (short story) Christopher Nolan
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| starring=Guy Pearce Carrie-Anne Moss Joe Panoliano
| music= David Julyan
| cinematography=Wally Pfister
| editing=Dody Dorn
| distributor=Newmarket Capital Group
| released=September 5, 2000
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'''Memento''' is a 2000 film directed by Christopher Nolan about a man (played by Guy Pearce) who has lost his short-term memory and wants to find his wife's killer. The film is told uniquely in backwards order instead of chronologically. The film was rated "R" by the MPAA for violence, language and some drug content.

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Christopher Nolan

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'''Christopher Nolan''' is a young British film director. He rose to prominence with the independent "sleeper-hit" ''[[Memento (film, 2000)|Memento]]''. Since then he has made other films such as ''Insomnia'', ''[[Batman Begins]]'', ''The Prestige'' and ''[[The Dark Knight]]''.

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The Dark Knight

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| producer=Kevin De La Noy Benjamin Melniker Christopher Nolan Lorne Orleans Charles Roven Emma Thomas Thomas Tull Michael E. Uslan
| writer=Bob Kane (original) David S. Goyer Christopher Nolan Jonathan Nolan
| narrator=
| starring=Christian Bale [[Heath Ledger]] Aaron Ekhart Michael Caine Maggie Gyllenhaal Gary Oldman [[Morgan Freeman]]
| music= Hans Zimmer James Newton Howard
| cinematography=Wally Pfister
| editing=Lee Smith
| distributor=[[Warner Brothers]]
| released=July 18, 2008
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'''The Dark Knight''' is a 2008 [[superhero]] film, directed by Christopher Nolan as a sequel to his earlier film, ''Batman Begins''. [[Heath Ledger]] in his last completed performance portrayed the [[Joker]] as a dark, insane criminal. Ledger died during post Production and won a posthumous [[Academy Award]] for Best Supporting Actor. The film also won another Oscar for Best Achievment in Sound Editing and was nominated for another six academy awards. The film was rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace.

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Bruce Willis

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'''Bruce Willis''' (born '''Walter Willis''' in 1955) is an American actor known for his role as the character John McLane in the Die Hard movies, as well as for his roles in [[The Sixth Sense]] and [[Unbreakable]]. He is known to take on some conservative values, such as being against gun control<ref>http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a32637/bruce-willis-supports-gun-laws.html</ref>, true to his frequent roles as characters who use guns to defend both themselves and others. He has also been a strong supporter of U.S. Troops in the War on Terror, even attempting at one time to enter the military service. 

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Alien (1979 film)

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| producer=Gordon Carroll David Giler Walter Hill Ronald Shusett
| writer=Dan O'Bannon Ronald Shusett
| narrator=
| starring=Tom Skerritt Sigourney Weaver Veronica Cartwright Harvey Dean Stanton John Hurt Ian Holm
| music= Jerry Goldsmith
| cinematography= Derek Vanlint
| editing= Terry Rawlings Peter Weatherley
| distributor=[[20th Century Fox]]
| released=May 25, 1979
| runtime=117 min
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Alien is an R rated science fiction horror movie. It was directed by [[Ridley Scott]] and starred [[Sigourney Weaver]]. It was made in 1979, and won an Academy Award for best visual effects.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/awards</ref>

== Plot ==
A cargo ship (Nostromo) is ordered by their company to investigate a strange crash landed ship. After their shuttle lands a three man away team onto the ship, they discover a face-hugger alien who attaches itself to the second officer's (Kane) face. Back on the ship, the doctor (Ash) cannot get the alien off. Shortly after, it is found that the alien has detached itself and died. Kane seems fine, but during a meal his chest explodes and releases a baby alien who was growing inside of him. The remaining crew make different plans to kill the Alien. Every time a member of the crew is killed including the captain. Third officer Ripley (played by Sigorney Weaver) takes command of the ship. She finds out on the ship's computer that the company wants Ash to deliver the alien to earth where it can be researched. Ash confronts and attacks Ripley. When the other crew members arrive they manage to cut off Bishop's head and discover him to be an android who is loyal only to the company. Ripley and the two surviving crew members make preparations to escape on board the escape ship, then blow up the Nostromo to kill the alien. The other members of the crew are killed by the alien and Ripley escapes with the ship cat (Jones). The Nostromo self-destructs but Ripley finds the alien sleeping on board the escape ship. She opens an airlock and the alien is sucked into space, but it manages to grab onto the sides of the airlock. Ripley shoots the alien with a grappling gun, knocking it free of the ship. She then activates the craft's engines and kills the alien. The movie ends with her sending out a call for help to any nearby ship before placing herself and Jones into hyper-sleep.

== Technology ==
Space travel is extremely slow so crew members must spend time in hyper sleep for years possibly.

The Nostromo is a massive ship but it only requires the a crew of seven. The ships computer, named "Mother," runs most of the function.

== Sequels ==
*Aliens
*Alien III
*Alien: Resurrection

==Trivia==
*Only the actor involved and Director Ridley Scott were in on the filming of the "chest bursting scene." The director had called cut and the other actors had no idea their dialouge and reactions were being filmed. Scott did this to heighten the reality of the scene.

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[[Category:Thrillers]]
[[Category:Horror (Film)]]

Ridley Scott

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'''Ridley Scott''' (born in 1937) is an English [[director]] best known for directing films such as ''[[Alien (movie)|Alien]]'', ''[[Blade Runner]]'', ''Thelma and Louise'' and ''[[Gladiator (film, 2000)|Gladiator]]''. He began his work in advertising and is noted for his visual flair. <ref> Movie Makers: 50 iconic directors from Chaplin to the Coen Brothers, Ian Freer, Quercus Publishing, 2009, pp. 136-138. </ref> He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director. <ref> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000631/awards </ref>

A self-professed [[agnostic]], Scott directed the film, ''Kingdom of Heaven'', which portrays the [[Knights Templar]] negatively. Scott said that they were "the [[right wing]] or [[Christian fundamentalists]] of their day." In another statement he has said, "Religious difference, right now, is causing a great lack of understanding." <ref> http://www.pluggedin.com/videos/2005/q2/kingdomofheaven.aspx </ref>

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Ridley Scott

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The Truman Show

2010-05-10T23:53:46Z

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| name=The Truman Show
| image=
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| director=Peter Weir
| producer=Edward S. Feldman Andrew Niccol Scott Rudin Adam Schroeder
| writer=Andrew Niccol (creator)
| starring=[[Jim Carrey]] Laura Linney Ed Harris
| music=Burkhard von Dallwitz
| cinematography=Peter Biziou
| editing=William M. Anderson Lee Smith
| distributor=Paramount Pictures
| release date(s)=June 5, 1998
| running time=103 min
| language=English}}

'''The Truman Show''' is a 1998 [[comedy]] about a man, played by Jim Carrey, who discovers that his whole life is a 24/7 reality TV show for the world.

The names are symbolic. "Christoff" (i.e. Christ-off, or not-Christ) plays God with "Truman"--but the true-man breaks free from the fake heaven.

==Plot==
The film shows several people, Christof (Ed Harris), Mery Burbank (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich) discussing "The Truman Show", claiming that nothing is rehearsed and everything is genuine. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is a normal and friendly person, watched by millions of people 24 hours a day. He has a nice wife, close friend, good job and home in Seahaven. However, he also has a mysterious longing. He wants to find a girl named Sylvia, who he once met long ago. She had tried to explain something to him, when she was abruptly taken away by her "father" to Fiji. Truman is given several clues, such as a fallen light, his dead father alive, mysterious "accidents" that prevent him from leaving the island. Finally, he brings his "wife" to tears and is on the verge of realizing the truth.

He is pondering on the bizarre events with Marlon, when his father reappears to meet him. Suddenly, the audience is transported to the studio of Christof, the man shaping the TV program of Truman’s life. Far away, Sylvia calls Christof on an exclusive interview, saying he’s imprisoned Truman. Christof protests that if Truman wanted to leave, he could. Truman sneaks out of his set and sets sail to leave. Christof tries to stop Truman by sending a huge storm toward him. Nonetheless, Truman survives and comes to the walls of the sky that define the limits of the set. Christof confronts Truman using a voice from the clouds. He tells Truman that the world outside his show is broken and that his world is the way things are supposed to be. The television audience, including Sylvia, tensely watches and prays that Truman dare to leave.
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Truman walks out to the cheers of the crowd and the shock of Christof.

==Reception==
The film did well at the box office grossing $125,618,210 in the U.S. and $248,400,000 worldwide. It was nominated for three [[Academy Awards]]: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director and Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for Screen.

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[[Category: Comedy]]

The Thing from Another World

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[[Image:Thing from another world poster.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The original 1951 promotional poster. Note the "above the movie" billing given to Howard Hawks.]]
[[The Thing from Another World]] is a [[science fiction]] movie released by RKO Radio Pictures Inc. in 1951 and considered a classic of the genre.<ref name="rot">[http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021242-thing/# ''Review''] at [http://uk.rottentomatoes.com rottentomatoes.com] Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> Produced by [[Howard Hawks]] and marking the directorial debut of Christian Nyby, the movie features [[Hollywood|Hollywood's]] first "space-age" monster and is credited with kickstarting the decade of similarly themed [[United States of America|U.S.]] movies which followed.<ref>Delapa, Thomas [http://archive.boulderweekly.com/030807/reeltoreel.html ''Reel to reel - Weekly Pick''] [http://www.boulderweekly.com/20081120/home1.html Boulder Weekly]. Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> Filmed in [[Montana|Montana's]] [[Glacier National Park]] and an ice storage plant in [[Los Angeles]],<ref name="justice">Justice, Chris. [http://classic-horror.com/reviews/thing_from_another_world_1951 ''Review''] at [http://classic-horror.com/ classic-horror.com] Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> the movie revolves around a group of US scientists and servicemen stationed in the [[Arctic]] who investigate a crashed [[UFO]] and unwittingly release an almost invincible [[extraterrestrial life|extra-terrestrial lifeform]]. Loosely based on the novel ''[http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Highrise/3756/jc/who/bonusid.htm Who Goes There?]'' (1938) by John W. Campbell, Jr., it was later remade by [[John Carpenter]] as ''"The Thing"'' in 1982.

==Cast==
*Margaret Sheridan - ''Nikki''
*Kenneth Tobey - ''Captain Patrick Hendry''
*Robert Cornthwaite - ''Dr. Carrington''
*Douglas Spencer - ''Scotty''
*James R. Young - ''Lt. Eddie Dykes''
*Dewey Martin - ''Crew Chief''
*Robert Nichols - ''Lt. Ken McPherson''
*William Self - ''Corporal Barnes''
*Eduard Franz - ''Dr. Stern''
*Sally Creighton - ''Mrs. Chapman''
*James Arness - ''The Thing''

==Plot summary==
The movie opens in a US military base in [[Anchorage]], [[Alaska]]. A request for assistance is received from a group of [[scientist]]s stationed in an isolated Arctic outpost who have detected, via [[seismic]] instruments and [[radioactivity|radiation-triggered]] remote telescopic cameras, an unidentified aircraft, weighing approximately 20,000 tons, which has crashed 48 miles from their base. A military team, accompanied by a [[Journalism|journalist]], respond to the request, and at the crash site discover a frozen spacecraft embedded in the ice. Attempts to melt the ice using thermite explosive charges result in the destruction of the craft, but they subsequently discover the body of its pilot and bring him back to their station still frozen in a block of ice. Unintentionally, they thaw the body, an eight-foot tall humanoid composed of a plant-like material. Despite displaying [[Homicide|homicidal]] behaviour, the scientists want to preserve and study him, while the military personnel want to destroy him. These competing interest groups come into conflict to determine the creature's fate, until finally the military personnel win. By rigging up a section of the metallic flooring to a high voltage [[electricity|electrical]] supply, the creature is eventually defeated.<ref name="justice" />

The movies closes with Scotty, the journalist, relaying his report to fellow newsmen via radio: "Every one of you listening to my voice, tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are - Watch the skies... everywhere! Keep looking... Keep watching the skies!" The final frames, like ''The Blob'' seven years later, are filled not with a "THE END" title card, but with a question mark.

==Analysis==
The movie was released only 4 years after the [[Roswell|Roswell Incident]], and coincided with [[McCarthyism]] and the "red scare", the [[Korean War]], and the beginning of the [[Cold War]]. It was released in the same year as another classic sci-fi movie, ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' but the two were polar opposites in how they dealt with Man's first contact with extraterrestrial life. Mark Bourne's retrospective (2003) analysis of the two movies summarizes: "In ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'', a Christ-like man from space, on a mission to save us from our "petty squabbling" and "strange, unreasoning attitudes," is besieged by trigger-happy, paranoid militarists before appealing to the superior minds of Earth's scientists, then flies away having given us food for thought. Meanwhile, all namby-pamby First Contact niceties were torched to the ground in ''The Thing from Another World'', where the worst way to deal with its flying saucer pilot is to let the eggheads trump our men in uniform in the name of some fatally wrongheaded "communication" and "understanding." This taut and entertaining thriller is to ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' what ''[[Alien]]'' is to ''[[Star Trek]]'', or the [[Rolling Stones]] to the [[Beatles]]."<ref name="bourne">Bourne, Mark [http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/t/thingfromanotherworld.shtml ''Review''] [http://www.dvdjournal.com dvdjournal.com] Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref>

The clash between the military and the scientist has been a recurring theme in many films of this type, and ''The Thing...'' portrays "one of the rare occasions in sci-fi/horror film history where the military is actually the level headed side of this equation."<ref>[http://www.houseofhorrors.com/thingfromanotherworld.htm ''Review''] [http://www.houseofhorrors.com houseofhorrors.com] Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> The "brilliant yet blissfully naive Dr. Arthur Carrington... naturally, assumes 'the Thing' is only homicidal because he is misunderstood... [but] as the truly frightening potential of the creature reveals itself, it becomes a race against time to destroy it, before it kills everyone, leaves the base, and reproduces countless seedlings of itself to conquer the world."<ref name="burgraff">Burgraff, Ben [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/ ''Reviews''] [http://www.imdb.com imdb.com] Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> The movie portrays Dr. Carrington as "driven only by the 'quest for knowledge', his desire to protect the monster, even to the point of sacrificing his fellow humans, com[ing] off as murderously naive. When he says admiringly of the Thing, "Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors," we suspect that Carrington's was."<ref name="bourne" />

[[Stephen King]] writes, in his authoritative study of horror fiction, ''"Danse Macabre"'': "''The Thing...'' is the first movie of the fifties to offer us the scientist in the role of the Appeaser, that creature who for reasons either craven or misguided, would open the gates to the Garden of Eden and let all the evils fly '''in''' (as opposed, let us say, to those Mad Labs proprietors of the thirties, who were more than willing to open [[Pandora's Box]] and let all the evils fly '''out''' - a major distinction, although the end results are the same). That scientists should be so constantly vilified in the techno-horror films of the fifties - a decade that was apparently dedicated to the idea of turning out a whole marching corps of men and women in white lab coats - is perhaps not so surprising when we remember that it was science which opened those same gates so that the [[atomic bomb]] could be brought into Eden - first by itself and then trundled on missile carriers. The average Jane or Joe on the street during those spooky eight or nine years that followed the surrender of [[Japan]] had extremely schizoid feelings about science and scientists - recognizing the need for them and at the same time loathing the things they had let in forever. On the one hand, there was their pal, that neat little all-round guy, [http://www.toonopedia.com/reddy_k.htm Reddy Kilowatt]; on the other hand, before getting into the first reel of ''The Thing...'' down at your local theater, you could watch newsreel footage as an Army mockup of "a town just like yours" was vaporized in a nuclear furnace."<ref name="king">King, Stephen "Danse Macabre" (Berkeley, 1987) ISBN 0-4251-0433-8</ref>

Bourne points out that although "the film's [[conservative]] stance was criticized as pro-[[martial law]] and anti-science, countering ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'''s more high-minded aspirations [such] an argument forgets that the film presents both the Military and Science camps as working pros who [eventually] join together to defeat the unquestionably deadly Big Bad. The soldiers bungle when they follow "standard operating procedure" and verbal barbs fly at the expense of military bureaucracy... If the film is "anti" anything it's rigid dogmatism. The scientists and the military men defeat the Thing only when both throw out their respective rule books and act from situational common sense."<ref name="bourne" /> Similarly, Kawin deduces: "The film's bias is in favor of [the] friendly, witty, sexy, and professionally effective - Hawksian - human community, and opposed to the dark forces that lurk outside (the Thing as ''[[Beowulf|Beowulf's]]'' "Grendel"). The film... opposes the lack of balanced professionalism [as depicted by] the scientist who becomes indifferent to the human coimmunity and whose professionalism approaches the fanatical, as opposed to the effective captain and the klutzy, but less seriously flawed, reporter."<ref name="kawin">Kawin, Bruce "''The Mummy's Pool''" p.6 "Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film" ed. Grant, Barry Keith (Scarecrrow Press, 2004) ISBN 0-8108-5013-3</ref>

==Directorship==
Although Nyby is credited as the director, Hawk's receives "above the movie" billing and is generally believed to have directed the movie. Hawks is known to have been on set throughout filming, and when interviewed cast members have said "Hawks ran the entire show."<ref name="burgraff" /> Critics observe that "Hawks’ fingerprints are all over The Thing; it is a "Howard Hawks film" in everything but name. Characteristically, the story revolves around a group of people under pressure, who overcome adversity thanks to their common sense, their ingenuity, and above all their ability to band together and work as a team in the face of danger. Hawks was one of the screen’s leading humanists, evincing a simple and enjoyable faith in the ability of human beings to rise to any occasion and deal with whatever crisis confronted them."<ref name="aycyas">[http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/thing.htm ''Review''] [http://www.aycyas.com And You Call Yourself A Scientist!]. Retrieved 25 November 2008</ref> That Hawks directed also seems apparent from his trademark avoidance of expressionism and frills, and his well-known use of overlapping, conversational dialogue. As is typical for a hawks movie, scenes are staged for efficiency and filmed from an objective viewpoint, typically from eye level.<ref>Christensen, David [http://www.monsterzine.com/200110/thing.php3 ''Nobody trusts anybody now'']: Some views of The Thing From Another World (1951) and John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) [http://www.monsterzine.com MonsterZine.com] Retrieved 25 November 2008</ref>

==External links==
*[http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=23391856913864011&ei=KfMrScfWI5-QiQLU7ci6BQ&q=The+Thing+from+Another+World&hl=en The Thing From Another World] - complete movie on streaming video from video.google. The movie is now in the [[Public domain]]. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
*[http://leonscripts.tripod.com/scripts/THING51.htm Early screenplay] by Charles Lederer. Retrieved 25 November 2008.

==References==
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The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

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| name=The Ten Commandments
| image=TenCommandments1956.jpg
| caption=
| director=Cecil B. DeMille
| producer=Cecil B. DeMille
| writer=Æneas MacKenzie Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Jack Gariss Fredric M. Frank
| narrator=Cecil B. DeMille
| starring=Charlton Heston Yul Brynner Anne Baxter Edward G. Robinson
| music=Elmer Bernstein
| cinematography=Loyal Griggs
| editing=Anne Bauchens
| distributor=Paramount Pictures
| released=October 5, 1956
| runtime=220 min
| country=USA
| language=English
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'''The Ten Commandments''' is a film released in 1956 by [[Paramount Pictures]], produced and directed by [[Cecil B. DeMille]], and starring [[Charlton Heston]] and [[Yul Brynner]].

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The Prince of Egypt

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'''The Prince of Egypt''' is a 1998 animated film released by [[Dreamworks Animation]] that portrays the life of [[Moses]], from his boyhood to when he led [[Israel]] out of [[Egypt]]. The film is a musical, and its soundtrack has been widely praised. The film stars Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes and Michelle Pfeiffer.

==Inaccuracies Between the Movie and the Biblical Account==
The movie, in the beginning, notes that it took poetic license from the [[Exodus]] account. Examples of that are shown here:
*The movie portrays the [[Pharaoh]] of the Exodus as [[Rameses]], however, it is widely believed that that particular Pharaoh was [[Amenhotep II]].<ref>http://allanturner.com/pharaoh.html</ref>
*The movie portrays Moses and [[Zipporah]]'s relationship as beginning far before Moses fleeing to [[Midian]]. This is not portrayed in the Bible.

==References==
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The Muppets

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'''The Muppets''' is the name for several [[puppet]]s created by [[Jim Henson]] and now used by his son, [[Brian Henson|Brian]].

==Notable Muppets==
*[[Kermit the Frog]]
*[[Miss Piggy]]
*The cast of [[Sesame Street]]
*[[Gonzo]]
*[[Rizzo the Rat]]
*[[The Swedish Chef]]

==List of Muppet Movies==
*[[The Muppet Movie]] (1979)
*[[The Great Muppet Caper]] (1981)
*[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]] (1984)
*[[The Muppet Christmas Carol]] (1992)
*[[Muppet Treasure Island]] (1994)
*[[Muppets From Space]] (1999)
*[[It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie]] (2003)
*[[The Muppets' Wizard of Oz]] (2005)

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The Man from Earth

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{{Infobox Film
| name = The Man from Earth
| image = ManFromEarth.png
| caption = ''The Man from Earth'' theatrical poster.
| director = [[Richard Schenkman]]
| producer = Emerson Bixby, Eric D. Wilkinson, Richard Schenkman
| writer = [[Jerome Bixby]]
| starring = David Lee Smith [[John Billingsley]] [[Tony Todd]]
| distributor = [[Anchor Bay Entertainment]], [[Shoreline Entertainment]]
| released = [[November 13]] [[2007]]
| runtime = 89 min.
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget = $200,000<ref name = "latimes"/>
}}

'''''The Man from Earth''''' is a 2007 science fiction indie film, written by Jerome Bixby from 1960-1998 (this was his final work). Known for many of his other projects, this movie was dedicated to his son Michael Bixby as well.
This film stars actor David Lee Smith as John Oldman, the protagonist character and focus of the movie's plot. John Oldman is a professor who, at the moving party thrown by his friends, admits that he is a [[Cro-Magnon]], a Magdalenian to be specific, who has survived (through "perfect cellular regeneration") for the last 14,000 years! The movie is reminescent of a play; it takes place only as a discussion between Dr. Oldman and his fellow faculty members/friends, in one room of his house.

Through many internet websites and BitTorrent, this cheaply made movie has gained recognition as one of the many masterpieces of Bixby's work.

==Plot==
'''Spoiler Alert: If you are planning on seeing the movie.'''

The movie begins on an outdoor scene as Dr. John Oldman prepares to leave, packing many of his belongings in the back of the car. It does not mention where he plans to go; neither does he mention it to his friends. First to arrive at his house is his friend Dan, a fellow faculty member and anthropologist. Next are his friends Edith, another peer and Christian literalist, Harry, a biology professor, and his love interest, Sandy, a historian. Next to his car, Edith notices a "copy" of a Van Gogh work, addressed to one "Jacques Borne"; John insists its a copy, and nothing more.

The first note of John's "specialness" is when Edith commits, in a jovial manner, how John doesn't look any older than when he first arrived 10 years ago, while his friends and colleagues have. In addition, his friends find two artifacts around his house of interest--a stone carved (that he insists he got at a thrift shop), and what looks to be a finely carved bow.

Lastly, his friend and fellow professor Art Jenkins and his student Linda arrive, also wishing to celebrate. John, realizing this and wanting to leave them off as his true self, proposes the hypothetical question--what if a man from the upper Paleolithic survived until the present day? What would he be like?

His friends play along, each proposing new ways--he would learn, he would look like us as well. Dan proposes that he would be just as intelligent, and would learn through the races as one man. Slowly, the question goes to Harry, the biologist, who says, in response as to what would keep this hypothetical caveman alive, replies: "Cigarettes and ice cream." He then contends that it would in fact be perfect cellular generation, and that the human body, as we see it, is designed to last up to 190 years.

Did he do something right? Did he do something no one else did?

John, sensing this would be a good time, slowly reveals his intentions--responding for shock that he had a chance to travel with Columbus, although he wasn't sure if the Earth was flat or not.

His friend stood aghast, wondering if this was a joke or not. As such, he reveals his intentions: he is that caveman. Still, he tells them to play along, until letting out a primordial grunt, to the chagrin of his friends.
He explains his motives: after ten or so years, when people notice his lack of aging, he moves; he believes he is a Cro-Magnon, about 14,000 years old. He explains that the figure is no more than a guess; how could it not be?

He explains then how he aged until about 35, his "first lifetime", and then stopped. The primitives around him saw him to be magical at first, and then abandoned him out of fear (a prehistoric explanation for the vampire myth).
While his friends, being very educated, are skeptical of his claims; much of his memory can be found in any textbook.

Edith remembers the Van Gogh painting outside, and asks if it is real or not (since John would certainly be old enough to know Van Gogh). John replies, yes--he was under the guise of Jacques Borne, a pig farmer. After Van Gogh's death, about 1890, he says he moved to America, an explanation to the lack of an accent.

The conservation between his friends is cyclidic; passing to Linda, the most credulous at 22, asks as to the reason he does not recall where he was from. Countering her, he replies that there is a lack of any landmarks--wilderness has been replaced by "freeways, urban sprawl, Big Macs under the Eiffel Tower."

While most of the group wants to hear him out, entertained, during a leave of absence Art calls his psychiatrist friend, the aging Dr. Gruber, part concerned, part confused about John. Dr. Gruber arrives, the conversation progressing in a manner that greatly disturbs and depresses him; his wife just recently died, and the fact that someone around him will never die is too much. His presence climaxes as he threatens to shoot John, eventually calming down and leaving. However, John, fearing that he may commit suicide, asks before he leaves to take his loaded gun.

Unfortunately, the conversation turns for the worse as his inquisitive friends ask him the ever controversial question, "Does he have any religious beliefs?" After thousands and thousands of years of hearing creation stories, gods after gods, he believes in none, only feigning such during times when it was necessary. Even worse, it comes to the question: "Was he a figure in religious history?" Really reluctant to respond, and tries to sum up the New Testament in 100 words. Edith, being religious and greatly offended, tries to leave; Harry convinces her to stay.

It comes to a shocking revelation: John was in fact Joshua of Nazareth. Unlike the "mythical overlays", John had come to Israel to preach the Buddha's teachings (he had studied under the Buddha), to disasterous consequences. Although he was crucified (he cannot scar, and they used ropes, not nails, but it makes better religious imagery), he comes to life by equalizing his body functions, something he learned under the Buddha. This even more disturbs Edith, who is so shocked at his apparent blasphemy.

After heated debate, Dr. Gruber returns, still concerned but not suicidal. He implores John to end his charade, and, at the expense of his credibility, convinces his friends that this was nothing but a story, and all of his friends were players. This infuriates most of them, and after Dan calls him an explicative, they calm down. Edith, like "a good Christian", forgives him, and all his friends except Sandy wish him goodbye.

Sandy, using her intuition, figures out that he is telling the truth, John would never "use people, or abuse their good will". Unlike the others, he caves and admits it, telling her many of his other "pun" names: John Palee, for Paleolithic, John Savage, and 60 years ago, John Thomas Parti, John T. Parti. Unbeknownst to John, Dr. Gruber stands behind him in clear shock--John T. Parti, a chemist at Harvard, was his father. Horrified at the prospect, he admits this, supplying facts that no one but Gruber's family would know.

However, the shock of this information is too much to bear, and Dr. Gruber has a heart attack. The movie, however, ends on a brighter note, as he decides to spend her life with Sandy.

==Production==
Directed on a 200,000 dollar budget, this was Jerome Bixby's, a writer best known for "It's a Good Life", completed posthumously after his death in 1998. Dictating the last of it, it is dedicated to his son and screenwriter, Emerson Bixby. After his death, the script was handed down to Richard Schenkman to direct on a very modest budget.

==Cast==
Actors:
* David Lee Smith is John Oldman
* Tony Todd is Dan
* John Billingsley is Harry
* Ellen Crawford is Edith
* Annika Peterson is Sandy
* William Katt is Art Jenkins
* Alexis Thorpe is Linda Murphy
* Richard Riehle is Dr. Will Gruber
* Robbie Bryan is Police Officer

==Reviews==
The reviews for The Man from Earth are overwelmingly positive:
* "A considerable achievement... a picture which deserves wide exposure... The Man From Earth gradually and stimulatingly builds to a pitch of near hypnotic intensity." – Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?rid=11061 The Man From Earth - The Hollywood Reporter], Film review</ref>
* "Based on a really wonderful final work by Jerome Bixby... If you’re a fan of Bixby's – it's a must own." – Harry Knowles, Ain’t It Cool News<ref>[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34759 Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 2nd Week of November - Ain't It Cool News], Film review</ref>
* "The Man From Earth restores dignity to science fiction of the mind." - Michael Guillen, Twitch<ref>[http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/2007-holeheadreview-of-man-from-earth/ 2007 HOLEHEAD—REVIEW of Man From Earth - Twitch], Film review</ref>
* "A tall tale... that ends with a devastatingly clever twist." - Michael Janusonis, The Providence Journal<ref>[http://www.projo.com/movie_reviews//lb_manfromearth_08-10-07_E56M3GC.1f8dbc5.html Reliving the really old days with The Man From Earth - The Providence Journal], Film review</ref>
* "Great acting performances... with an ending you wouldn't want to miss... Jerome Bixby's last written work has turned out to be his best." - Hock Teh, IGN<ref>[http://dvd.ign.com/articles/833/833098p1.html The Man From Earth DVD Review - IGN], Film review</ref>
* "A mind bending drama... It sure beats watching Transformers." - Nick Lyons, DVD Talk<ref>[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/31286/jerome-bixbys-the-man-from-earth/ Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth - DVD Talk], Film review</ref>
* "The Man From Earth is very much a labor of love from all involved... it's well worth the effort. The final work from the writer responsible for some of the finest episodes of The Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek gets a thoughtful, low-budget treatment." – Ian Spelling, Sci Fi.com<ref>[http://www.scifi.com/sfw/screen/sfw17400.html Man from Earth - Sci-Fi Weekly], Film review</ref>
* "Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth is one of the most intelligent science fiction films ever made... probably one of the best science fiction films of the decade." – Mark L. Leeper, Stephen Hunt's SF Crows Nest<ref>[http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/features/arc/2008/nz13093.php The Man From Earth: Mark's take - Stephen Hun's SF Crow's nest], Film review</ref>
* "The Man From Earth really has a chance of being the single best piece of screenwriting you will see on a screen large or small this year (really!)." – Late Film<ref>[http://latemag.com/film/is-jerome-bixbys-the-man-from-earth-this-years-sleeper-hit Is Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth this years sleeper hit? - Late Film], Film review</ref>

==Publicity through filesharing==

Unlike all other movies, the publicity for the movie was very creative: while most directors wish to stop filesharing, the director encouraged it. As such, the indie film rose to a fame it would have never received if left alone.

==Memorable Quotes==
"But a talking snake made a lady eat an apple, so we're screwed." - John Oldman

"Edith, I was raised on the Torah, my wife on the Qu'Ran, my eldest son is an Atheist, my youngest is a scientologist, my daughter is studying Hinduism, I imagine there is room there for a holy war in my living room, but we practice live and let live." - Harry

"Harry: Well, you're finally fulfilling one prophecy about the millennium, John.
John Oldman: What's that?
Harry: Here you are again."

"Dr. Will Gruber: I still don't believe you, of course. You need help.
John Oldman: Everybody needs help."

"Dr. Will Gruber: When did you begin to believe you were Jesus?
John Oldman: When did you begin to believe you were a psychiatrist?
Dr. Will Gruber: Since I graduated from Harvard Medical School and finished my residency, I've had that feeling. Why I sometimes dream about it.
John Oldman: Have you acted upon this belief?"

==Connection to Atheism==
Many have drawn parallels in the movie to atheism and anti-religion, including the apparent blasphemous talk about Jesus (John Oldman reveals that he learned under the Buddha, and that Jesus was almost totally mythical), the mention of other Gods, and many other plot details.[http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/forums/showthread.php?t=72]
As such, many atheist organizations have rightly embraced it as a crowning acheivement of science fiction and a great debate tool.

==References==
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The Man from Earth

2010-05-10T23:47:41Z

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{{Infobox Film
| name = The Man from Earth
| image = ManFromEarth.png
| caption = ''The Man from Earth'' theatrical poster.
| director = [[Richard Schenkman]]
| producer = Emerson Bixby, Eric D. Wilkinson, Richard Schenkman
| writer = [[Jerome Bixby]]
| starring = David Lee Smith [[John Billingsley]] [[Tony Todd]]
| distributor = [[Anchor Bay Entertainment]], [[Shoreline Entertainment]]
| released = [[November 13]] [[2007]]
| runtime = 89 min.
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget = $200,000<ref name = "latimes"/>
}}

'''''The Man from Earth''''' is a 2007 science fiction indie film, written by Jerome Bixby from 1960-1998 (this was his final work). Known for many of his other projects, this movie was dedicated to his son Michael Bixby as well.
This film stars actor David Lee Smith as John Oldman, the protagonist character and focus of the movie's plot. John Oldman is a professor who, at the moving party thrown by his friends, admits that he is a [[Cro-Magnon]], a Magdalenian to be specific, who has survived (through "perfect cellular regeneration") for the last 14,000 years! The movie is reminescent of a play; it takes place only as a discussion between Dr. Oldman and his fellow faculty members/friends, in one room of his house.

Through many internet websites and BitTorrent, this cheaply made movie has gained recognition as one of the many masterpieces of Bixby's work.

==Plot==
'''Spoiler Alert: If you are planning on seeing the movie.'''

The movie begins on an outdoor scene as Dr. John Oldman prepares to leave, packing many of his belongings in the back of the car. It does not mention where he plans to go; neither does he mention it to his friends. First to arrive at his house is his friend Dan, a fellow faculty member and anthropologist. Next are his friends Edith, another peer and Christian literalist, Harry, a biology professor, and his love interest, Sandy, a historian. Next to his car, Edith notices a "copy" of a Van Gogh work, addressed to one "Jacques Borne"; John insists its a copy, and nothing more.

The first note of John's "specialness" is when Edith commits, in a jovial manner, how John doesn't look any older than when he first arrived 10 years ago, while his friends and colleagues have. In addition, his friends find two artifacts around his house of interest--a stone carved (that he insists he got at a thrift shop), and what looks to be a finely carved bow.

Lastly, his friend and fellow professor Art Jenkins and his student Linda arrive, also wishing to celebrate. John, realizing this and wanting to leave them off as his true self, proposes the hypothetical question--what if a man from the upper Paleolithic survived until the present day? What would he be like?

His friends play along, each proposing new ways--he would learn, he would look like us as well. Dan proposes that he would be just as intelligent, and would learn through the races as one man. Slowly, the question goes to Harry, the biologist, who says, in response as to what would keep this hypothetical caveman alive, replies: "Cigarettes and ice cream." He then contends that it would in fact be perfect cellular generation, and that the human body, as we see it, is designed to last up to 190 years.

Did he do something right? Did he do something no one else did?

John, sensing this would be a good time, slowly reveals his intentions--responding for shock that he had a chance to travel with Columbus, although he wasn't sure if the Earth was flat or not.

His friend stood aghast, wondering if this was a joke or not. As such, he reveals his intentions: he is that caveman. Still, he tells them to play along, until letting out a primordial grunt, to the chagrin of his friends.
He explains his motives: after ten or so years, when people notice his lack of aging, he moves; he believes he is a Cro-Magnon, about 14,000 years old. He explains that the figure is no more than a guess; how could it not be?

He explains then how he aged until about 35, his "first lifetime", and then stopped. The primitives around him saw him to be magical at first, and then abandoned him out of fear (a prehistoric explanation for the vampire myth).
While his friends, being very educated, are skeptical of his claims; much of his memory can be found in any textbook.

Edith remembers the Van Gogh painting outside, and asks if it is real or not (since John would certainly be old enough to know Van Gogh). John replies, yes--he was under the guise of Jacques Borne, a pig farmer. After Van Gogh's death, about 1890, he says he moved to America, an explanation to the lack of an accent.

The conservation between his friends is cyclidic; passing to Linda, the most credulous at 22, asks as to the reason he does not recall where he was from. Countering her, he replies that there is a lack of any landmarks--wilderness has been replaced by "freeways, urban sprawl, Big Macs under the Eiffel Tower."

While most of the group wants to hear him out, entertained, during a leave of absence Art calls his psychiatrist friend, the aging Dr. Gruber, part concerned, part confused about John. Dr. Gruber arrives, the conversation progressing in a manner that greatly disturbs and depresses him; his wife just recently died, and the fact that someone around him will never die is too much. His presence climaxes as he threatens to shoot John, eventually calming down and leaving. However, John, fearing that he may commit suicide, asks before he leaves to take his loaded gun.

Unfortunately, the conversation turns for the worse as his inquisitive friends ask him the ever controversial question, "Does he have any religious beliefs?" After thousands and thousands of years of hearing creation stories, gods after gods, he believes in none, only feigning such during times when it was necessary. Even worse, it comes to the question: "Was he a figure in religious history?" Really reluctant to respond, and tries to sum up the New Testament in 100 words. Edith, being religious and greatly offended, tries to leave; Harry convinces her to stay.

It comes to a shocking revelation: John was in fact Joshua of Nazareth. Unlike the "mythical overlays", John had come to Israel to preach the Buddha's teachings (he had studied under the Buddha), to disasterous consequences. Although he was crucified (he cannot scar, and they used ropes, not nails, but it makes better religious imagery), he comes to life by equalizing his body functions, something he learned under the Buddha. This even more disturbs Edith, who is so shocked at his apparent blasphemy.

After heated debate, Dr. Gruber returns, still concerned but not suicidal. He implores John to end his charade, and, at the expense of his credibility, convinces his friends that this was nothing but a story, and all of his friends were players. This infuriates most of them, and after Dan calls him an explicative, they calm down. Edith, like "a good Christian", forgives him, and all his friends except Sandy wish him goodbye.

Sandy, using her intuition, figures out that he is telling the truth, John would never "use people, or abuse their good will". Unlike the others, he caves and admits it, telling her many of his other "pun" names: John Palee, for Paleolithic, John Savage, and 60 years ago, John Thomas Parti, John T. Parti. Unbeknownst to John, Dr. Gruber stands behind him in clear shock--John T. Parti, a chemist at Harvard, was his father. Horrified at the prospect, he admits this, supplying facts that no one but Gruber's family would know.

However, the shock of this information is too much to bear, and Dr. Gruber has a heart attack. The movie, however, ends on a brighter note, as he decides to spend her life with Sandy.

==Production==
Directed on a 200,000 dollar budget, this was Jerome Bixby's, a writer best known for "It's a Good Life", completed posthumously after his death in 1998. Dictating the last of it, it is dedicated to his son and screenwriter, Emerson Bixby. After his death, the script was handed down to Richard Schenkman to direct on a very modest budget.

==Cast==
Actors:
* David Lee Smith is John Oldman
* Tony Todd is Dan
* John Billingsley is Harry
* Ellen Crawford is Edith
* Annika Peterson is Sandy
* William Katt is Art Jenkins
* Alexis Thorpe is Linda Murphy
* Richard Riehle is Dr. Will Gruber
* Robbie Bryan is Police Officer

==Reviews==
The reviews for The Man from Earth are overwelmingly positive:
* "A considerable achievement... a picture which deserves wide exposure... The Man From Earth gradually and stimulatingly builds to a pitch of near hypnotic intensity." – Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?rid=11061 The Man From Earth - The Hollywood Reporter], Film review</ref>
* "Based on a really wonderful final work by Jerome Bixby... If you’re a fan of Bixby's – it's a must own." – Harry Knowles, Ain’t It Cool News<ref>[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34759 Harry's DVD PICKS AND PEEKS for 2nd Week of November - Ain't It Cool News], Film review</ref>
* "The Man From Earth restores dignity to science fiction of the mind." - Michael Guillen, Twitch<ref>[http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/2007-holeheadreview-of-man-from-earth/ 2007 HOLEHEAD—REVIEW of Man From Earth - Twitch], Film review</ref>
* "A tall tale... that ends with a devastatingly clever twist." - Michael Janusonis, The Providence Journal<ref>[http://www.projo.com/movie_reviews//lb_manfromearth_08-10-07_E56M3GC.1f8dbc5.html Reliving the really old days with The Man From Earth - The Providence Journal], Film review</ref>
* "Great acting performances... with an ending you wouldn't want to miss... Jerome Bixby's last written work has turned out to be his best." - Hock Teh, IGN<ref>[http://dvd.ign.com/articles/833/833098p1.html The Man From Earth DVD Review - IGN], Film review</ref>
* "A mind bending drama... It sure beats watching Transformers." - Nick Lyons, DVD Talk<ref>[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/31286/jerome-bixbys-the-man-from-earth/ Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth - DVD Talk], Film review</ref>
* "The Man From Earth is very much a labor of love from all involved... it's well worth the effort. The final work from the writer responsible for some of the finest episodes of The Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek gets a thoughtful, low-budget treatment." – Ian Spelling, Sci Fi.com<ref>[http://www.scifi.com/sfw/screen/sfw17400.html Man from Earth - Sci-Fi Weekly], Film review</ref>
* "Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth is one of the most intelligent science fiction films ever made... probably one of the best science fiction films of the decade." – Mark L. Leeper, Stephen Hunt's SF Crows Nest<ref>[http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/features/arc/2008/nz13093.php The Man From Earth: Mark's take - Stephen Hun's SF Crow's nest], Film review</ref>
* "The Man From Earth really has a chance of being the single best piece of screenwriting you will see on a screen large or small this year (really!)." – Late Film<ref>[http://latemag.com/film/is-jerome-bixbys-the-man-from-earth-this-years-sleeper-hit Is Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth this years sleeper hit? - Late Film], Film review</ref>

==Publicity through filesharing==

Unlike all other movies, the publicity for the movie was very creative: while most directors wish to stop filesharing, the director encouraged it. As such, the indie film rose to a fame it would have never received if left alone.

==Memorable Quotes==
"But a talking snake made a lady eat an apple, so we're screwed." - John Oldman

"Edith, I was raised on the Torah, my wife on the Qu'Ran, my eldest son is an Atheist, my youngest is a scientologist, my daughter is studying Hinduism, I imagine there is room there for a holy war in my living room, but we practice live and let live." - Harry

"Harry: Well, you're finally fulfilling one prophecy about the millennium, John.
John Oldman: What's that?
Harry: Here you are again."

"Dr. Will Gruber: I still don't believe you, of course. You need help.
John Oldman: Everybody needs help."

"Dr. Will Gruber: When did you begin to believe you were Jesus?
John Oldman: When did you begin to believe you were a psychiatrist?
Dr. Will Gruber: Since I graduated from Harvard Medical School and finished my residency, I've had that feeling. Why I sometimes dream about it.
John Oldman: Have you acted upon this belief?"

==Connection to Atheism==
Many have drawn parallels in the movie to atheism and anti-religion, including the apparent blasphemous talk about Jesus (John Oldman reveals that he learned under the Buddha, and that Jesus was almost totally mythical), the mention of other Gods, and many other plot details.[http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/forums/showthread.php?t=72]
As such, many atheist organizations have rightly embraced it as a crowning acheivement of science fiction and a great debate tool.

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The Lives of Others

2010-05-10T23:46:34Z

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'''''The Lives of Others''''' (Original title: ''Das Leben der Anderen'' 2006) is an [[Oscar]]-winning drama about a high-profile artistic couple in East Germany being spied on by the [[Stasi]] (''Staatssicherheit'', literally ''security of the state'', the secret service of the [[GDR]]). The officer in charge of the surveillance finds himself drawn into their lives more than his own.

[[William F. Buckley]] called it "the best movie I ever saw".

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the drama shows the cultural scene of East Berlin in the 1980's, where agents of the Stasi pervaded everyday life.

The movie won several international awards, including the 2007 [[Academy Award]] for ''Best Foreign Language Film''
{{cquote|Whereas ''The Godfather'' is cited by many as the cinema’s finest depiction of a hardening of the human heart, ''The Lives of Others'' may well be one of the cinema’s finest depictions of the softening of the human heart<ref>[http://cellobiscuit.blogspot.com/2007/04/lives-of-others.html A Biscuit of Many Parts]</ref>}}

==References==
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==External Links==
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/ ''Das Leben der Anderen'' on IMDb]

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The Last Temptation of Christ

2010-05-10T23:45:59Z

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'''''The Last Temptation of Christ''''' is a film released in 1988 based on a novel by the same name. Adapted from the book of the same name written by Nikos Kazantzakis, the film was directed by [[Martin Scorsese]] and stars Willem Dafoe as [[Jesus]] Christ and Harvey Keitel as [[Judas]] Iscariot. Emphasizing the aspect of Jesus as human, the film shows him as a bit of a bumbling buffoon whom the Pharisees run circles around. It also has him make pantheistic statements about God being in all things. Due to its blasphemous nature, it was heavily protested when it first came out. The film did not do well at the box office, but has been a favorite of secular [[Hollywood Values|Hollywood]] and is shown relatively often on movie channels.

The Film covers Jesus's ministry years, including his acquisition of apostles, and his temptations in the desert, up until his crucifixion. It portrays Judas as a hero.

The events of the film deviate from scripture in many points, but two are noted here. First, Judas is asked by Jesus to betray him, and in the film, Judas is the only Apostle loyal enough to turn Jesus in. The second involves Jesus's last moments on the cross. While on the cross, Satan appears to Jesus in the form of a little girl. [[Satan]] tells Jesus that he is not the son of God, and offers him a chance to live a normal life. Believing the child is an angel, Jesus accepts and begins his new life married to [[Mary Magdalene]]. Jesus continues to live his life following the advice of Satan, still in the form of a little girl, until while on his deathbed, Judas visits him and accuses him of betraying the 12. Realizing that the little girl is in fact the Devil, Jesus begs God to let him make things right. The movie ends with Jesus back on the cross, claiming that "It is accomplished."

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The Great Global Warming Swindle

2010-05-10T23:45:23Z

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'''The Great Global Warming Swindle''' first broadcast in March 2007, is a science documentary film directed by Martin Durkin for the United Kingdom's Channel Four. This is not the first science documentary the filmmakers made. It says on their website "The thing they found most shocking when they started to make this one, was the weakness of the case for man made global warming, and the quantity and quality of the evidence which flatly contradicts it." <ref>[http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.com/ Official Website 'The Great Global Warming Swindle']</ref>

==Summary==
This science documentary challenges the [[Global Warming]] orthodoxy of 'consensus', used to discount further evidence. The major theme exposes scientists for their alarmist absurdity. The Sun and the reluctance of some climate scientists to consider its role. Earth’s temperature record and when to start the data collection. Ice-core data of CO2 climate analysis. [[IPCC]] and consensus of world scientists.

==The science==
The way [[science]] functions in the real world is explained. The political bias of scientists, censorship within the scientific community, the failure of the peer review process and inflated conclusions from uncertain data. "The most highly qualified and respected scientists can be blind to obvious deficiencies in a theory, and will be dismissive of evidence when it undermines what they want to believe." Scientists are invoking the threat of climatic disaster to drive an anti-capitalist agenda.

==Positive reception==
Public service broadcaster Channel Four defended airing the film saying it was to show that the debate on climate change is not settled

The filmmakers have received thousands of emails from scientists and others expressing their support and encouragement. After the legal finding, the filmmakers were allowed to distribute their documentary by DVD.

==Negative reception==

Complaints came from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the former British government chief scientific adviser Sir David King, and MIT oceanographer Prof. Carl Wunsch. Also, Ofcom noted it received 265 complaints that the film had been factually misleading, one-sided, had omitted alternative views and broke Britain's broadcasting code.

Robert Watson, a former chairman of the IPCC was disappointed that the film had not been found to mislead viewers.

==Filmmakers statements==
“Everywhere you are told that man-made climate change is proved beyond doubt,” “But you are being told lies.”
“This is a story of how a theory about [[climate]] turned into a political ideology ... it is the story of the distortion of a whole area of science.”
“as the frenzy over man-made global warming grows shriller, many senior scientists say the actual scientific basis for the theory is crumbling.”

==Issues surrounding the film==

Britain’s independent [[media]] regulator, Ofcom has ruled that a documentary skeptical of global warming claims broke some broadcasting rules, but did not mislead or cause harm. <ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=32796 UK Broadcaster Scolded for Film on Global Warming ‘Swindle’] CNSNews.com, July 22, 2008</ref>

==References==
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The Great Dictator

2010-05-10T23:44:32Z

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'''''The Great Dictator''''' is a 1940 film, starring and written and directed by [[Charlie Chaplin]], that satirizes [[Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Nazi]]s. It was Charlie Chaplin's first "talkie", and has him playing a dual role as Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of the fictional country of Tomania, and as a [[Jewish]] barber, who is never named. It is notable for being an early anti-Nazi picture, and at the end of the film, Chaplin (as the barber) makes an impassioned speech against dictatorship and a plea for democracy everywhere.

''The Great Dictator'' was nominated for five [[Academy Awards]], including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (for Chaplin).

==Links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/ The Great Dictator] at the Internet Movie Database

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

2010-05-10T23:42:40Z

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| director=Scott Derrickson
| producer=Paul Harris Boardman Beau Flynn Andre Lamal Gary Lucchesi David McIlvain Terry McKay Tom Rosenberg Tripp Vinson Julie Yorn
| writer=Paul Harris Boardman Scott Derrickson
| narrator=
| starring=Laura Linney Tom Wilkinson Campbell Scott Jennifer Carpenter
| music=Christopher Young
| cinematography=Tom Stern
| editing=Jeff Betancourt
| distributor=Screen Gems
| released=September 9, 2005
| runtime=119 min
| country=[[United States]]
| language=English}}

'''The Exorcism of Emily Rose''' is a 2005 film that is part courtroom drama and part psychological thriller. Based on a true story, Emily Rose began displaying bizarre behavior, speaking in tongues and destroying religious symbols, her devout catholic family sends Father Richard Moore to drive what they believe to be demons out of her body through exorcism. After her death, Father Moore is put on trail for negligent homicide, where attorney Erin Bruner (Laura Linney) must defend him. As the trial goes on, she begins to experience strange occurrences that could be the work of demons. The film was rated PG-13 for thematic material, including tense and frightening sequences and disturbing images.

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The Da Vinci Code (film, 2006)

2010-05-10T23:41:53Z

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| producer=[[Dan Brown]] John Calley Brian Grazer Todd Hallowell Ron Howard
| writer=[[Dan Brown]] (original) Akiva Goldsman
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| starring=[[Tom Hanks]] Audrey Tautou [[Ian McKellen]]
| music= Hans Zimmer
| cinematography=Salvatore Totino
| editing=Dan Hanley Mike Hill
| distributor=[[Columbia]]
| released=May 19, 2006
| runtime=149 min
| country=[[United States]]
| language=[[English]]
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'''The Da Vinci Code''' is a 2006 film directed by Ron Howard adapted from the popular book, [[The Da Vinci Code]] by [[Dan Brown]]. The film was highly controversial for claiming that Jesus Christ was only a man and was married to Mary Magdalene. The film was a financial success. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for disturbing images, violence, some nudity, thematic material, brief drug references and sexual content.

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