![]() ![]() Cyber Punk was warming up in the batter’s box and Willam Gibson had already started writing short stories in his universe but Neuromancer wouldn’t be published for another two years. Scott also hired Syd Mead to do the production design and Mead is strongly influenced by Metal Hurlant’s artwork (Heavy Metal magazine in the US). The 1920s German surrealist school clearly inspired the imagery. There are other shots that are pretty similar but you get the drift. A lot this film’s imagery is owed to another film with strong cinematography, a weak storyline, and an evil robot. Scott works in visuals, and Blade Runner’s visuals are the best thing in this movie. Ladd knew he had a handful with Ridley Scott but the results so far had been correspondingly rewarding. It was clearly going to need a better title* but a SciFi noir premise had real potential. Ladd okayed a script treatment for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. ![]() Sadly the butcher’s bill came due with Blade Runner. Science fiction was the reason for his success. Science fiction had not done well at the box office before 1977 but Ladd had seen the future and it was… well… The future. He left Fox and started the Ladd Company. With two big wins under his belt, he decided to hang out his own shingle. Next, he followed that one up with the lighting in a bottle, Alien. Alan Ladd Jr briefly became a Hollywood wunderkind in the late 70s by dint of two decisions, first, he green-lit Star Wars, then fought tooth and nail for it when the studio wanted to shut down the production due to overruns. Much of which was improvised by Rutger Hauer himself.īlade Runner has a lot of good and plenty of bad but how did it all get there? It builds in intensity while it leads up to his confrontation with Deckard and the famous Tears in the Rain soliloquy. The secondary, concurrent storyline with Roy Batty is clearly the film’s greatest strength. The art design was revolutionary, (even if a lot of it was based on German surrealism of the 1920s). The Eighties techno soundtrack fit perfectly. The stunning visuals set a film school standard. I could go on but you probably have a list of your own. The exposition scene between Deckard and his boss was dumb, Deckard was the best Blade Runner out there, and he didn’t know replicants only have a four-year lifespan? Seriously? Seriously, what was that pervy nerd thing about? Where did that come from and why did he do it? It reeks of the kind of thing where the director is having the actor do a scene a thousand different ways and Scott went with the worst one. And then there is Harrison Ford’s weird little bit of performance art in the strippers’ dressing room. There are other worries as well, for one thing, there was no chemistry between the leads which is understandable because Harrison Ford and Sean Young hated each other. Later cuts remove the narration but insert a heavy-handed and fairly major plot change that wasn’t even hinted at in the original version of the film. It felt awkward and tacked on because it was both (more on that later). The trouble is that each of the major cuts is an obvious failure, each in its own special way.įor instance in the original theatrical version, you have a bad narration that was inserted post-production. It’s just that it’s hard for anyone to agree on what they are. It is an extraordinarily influential film.Įveryone knows that it has problems. Some argue not even a good movie, but they’re wrong and they’re bad, and here’s why. Blade Runner is a film I hold in considerable affection and yet it is not a great movie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “I couldn’t believe the car wasn’t there and everybody had gone,” she says. They didn’t join her for the podium celebration, and by the time she got back to the garage, all of the gear had been loaded. Victory notwithstanding, her crew was pissed that St. James secured funding through winning the Kelly American Challenge series I can see Charlie Selix’s eyes to this day, looking at me through the windscreen. Whitney was trying to get the net down, but I wouldn’t release it. I swear to God, I didn’t pre-think this through. ![]() “I came in for the stop when we were supposed to change drivers, and I didn’t get out of the car. “I have never been that consistently in the zone,” St. Because her regular co-driver, Bruce (later to become Caitlyn) Jenner wasn’t available, Whitney Ganz was penciled in as his replacement in the 500-kilometer enduro. Two years later, during a frigid Indianapolis 500 when 13 cars crashed – including the pole-sitter, on the pace lap – she soldiered on to an eleventh-place finish and earned Rookie of the Year honours.īut perhaps her best day came at Watkins Glen in 1985 in a factory-backed Ford Mustang prepared by Roush Racing. In 1990, co-driving a Jack Roush-prepared Mercury Cougar with Robby Gordon and Calvin Fish, she scored GTO class wins in the endurance classics at both Daytona and Sebring. James could wheel a car with the best of them. But her work as an advocate has obscured the fact that, in her day, St. Nobody has promoted women in racing more tirelessly or effectively. Argetsinger Award for Outstanding Contributions to Motorsports from the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen for being “a pioneer for women in motorsport” – and deservedly so. Earlier this month, now 74 years old, she received the Cameron R. James suffers from a similar case of mistaken identity. By the time Carlos Reutemann died this past summer, he’d devoted much of the previous 30 years to politics, so most younger Argentinians probably remembered him more as a statesman than as a mercurial driver who spent a decade near the top of Formula 1. James final screen appearance was in 2002 and she died in Sydney, Australia, aged 87, on. James was married to the New Zealand producer Eric Tayler, a fellow RADA graduate, and they had two children, one of whom is the Australia actress Sally Tayler, who also appeared with her in The Young Doctors. TV series, 1 episode 2: "The Killing Of Toby McGee" Guest role: Alice Dawes (as Marilyn James) Recurring role: Beryl Denbigh (as Marilyn James) Guest role: Alice Potter (as Marilyn James) Guest role: Mary Johnson (as Marilyn James) Guest role: Meg Barker (as Marilyn James) Recurring role: Madeline Bray (as Marilyn James) Guest role: Moll Miller (as Marilyn James) She appeared in the series from its inception in 1976, until it ended in 1983, one of only a few actors to appear for the duration of the series. After meeting her husband they emigrated to Australia in 1965, and, credited now as "Lyn James", appeared in numerous Crawford Productions series, before she became best known internationally for her role as doctors secretary Helen Gordon in the Australian television soap opera The Young Doctors. After graduating from RADA, James made her professional debut as an actress in 1949, appearing in numerous plays and TV serials in England for the BBC. She was born Margaret James, the daughter of theatre actor and producer Jack James and granddaughter of photographer Levi Ladd. Lyn James (13 November 1929 – ), credited also as Marilyn James, was a Welsh-born actress of stage and screen and director, who became known for her career in England and later Australia, particularly as receptionist Helen Gordon in television soap opera The Young Doctors Biography ![]() ![]() We’d love to receive your feedback about your experience with using this app and will continue to add enhancements. Hisense Qview was developed by the Hisense Software Development team. When a user leaves the app, then his or her content is no longer available for others to view or access. ![]() Up to 10 people can share content on the TV at the same time. The user’s name (or Gmail address associated with their Android device) briefly displays on the TV screen.
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Despite the level of intrigue, the payoff lends little to the narrative other than putting Bond in front of M’s desk and being scolded as if he was sent to the principal’s office. The Baroque (even by Bond standards) title sequence is replete with suggestive images of dancing women and PPKs. It starts with a tracking shot in the spirit of Touch of Evil(or even I Am Cuba given the weightless camera), and is loaded with the high-paced action, stunts, and decisive camera work that you can tell is the artful slight of hand imbued by director Mendes. source: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer PicturesĪnother tradition that Spectre set out to satisfy in Bond films is the pre-title action sequence, and the satisfaction that this loaded entry opens with was nothing short of extraordinary. This pattern of playing against form is so common that playing into form cancels it out, and the result is a narrative composed of self-referential double bluffs that inevitably takes you out of the movie. I had my suspicions that Skyfall was the product of overtly self-aware filmmakers who spend more time side-stepping what could be expected spoilers, and then recalibrating calibrated expectations of what people expect of a Bond movie – rather than simply assemble a successful Bond film. It would serve as a pat on the back for fans as well as a foreshadowing introduction that Spectre would adhere to the Bond film formula more so than we had seen in the recent thread of Craig films though this isn’t one of the film’s strong notes. This trademark opening is paramount in the Bond films, and almost a mark of authenticity to the series. Being the first Daniel Craig film with the famous barrel sequence, it was exciting to see him taking the stride of honor as did Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan before him. When the opening credits started, I felt a rush of excitement seeing that barrel aimed at Daniel Craig, the way we remember almost every other Bond film opening. While many considered Skyfall the best in the franchise (a bold statement), could Mendes and the EON production team outdo themselves with the eagerly anticipated successor Spectre? Better Than Skyfall? It seemed as if Bond had spanned another generation, and the international super spy would bask in the glory of a reinvigorated franchise. Fans cheered when they saw the adrenaline-filled Casino Royale, squirmed when it looked like Bond was taking too many cues from Jason Bourne in 2008 with Quantum of Solace, and cheered even harder when Sam Mendes won nearly everybody over with his superior direction of Skyfall. The proverbial return to form was the celebrated inauguration of Daniel Craig in the seminal 2006 film Casino Royale. Finally, it looked as if the series had run out of momentum that for years had seemed inexhaustible. 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Widely considered better than the first installment (which earned thirteen nominations and four wins), New Line's The Two Towers has mass appeal and gorgeous grand-scale filmmaking (fantasy landscapes, heroic battles, spectacular visual effects). Gandalf intoning that the battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin. This second installment in the trilogy ends with Have been translated digitally - the result is easily the best digitalĬreature ever put on film. An actor named Andy Serkis plays Gollum, whose movements Best is the near-naked, strangly voiced Gollum, onceĪ Ringbearer, who promises to guide Frodo and Sam (Sean Astin) to the Black There's also a marvelous newĪddition called Treebeard, a walking, talking tree, who is the oldest livingĮntity in Middle-Earth. Named Wormtongue not many actors can make their grinning skulls protrude soĭistinctively through their own thin flesh. I was glad to see Brad Dourif turn up as a sinister court adviser aptly Liv Tyler's elf Arwen is briefly back forĪnother soft-focus reckoning with Aragorn (gauzy lyricism is not Jackson'sįorte), and her Elvish, in addition to sounding once again like pidginįinnish, now appears to carry traces of Yiddish and Apache, too. McKellen's Gandalf the Grey has been resurrected as Gandalf the White, aĭistinct sartorial improvement. Successfully tossed into a frothing phalanx of those pesky Uruks. ![]() Go-round, but thankfully, there's more of Viggo Mortensen's staunch AragornĪnd John Rhys-Davies's hairball-ish dwarf Gimli, who, in the film'sĪstounding climactic battle scene at the Rohan fortress Helm's Deep, is Elijah Wood's Frodo doesn't have major screen time this There have been a number of drop-adds in the cast since The Fellowship of Still, Jackson has a genuine epic gift: Fewįilmmakers have ever given gross-outs such resplendence. 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