Ang Lee

Director Ang Lee started his career with the Chinese-language art house hits The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman. He has since helmed a variety of well-received, award-winning features in English, including the 2005 romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which he won an Oscar for Best Director.

In 1995, Lee directed his first film in English, an adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility starring and co-written by Emma Thompson. After a few rare misfires, including the western Ride With the Devil and the comic book movie Hulk, Lee took on the somewhat controversial Western romance Brokeback Mountain, about two cowboys who are unsettled to discover a mutual attraction.
Mountain won 3 Oscars, including Lee's first Academy Award for Best Director. The expected winner of that night's Best Picture award, it lost out to Paul Haggis' race drama Crash. 

Woody Allen Movie

Here's what I've learned

Like Ian Fleming and P.G. Wodehouse,returns compulsively to the same creative ground. In Allen's case, it's ground trod by anxious, well-to-do white people, who swap partners and drop cultural references in an empty, godless universe. The extent of the similarities from one film to the next is remarkable. It's not just that he recasts actors or that he revisits the themes of domestic boredom and cosmic insignificance. He reuses the same font,  for his titles and credits. He recycles character types: the neurotic Jewish New Yorker (the filmmaker's  the adulterous intellectual, the hypochondriac intellectual. He recycles plot lines. He even recycles punch lines. In  celebrity (1998), a model says she's "polymorphously perverse … meaning every part of my body gives me sexual pleasure." That should sound familiar: In Annie Hall (1977), Alvy tells Annie that she's "polymorphously perverse … you get pleasure in every part of your body when I touch it."
Because I've already invested so much time into Allen's films, I'll keep making my annual pilgrimage without regard to quality, holding out for the possibility of a swan song. At his latest, I saw a hint of a way forward in the plotlines dedicated to Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), who worry about senescence and death not simply because these are facts of life, but because, like their creator, they've reached old age. A film that broaches the regular lot of preoccupations from the deathbed perspective rather than the needlessly-anxious-middle-age one could—here's hoping—bring poignancy back to the Woody Allen experience. 

Why I LOVE Tim Burton

Tim Burton is probably (in my opinion) one of the most creative minds of all time. His work has been inspiring me for as long as I can remember. A lot of my favorite movies growing up were The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, etc…
Fantasy Hair and makeup have always inspired me and in a lot of ways fueled my passion for this industry.   Tim Burtons movies are basically my form of eye candy. So for those of you who are not familiar with his work let me show you just a sneak peek into what hes done to inspire me, and for those of you who are already fans, lets reminisce.

I am in love with Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland. Probably one of the best fantasy hair and makeup Ive seen in a while, and Tim Burton style.       

Stanley Kubrick: The Film Fan

Kubrick was granted enormous freedom as an artist, nestled away in the English countryside far from prying eyes.  As a result, he was often caricatured as a recluse, unengaged with the wider culture, and his imagination wrestled with film technology for years before unleashing startling cinematic visions.  For all of the emphasis given to Kubrick’s innovative use of NASA lenses and candlelight in “Barry Lyndon” (1975), as well as the ghostly Steadicam glide of “The Shining” (1980), there has been little attention given to the cinematic influences that inspired his work.

Three of Kubrick’s late films are suffused with visual tropes that link his work to the art cinema of America, Europe and Japan. The movies are: “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), “The Shining” (1980) and “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999), which all feature protagonists who are governed by outside forces and seem to be shaped in part by movies from the past. Many of Kubrick’s images are inspired by the novels that his movies were based on. However, by pinpointing his cinematic references, we get a sense of the breadth of his film knowledge and enthusiasm for diverse genres. Our understanding of Kubrick’s work is aided by observing how a range of films resonate and sympathise with one another, perhaps coincidentally, often with absolute intent.

it seems clear that Kubrick readily paid homage to other films and found inventive ways to blend the radical practices of art cinema with the more conventional procedures of Hollywood filmmaking.

How has Steven Spielberg influenced the film industry?

Steven Spielberg will perhaps be most widely revered as the father of blockbusters, yet his influence on contemporary filmmaking runs well beyond box office bombshells. The most common theme in all his stories is of the connections of people, and it is this wide treatment of human relationships that has so influenced contemporary film. Unlike other directors who often have a specific agenda to push, Spielberg has devoted his films, across genres, to representing how people interact, love and sometimes war.

At the beginning of his career, Spielberg broke into the film industry with sensational action and special effects. Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind defined a new generation of film which paved the way for other films with big booms and big budgets. Without Spielberg, films like Titanic and Lord of the Rings would most likely not have been as spectacular; Spielberg is often thought of in tandem with George Lucas as the father of contemporary computer generated special effects.
Furthermore, his films situated themselves more readily into mainstream culture with the concept of spin off merchandise. His high grossing ET and Jurassic Park took the movie industry to new levels with merchandising schemes that often outsold their inspirations, creating a sense of identity or brand around each movie as its own institution. While in the past, there had been cult classics where followers were seen as devoted to one film, Spielberg films elevated all blockbusters by selling the image of the movie by cross marketing with other cultural fixtures like fast food.

Beyond the spectacle, Spielberg has also devoted much of his career to issues of family, war, and slavery. His most common subject has been the Holocaust and World War II, developing stories which offer new insights into the historic war. Schindler’s List was far from a blockbuster movie, portraying a complicated hero of victims of the Holocaust and how he navigated a hostile environment in order to do the right thing. In many ways it is a continuation of the theme from an earlier Spielberg film, Empire of the Sun, which is a coming of age story in the face of internment.
Spielberg’s career has not been without criticism or controversy. Godard railed against the consumer culture tinge to Spielberg’s work, while critics have blamed Spielberg for ruining Kubrick’s last film and causing assorted trauma to veterans during screenings of Saving Private Ryan.
Despite the criticisms, Spielberg’s body of work represents a director who is cherished for his causes and for his spectacle. Recognized consistently by the Academy, Spielberg’s legacy has been to encourage films that are unadulterated in their action and effects, while still maintaining strong character roots.

Influence of Hitchcock's

(13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980)

When Alfred Hitchcock was originally shooting Psycho (1960), he realized that it would make an impact on many viewers. What he did not realize is the cultural impact that it would still have almost fifty years later. One of the more obscure facts about Psycho concerns the paperwork that the actors and actresses were forced to sign along with the rest of the crew. This paperwork explained that Universal Studios and Alfred Hitchcock would sue anyone for a large sum of money if they were to speak about anything to do with the movie.

While this had been done to a small extent before Psycho, the exasperating amount (that has never been fully disclosed) was a first. Ever since then, nondisclosure agreements have become the norm in Hollywood.

Many directors believed that it ruined their vision for a movie if the theatergoers were not all in their seas when the movie started. Hitchcock made it a rule that no one was allowed into the movie theater once Psycho had started. Once again, he made movie theater owners sign statements that explained this rule, and the fact that they would be sued if they did not follow.

On top of this, they would no longer be given Universal Studios movies to show ever again. This was a major threat to any theater owner since most of the movies out of Universal Studios were big moneymakers.

There were very few directors that ever believed that this was possible. Once they saw Psycho, and realized that the main female lead in the movie was actually a thief, they realized why Hitchcock made this requirement. They realized that she had to die since she had done something evil.

This became a norm later on when the slasher movies came out. Many of the victims in slasher movies die because of the fact that the have done something illegalal, or unethical. The most common victim became the high school teen who was doing drugs or having premarital sex. This was all inspired by Psycho.

Psycho, at it's basis, inspired many of the serial killer and slasher movies that we see today. Psycho was one of the first horror films that gains popularity by taking the horror away from a monster, and putting it into a person. This time, the person was the monster in the form of Norman Bates.

Hitchcock made the strange move of not only putting a toilet in Psycho, but to also have it flushed. This was the first time that any movie had ever had a working toilet in it. ile this may sound like a strange point to mention, it does have extreme importance in Hollywood.

There were many walls in Hollywood that were being jumped or broken down when Psycho first came out. Directors realized that they had limitations, and wanted to break through those limitations. The working toilet in Psycho made it clear to all directors that there are taboos that can be broken during a movie.

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Staying in the bathroom for a moment, the shower scene in Psycho has become one of the most familiar scenes in any movie. One of the reasons for this is because of the fact that the shower scene still affects a lot of people to this day. There are many people that refuse to take showers because they are worried that someone is going to sneak up on them.

Also, by today's standards, Psycho is still scary because of the amount that was not showed on the screen. Unlike many of today's movies, the gruesome deaths were not shown to the highest possible degree. People became more afraid by what they did not see, then they could have by what they did see. The mind's eye worked overtime during Hitchcock's Psycho.

This is one of the reasons why the sequels to Psycho did not work. Most people do not even realize that there were sequels to Psycho. The sequels showed the violence, gore, and nudity. The original just suggested them.

To this day, Hitchcock's Psycho continues to influence movie making, and the nightmares of many people. It will be interesting to see in the next fifty years how much influence the movie still hold on our lives and on Hollywood.

 

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