Topic 34 of 73: movies that define their genre
Sun, Dec 13, 1998 (22:41) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
What are movies that define their genre?
You define your own categories (eg. Road Warrier is the genre defining
post apocalypse Western. Rocky for boxing, you get it).
28 responses total.
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Response 1 of 28: Charlotte (Charlotte) * Sun, Dec 13, 1998 (23:34) * 1 lines
Star Wars. Can enough be said about its impact on filmmaking?
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Response 2 of 28: Ann (Ann) * Mon, Dec 14, 1998 (00:11) * 3 lines
Star Wars. Can enough be said about its impact on filmmaking?
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Certainly not. It is the movie that completely changed the industry. Pre-Star Wars no one had ever thought about action figures and marketing tie-ins, now James Bond sells ATM cards. As a result, there are large classes of films that depend on such sales and marketing tie-ins have driven the industry for years.
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Response 3 of 28: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Dec 14, 1998 (20:14) * 1 lines
How about "Airplane" for inventing the spoof? Movies making fun of other movies.
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Response 4 of 28: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (09:50) * 1 lines
Good one, Autumn.
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Response 5 of 28: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (13:10) * 2 lines
Autumn, have you ever seen Hardware Wars? It's a spoof of Star Wars. Came out
shortly after.
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Response 6 of 28: George Klos (osceola) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (13:19) * 1 lines
Autumn, I don't think Airplane INVENTED the spoof, but it was very good. I'd give credit to Mel Brooks' movies from the '70s (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein). The people who did Airplane revived the genre, and did it very well.
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Response 7 of 28: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (13:27) * 1 lines
You could even consider Monty Python to be a pioneer in this area.
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Response 8 of 28: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (22:02) * 8 lines
Davy Crockett was a pioneer in this area or a little south of here
---he was pretty funny sometimes and spoofed stuff
---all of his movies, though, were never filmed
---"a regular spoofer too far ahead of his time" is what Pauline Kael used to
say (to him)
....Davy always agreed with her (also in the third person)
---wait, is that true?
---yep; I double-checked my sources.
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Response 9 of 28: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (00:05) * 3 lines
I don't know, Jim, I've seen one of his movies (Disney!)
How ya doin', George? Long time, no see...good point about the Mel Brooks' pictures, I had forgotten about those. Tim, I have never heard of "Hardware Wars." Was it dreadful? Because I thought "Star wars" was (oops! Did I say that??)
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Response 10 of 28: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (16:30) * 2 lines
Hardware Wars poked endless fun at Star Wars. If you had any gripes at all about
Star Wars, you will love Hardware Wars.
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Response 11 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (16:41) * 1 lines
Hardware Wars? (autumn called you tim, pt, is that what the t stands for? been curious and wondered why you don't use it) i've never even heard of it (course, when ya live out in the boondocks). now space balls was a spoof on star wars for sure (another monty python gem)!
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Response 12 of 28: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (17:23) * 2 lines
Space Balls was excellent. T does stand for Tim. The system won't let me logon
that way.
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Response 13 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (19:19) * 3 lines
really? wonder why. maybe there's another user with that name or something.
so anyway, what the heck is up with hardware wars? hmmm?
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Response 14 of 28: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Thu, Dec 17, 1998 (14:06) * 2 lines
They use common household items to depict the hardware in the movie. For example
an iron is an imperial cruiser.
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Response 15 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (09:54) * 1 lines
ok, well i'll pass then...
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Response 16 of 28: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (13:33) * 3 lines
It is tremendously funny, start to finish. It only runs 40 minutes. I think you
would enjoy it. The special effects are identical to Star Wars except for the
actual hardware.
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Response 17 of 28: Charlotte (Charlotte) * Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (13:50) * 2 lines
is this the one with the huge beach-ball alien? the scenes with
the beachball had me in stitches!
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Response 18 of 28: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (21:39) * 12 lines
Hey Jim...
You musta missed Davy Crockett's films... they went straight to video before being released... touchy topics of course.
The Alamo... remember with the John Wayne Look-a-like.
And the movie did look-a-lot-like Shane. Or Old Yeller or what was the one with the goose and the Amish family and the war and the little boy...
oh yea... Persuasion... no.. something Persuasion.
Damn. Can't remember
Strong maybe.
Simple...
Persuasion something anyway.
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Response 19 of 28: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (01:31) * 15 lines
"Persuasion Mastaba"?
Took place in Egypt?
Shot in Morocco?
These Amish families that settled on some wavy land next to the Nile?
And the little boy and little girl he met at the drive-in theater?
Her dad's car had new chrome on it and stuff?
And then the mastaba got wiff of them, and it opened up?
And out pooped (I mean popped) the mummy?
Anyway there was a war goin' on that was tryin' to get alotta the attention,
and it (the war) would go around to people and hand out perfume samples, right?
I dunno if I'm right about that, cuz I could be gettin' it mixed up with
"Saving Private Ryan"?
But y'know, wars do strange things to people.
But anyway, I'm pretty sure the one yer thinkin' of, Stace, is "Persuasion Mastaba"
If I'm wrong, hope that helped a little to jog yer memory some more.
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Response 20 of 28: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (02:36) * 2 lines
'gentle persuasion', i think the film was
called... (starred gary cooper)
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Response 21 of 28: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (04:15) * 1 lines
Yes!!!
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Response 22 of 28: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (05:19) * 6 lines
looked it up and whaddaya know
"Friendly Persuasion" won best film at Cannes that year (1957)
4 Academy Award nominations, too (1956)
musta been worth seein'.....never saw it.
so it was the Civil War, Quaker family, I guess Anthony Perkins musta
been that boy, Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire his parents
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Response 23 of 28: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (06:28) * 6 lines
yup, you're right...
seen it couple of times, it's a good film
from today's perspective, a little surprising
that it won at cannes... from what i remember
it was a pretty mainstream hollywood film...
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Response 24 of 28: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (13:07) * 4 lines
Yes, Charlotte, You have the right movie.
I'm going to have to see if I can find, "Friendly Persuasion", on video. Sounds
good.
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Response 25 of 28: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (17:16) * 1 lines
it's no SHANE, but it's damn good!
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Response 26 of 28: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (18:00) * 2 lines
I will definitely have to find it then. Hollywood Video has a good selection of
old movies. I'll check there.
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Response 27 of 28: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Sun, Feb 15, 2004 (06:37) * 9 lines
The movie that defined the Gangster Opera: The Godfather.
The movie that defined the "cool gangster" movie: Reservoir Dogs, although more Americans first saw the "cool gangsters" in Pulp Fiction.
The movie that legitimized the horror movie: Psycho.
The movie that brought the cheap, gory horror movie to the big time: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the first one). I don't think Ed Wood was alive to see this, but he would probably died of envy if he had...
The movie that revolutionized car chase scenes: Bullitt. There were better chase scenes in the earlier It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World but these were not taken seriously (as one would expect...).
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Response 28 of 28: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Sun, Feb 15, 2004 (06:46) * 1 lines
The movie that defined the '70's car chase movie: Gone In 60 Seconds, written, produced, directed and starred by H. R. Halicki (sp?). This created the genre from which came Vanishing Point, Death Race 2000, Firebird 2015, Smokey and the Bandit, The Cannonball Run, and many others.
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