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Hearts of Darkness is the best making-of ever made, you baboons. Burden of Dreams comes close. Demon Lover Diary is like a nightmare, but it's essential.
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It's not a single documentary, but each one of the Extended Edition Lord of the Rings DVDs has a bunch of featurettes that add up to an insanely comprehensive look at the process of making each movie. Fellowship even has a feature where you can look at all the separate elements for the Council of Elrond scene, and this taught me a WHOLE lot about the process of how movies are shot and edited.
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Nov 24, 2011 04:37
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The Criterion set of Brazil has a fascinating documentary called "The Battle for Brazil," which gets into Gilliam's struggle to get the movie released the way he wanted it. What makes it particularly fascinating is the fact that the set also includes what's become known as the "Love Conquers All" edit of the film that was recut by the studio, and is a compelling testament to the power of editing, as well as a look at the trainwreck that could have been.
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Nov 24, 2011 04:46
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penismightier posted:Hearts of Darkness is the best making-of ever made, you baboons. Burden of Dreams comes close. I'm gonna have to watch both of these sooner or later. Burden of Dreams is gonna have to come first though considering I just saw Fitzcarraldo for the first time recently and I don't really like Apocalypse Now.
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Nov 24, 2011 05:03
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:I'm gonna have to watch both of these sooner or later. Burden of Dreams is gonna have to come first though considering I just saw Fitzcarraldo for the first time recently and I don't really like Apocalypse Now. Don't sleep on Demon Lover Diary, either.
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Nov 24, 2011 05:11
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penismightier posted:Don't sleep on Demon Lover Diary, either. I hadn't actually heard of this one. I just looked it up and it sounds right up my alley, thanks for the tip.
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Nov 24, 2011 05:16
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:I don't really like Apocalypse Now. Die.
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Nov 24, 2011 05:35
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I forgot about Document of the Dead, narrated by the lovely Susan Tyrell.
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Nov 24, 2011 05:54
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Schweinhund posted:The Shining has a behind-the-scenes documentary shot by Stanley Kubrick's daughter that is pretty good. That one was really candid. I didn't like it that much but I did find Nicholson to be funny. Camera following him into the bathroom and I recall him also pacing around earnestly chanting "I'm an axe murderer...I'm an axe murderer..." over and over trying to get into his role.
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Nov 24, 2011 07:05
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I love the shot that follows Nicholson from his little apartment, down the stairs, through a hallway, around a corner, and suddenly into the Overlook Hotel. That documentary also has a commentary by her. She shot a massive amount of footage for a making-of of Full Metal Jacket but never managed to edit it together, which sucks.
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Nov 24, 2011 07:33
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The Frighteners has a fantastic - and lengthy - documentary about the making of. It's probably better than the film.
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Nov 24, 2011 19:38
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So, me and my dad were talking about Blazing Saddles and why it's one of the funniest god drat movies ever. The general opinion is that it's brilliant parody of classic Western films that stares directly at the Hollywood film industry and the blatant racism of those times that classic Western films shy away from. I got to thinking though, are there any films it's more specifically parodying? Or just the genre? Like here's the thing: I asked my dad if he could think of any Western movies where the main protagonist is a sheriff protecting a town from bad guys, and the only one he could think of is Support Your Local Sheriff (which I've never heard of, has anyone here seen it?) which is also a comedy film. Most classic Westerns focus on an "outsider" as the protagonist, who at most, simply helps the sheriff of a town (Rio Bravo). Bart definitely qualifies as an outsider though. I suppose Blazing Saddles is mostly about poking fun at general Western film conventions, I was just wondering if there's also any references to actual films. You know, like how Airplane! takes most of its plot directly from an old film.
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Nov 24, 2011 21:03
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High Noon is about a sheriff trying to protect a town from a bunch of bad guys. e: although that's not what BS is parodying. And for references, the obvious one is the "we don't need no stinkin badges" is taken directly from Treasure of Sierra Madre.
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Nov 24, 2011 21:23
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The real reason Blazing Saddles is a classic is it has a guy punching out a horse.
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Nov 24, 2011 23:58
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Monkeyseesaw posted:The real reason Blazing Saddles is a classic is it has a guy punching out a horse. I'll see your guy punching a horse, and raise you Conan the Barbarian punching a camel.
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Nov 25, 2011 00:02
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FAT BATMAN posted:So, me and my dad were talking about Blazing Saddles and why it's one of the funniest god drat movies ever. In retrospect, there's also Once Upon A Time In The West which focuses largely on an attempted land grab by the railroad. Blazing Saddles' plot of course has Hedley Lamarr trying to run the citizens of Rock Ridge out by any means necessary (including sending armed thugs to terrorize the town, much like the early scene in OUATITW with the massacre at McBain's ranch) so he can run the railroad through where the town is. Don't know if that was an intentional reference on Brooks' part, though.
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Nov 25, 2011 01:52
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Madeline Kahn is parodying Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again. And the land grab plot was a staple of 1930s/40s oaters. John Wayne saved women from land grabs a hundred times before he hit it big. penismightier fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Nov 25, 2011 |
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Nov 25, 2011 02:08
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penismightier posted:Madeline Kahn is parodying Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again.
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Nov 25, 2011 02:28
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At any rate, Dietrich as gently caress.
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Nov 25, 2011 02:47
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penismightier posted:And the land grab plot was a staple of 1930s/40s oaters. John Wayne saved women from land grabs a hundred times before he hit it big. Shows how much I know about classic Westerns. Good call.
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Nov 25, 2011 04:13
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Encryptic posted:Shows how much I know about classic Westerns. Good call. Best to look at Once Upon a Time in the West as the cowboy Kill Bill. If it's in that movie, it's probably from somewhere else.
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Nov 25, 2011 05:24
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penismightier posted:Best to look at Once Upon a Time in the West as the cowboy Kill Bill. If it's in that movie, it's probably from somewhere else. But Kill Bill is the cowboy Kill Bill.
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Nov 25, 2011 05:31
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Kill Bill is a pretty pile of things Quinton Tarantino likes.
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Nov 25, 2011 05:34
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penismightier posted:Best to look at Once Upon a Time in the West as the cowboy Kill Bill. If it's in that movie, it's probably from somewhere else. Yep. I'm kicking myself for not remembering that I read the Wiki about it that has a pretty good run-down of the various references to classic Westerns like High Noon. I'd actually be game for a good thread about OUATITW since I love that movie - but I don't know enough about the genre films that came before it to really talk intelligently about that aspect.
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Nov 25, 2011 05:45
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penismightier posted:Madeline Kahn is parodying Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again. Watching this scene from Witness for the Prosecution was the first time I noticed a similarity.
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Nov 25, 2011 23:58
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Is Hugo not debuting in many theaters? I looked on Wikipedia and it says there was a wide release on the 23rd but none of my local theaters seem to have it.
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Nov 26, 2011 03:10
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computer parts posted:Is Hugo not debuting in many theaters? I looked on Wikipedia and it says there was a wide release on the 23rd but none of my local theaters seem to have it. Yeah its only opening in like 1000 theaters for whatever reason.
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Nov 26, 2011 03:39
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Huh, here I was thinking my local theater was just being lovely for some reason. I was looking up movie times earlier trying to decide if I wanted to see anything and Hugo wasn't on their website.
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Nov 26, 2011 03:49
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twistedmentat posted:Are those the stand alone ones or the double feature release? A crewmember just died on the set of G.I. JOE: Retaliation in the last couple of days. The scissorlift he was on tipped over.
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Nov 26, 2011 04:23
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A stuntman died making Gone Fishin'IMDB posted:An accident during filming killed stuntwoman Janet Wilder and injured her husband, stuntman Scott Wilder, and his father, stuntman Glenn R. Wilder. A boat was supposed to go over a ramp, fly over a mangrove hedge, land between two other boats, and stop in the water. Instead the boat slid off the side of the ramp, flipped over, and landed in a crowd of crew and extras. What a lovely movie do die making. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119214/trivia
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Nov 26, 2011 05:30
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Armyman25 posted:A stuntman died making Gone Fishin' That's such an epic fail on the part of the stunt to. It sounds like it wasn't planned very well and wasn't very safe to begin with. It the boat was able to fall of the ramp before the jump, how were they going to make sure it landed between two boats and not just on one of them? Why was there a crowd of people next to a ramp being used for a stunt? There are some accidents that happen even to professions while filming stunts, but things like this are the result of people who have no respect for how dangerous things really are.
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Nov 26, 2011 06:08
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Armyman25 posted:A stuntman died making Gone Fishin' A stuntman died making Transformers 3. Now THAT was a movie that shouldn't have cost anyone their life.
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Nov 26, 2011 06:28
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muscles like this? posted:A stuntman died making Transformers 3. Now THAT was a movie that shouldn't have cost anyone their life. A movie filled with digital and physical stunts and explosions?
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Nov 26, 2011 13:31
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I guess no matter how safe you are, there is always the chance of something happening on set that costs someone their life. I was watching this video http://cinemassacre.com/2011/11/22/top-15-movies-where-people-loving-burn-to-death/ and it made me wonder how they do shots of someone running on fire. I've seen effects specials where they talk about some kind of gel they smear on stuntmen, or fireproof suits they can wear under regular clothing, but in many cases it looks like the person is just on fire. Not to mention in early hollywood, like in the Thing From Another World, those things may not have been available.
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Nov 26, 2011 15:33
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twistedmentat posted:I was watching this video http://cinemassacre.com/2011/11/22/top-15-movies-where-people-loving-burn-to-death/ and it made me wonder how they do shots of someone running on fire. I've seen effects specials where they talk about some kind of gel they smear on stuntmen, or fireproof suits they can wear under regular clothing, but in many cases it looks like the person is just on fire. Not to mention in early hollywood, like in the Thing From Another World, those things may not have been available.
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Nov 26, 2011 17:11
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twistedmentat posted:I was watching this video http://cinemassacre.com/2011/11/22/top-15-movies-where-people-loving-burn-to-death/
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Nov 26, 2011 18:11
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Akuma posted:So what you're saying here is that you believe in the olden days before fancy gel and fireproof suits they just set people on fire. Yes that makes perfect sense. Well, remember back then, they also walked uphill in the snow while carrying 30 pounds of books...barefoot. People were hard-rear end motherfuckers then, man. A little pussy-rear end fire ain't no thang.
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Nov 26, 2011 18:14
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Encryptic posted:Well, remember back then, they also walked uphill in the snow while carrying 30 pounds of books...barefoot. People were hard-rear end motherfuckers then, man. A little pussy-rear end fire ain't no thang. They also wore onions on their belts.
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Nov 26, 2011 18:17
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twistedmentat posted:http://cinemassacre.com/2011/11/22/top-15-movies-where-people-loving-burn-to-death/ I always enjoy watching in films when guys run around on fire. One of my favourite things.
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twistedmentat posted:I guess no matter how safe you are, there is always the chance of something happening on set that costs someone their life. I just watched Machete Maidens Unleashed which is a doc about the Philippine film industry in the 70s. There is a part in there where they talk about just lighting people on fire and when they got too hot they would just jump in water.
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