Dead Man's Chest, 2006. Top cast and crew for this second installment.. Bill Nighy does a great job as Davy Jones.
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Dead Man's Chest, 2006. Top cast and crew for this second installment.. Bill Nighy does a great job as Davy Jones.
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At World's End, 2007. Chow Yun-fat joins the group
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Dynasties special. Meercats. and season 2 of Dynasties.
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Just brilliant, as are all things Attenborough. It doesn't matter where they are in the food chain, they have it tough. Streaming our way through them. Cheetahs tonight.Quote:
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just watched the cheatah one. it was very good indeed.Quote:
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Ridley Scott's Bladerunner, The Final Cut, 1982. (not sure when final cut came out but maybe 2007..
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Director Sir Ridley Scott and director of photography Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous "shining eyes" effect by using a technique invented by Fritz Lang known as the "Schüfftan Process": light is bounced into the actors' and actresses' eyes off of a piece of half mirrored glass mounted at a forty-five-degree angle to the camera.
Rutger Hauer came up with many inventive ideas for his characterization, like the moment where he grabs and fondles a dove. He also improvised the now-iconic line "All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain". He later chose "All those moments" as the title of his autobiography.
Philip K. Dick personally approved of Rutger Hauer, describing him as, "the perfect Batty-cold, Aryan, flawless".
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 1989.
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worth wtching for Joan Severance alone :D
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Shaun Of The Dead, 2004.
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Quentin Tarantino dubbed this as one of the top twenty movies made since 1992. It cost £4 million to make, and grossed £30 million worldwide.
Roxanne, 1987. Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.
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Steve did his own stunts, some were fairly impressive.
This story has made it yet again to film, this time "Cyrano", starring Hayley Bennett and the wonderful Peter Dinklage. I haven't seen it yet, but I will at some point, even though it appears to be a musical.Quote:
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yes the dvd is available for that. this is only one i haveQuote:
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In what way does 'The Final Cut' differ from the 'Director's Cut'?Quote:
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This explains it Barry.Quote:
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Although Ridley Scott was consulted with the creation of the Director's Cut, 2007 is when he released the "Final Cut" of Blade Runner. This attempt was initially stalled due to legal troubles between Scott and WB, but those issues were solved in 2006 and allowed the director to finish his work with complete artistic freedom. As indicated by the title of this new cut, the Final Cut of Blade Runner is nearly a collection of the various edits of the film, which was also improved by remastering the visuals and sounds.Quote:
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The changes made to the theatrical cut for the Director's Cut were maintained, but Scott added more elements from the various versions of the film. For starters, he reinserted the more violent scenes that were featured in the international version. The Final Cut also includes the full unicorn dream sequence, which was trimmed down for the Director's Cut. Scott even filmed new scenes and recorded additional dialogue to complete the changes he felt were necessary. The Final Cut of Blade Runner is what Ridley Scott considers to be the definitive version of the film, and it only took him 25 years to release it to the public.
So, the Directors cut was WB's Idea of what they thought was his cut, and the final is his actual idea.
There is no real need for more footage of the unicorn dream sequence, as even some of it in connection with the origami model left as a 'reminder', indicates that Deckard is a (specialised?) replicant. Nor is there need for explicit shots of violence: it's obvious even in the theatre version that Tyrell has his eyes gouged out by Batty.
Although I'm in the minority here, I miss Deckard's voice-over of the theatre version.
Regardless of which version is the best, all of them bare little relation to the book.
That was the only good version. As for the sequel - just terrible. I didn't have high hopes but it really stank the place out.Quote:
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quite liked sequel personally. just shows how complex keeping everyone happy is.Quote:
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Maybe I'm too fussy but seems to me that they've stopped making good films altogether. Even that Sopranos one wasn't great and there's really no good reason why it shouldn't have been epic.Quote:
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oh, no doubt the quality we had even in this country say pre 1980(far less hollywood) was amazing. a bit like music really. i mean, films that bogart were in were not really any different treated than any others, unlike now where biggest stars get paid in 'parts of countries' rather than money as they dont have the dollaridoos:eek:;). doesn't mean they dont make good films or music, its just that there are less of them, especially for older folk who got used to quality.Quote:
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I was wondering if it might be an age thing. They don't seem to make films, music or TV for me anymore, seems to all be aimed at younger generations.Quote:
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I often watch older, low budget films and they are so good, it's all in the dialogue, the characters and the acting. They had to have that as there was no budget to do anything fancy.
Now 100 million dollars is a normal budget but they have none of those qualities that make a film great.
I mean take Warner Brothers in the 1930s and 1940s - they were churning out films made for next to nothing and they're all watchable and some are genius.
Now it's these superhero films which seem to be aimed at kindergarten age. I would have thought they were rubbish back when I was ten. Yet I know people in their 20s and 30s who go to the cinema to watch them.
I used to work with a youth who was into his films and always going on about the latest piece of crap he'd seen at the flicks that weekend. Needless to say I would take the piss so he asked me to recommend a film that I thought was better. Off the top of my head I told him to watch 'Taxi Driver.'
He comes in on the Monday walks over to me and says 'Taxi Driver! Fucking hell!' It entirely reset his calibration scale.
I do think it's an age thing, and your work colleague may have been an exception. There would be some who think quality went down the toilet when films stopped being black and white and the people stopped walking really fast, but they're probably all dead by now.
Opinions will have been extensively canvassed from young people (who make up the vast majority of film-goers), whose attention span has been set through a diet of social media and computer games, and need stuff in films to happen NOW and need it to be loud.
i'd imagine the average audience will be under 40; maybe under 35. due to woking etc they have to 'not insult anyones feelings'.. its a sad period in history where a fairly small % of pop make everyone elses life boring and at times a living hell. within reason, bring back calling a spade a shovel at very least.
I think you can still make a great film without upsetting the woke though. I mean Tarentino gets some grief but it doesn't stop him.Quote:
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It's just I recall back in the 80s and 90s there'd be at least one or two films a year that would go on to be classics. Now it's barely that many per decade.
They're always showing 'Rio Bravo' on TCM I wonder if in 70 years they will have any of this superhero stuff on heavy rotation like that? I doubt it. There's no depth to it, at best you only want to watch it once.
Dad's Army, 1971. Original crew here....
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Arthur Lowe had a clause written into his contract which stated that he would never appear without his trousers on. This is why Sgt. Wilson is leading the platoon during the platoon's changeover march (when the platoon change from civvies to uniform via their long-johns) instead of Captain Mainwaring. (Incidentally, this is also the reason why Jones gets the grenade down the trousers in the U Boat crew episode - it was originally going to be Captain Mainwaring).
The film made a number of significant changes, imposed by Columbia Pictures, such as filming outdoor scenes in Chalfont St Giles rather than Thetford. Also, the bank was now "Martins" rather than "Swallow" Bank. In addition, with the increase in budget, the set interiors and the vehicles used were completely different, and the streets of Walmington had extras walking on them. As well as this, the audience saw the Germans preparing across the Channel, rather than them simply being an unseen threat. In addition to this, the events of the platoon's formation were revised in various ways for the big screen treatment.
Private's Progress, 1956. The closing epilogue and dedication states: "To all those who got away, this film is most respectfully dedicated."
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William Hartnell made a career out of playing tough military NCOs in movies and on television. However, in real-life, he joined the Royal Armoured Corps in World War II, but was invalided out within eighteen months, due to a nervous breakdown.
The Square Peg, 1958... The 7th most popular film in the UK in 1959, and a "comeback" film for its star Norman Wisdom, whose films had been declining in popularity in the past decade.
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Norman Pitkin, a roadmender with the St Godric's Borough Council ends up i n army and then in France imitating a German geneal who he looks identical to.
Since I stopped going to our local film club, back in 2009, I have been to the cinema only three times to see: 'The Imitation Game'; 'Twelve Years a Slave', and 'Mr. Turner'.Quote:
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They still make some good films, but they are few and far between. Thank goodness for the movie channels on free to view terrestial TV.
Mr Roberts, 1955.
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When John Ford met James Cagney at the airport, the director warned that they would "tangle asses," which caught Cagney by surprise. Cagney later said: "I would have kicked his brains out. He was so goddamned mean to everybody. He was truly a nasty old man." The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, and Ford became incensed. Cagney cut short the imminent tirade, saying: "When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over. I'm ready now - are you?" Ford backed down and walked away and he and Cagney had no further conflicts on the set.
John Ford and Henry Fonda had a falling out that led to Ford's punching Fonda in the mouth. It ended their sixteen year personal friendship and eight film professional relationship, even though Ford apologized to Fonda afterward. Fonda only appeared in one more Ford film after that, "How the West Was Won," in a segment not directed by Ford.
John Ford was drinking more heavily than usual, causing him to behave erratically. Ward Bond helped direct when Ford was too inebriated.
Before shooting the scene where Pulver meets Capt. Morton (James Cagney) apparently for the first time and identifies himself and tells the captain that he's been on the ship for "14 months, sir", Cagney realized that he would have to rehearse the moment with Jack Lemmon again and again so he wouldn't burst out laughing during the actual filming. Lemmon agreed, and when the scene was filmed Cagney claimed he was just barely able to hang on with a straight face, even after all the rehearsal time.
3 Days of the Condor, 1975. Bob Redford and Faye Dunaway star.
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quote... Joubert: I don't interest myself in "why". I think more often in terms of "when", sometimes "where"; always "how much".
The place where Turner goes to pick up lunch for everyone -- The Lexington Candy Shop (1226 Lexington Avenue between 82nd and 83rd Streets) -- is still there, still looks the same, and has a steady clientele.
The film was shot in autumn but was set in winter. On the streets where the movie was being filmed, saplings had to be defoliated and leaves removed from the trees, to create the necessary wintry look. Star Robert Redford, an avid ecologist, checked on the process to insure that no damage was done to the plant life.
Not a bad little film - I think I have it on DVD somewhere.
My Fellow Americans, 1996. Directed by Peter Segal.
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Star Jack Lemmon did all of his own stunts for this movie, except for one brief horse riding scene.
At the Russell P. Kramer Presidential Library in Ohio, there is a life size cutout of President Kramer in a U.S. Naval officer's uniform. Jack Lemmon really served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In his memoirs, Garner wrote that he enjoyed working with Lemmon but felt the director "was a self appointed genius who didn't know his ass from second base and Jack and I both knew it."
The League of Gentlemen, 1960. Director Basil Dearden... remastered bluray version.
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The portrait of Hyde's wife (he comments "I regret to say the bitch is still going strong.") is a portrait of Deborah Kerr that was originally used in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).
Jack Hawkins was ill with cancer during filming. Shooting was shut down for several days. Jack Hawkins, a chain smoker, underwent cobalt treatment after filming ended for what was described as a "secondary condition of the larynx". After undergoing cobalt therapy when filming had ended Jack Hawkins cut back from smoking 60 cigarettes a day to five. However his cancer returned in 1964 while he was filming "Guns at Batasi".
The Army raid was inspired partly by a real I.R.A. raid when I.R.A. members impersonated officers and stole weapons from a barracks.
This was originally planned as a Carl Foreman production, and he may have written a version of the screenplay (there are characters named Weaver and Grogan in this movie, a trademark of Foreman's) before hiring Bryan Forbes to write the movie as a planned vehicle for Cary Grant. When Forbes presented his version, Foreman said it was not good enough to present to a star of Grant's magnitude, and the project went into suspension for a while. When Forbes formed Allied Film Makers with Michael Relph, Basil Dearden, Sir Richard Attenborough, and Jack Hawkins, they obtained the necessary rights and made the movie. It was a great critical and financial success.
The Train, 1964.
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Burt Lancaster took a day off during shooting to play golf when the production was about half completed. On the links, he stepped in a hole and re-aggravated an old knee injury. In order to compensate for the injury, John Frankenheimer had Lancaster's character shot in the leg, thus enabling him to limp through the rest of the shooting.
Burt Lancaster performs all of his own stunts in this movie. Albert Rémy also gets into the act by performing the stunt of uncoupling the engine from the painting train on a real moving train.
The budget doubled under John Frankenheimer, due to an emphasis on action and the filming of train wrecks, eventually reaching $6.7 million. United Artists felt compelled to step in and assert its completion rights, demanding that principal photography be finished in seven weeks.
John Frankenheimer said of this film, "I wanted all the realism possible. There are no tricks in this film. When trains crash together, they are real trains. There is no substitute for that kind of reality."
The engine that crashes into a derailed engine was moving at nearly sixty miles per hour. The crash was staged in the town of Acquigny, with extensive safety precautions and special insurance. Only one take was possible, and seven cameras were used.
Operation Crossbow, 1965. Directed by Michael Anderson.
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For the section of this movie where Royal Air Force Bomber Command raids the Peenemunde rocket research site, the producers used the Avro Lancaster PA474 used by the Cranfield institute of technology. PA474 was painted in 83 squadron colors in the summer of 1964 for this movie. PA474 now flies as part of the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain memorial flight.
The parachute instructor seen in the jump tower scenes was Frank Foley. He's an Irishman who was, in fact, a Parachute Instructor.
Monty Python's Life of Brian, 1979. ... Originally financed by EMI, who backed out because they considered the script blasphemous. The Pythons sued EMI and settled out of court. George Harrison, a huge Monty Python fan, thought it was the last chance to have another Python movie. He created Handmade Films, and "pawned" (his words) his home in London and his office building to raise the £4 million needed. When asked why, he said "because I want to go see it." Eric Idle joked that it was the highest price ever paid for a cinema ticket.
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Six cast members played forty characters.
In the interview section of Monty Python's Flying Circus: Live at Aspen (1998), John Cleese said that because of the massive protests against this movie from all denominations of Christianity, he would joke with Michael Palin, "We've brought them all together for the first time in two thousand years!"
Interesting that at time it was checked by locl authorites etc and banned by many; the rest allowed it as an X cert. Nowadays its a 12.. how times and attitudes have changed in only 40 years.
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Stan: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Stan: Don't you oppress me.
Reg: Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?
Throw Momma from the Train, 1987. Director, Danny Devito.
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Anne Ramsey's speech impediment was caused by operations she underwent in order to treat throat cancer. During filming, Ramsey was undergoing additional oral surgery and endured intense pain. However, according to director Danny DeVito, she never requested to be excused from work. "Momma" went on to become Ramsey's most critically-lauded performance, culminating with Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1988. In the scene which Owen and Larry save Momma Lift from falling off the train, Anne Ramsey performed the stunt herself without the use of a stunt double.
The tunnel in the film is Observatory Tunnel at Griffith Park in Los Angeles. This is the same tunnel that was seen in Back to the Future (1985) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). All three films were released within the four-year period of 1985 to 1988.
The Blue Planet. 2001. Attenborough.
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The series took almost five years to make, involving nearly 200 filming locations. The fact that most of the ocean environment remains a mystery presented the production team with many challenges. Besides witnessing some animal behaviours for the first time, the crew also observed some that were new to science. The producers were helped by marine scientists all over the world with state-of-the-art equipment.
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Deep Impact, 1998.
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After discovering the comet, one of the astronomers is killed in an automobile accident. This mirrors the real-life automobile accident death (July 18, 1997, in the Australian outback) of astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, who helped discover the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994 and was a source of inspiration for this film.
Morgan Freeman wanted his character (President Beck) to be wearing an earring. Director Mimi Leder turned him down. Later, we see the President addressing the nation from the oval office. His sleeves are rolled up, and one of Freeman's tattoos is showing. The director liked this. She felt it gave the President an everyman look.
The Mask of Zorro, 1998. Antonio Banderas stars.
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At the end, when Zorro confronts Captain Love, he pulls out his sword, and the sun glints off the blade running the full length. This was not CGI, and was suggested by Antonio Banderas. He had to tilt the sword to catch the sun without breaking eye contact with Matt Letscher. It only took three takes.
Antonio Banderas was extremely adamant about performing many of his own stunts for authenticity.
Legendary sword trainer Bob Anderson, who trained Errol Flynn, remarked that Antonio Banderas was the most gifted swordsman with whom he had worked since Flynn. Banderas had also trained with the Spanish Olympic team for four months.
In order to accomplish the effect of Elena's (Catherine Zeta-Jones') dress falling off from being sliced up by Zorro, a wire was attached to the dress to pull it off.
The Maltese Falcon, 1941. Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade played by Bogey... pure class. It was producer Henry Blanke who gave John Huston what he recalled as the single greatest piece of advice he would ever receive as a director: "Shoot each scene as if it was the most important scene in the film."
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Three of the statuettes still exist and are conservatively valued at over $1 million each. This makes them some of the most valuable film props ever made; indeed, each is now worth more than three times what the film cost to make.
At 357 pounds, 60-year-old British newcomer Sydney Greenstreet was so large that the studio had to specially manufacture his entire wardrobe for the role of Kasper Gutman. The chair in which Greenstreet sits while talking with Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in the hotel room was also specially made for him; the chairs the prop department was going to use weren't wide enough to accommodate Greenstreet's girth nor strong enough to support his weight.
A few of the principal actors became close friends during the shooting. Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Ward Bond, and Mary Astor would often join John Huston at the Lakeside Country Club for drinks, buffet supper, and good conversation, usually until midnight. Bogart always considered Lorre and Huston great pals, mostly because they met two principal criteria: they weren't boring and they could drink like fish.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939.
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After being out of circulation for many years, partly because of the 1959 Hammer remake (The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)) in Technicolor starring Peter Cushing, this film was restored and re-released to theaters in 1975 with great fanfare, to the point of having the national evening news do a story on it. The film was shown at its full 80-minute length, and newspaper and magazine articles commented on the fact that the line "Oh, Watson, the needle!", referring to Holmes' cocaine habit (and usually misquoted as "Quick, Watson, the needle!") was put back in after having been cut by the censors. As an added attraction, the studio added a rare sound film featurette which showed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes books, talking about his creation.
The Horse's Mouth, 1958. Director Ronald Neame.
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When Nosey offers Bisson a bowl of stew, Michael Gough's voice on the soundtrack says "Buzz off!" but his lips form the words "Drop dead!" Presumably the line was changed when Mike Morgan died suddenly before the movie was released.
Sir Alec Guinness felt that an educated accent for Gulley Jimson would be suited to an artist, but was not right for an eccentric. "So I tried to find a voice in which no one would be able to detect an accent of any sort, a kind of gritty, rough manner of speaking. When I found it, I felt myself free to just relax on that and say the lines as they came."
The poem Gulley Jimson (Sir Alec Guinness) quotes at the end of the movie ("For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.") is from "The Rolling English Road" by G.K. Chesterton. The poem is about how drinking and misbehavior have shaped England's national character.
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Marvellous stuff.Quote:
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I have the book waiting to be read.
The best actor ever in one of the best films ever.
To Have and Have Not, 1944. Director Howard Hawks.
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Film debut of Lauren Bacall. NOTE: The DVD sleeve notes state that she was 19 years of age at the time, while her dialogue in the film indicates that she was playing a character (Marie "Slim" Browning) who was 22.
According to Laura Wagner in her short article on Moran in "Films of the Golden Age" (Winter Issue, 2012-2013), actress Dolores Moran had a large supporting role as Madame Hellene de Bursac in the Humphrey Bogart / Lauren Bacall film To Have and Have Not (1944), but her part was downsized and Bacall's role was beefed up--this despite the fact that she was having an affair with the film's married director, Howard Hawks.
In the film's beginning, a map depicts an aircraft carrier moored in Martinique's bay. Later, Bogart's character Harry references a French carrier in the island's bay. This is all historically correct for mid- to late-1940, the film's time frame. The French navy's sole carrier, the Bearn, dropped anchor in the bay soon after the fall of France. It remained there for several years under the watchful eyes of Britain and America. The carrier was obsolete when war broke out. It never participated in a naval engagement.
The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Philip Kaufman started to direct this movie, but was replaced by Clint Eastwood on October 24, 1975, which was a controversial move that prompted the Directors' Guild of America (D.G.A.) to institute a ban on any current cast or crew member replacing the director on a movie: a rule which has ever since been titled the "Eastwood rule." According to biographer Marc Eliot, part of the acrimony between Eastwood and Kaufman was a result of both men asking female lead Sondra Locke out to dinner on the same night. Several members of the cast and crew were unhappy with Eastwood, and felt that Kaufman had done a lot of the work for which Eastwood later took credit. According to them, it was Kaufman who had chosen the locations, the costumes, and who had cast Chief Dan George, after seeing him in Little Big Man (1970).
if Eastwood's subsequent pictures as a director had been crap then that would be believable, as it is I think it's sour grapes.
I really like his style as he never tries to do anything fancy that breaks the spell. I know some actors have complained because he doesn't like to do multiple takes. If he's happy then he just moves on to the next scene, he doesn't care if the actor thinks that they 'haven't given their best.'
think eastwood would probably have done it. he was a womanizer no doubt. using his star status to get folk hired happens, as can getting folk fired.Quote:
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Kaufman had the opposite way to Eastwood in liking lots of takes as well and clint being a tightwad wouldnt be happy .. it was clint that brought him in to improve the script and then direct.