"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."



What attracted Robin Williams to the role of John Keating more then anything else was that John Keating was the type of teacher he in his school days always wished he had.

читать дальшеThe 10th biggest grossing film of the year at the US box office, and the fifth highest overseas.
It surpassed two other blockbuster Disney releases Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Русалочка.

The movie's line "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." was voted as the #95 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).

To help his young leads bond, Peter Weir had them all room together.

The boy in the movie who says the line "The cat sat on a mat" was a St. Andrew's student at the time. He earned more than his teachers that year.

The scene where Todd cries outside in the snow was done in one take. It was originally an interior scene, but when it started to snow,
Peter Weir thought the scene might have more impact if it were done outside.
The snow was already beginning to let up so it had to be done in one take. Fortunately, Ethan Hawke managed it.

Loosely based on the experiences of private school students with Samuel Pickering, who is currently a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Peter Weir gave his young actors playing the students books that detailed what kids saw at the movies, listened to on the radio, and so on - a snapshot of life for teenagers in the 50s.

Director Peter Weir chose to shoot the film in chronological order to better capture the development of the relationships between the boys and their growing respect for Mr. Keating.

Tom Schulman would occasionally receive phone calls from his former high school friends, asking if they had been depicted as some of the school boys in the film.

Ethan Hawke's first impression of Peter Weir was that he "spoke funny". Weir was the first Australian that the young Hawke had ever met.

Liam Neeson had originally landed the leading role to be directed by Jeff Kanew, but lost it to Robin Williams when director Peter Weir came on board.

When the boys show Professor Keating his old senior yearbook picture, it is in reality Robin Williams high school senior picture when he was a student at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, north of San Francisco.

Originally, Professor Keating was supposed to die of leukemia. But the director decided to have the story focus on the boys instead.

In the very last scene, Cameron was supposed to stand on his desk as well. But Dylan Kussman vetoed the idea, because he didn't think it was in character. He was surprised when Peter Weir agreed.

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«As a motion picture, the main criticism, even among reviewers who praised the film, was the confusion created by following numerous stories. Most critics stated that it was almost impossible to follow the plot.
The audience confusion mimics the confusion of the characters, who are enmeshed in the events around them without a clear understanding of what precisely is going on.
As with Gaghan's screenplay for Traffic, Syriana uses multiple, parallel storylines, jumping from locations in Texas, Washington D.C., Switzerland, Spain, and the Middle East.
This is not a conventionally satisfying movie but a kind of illustrated journalism.»

And I'm not sure I'm that interested in this story. And I do not think that this is the best perfomance that George Clooney gave through his whole career.
I think his perfomace in "The Descendants" was much stronger and the subject of a film was much closer to the audiences than this CIA-terrorist-USA-Middle East-oil-sand story.

@темы: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Cinema

Нашла на IMDb список фильмов про юристов. Люблю я их.
Смотрю в списке актеров этого фильма столько хороших актеров. Да и режиссер Джоэл Шумахер.
5 секунд посмотрела трейлер и сразу же скачала фильм.
ВАУ! Такая история! Я почему-то думала, что фильм должен был основан на реальных событиях. Но нет.
Зато это экранизация книги очень известного автора, о которой я периодически слышу.
Фильм очень сильный.
Каждый актер на своем месте, идеальное сочетание. Браво!
Я немного замешкалась поначалу смотреть фильм из-за МакКонахи. Я не фанат.
Но здесь он мне даже очень и очень понравился, прямо поразил.



Like John Grisham's novel, the movie was very controversial, and was widely accused of condoning murder.

Donald Sutherland reportedly wanted Lucien Wilbanks to be much more of a radical drunkard.
Joel Schumacher wanted a mostly serious drama, and said it would be too much comic relief.

Matthew McConaughey was originally cast as Freddie Lee Cobb. After reading the sсript, he preferred the role of Jake Brigance.
He went to director Joel Schumacher, who granted him a private screen test.

Kevin Costner was considered for the role of Jake Brigance, but wanted complete control of the project.
Author John Grisham objected and Costner passed on the project.

Woody Harrelson wanted to play Jake Brigance, but author John Grisham objected to his casting.

@темы: BOOKS, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Kevin Spacey, Samuel L. Jackson, Cinema, Sandra Bullock

Несмотря на то, что Сталлоне мне всегда нравился, после серии этих фильмов я еще выше начала ценить его как актера, ну и кинематографиста раз уж на то пошло.

В саге о Рокки данную часть нельзя назвать хорошей. Ноя поставила фильму оценку на бал выше тех частей, которые мне не понравились.
Всё потому, что в фильме много достаточно трогательных и эмоциональных моментов, связанных с семьей Рокки.
Вот и опять сына Рокки играл Сэйдж Сталлоне, сын Сильвестора, который недавно ушел из жизни.
Но фильм сохранил вот эти драгоценные кадры отца и сына вместе, и запечатлел их навсегда.



In an interview with Jonathan Ross, Sylvester Stallone was asked to rate each of the Rocky movies out of 10. He gave this movie zero.

читать дальшеThis is the only film in the entire Rocky saga to have lost money at the box office.

Sylvester Stallone originally toyed with the idea of killing Rocky off at the end of the film.
The plan was that Rocky would die in an ambulance on its way to the hospital with Adrian by his side.
At the hospital, she would have announced to the world of his passing and his spirit would live on with a final flashback of the famous scene of him running up the steps.
However, they were ordered by the studio to change the ending, because they told him iconic characters like Rocky Balboa shouldn't die.

The only sequel in the Rocky series not directed by Sylvester Stallone.

According to director John G. Avildsen, when shooting the picture, he felt that cinematographer Steven Poster was over-lighting many of the scenes, and thus negating the realism of the piece.
He told Poster he wanted the film to look more like Rocky, which had been lit by James Crabe, oftentimes using a single spotlight to light an entire scene (such as the opening boxing match).
Poster told Avildsen that the original film "looked like a cheap documentary". Avildsen responded to this piece of criticism by smiling and saying, "Exactly".

Just as he had done with the first four films, writer Sylvester Stallone incorporated much biographical material into the plot of the film.
Stallone particularly focused on the notion of Rocky's fall from grace. In Rocky III and Rocky IV, Rocky was top of the world, unbeatable and incredibly famous and popular.
These two films had coincided with the height of Stallone's own popularity, which had waned decidedly in the years since Rocky IV.
As such, when composing the sсript for Rocky V, he decided to look at the notion of how a man can have it all, only to suddenly lose it.

The speech Mickey gives to Rocky in the flashback sequence is based on an interview with Cus D'Amato given in 1985, shortly after Mike Tyson's first professional victory.

As in all the films in the Rocky saga, most of the reporters in this movie were played by real reporters and boxing writers.

Jodi Letizia, who played street kid Marie in Rocky, was supposed to reprise her role in this film.
Her character was shown to have ended up as Rocky predicted she would: a prostitute, who had recently been made homeless.
The scene however, ended up on the cutting room floor, although Letizia can briefly be seen during the street-fight at the end of the film.
The character would be reintroduced properly in Rocky Balboa, where she would be played by Geraldine Hughes.

Michael Anthony Williams, who plays Union Cane, was a real-life boxer, just as was Tommy Morrison (who plays Tommy Gunn).
He and Morrison were to have an actual match about a month after Rocky V was released, but it had to be canceled when Williams was hurt.
The match was being hyped as "The Real Cane vs. Gunn Match".

The golden glove necklace featured so prominently in this film was first seen in Rocky III, then again throughout Rocky IV.
As a promotional gimmick, replicas of the necklace were distributed to moviegoers at the Hollywood premiere of Rocky V at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Sylvester Stallone, Cinema

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Sylvester Stallone, Couples, Cinema

Второй фильм высосан из пальца, поэтому я не ожидала много от третей и последующих частей.
Но я ПОРАЖЕНА! Фильм НЕВЕРОЯТЕН!
Здесь всё на своем месте. Фильм кардинально отличается от первой части, но в хорошем смысле этого слова.
Жизнь Рокки изменилась, но он остался всё тем же добрым и скромным малым. Характер этого боксера я думаю покорил многих людей.
Его противники в фильме демонстрируют типичное поведение отвратительных показушников.
Особенно меня тошнит от рестлинга. Это не вид спорта, а просто бред для конкретно отсталых людей.
Бокс же имеет правила, культуру, традиции, даже мораль. А всё необходимо чтобы оставаться человеком, а не животным.
Аполло был таким в первых частях. И мне, как и актеру, исполнившему его роль, очень понравилось, что в этой части его показали нормальным человеком.

And I gotta tell ya - Rocky's body here a bit slimmer, just the way I like it!

Ant the theme song is also great!


ЕПТАА! Прочитала что действия следующей части будут происходить в России, и его соперником будет переименованный в Ваньку Дольф Лунгрен.

Because Rocky's life is so different in this film from the first two films, director Sylvester Stallone wanted this film to look different from the first new so as to reflect the changes in the character's life.
Stallone felt that one of the biggest prices of fame is a loss of privacy, and the intrusion of the media into every aspect of a celebrity's life.
He felt that people get to know celebrities primarily through news and documentary footage, so he wanted the film to feel that way - as if the camera was 'secretly' filming Balboa, who had given up all rights to privacy.
This is why there is so much hand-held material in the film.

Rocky III is Carl Weathers's favorite film in the Rocky saga because he thinks Apollo Creed is humanized so well in it.

The fight sequence between Rocky and Thunderlips took 10 days to film.

Sylvester Stallone's first wife Sasha was the blonde groupie who asked for and got a kiss from Rocky during his public training session for his first fight with Clubber Lang.

Earnie Shavers was initially the favorite to land the role of Clubber Lang. According to Shavers, Sylvester Stallone called him and told him the role was his once they got a formal audition out of the way.
The audition was set up, with Shavers and Stallone sparring. As Shavers tells it, Stallone kept goading him not to hold back and to hit him with everything he had, but Shavers was reluctant to do so.
Eventually, after Stallone began to hit him, Shavers lost his temper and punched him under the ribs, doubling Stallone over.
Stallone was helped out of the ring without saying a word, and according to Shavers, he never heard from Stallone again.
Interestingly however, this story has never been corroborated by anyone involved with the film.

The montage of Rocky's celebratory appearances features a scene of him on The Muppet Show.
The footage used is actually a real episode featuring Sylvester Stallone from January 9, 1979.
For the movie, Jim Henson dubbed in Rocky's name during Kermit's introduction.
Stallone's actual appearance at the 1976 Academy Awards is also seen during the montage.

Much of the Rocky memorabilia seen in the opening montage was completely genuine memorabilia available at the time (such as Rocky T-shirts, Rocky boxing gloves and Rocky coffee mugs).

@темы: Music, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Sylvester Stallone, Cinema, Любимые фильмы

Какой большой шаг назад ... глубина потеряна.

Сначала я думала, что мне вторая часть понравится еще больше первой. Я ошибалась.
Потом я стала размышлять о том, зачем вообще эту историю превратили в франшизу? Деньги.
Я заметила, что первый фильм, снятый на такую при таком маленьком бюджете, оказался визуально даже лучше этого, явно снятого на большую сумму.
Все таки когда средства поджимают, создатели ухитряются придумать новые и интересные, порой даже случайные, но изумительные кадры. А когда деньги есть, иногда можно и расслабиться.

Вообщем, даже не знаю что они там придумают в следующих частях.



As he had done with the original, Sylvester Stallone incorporated biographical elements from his own life into Rocky's story for this film.
In particular, Stallone used as a central plot point the concept that yesterday's heroes are quickly forgotten.
In the film, this manifests itself in terms of people quickly forgetting about Rocky's exploits in the title fight.
In reality, Stallone experienced a similar sense of being quickly forgotten after his two post-Rocky movies, Paradise Alley (Stallone's directorial debut) and F.I.S.T, both underperformed at the box office.

Sylvester Stallone himself wrote the paperback novelization for this movie.
The novel is mostly in first person, from Rocky's point of view, written in the same choppy English in which Rocky speaks.
Scenes in which Rocky is not present (such as Apollo Creed consulting his associates, or Paulie alone with Adrian) are in standard third-person, in proper English.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Sylvester Stallone, Cinema

An incredibly touching american story about marriage, finding yourself ... and love. In that order.

Фильмы Джона Хьюза помимо всего прочего, знамениты тем, что отлично передают многие проблемы с которыми сталкиваешься в юности.
Это один из тех прекрасных американских фильмов с этим классическим неповторимым настроением 80-х.

@темы: Kevin Bacon, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Alec Baldwin, Cinema, John Hughes, ~La Vita e Bella~

По атмосфере казалось, будто я смотрю сиквел фильма "Мизери".
Кэти Бейтс просто великолепна!

вот эта Дженнифер Джейсон Ли мне никогда не нравилась.

А здесь она вообще какое-то бледное и проблемное пятно.

Author Stephen King wrote the character of Dolores with Kathy Bates in mind. Bates had impressed the author after meeting him on the set of Misery.

Judy Parfitt was recommended for the role of Vera by director Taylor Hackford's wife, Helen Mirren.
Parfitt, who had largely confined her career to the stage, was virtually unknown to film audiences at the time.
After auditioning with Kathy Bates, Bates reportedly turned to Hackford and gasped "Who was that?" They agreed to cast Parfitt on the spot.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Cinema

Легенды Голливуда. Разумеется, встречались.
Я нашла тут еще один их совместный фильм, снятый в конце 90х. Посмотрим. Фотографии милейшие оттуда.

@темы: Photo, Couples, Cinema, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas