Coen brothers post

for the Coen brothers unit, i was absent a few days for both fargo and no country for old men and missed out on alot of important pieces of this unit. i do belive that i was here for all of Raising Arizona. that movie wasent quite what i was expecting from the Coen brothers, i havent seen any of their other films but have herd quite a bit about fargo and no country for old men and i guess i was expecting something of that nature for this movie. but after watching that movie i noticed some special directing characteristics of the coens that i havent really experienced with other films. i dont completle remember exactly what characteristics i am talking about or how to describe them because i dont remember a whole lot about any of the movies we watched because we saw them a couple weeks ago, and then i forget about them. but these characteristics are noticeble within the other Coen brothers film.
The movie Fargo was similar to what i have herd people say about the movie. the cleary fake and over exadurated super heavy Minnesotan accents were very evident and it was very anoying, and that is why i never really wanted to watch it on my own because i didnt think i would enjoy it. but after seeing a classes time worth of the movie, i did enjoy allot of the scenes that ad allot of stuff going on and no boring parts of all dialogue.

and i seemed to really enjoy allot of the stuff i saw in no country for old men. mostly the cool ways that really creepy looking psycho killed the people he felt he needed to kill. i dont feel like digging any deeper into this post. im getting bored...the end

Altman blog post

for my post about altman i decided just to talk about how i felt about the movies we watched in class from altman. i think for the most part that "the long goodbye" was my favorite movie we watched. im not really sure why cuz i dont remember much about the plot n'stuff but i did like all the comedic aspects to it like the diologue and marlows remarks about certain people and his one liners, and also i liked his laid back personalitly which he was known for. the second movie, "the player" didnt really keep my attention. i didnt really like all of the backstage hollywood movie production part, and i think altman could have made a cooler murder mystery with a different plot. but i did like all of the nice old cars that there were in the movie. a few that were similar to my bmw! finnally, the last movie "nashvile" was a bit confusing to me. i felt like stuff was left out and they were jumping from one persons life to another and it was just a little too differnt for me. i could deal with the country music as long as the singers could sing, and if there were enough wicked banjo riff's and harmonica solos. i think thats all i have to say, for now. The End......?

Clint Video

If interested, here is a link to Clints latest appearance with David Letterman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWQBS1A0bw

Clint Eastwood Blog #2 In Webdings

for my clint eastwood movie i chose to watch unforgiven because mr. klob has a poster of it in his classroom, and because they were out of flags of our fathers and letters from iwo jima at blockbuster. in order to efficiently express my feelings and emotions for this movie i will give you a short summary of the plot...at the begining of the movie there is a opening scene of a farm house, a tree and a man digging a grave for his wife who, had passed away, all the way back in 1878 (i think). as the man is diggin in the backround words start to appear on the side of the screen, like a star wars opening "once upon a time," and it explanes that william Munny (aka Clint Eastwood), a former killing machine and the meanest dude alive, had retired from his evil ways thanks to his wife who changed him and made him stop drinking and killing. later in the movie in a small town somewhere out in... somewhere there are two hard working boys who, for reasons i wont get into, get in a fight with a severly "cut up a whore." so then the sheriff and his deputys come out to the cat house to see whats up and they decide that since they look like hard working boys all they have to do is give up a few horses and they would be on their merry way. but the other whores didnt like this so they pile their money together to put a $1000 reward on the heads of whomever "cut up that whore." So back at the munny ranch a young kid rides in on his horse hopeing to recruit will to go out and kill the guys who "C.U.T.W."(the kid had heard of the legend of mr. munny and wanted him to join up with him). at first will said no, but then shortly after decided that he could use the $ so he went and got his former partner Ned Logan (aka Morgan Freeman) to ride out and meet up with the kid to go kill the guys who "cut up that whore" because the sheriff in that town was retarded and didnt do it himself which basicly created the journy and the whole movie itself. obviously he could have been prevented what was about to come but like i said before, he is retarded. So ned, will and the kid meet up, kill one guy and feel sad that they went back to their evil was, ned leaves, gets cought by the sheriff and gets beet to death, "accidentally." so will and the kid, not knowing the sheriff killed ned, go out and get the second guy. later the whore who got slashed up gave them the $ told them about ned and then will takes his first sip of whisky since he had put down his guns when he met his wife.(this indicates the super awesomeness of what is about to come). the kid leaves and will shows up in town at the cat house where the sheriff, his dep.'s and other townfolk are gathering to go south and kill will and the kid also. now come the cool part where will shoots up the whole town...more cool gun stuff...bang bang...everyone is dead!i dont intend to spoil the movie for you, thats why i really gave a "brieff summary," but i may have saved you a hour or so of "not as exciting stuff" as is seen in the last part of the movie, which you now have to watch.all in all it was a pretty good movie. Best picture award in 1992! along with a bunch of other awards n' such. great directing, cool action, camera panning, and other fancy film characteristics and stuff related to AOFII................So Go Watch It!

Clint Eastwood Blog #2 In English

for my clint eastwood movie i chose to watch unforgiven because mr. klob has a poster of it in his classroom, and because they were out of flags of our fathers and letters from iwo jima at blockbuster. in order to efficiently express my feelings and emotions for this movie i will give you a short summary of the plot...

at the begining of the movie there is a opening scene of a farm house, a tree and a man digging a grave for his wife who, had passed away, all the way back in 1878 (i think). as the man is diggin in the backround words start to appear on the side of the screen, like a star wars opening "once upon a time," and it explanes that william Munny (aka Clint Eastwood), a former killing machine and the meanest dude alive, had retired from his evil ways thanks to his wife who changed him and made him stop drinking and killing. later in the movie in a small town somewhere out in... somewhere there are two hard working boys who, for reasons i wont get into, get in a fight with a severly "cut up a whore." so then the sheriff and his deputys come out to the cat house to see whats up and they decide that since they look like hard working boys all they have to do is give up a few horses and they would be on their merry way. but the other whores didnt like this so they pile their money together to put a $1000 reward on the heads of whomever "cut up that whore." So back at the munny ranch a young kid rides in on his horse hopeing to recruit will to go out and kill the guys who "C.U.T.W."(the kid had heard of the legend of mr. munny and wanted him to join up with him). at first will said no, but then shortly after decided that he could use the $ so he went and got his former partner Ned Logan (aka Morgan Freeman) to ride out and meet up with the kid to go kill the guys who "cut up that whore" because the sheriff in that town was retarded and didnt do it himself which basicly created the journy and the whole movie itself. obviously he could have been prevented what was about to come but like i said before, he is retarded. So ned, will and the kid meet up, kill one guy and feel sad that they went back to their evil was, ned leaves, gets cought by the sheriff and gets beet to death, "accidentally." so will and the kid, not knowing the sheriff killed ned, go out and get the second guy. later the whore who got slashed up gave them the $ told them about ned and then will takes his first sip of whisky since he had put down his guns when he met his wife.(this indicates the super awesomeness of what is about to come). the kid leaves and will shows up in town at the cat house where the sheriff, his dep.'s and other townfolk are gathering to go south and kill will and the kid also. now come the cool part where will shoots up the whole town...more cool gun stuff...bang bang...everyone is dead!

i dont intend to spoil the movie for you, thats why i really gave a "brieff summary," but i may have saved you a hour or so of "not as exciting stuff" as is seen in the last part of the movie, which you now have to watch.

all in all it was a pretty good movie. Best picture award in 1992! along with a bunch of other awards n' such. great directing, cool action, camera panning, and other fancy film characteristics and stuff related to AOFII................So Go Watch It!

i dont know what to write about.

im bored. i am also late with this blog. i have not seen any movies for a long time. that is why i dont really have any film stuff to write about. but i do think that our group will have the bestest video in the art o' film class, EVER!.....so, yeah...........well im just about out of time for blogging this period. ive spent too much time surfing craigslist, so i will have to come up with some more ideas in 4th hour and have to get back to writting the rest of my blog some other time.


this past weekend i watched a documentary on the history channel about 42 different atemps to kill Adolph Hitler and that was very interesting to me. durring the show called, "42 ways to kill Hitler" or something simmilar to that, they would play a movie trailer about a new movie called Valkyrie, which is directly related to either the 40th, 41st, or 42nd plot of killing hitler. what i found out about this little segment in the documentary is that one of hitlers close officers plots to kill hitler at a heavily guarded german base from the inside. he (the German officer guy)(or tom cuise in the movie....i think) manages to get some plastic explosives into his room and rigged them to blow in a certain amount of time and he placed it in a breifcase and went into a armored breifing room with hitler and a few other high ranking officials and place the briefcase as close to hitler as he could and then he left and watched it blow up from a far.............but, it did not kill hitler. so thats bassicly all i was able to watch from the tv show and from the commercials about Valkyrie, it seems to be a very important part of the movie, with tom cuise. (he wears an eyepatch like the other german guy i was talking about. it looks realy lame and i dont really like tom cuise. i dont even know if thats how you spell his name but i dont care! but the movie looks really interesting an i want to see it when it comes out. i will let ya'll know bout what i thank a it afta i see it.)








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Lord of War

I recently viewd the film Lord of War directed by Andrew Niccol and I loved it! I finnaly know what I want to do when I grow up. This movie has alot to teach about the hostile environment of the rest of the world and the conflicts involved with trying to live a normal life as a World Wide Arms Dealer. If you are interested in seeing this movie, then i would not recomend reading the folloving paragraph. i chose to put it in to add a little legnth to my blogpost and to make me look like a great writter, which i already am. And also to give you more information about this movie.
The movie begins with Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) standing in a sea of spent shell casings. The rest of the movie is told in flashback, starting in 1982 and ending in the completion of the opening scene. The opening credits sequence shows a 7.62x39mm round being produced and going through various stages before getting fired from an AK-47 and travelling through the head of a child soldier during a war in Africa. The song played in the background of the opening credits sequence is "For What It's Worth" performed by Buffalo Springfield. Through voiceover, Orlov describes how he first became an arms dealer. Yuri and his family came to United States from Soviet Ukraine when he was a young boy. His family pretends to be Jewish for favorable immigration conditions to escape the Soviets. His family owns a restaurant, which Yuri sees as providing a necessity as people have to eat. After Yuri sees a Ukrainian Mafia boss kill two would-be assassins, he decides to provide another necessity: guns. He begins his career by selling Uzis. Yuri partners up with his brother Vitaly (Jared Leto). Before beginning his career, he approaches Simeon Weisz (Ian Holm), a seasoned arms dealer, at an arms convention in Berlin with a business proposal. Weisz turns him down, dismissing Yuri as an amateur. Yuri gets his first break selling M-16s after the 1982 Lebanon War and becomes "an equal opportunity merchant of death", selling guns to all sides. Yuri develops multiple identities (complete with appropriate paperwork and ID cards) and stores his records and paperwork in a metal security container. As he grows, Yuri (through voiceover) tells of his first incident with Jack Valentine (Ethan Hawke), an Interpol agent who cannot be bought with money. Their first encounter is when Yuri is on the ship Kristol smuggling a shipment of weapons. When he learns that Valentine is after him, he changes the boat's name to Kono, and his first interaction plays out smoothly in Yuri's favor. During a business deal with a Colombian drug lord, Yuri is paid in cocaine instead of cash. He argues, but eventually accepts the payment after being shot. Vitaly and he both get high on cocaine, but Vitaly becomes addicted, and Yuri checks him into a rehabilitation center. From that point onward, he conducts his arms business alone. Shortly afterwards, he begins to court Ava Fontaine (Bridget Moynahan), a model. He books a photo shoot and the entire hotel so that they have the whole area to themselves. After impressing her, they marry, and later have a child named Nikolai. On the day that Nikolai begins to walk, the Soviet Union dissolves. Yuri rushes to Ukraine after watching Gorbachev's Christmas Day 1991 resignation speech on television. He contacts his uncle, Dmitri, a general of the former Soviet Army, and begins buying his tanks and AK-47s to expand his inventory, explaining in detail how the AK-47 is the most reliable assault rifle in the world. Weisz comes back and attempts to deal with both Yuri and Dimitri, but is rejected by both. Valentine attempts to stop Yuri again as he tries to ship off a Mil Mi-24; fortunately, a young Soviet Army mechanic is able to remove the weapons and because of a loophole in international law that does not classify either of them as weapons of war as long as they are shipped separately, Valentine is forced to let him go. Shortly afterwards, Weisz sets up a car bomb, and Dimitri is assassinated. Yuri moves on to selling arms to the West African dictator of Liberia, André Baptiste (Eamonn Walker), who pays in blood diamonds. After digging through his garbage, Valentine learns that Yuri will be making a cargo run to Sierra Leone. Valentine has fighter planes successfully intercept the plane in flight, but Yuri makes an emergency landing on a dirt road, and gives away all the guns to local villagers before Valentine can arrive and detain him. Valentine handcuffs and detains Yuri for 24 hours before being forced to release him. Yuri makes his way back to Monrovia, where Baptiste invites him to kill the captured Weisz, who simply states he came to Liberia to sell weapons to Baptiste's enemies. Yuri is reluctant, but does not tell Baptiste to stop pulling the trigger until he has done so and killed Weisz. Weisz later appears in a drug-induced hallucination and tells Yuri once again to "take sides". Valentine keeps Yuri under surveillance, and one day he reveals to his wife Ava that Yuri is a major weapons dealer. Ava pleads with Yuri to stop, and he does, instead choosing to exploit the resources of the third world nations. However, he dislikes the business, complaining that the profit margins are low and that there is too much competition compared to illegal arms. Yuri reenters the arms market when Baptiste approaches him. He is reluctant, but goes when Baptiste tells him that he will pay more than the usual rate. Yuri decides to bring Vitaly along because he is nervous about the current climate of Liberia; however, they later learn that the sale is actually taking place in Sierra Leone. During the transaction, however, Vitaly witnesses a group of villagers beating a mother and her child to death, and tells Yuri the entire village will be massacred if the deal comes through. He pleads with Yuri to stop the transaction, but Yuri says it's not their conflict. Vitaly responds by taking a grenade and blowing up a truck with half of the guns. A guard watching the transaction shoots Vitaly to death. Yuri still accepts the deal and all the villagers are then slaughtered. Yuri ships his brother's body back to the United States with him. He pays someone to remove the lead from Vitaly's body, but one bullet remains and he is stopped by customs. Meanwhile, while being followed by Jack Valentine, Ava finds Yuri's security container, which is definitive proof of Yuri's arms dealing. Ava takes their son and leaves him. When Yuri calls his parents, his mother says, "Both my sons are dead." Valentine detains Yuri and tells him that he has a long jail sentence ahead of him. However, Yuri reveals to Valentine that the very reasons that Yuri should be incarcerated for are also the same reasons that he'll walk free; his existence is a "necessary evil", as the people he supplies are often "the enemies of your enemies" (enemies of the U.S.) He goes on saying that sometimes the U.S. Government needs a "freelancer" like himself to supply those that they'd rather not be seen supplying. Yuri then predicts that a high-ranking officer will come, congratulate Valentine, and then order him to free Yuri because of his necessity. Surely enough, a high-ranking officer does indeed come, and Yuri is released. A free man again, he returns to selling arms. The movie ends by proclaiming on-screen that it is "based on actual events," and that while private arms dealing around the world flourishes, the U.S., the UK, France, Russia and China (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council) are the world's leading arms suppliers.
And that concludes my blog on this really cool movie Lord of War.








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