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Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Monday, 12 August 2019
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
FILM 1988: LOVE POTION NO. 9
FILM 1988: LOVE POTION NO. 9
TRIVIA: Although the movie is called Love potion #9. The love potion used throughout most of the film is love potion #8
The film grossed $754,935 at the box office.
Friday, 19 April 2019
FILM 1978: WEST SIDE STORY
FILM 1978: WEST SIDE STORY
TRIVIA: Robert Wise's original choice to play Tony was Elvis Presley. However, Presley's manager, 'Colonel' Tom Parker refused, since Elvis would only sing in six of the twelve songs, and because he would not have exclusive rights to the soundtrack.
Jerome Robbins initially refused to work on the film unless he could direct it. Producer Walter Mirisch was nervous about handing the reins entirely over to Robbins, who had never made a film before, so he enlisted Robert Wise to direct the drama while Robbins would handle the singing and dancing sequences. Robbins developed a habit of shooting numerous takes of each scene, to the point where the film went over budget and behind schedule. This led to his firing.
Throughout the movie, Natalie Wood wears a bracelet on her left wrist, not for any aesthetic reason, but because she had injured her wrist in the scene of The Green Promise (1949) when she fell on the bridge that collapsed during the severe rainstorm, causing an unsightly bone protrusion on her wrist. She wore the bracelet to hide the injury. It became her trademark in all of her movies.
The boys' jeans were dyed, re-dyed and "distressed," using special elastic thread to allow for the severity of the choreography.
The actors in the rival gangs were instructed to play pranks on each other off the set to keep tensions high.
Gus Trikonis who played Indio, one of the Puerto Rican Sharks - and who is actually Greek - is the brother of Gina Trikonis, who played Graziella, the tough red-haired Italian girlfriend of Riff, leader of the Jets. George Chakiris is also Greek.
During the entire production, the actors wore out 200 pairs of shoes, applied more than 100lbs of make-up, split 27 pairs of pants and performed in 30 different recording sessions.
The lyrics to "America" were substantially changed for the movie. There had been complaints that the Broadway version was too belittling to Puerto Ricans, in that the song mainly ridiculed Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans. The movie lyrics emphasize the racism and discrimination that Puerto Ricans were subjected to in America.
Even though dubbing Natalie Wood was Marni Nixon's chief assignment, Nixon also did one number for Rita Moreno, which required a relatively high vocal register. Having dubbed Wood as well as Moreno, Nixon felt she deserved a cut of the movie-album royalties. Neither the movie or the record producers would bow to her demands. Leonard Bernstein broke the stalemate by volunteering a percentage of his income, a gesture of loyalty-royalty since Nixon had been a performer-colleague of his at New York Philharmonic concerts. He ceded one-quarter of one percent of his royalties to her (a generous amount).
With its win of 10 Academy Awards, this became the biggest Oscar-winning musical of all time, beating the record Gigi (1958) set three years before with its nine Oscars.
When filming "The Taunting Scene", Rita Moreno was reduced to tears when she was harassed and nearly raped by the Jets, as it brought back memories of when she was raped as a child. When she started crying, the Jets immediately stopped what they were doing and tried to comfort her, while pointing out that the audience was going to hate them for what they were doing.
Rita Moreno stated that her line reading of "Don't you touch me!" after the Jets attack Anita was her imitating Marlon Brando, her then-boyfriend. Brando even noticed at the film's premiere.
Richard Beymer later confessed in an interview that he wasn't happy with how his performance came out, saying that he wanted to play Tony as rougher and tougher, more like an actual street kid who used to run around with a gang starting fights for fun, but Robert Wise made him play Tony as the nicest guy around, which Beymer felt didn't mesh with the character's back story. He also said he had trouble saying some of his lines with a straight face, namely the more romantic lines. He even reportedly walked out on the London premiere of the film - even though it ended up being his most famous role.
In 2010, Stephen Sondheim (who wrote the lyrics) told "Fresh Air" interviewer Terry Gross that while he was writing the stage musical, he originally wanted the show to be the first one in Broadway history to use the words "fuck" and "shit" in its song lyrics. He wanted the end of the song "Gee, Officer Krupke" to be "Gee, Officer Krupke/Fuck you!" (instead of what it became, which is "Gee, Officer Krupke/Krup you!"), and he wanted the lyrics in "The Jets Song" to be "When you're a Jet/If the shit hits the fan" instead of "When you're a Jet/If the spit hits the fan". However, the show's writers were informed that if the Original Cast Album contained those profanities, it would have been illegal to ship the record across state lines. So Sondheim made the substitutions for those words that appear in both the stage show and the movie.
During the Prologue, the Jets take a basketball from two kids and play with it. Before they walk away, Riff throws it back to one of the kids. That kid is Kit Culkin, father of the Culkin brothers who were in movies of the 1990s and 2000s.
In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #41 Greatest Movie of All Time. It fell to #51 in the updated list released in 2007.
The interior sets were built six feet off the ground to allow for low-angle shooting with large 70mm cameras.
Many shots imitate the work of modern American painters of New York City, especially the work of Ben Shahn and Robert Vickrey.
Lee Theodore, who played Anybodys in the original Broadway production, served as an assistant choreographer for the film. Russ Tamblyn reports that he and most of the rest of the dancers in the film suffered from shin splints at one time or another, the result of extended dancing on pavement as opposed to a wooden stage or soundstage floor.
Natalie Wood kept in her dressing room a list of people who had gotten on her bad side. For reasons unknown, and unbeknownst to him, Richard Beymer made the list. He didn't find out until years later, when Russ Tamblyn told him, while they were working on Twin Peaks (1990).
Natalie Wood recorded all the songs she would sing in the film and was told that only some of her higher notes would be dubbed but eventually they were all dubbed by Marni Nixon.
The actors playing the Jets and the Sharks suffered shin splits from dancing on the concrete streets of New York City. Despite this, and the constant rain, they all loved filming on location, even doing "rain dances" so they could be on location longer (which they were eventually barred from doing as it seemed to work once or twice).
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
Because Natalie Wood couldn't snap her fingers, the sound of finger snaps had to be dubbed.
One of Lars von Trier's favorite movies.
One of Michael Bay's favorite movies.
Referenced in the Dire Straits song 'Romeo and Juliet' in the line "There's a place for us you know the movie song"
When writing the show, Laurents and Sondheim decided not to use any actual New York gang lingo for the Jets' dialogue, feeling that would give it a 'dated' feel. Instead they mixed a few actual terms like 'daddy-o' and 'cool' with rhythmic exclamations such as 'cracko-jacko,' 'ooblee-oo' and 'pam-pam' to create their own slang.
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Sunday, 10 February 2019
SPOTLIGHT ON: BASIC INVITE
SPOTLIGHT ON: BASIC INVITE
Today I want to share with you a great invite website called Basic Invite.
As you know I am a huge fan of stationary and it’s always great to see a website that gets it right.
The website is beautiful and so easy to use and they have some really excellent features like how they can capture your addresses from your social media – I didn’t even know this kind of thing was possible.
They can print in almost any colour, which is great especially if your wedding has a really specific shade of green, for example, and you can get a custom printed sample sent to you just to judge it against your placemats or bowtie. I love the fact that they offer foils not just in gold and silver but also in rose gold which is the kind of gold I’m really feeling right now. Take a look at their free wedding websites – I know about a hundred people who would have loved to use this feature for their wedding - not only are the templates beautifully designed but all the features, like digital RSVPs, maps and registries are exactly the things they needed.
It seems to me, and I don’t know about you, that this time of year everyone is having babies, and I wish I knew about this website when people asked me about their baby shower invites – they’ve got such a great range that they can be the inspiration for your theme too – I love the idea of a firefighter theme or a woodland or floral theme. They’ve even got specific invites for twins!
The website has really responsive design features and I think such a quick and easy way to order those thank you cards too – I especially love their sticker section – they’ve got a huge amount of designs and you could use them to close your letters for a long time to come – not just for your wedding stationary.
And the great news is: Right now Basic Invite is offering 15% off with coupon code: 15FF51
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3. GARDEN FLOWERS BABY SHOWER INVITATIONS
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This post is sponsored by a product exchange with Basic Invite but all opinions are my own.
Saturday, 9 February 2019
Saturday, 25 August 2018
DID YOU KNOW?
In 1989, the logging industry wanted The Lorax removed from school reading lists. This was the first time one of Seuss's books faced censorship.
There’s only one of these prints left with the quote: “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams" Dr. Seuss.
Thursday, 22 February 2018
TOP FIVE: DOGS
1. I WUFF YOU CARD
2. CUTE
3. LABRADOR DOG, PRINTABLE PAPERCRAFT TEMPLATE. "MAN'S BEST
FRIEND", SPECIAL DIY GIFT FOR FATHERS DAY. 2018 YEAR OF THE DOG
4. DASCHUND DOG SHAPED IPHONE 5 AND 5S PROTECTIVE CASE
5. A FRIEND IN TEA MUG IN DOGS
Friday, 2 February 2018
FILM 1744: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
FILM 1744: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
TRIVIA: Timothée Chalamet learned
to speak Italian and to play the piano for the role of Elio.
On its premiere night, Call Me By
Your Name (2017) received a ten-minute standing ovation, which was the longest
standing ovation ever at the New York Film Festival.
The entire film (including the
opening credits) was shot with a single 35mm lens.
There was only one rehearsal before
shooting. In multiple interviews, Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer said that
director Luca Guadagnino asked them one day to come outside to do a rehearsal
in the backyard of the villa. They walked to a patch of grass and flipped their
scripts to a randomly selected scene to practice. When they opened the script,
the page only read, "Elio and Oliver roll around in the grass making
out." Chalamet and Hammer looked at each other and said, "Alright,
let's go!" Just seconds into the making out scene, however, Guadagnino
stepped in and directed them to act more "passionately." So they
started making out and continued to do so, and no one told them to stop.
Eventually, the two actors stopped, looked around and realized Guadagnino had
just walked away, leaving them rolling around in the grass. This was their only
rehearsal.
Despite various sexual scenes in
the film, Armie Hammer stated in an interview that the most uncomfortable he
ever felt during filming was when he was filming the dance scenes.
In the book, Elio is 17 years old
and Oliver is 24. Timothée Chalamet was 20 years old when the film was
shot, while Armie Hammer was 29. The film is set in Italy, and the
age of consent in the country is 14.
The film is dedicated to actor Bill
Paxton, who died in February 2017. Brian Swardson, the husband of one of the
film's producers, Peter Spears, was Bill Paxton's best friend and agent. He is
also the agent for Timothée Chalamet. Paxton visited the set in Italy and
became friends with director Luca Guadagnino. Guadagnino decided to honor
Paxton by dedicating the film to him.
Based on the book "Call me by
your name" written by André Aciman, the author himself appears in the
movie as Mounir.
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
1. STAR WARS SUPER GRAPHIC
2. 23 WAYS TO THROW THE BEST STAR WARS BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER
3. STAR WARS DECALS, STAR WARS LIGHT SWITCH DECAL IMPERIAL EMPIRE &
REBEL ALLIANCE DECAL LIGHT SIDE OR DARK SIDE DECAL FOR LIGHT SWITCH
4. I LOVE YOU / I KNOW - STAR WARS INSPIRED, PRINCESS LEIA, HAN SOLO,
VALENTINES, LOVE, SILHOUETTE, 5 X 7 ART PRINTS, RETRO HOME
5. PRINCESS LEIA
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