this is a little vid i put together combining Marvels army with the US Army theme
this is my first blog so i thought i'd cover what i know better than anyone in my area and thats film and the entertainment industry so this will have mostly whats relevant to the classics but it could get a little out there i apologize ahead of time if so
Friday, March 4, 2011
intro
Hello all this my first post i guess i should start by introducing myself.
I'm a some what successful high school student taking a lot of different classes relating to the arts. Up till this year i was in the band but an injury cut my career short anyways
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I'm a new comer in writing during National Novel Writing Month i wrote a novel called the Wolf Man which is still in the early stages as far as editing. Its based on the Curt Siodmak 1941 screenplay for my favorite film the Wolf Man.
When i graduate i plan to go into the very field this blog is to hopefully be about The entertainment field . Movies has always been a great passion of mine. I've seen almost all of the John Wayne movies (that have been discovered in the vault) from an early age I loved him in True Grit Rooster is probably one of my favorite characters of all time and then theres Mclintock! a classic one of the funniest films to date.
the Mud scene, stair scene and of course the finale are hilarious. I'll never forget it. The Three god fathers is another of the Duke's i love to death tho its hard to catch on tv, if you haven't seen it you should check it out some time. In harms way,stagecoach,the man who shot liberty Valence, Big Jake,Rio Bravo,the searchers,el Dorado,etc. all excellent.
Theres this one picture that sticks out in my brain but i can never think of the title starring the duke. Hes a pilot on a commercial airline and they have to make a emergency landing. Theres a boy waiting to meet his parents on the voyage and they have to throw out the luggage and i think some one shoots one of the engines but i'm not positive because i've seen a lot of airplane disaster movies One of them had Eddie Albert in it.
Next to the duke my favorite actor is Lon Chaney Jr. I've seen just about all of his movies my favorites being the Wolf Man,the indestructible man,Spider baby,Of Mice and Men, Son of Dracula, High Noon..
One thing about Chaney thats always fascinated me was his eyes. Through them he expressed so much
he could show Larry's desperation and grief in one of the most sincere ways and then he could also show humor. Whatever was going on his intense look could show so much.
Speaking of intense looks Béla Lugosi had one truly hypnotizing
glare and no i'm not meaning that as a pun because he
played Count Dracula.
He could do some intense glares he show'd great
emotion in his cameo in
the Wolf Man and in White Zombie one of his independent
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film he shared some of the same
stares as in Dracula.
Boris Karloff was one with an intense stare as well
Zita Johann once said in an interview for a documentary about the Mummy "his eyes were liketwo shattered mirrors" You see his intense emotion filled glares in all off his films in Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein they revealed so much about the monster. Which makes it one of his best. One of my personal favorites is the ape. i loved him as doctor Adrian.
he Chaney and Lugosi were not only great in the horror department they also made some
great comedy.
Karloff in the Raven with Vincent Price and Pete Lorre, Lugosi in My son the Vampire with
British actor Arther Lucan Who can forget Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein starring
Chaney, Lugosi, and Glenn Strange with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
then theres the TV show appearances they did like route 66 where Lorre Chaney and Karloff
appeared.
Another great actor i must add to the mix is Claude Rains he was a genius in his roles as well.
a great theater actor that went on to make great films.
Who'd of thought he made a poor test reel that was working against him actually helped him nail
the role for the invisible man which pretty much gave him more opportunities as an actor.
like when he starred in the Wolf Man with Chaney and when he did that short scene a night in
Casablanca. One thing about Rains performance in the invisible man i must say cracked me up
was his distinctive laughter
I think i'll end my first blog with the invisible man and a fairwell please feel free to comment i'd like to know how i did and what i could work on
this clip should fall under fair use under copy right along with everything else that is to appear on
this blog and everything is strictly for entertainment and teaching purposes
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