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5 things you didn't know about Samuel L. Jackson His nicknames are Sam, King of Cool, Mr Cool. His father lived away from the family and later died from alcoholism. Jackson had only met his father twice during his life. He played the French horn and trumpet in the school orchestra. Often plays very wise and intelligent characters with great capacities for violence. Was an admitted drug user until he completed drug rehab two weeks before playing a drug addict in Fiebre salvaje (1991).

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The concept of A Clockwork Orange

Can we be manipulated by sympathy, political correctness, or even our own values? In our current day, one of the most important questions that we have to ask ourselves deals with the ways in which we are manipulated. Of course advertisements and commercials attempt to influence and change our opinions on a daily basis, but when we talk about truly being manipulated, so much that our entire way of life can change, it is possible? We can be motivated by many things in life, sympathy can inspire us to help a stranger, political correctness can motivate us to hold our tongues when someone says something we do not agree with, and even our own values can sometimes stop us from doing the things that we might, if we were not to think. While all of these things can motivate us or perhaps inspire a singular action, it is also possible that we can easily become manipulated by these elements in our life. Often we do not fully anticipate the long reaching effects of our actions, what we may do out of sympathy one day can have entirely different effects the next. Even in A Clockwork Orange, Alex initially gains entrance to several homes by manipulating their sense of sympathy or good will. It is surprisingly easy to fall prey to the manipulations that can come even from within ourselves. We must remember the words of Stephen Jay Gould, "When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."

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The Dark Side Of Oz There are a striking number of coincidences between events in the movie and musical cues (and lyrics) on the 1973 Pink Floyd album, "Dark Side of the Moon". It is highly improbable that the band had a print of the movie with them at Abbey Road, and few attempt to claim it to have been deliberate (David Gilmour dismisses it as nonsense), but the coincidences are remarkable nonetheless. If you begin the album on the third roar of the MGM lion (using the NTSC version of the movie, not the 25 fps PAL version which runs a little over 4% faster) the coincidences include (but are not limited to): The line "balanced on the biggest wave" comes as Dorothy balances on the fence. The song "On the Run" starts as Dorothy falls off the fence. "The Great Gig in the Sky" begins when the tornado first appears. The song "Us and Them" is played when Dorothy meets the Wicked Witch of the West. The line "black and blue" is repeated when they are talking to one another (Dorothy in her blue outfit, the Wicked Witch in black). The line "the lunatic is on the grass..." coincides with Dorothy meeting the Scarecrow. When we first see Miss Gulch on her bicycle, the song "Time" starts with its bells and alarms. Dorothy asks Professor Marvel what else he sees in his crystal ball as the line "thought I'd something more to say" comes along in the song "Time". As the Scarecrow sings "If I Only Had a Brain", Pink Floyd sing "Brain Damage". Side 1 of the original vinyl album (up to the end of "The Great Gig in the Sky") is exactly as long as the black and white portion of the film. As Dorothy listens to the Tin Man's chest, the album ends with the famous heartbeat sound effect. This phenomenon is known as "Dark Side of the Rainbow," "Dark Side of Oz," and "The Wizard of Floyd." Source: IMDB

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Where Did Stephen King got The Idea for The Shinning? Stephen King got the idea for The Shining while his family were staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. They were the last guests before it shut down for the Winter. He saw a group of nuns leaving the hotel, and it got him thinking that the place had suddenly become godless. The King family stayed in Room 217, the haunted room in the novel but Room 237 in the film.

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10 Crazy Facts You Didn't Know About Stanley Kubrick 1. He was a very skilled chess player. 2. He was born in New York but moved permanently to England disenchanted with Hollywood and after 2 failed marriages. 3. He Turned down directing a sequel to The Exorcist. 4. He loved to work under unprecedented security and privacy conditions. 5. Kubrick, suffered a fatal heart attack in his sleep on March 7th, 1999. At that time he was working on A.I. Artificial Inteligence. 6. After Kubrick's death, Spielberg revealed that the two of them were friends that frequently communicated discretely about the art of filmmaking; both had a large degree of mutual respect for each other's work. "AI" was frequently discussed; Kubrick even suggested that Spielberg should direct it as it was more his type of project. Based on this relationship, Spielberg took over as the film's director and completed the last Kubrick project. 7. His films often tell about the dark side of human nature, especially dehumanization. 8. He had a well-known fear of flying. 9. He was a big fan of American sitcoms "Seinfeld", "Roseanne" and "The Simpsons". 10. According to his daughter, Vivian Kubrick, the family name is pronounced like "Que-brick," rather than like "koo-brick".

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Popular Movie Costumes by Feredico Birchal

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Great Quotes from 12 Monkeys "There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion." "Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. Doctor's *discretion*. Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, plague of madness." "Oh, wouldn't it be great if I "was" crazy? Then the world would be okay." " I am insane. And you are my insanity." "...and if you forget one thing, I will have you shaved, sterilized, and destroyed!"

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6 Dark Films Starred by Johnny Depp Sweeney Todd Edward Scissorhands Secret Window Corpse Bride Sleepy Hollow Dark Shadows

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5 incredible references to The Beatles in Trainspotting 1. The scene where the store detectives chase Renton down the street is reminiscent of the scene in ¡Qué noche la de aquel día! where The Beatles are pursued by fans. 2. While watching the train, the four friends arrange themselves in the same manner as The Beatles did on the back of the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". 3. The scene where the four friends cross the road and enter the hotel is reminiscent of the cover of the album "Abbey Road". The scene where Renton wakes up on the couch in the morning at 4. Diane's home and says hello to someone passing through the hallway while covered with a blanket to his chin, is reminiscent of a scene in ¡Socorro! where Ringo is found in a trunk of a car covered up with a blanket, and upon being found, says hello. 5. The "Mother Superior's" written in the dealer house is a reference to the Beatles song Happiness is a Warm Gun, a song about heroin, which has the line "mother superior jump the gun".

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6 Little-Known Facts About Quentin Tarantino’s Films

1. The clocks in the pawn shop in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20.

2. The same white Honda Civic is used in Pulp Fiction by Butch, by Jackie in Jackie Brown, and shows up in the parking lot of the My Oh My Strip Club in Kill Bill: Vol. 2.

3. In Reservoir Dogs, Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) has a poster of The Silver Surfer on his apartment wall. This is an homage to one of Tarantino’s favorite films, Breathless (1983), a remake of the 1959 Jean-Luc Godard film. In the remake, Richard Gere’s character reads The Silver Surfer comics obsessively.

4. Madonna – who is the main subject of the opening dialogue in Reservoir Dogs – liked the film a lot but refuted Tarantino’s interpretation of her song, “Like a Virgin.” She gave him a copy of her Erotica album, signed “To Quentin. It’s not about dick, it’s about love.

5. In Inglorious Basterds, during the final card game at the LaLouisiane tavern, the card that Hellstrom (the Gestapo major) has to identify is King Kong. King Kong was one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite movies.

6. In Pulp Fiction, the shot of Marcellus (Ving Rhames) turning his head to see Butch (Bruce Willis) in his car is taken directly from Psycho (1960).

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I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet. TAXI DRIVER

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Quentin Tarantino's "DEATH PROOF"

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Remember those posters that said, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"? Well, that's true of every day but one - the day you die. "AMERICAN BEAUTY"

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In SNATCH The word "fuck" is said 163 times.

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5 Things you must know about "The Shinning" 1. For the scenes when we can hear Jack typing but we cannot see what he is typing, Stanley Kubrick recorded the sound of a typist actually typing the words "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". Some people argue that each key on a typewriter sounds slightly different, and Kubrick wanted to ensure authenticity, so he insisted that the actual words be typed. 2. During the making of the movie, Stanley Kubrick would occasionally call Stephen King at 3:00 a.m. and ask him questions like "Do you believe in God?" Steven Spielberg had heard this story and asked Kubrick if it was true. Kubrick denied that it happened. 3. The idea for Danny Lloyd to move his finger when he was talking as Tony was his own; he did it spontaneously during his very first audition. 4. The color red is visible, either overtly or subtly, in nearly every shot of the film. 5. Stephen King, the Author of the book on which the movie was based, was quite disappointed in the final film. While admitting that Stanley Kubrick's visuals were stunning, he said that was surface and not substance. He often described the film as "A fancy car without an engine."

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Marilyn Monroe's little Secrets Marilyn's birth name is Norma Jeane Mortenson. However, she was later baptized and changed her name to Norma Jeane Baker. She chose the pseudonym Marilyn Monroe to be her stage name, as her mother's maiden name was Monroe. 'Marilyn', however, was chosen by her agent as it sounds good when combined with Monroe... "I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now. She was reported to wash her face over 15 times a day. Marilyn Monroe had a stutter. However, it was not that severe, but it was still easily noticeable. She regularly visited vocal coaches that would help her fight with her problem. FBI was investigating Marilyn Monroe as they thought that she was a communist sympathizer. They had compiled a 34 page file of evidence that she indeed was a communist supporter. The files are open for public eyes and can be accessed online.

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3 things you should know about JUNO 1. When searching for potential parents for her baby, Juno says she's looking for someone cool "like a graphic designer." In real life, both star Ellen Page's father and Diablo Cody's ex-husband are graphic designers. 2. The original title of the film was going to be "Junebug", but was changed so it would not be confused with Amy Adams' "Junebug". 3. The whole movie was shot in 31 days.