10 Thrilling Movies Based On True-Life Survival Stories In the last century, Hollywood has pumped out a number of amazing and captivating survival stories, and while many of the fictional ones are incredibly impressive, it’s the ones that are based on a true story that carry an extra spark. In the imagination, one can think of a person surviving through just about everything anything, but it means a lot more when you watch someone go through ungodly trials and then find out those events happened to a real individual. In the past few weeks, audiences have been going in droves to see one such film - Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant - so we figured that we’d take a moment to reflect on some of the great true story-inspired survival stories that have been adapted for the cinematic experience. Did your favorite make the cut? Read on to find out! The Revenant Let’s start off with the film that inspired this list, shall we? Alejandro G.
He Didn't Reveal A Truth About Himself Until He Was Almost 70. Then His Career Really Took Off. George Takei: I'm George Takei, and this is how I got better. Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7th, 1941 and that changed the world for all Americans, but for Japanese Americans, it was a devastating change. I'd just turned five years old, and my brother and I were in the living room, looking out the front window. We saw two soldiers come, marching up our drive way and we were ordered out of our home. And we stood out on the drive way, waiting for my mother to come out. I will never forget that morning, how terrorizing that was and we were put on trains and transported two thirds of the way across the country to the swamps of Arkansas. I was eight when we were released and our first home was on Skid Road. I think I was about nine or ten, the boys around me were saying things like, "Sally is cute or Monica is hot." You think, is this going to be my life, pretending that I'm something that I'm not? Right off of Hollywood Boulevard, there is a big international newsstand. Brad: Yeah...
The 18 Best Philosophical Movies of All Time Whether realizing the art form of filmmaking or not, directors and writers often use their preferred visual medium to tell a story. Ideologies, theories or whatever form of message is always decoded in this visual medium in hopes that the audience gets the message. The secret of making a successful film, especially when telling a story, is to avoid preaching. From Mel Gibson to Seth Macfarlene, Federico Fellini to Ridley Scott and of course Hitchcock, their movies have messages, from symbolist storytelling to clever subtext dialogues. Here’s a list of some of the movies that have philosophical messages encoded for the audience. 1. Hitchcock, the master of suspense, toys with his audience, repels and lures them to a world of shock. Starring in this underrated classic are James Stewart, Farley Granger and John Dall. This is an anti-existentialist movie, and James Stewart discovers to his horror that, following existentialism principles, two of his students have killed their classmate. 2.
Featured Document: The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation ProclamationJanuary 1, 1863 A Transcription By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St.
Netflix UK best movies list I watch therefore I am: seven movies that teach us key philosophy lessons | Film How can we do the right thing?Force Majeure If you had lived in Germany in 1939, would you have helped protect Jews or gone along with their systematic extermination? If you had been an MP 10 years ago, would you have milked your expenses for what they were worth? We all like to think that in such situations our basic decency would shine through, but we can never know. In the aftermath, several characters try to excuse him. Aristotle’s insight was that we rarely have the time or opportunity to sit down and think about what the best thing to do is before acting. We can pretend that Tomas just had a moment of madness where his primal survival instinct took over, but his wife, Ebba, knows better, and so do we. Force Majeure tells us what Aristotle knew: unpredictable events happen, random “acts of God” for which no one is responsible. Julian Baggini’s Freedom Regained, is published by Granta, £14.99. What makes a life worth living? Can anything really be justified? “And then?”
The 50 best movies of all time By Ben Taylor, Graphiq Posted: 05/20/2016 06:06:51 AM PDT | Updated: a day ago Ask 100 people to name their top five movies, and you'll get 100 different answers. That's the beauty of cinema: it's an art form that impacts each viewer uniquely. Combine all those individual opinions into a single list, however, and you'll likely wind up with a ranking much like the one below. At PrettyFamous, an entertainment site from Graphiq, we set out to determine a consensus ranking of best movies. 1. *We also included a slight adjustment for inflation-adjusted box office gross. Using these figures, we calculated a single score out of 100 for every film in our database, normalized such that the top film received a perfect 100/100. Notes: Films without a Metacritic Metascore were not penalized. Classics in the Top 10, Modern Films After Classic, influential films dominate the top 10. Outside the top 10, however, films from the '90s and '00s dominate the list. Pixar's Dominance Scorsese, Jackson, Spielberg
Best Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix Director: John Carpenter Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Kurt Russell Cast: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Georges Corraface, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Valeria Golino, Pam Grier, A.J. Where Escape from New York was a precisely cut, stylish science fiction classic – politically subversive, serious-minded in its conception, and vibrantly inventive in its imagery – Escape from L.A. seems more purposefully cheeky and cheap.
‘Star Trek’: Best Movies and TV Shows, Ranked | IndieWire Beyond the 19 films and TV shows that make up official on-screen “Star Trek” canon, there are quite a few more efforts that could, philosophically, be a part of this list. There’s the rich legacy of officially licensed novels and comic books that brought the characters to life in print form. There’s the technology invented by production designers that eventually became real-life wizardry. There’s the 1999 film “Galaxy Quest” — technically a parody, but spiritually one of the best “Star Trek” movies ever made. READ MORE: ‘Star Trek’ Wants to Regulate Fan Culture, But It’s Not Going to Be Easy There are the vibrant fan communities that, even during the franchise’s many dormant periods, ensured that “Star Trek” would never actually die. Thus, we seek balance. Hopefully, Kirk and Spock (in all of their many iterations) would approve. 19. 18. “Enterprise” tried. 17. Leaving aside J.J. READ MORE: ‘Star Trek’: Rod Roddenberry’s 5 Favorite Episodes of All Time 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7.
Best and Worst Best Pictures << Rotten Tomatoes – Movie and TV News Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents a golden statue to the film representing cinema’s best. And every year, Rotten Tomatoes revisits every Best Picture winner of Oscars past — from the classics (Casablanca) to the dubious selections (The Greatest Show on Earth) — sorting them by the strict and rigorous standards of Tomatometer science. How does this year’s winner, Moonlight, stack up against the competition? How many of the Best Picture winners have you seen? Adjusted Score: 37.777% Critics Consensus: The Broadway Melody is interesting as an example of an early Hollywood musical, but otherwise, it's essentially bereft of appeal for modern audiences. Synopsis: This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a... Adjusted Score: 48.709% Synopsis: Cecil B. Adjusted Score: 54.714% Adjusted Score: 59.049% Adjusted Score: 62.426% Adjusted Score: 69.177% Adjusted Score: 77.677% Adjusted Score: 77.872%