Walter carlos and singing in the rain

I love Malcolm McDowell. He is still amazing.

 

Walter Carlos was born male but always felt female, and so after her success with switched on bach she underwent sexual reassignment surgery to become the woman she felt like on the inside. She did alot of the music for A clockwork orange.

Singing in the rain was an improve by Malcolm McDowell because he thought the rape scene was too boring for him, it was a joke that went down in infamy amongst movie lovers everywhere.

color and sound

Color was revolutionizing film in the late 1930s. In the Wizard of Oz the emerald city was used to show off this new technology of shooting film on three different filters to combine and create a colored screen. Color made focus shift to whole other businesses of the trade like costuming and makeup.

Sound was interesting because deison was trying for sound on his old recordings too. The first talking picture was the jazz singer. In singing in the rain it explores all of the problems with the first few sound movies. the way that the soound was not matching up with the actors mouths reminded me of the later problems with translating foreign karate films to make the mouths match up and even later, the way sound and picture still might not match up on netflix while it loads. I think having sound and imag be two different tracks is a problem because of the possible delays but it must be done to keep the layers of a film intact.
  Bruce lee film with sound and mouth delay:
http://youtu.be/X6MGtupe_zw

napoleon and a great bank robbery

In "The Great Train Robbery" the first thing to be said is that the music doesn't fit with the emotion of the movie. But as the film went the innovation of the movement techniques of the picture were interesting. The movement captured from inside the train of the scenery outside the train, whether real or an effect was still interesting for its time.The hand coloring of the smoke was interesting and i can imagine how it would captivate an audience of its time.I think the landscape shots and movement with the train were honestly the most important contribution of this film as it gave a more realistic feel for the audience.

I found in my research that napoleon was a movie vastly underrated by the people of its time. The tryptych shot it was so famous for, should have recieved much more acclaim.The filming looked beautiful, and even into modern times has it been brought up for style.

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
Napoleon Bonaparte

cool stop motion and fritz

before i write on the assigned topic here are some cool stop motion links:
one is a music video for oren lavie, it is very pleasant
http://youtu.be/2_HXUhShhmY
Another is by Her Space Holiday it also uses stop motion, though not as creatively as Oren Lavie:
http://youtu.be/-3Gyw5iBz5o

then because of felix the cat i had to link fritz. for those who have not yet exposed themselves to his wonder.It's very sexual, very symbolic and very strange.
http://youtu.be/A9qMEL-xip4

a trip to the moon

A trip to the moon is very fantastical for its time, the set changes were relatively smooth and the concept was magical, the moon face and space exploration and science fictiony-ness of it all it very lofty for the early nineteen hundreds senseabilities.
this guy on youtube made the video of this into a modern electronic kind of music video: http://youtu.be/ndQ0FKa92J8
 i really like it, i think it's a cool adaptation.
on hugo, i really didn't know anyone who owned it and wasn't sure if we had to buy it so instead i watched clips from imdb. it looks beautiful, i like the film quality of it, and the capturing of an era, but i don't know how much it would interest me. I'm not a big fan of stories about children, and if it is anything like tin tin, which i did see, it would not be my cup f tea storywise

7 pieces of great technology

Peter pan flying on stage:
interesting use of behind the scenes coordination to make the scene look fluid and realistic.
http://youtu.be/Xkg2w5ZUIPg
This was the only link i really liked from the first page of the stage door, I've never taken spanish so i have no idea where the "next" button would be if there was one, instead i went on youtube for the other 6 links i liked from broadway i hope you do not mind.
Cats body makeup:
yes we went over cats in class, but, their make up is so incredable i had to include a link for them in the technology department.Here is a time lapse video of the makeup process:
http://youtu.be/pRBedNGILvk
Defying gravity from wicked did a smooth job of lifting Elphaba from the ground while she was singing

http://youtu.be/BHOBHM935co
jesus christ superstar used technlogy to create a fantastic stage for jesus to perform dramatically
http://youtu.be/J4IrdzD6x34

lion king also was magical in set production and pushing technolgy to make the story appealing to the audience
http://youtu.be/-pgZtzDj_7o

the little mermaid on broadway is so creative in making the water and land interact watch:
http://youtu.be/LebGcVGMM9k

And finally the set transition of mary poppins on broadway was so neat! watch as the light darkens on the lower house scene and brightens to show the rooftop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeaOH3TB22c&feature=share&list=PL86F0A07CAA44F9E6



I think the little mermaid production would interest me the most because it looks the most magical and fun, there were so many challenges in presenting an under the sea tale on stage, I would greatly appreciate it.

Jazz and josephine baker

Today was fascinating in class.
Jazz was a music movement starting in the black community that was faster paced and more fitting for the free speak easy era of american history.
When i think of jazz i mostly just think of this cartoon ;

http://youtu.be/akAEIW3rmvQ

but speak easies are good old fashioned American parties, and i'm very interested in the fringe value folk of any time.
I really was hoping for more exploration into burlesque and Moulin rouge clips. The make up and costumes are so imaginative and the art so beautiful i could watch it all day.
clips that popped into my mind for burlesque:
http://youtu.be/jqay9-U0vMQ
mr.brightside by the killers
and
Moulin Rouge
http://youtu.be/msFLf9x7s6M

Also, i love the flapper girl, i love F.Scott Fitzgeralds image of the flapper girl from the great gatsby, and i think that the recklessness of that image is ideal in every woman and should be relevant in every era.

opera lessons from Hey Arnold

http://youtu.be/m7cjNYc1_t0

On Opera and Things Unsaid:
Today we were shown clips from operas and interpretations of operas in class. I know that Madame Butterfly was supposed to be the one we wrote about but it did not hit me near as hard as Aria Liebestod by Franc Roddam, so it gets my attention first. The story was of a young couple and it lures you in with a beautiful love scene then breaks your heart with a double suicide. It's so lovely, I shared it on my facebook for my friends not in this class. The opera music did add to the film but I think any genre, any decent song would have complemented the film.

Madame butterfly was gorgeous in a way beyond  where my heart is. In other words, while I understood the importance of the story, it did not reach me where i'm at in life right now.My grandmother loves Geisha stories and world war romances but the old values and roles,... i don't know i just can't get in to them and cry as easily as i could with the first clip.

The mozart movie deffinately looked worth checking out, I love that we live off clips in this class because movies are some of my bestfriends. Really. I sat in my car outside the blockbuster in my hometown and cried for an hour this summer when it finally closed. Movies express things so beautifully that can't always be said. One day I will make a list post on this blog of all the great movies you should get into, but for now you guys are going to have to just wait for the here-and-there trailers I link when I feel like they should be mentioned.

Okay so the link I am posting is to a movie trailer for a movie called Kids. I am reccomending it to provide another example of AIDS' affect on 1990's entertainment. watch it.
http://youtu.be/3mzhq-js1qs