Milius also researched Rosita Forbes's biography of Raisuli, The Sultan of the Mountains ( 1924 ); much of the film's dialogue is appropriated almost word-for-word from Forbes's book.

For the deserts of Morocco, Milius used many locations in the Almeria region, some of which had been previously used in historical epics such as Lawrence of Arabia and El Cid, as well as several Spaghetti Westerns, though he claims to have discovered the beach where Raisuli rescues the Perdicaris family after their escape.

Milius ' inspiration had come from reading an article by Barbara W. Tuchman about the Perdicaris incident in American Heritage magazine, and he found the story fascinating ; he decided to adapt it into a screenplay once he figured how to make the story more cinematic — by making Ion Perdicaris a woman, Eden Pedecaris.

Milius said he wrote the part of Eden with Julie Christie in mind, although she may not have actually been approached for the role.

Walter was based, in part, on screenwriter John Milius.

According to John Milius, virtually all of the film's stunts were performed by Terry Leonard, who also has a minor part as Roosevelt's boxing opponent early in the film.

There all three encountered, and became friends with fellow students such as George Lucas, Hal Barwood, Robert Dalva, Willard Huyck, Don Glut and John Milius ; all of them would go on to be successful filmmakers.

Pope Avilius of Alexandria ( Abilius in the West ), also known as Sabellius, Milius or Melyos served as the third Patriarch of Alexandria ( head of the church that became the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Greek Church of Alexandria ) between 83 and 95.

His influence can be traced in the works of many directors, including Robert Altman, Ron Howard, Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, John Lasseter, David Lynch, John Milius, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone and François Truffaut

John Milius, a noted film director and screenwriter, as well as a Gracie student, agreed to be the ewith a height and weight disadvantage.

According to scriptwriter John Milius, this drain cleaner scene was never meant to be filmed, but was only mentioned in his original script.

The advance teaser trailer for 1941, directed by the film's executive producer / co-story writer John Milius, featured a voice-over by Aykroyd as Belushi lands his plane and gives the audience a pep-talk to join the armed forces, else they will find one morning that " the street signs will be written in Japanese!

Dave Kehr, writing for the Chicago Reader, was not as dismissive of the film, writing, " John Milius's paean to the art and discipline of hot dog surfing is marred by pushy philosophizing and a fair number of overripe lines, but its sincerity is deep and seductive ... Milius can be faulted for reviving a number of ostensibly dead macho myths, but in the context of the subculture his film deftly re-creates, they take on the aura of eternal values.

According to Milius, his script did not contain any of the action sequences ( the car chase scene and duel on the aircraft carriers ) at the end of the film.

According to Milius ( on the DVD commentary ), the US Marine Corps actually shows this scene to its advanced infantry classes for midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.

The following month Captain Milius from the Baudin expedition French ship Le Naturaliste danced alone on a beach at Western Port for the natives in a much more peaceful contact.

Milius co-wrote Big Wednesday with Dennis Aaberg, and it is loosely based on their own experiences at Malibu and a short story Aaberg had published in a 1974 Surfer Magazine entitled " No Pants Mance.

The staff at Variety wrote, " A rubber stamp wouldn't do for John Milius.

Jeronimas Milius performing " Nomads in the Night " at Belgrade ( Eurovision Song Contest 2008 | 2008 )

* 1973: Dillinger, directed and written by John Milius with Warren Oates in the title role, presents the gang in a much more sympathetic light, in keeping with the anti-hero theme popular in films after Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 ).

Red Dawn is a 1984 American war film directed by John Milius and co-written by Milius and Kevin Reynolds.

The script for Red Dawn was written by John Milius and Kevin Reynolds from a story by Reynolds.

* Homefront, a video game also written by John Milius, is about a North Korean invasion of America.

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Commentary is also provided by film experts and historians such as John Carpenter, John Milius, Alex Cox, film historian and Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling, Dr. Sheldon Hall, as well as actors Claudia Cardinale and Gabriele Ferzetti, and director Bernardo Bertolucci, a co-writer of the film.

John Milius wrote a draft dated 23 September 1970 inspired by Akira Kurosawa's studies in lone-gun detectives.

Milius has also mentioned being influenced by a friend of his, a Long Beach police officer who dealt with criminals in a rather summary fashion.

Screenwriter John Milius ' contribution was also worked in by writing a draft of the film inspired by Akira Kurosawa's studies in lone-gun detectives, while director Siegel tackled the material from the viewpoint of bigotry.

The town and region were also used by David Lean in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), John Milius in The Wind and the Lion ( 1975 ), and others.

The screenplay was written by John Milius ( who provided an uncredited rewrite for the original film ) and Michael Cimino.

Milius thought it was important to remind the audiences of the original film by incorporating the line " Do ya feel lucky?

With Milius committed to filming Dillinger, Michael Cimino was later hired to revise the script, overseen by Ted Post, who was to direct.

John Milius acted as executive producer on the following year's Hardcore ( again written by Schrader ), which showed autobiographical parallels in the depicted Calvinist milieu of Grand Rapids, and the character of George C. Scott which was written after Schrader's father.

After being introduced to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu by his friend writer / director John Milius, O ' Neill has trained in the martial art for 22 years under the mentoring of Rorion Gracie.

The game's story was written by John Milius, the writer of Apocalypse Now.

* Rough Riders ( 1997 ), sung by Elan Oberon, the wife of director John Milius, accompanied by a military band, to the Rough Riders as they depart San Antonio, Texas by rail on their way to Tampa Bay, Florida.

Colonel Kilgore, a fictional character played by Robert Duvall in the Francis Ford Coppola movie Apocalypse Now written by John Milius.

It was written and directed by John Milius and starred Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith and John Huston.

His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

Additional filmmakers who have noted Peckinpah's influence have included Paul Schrader, Walter Hill, Nicolas Winding Refn, John Milius, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Mann, Takeshi Kitano and Park Chan-wook.

The Coens met filmmaker John Milius when they were in Los Angeles making Barton Fink and incorporated his love of guns and the military into the character of Walter.

John Milius, David Yates, Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, Stanley Kubrick, and Sydney Pollack also claimed influence from Lean's films.

* Las Vegas stood in for the fictional Calumet, Colorado in John Milius ' 1984 film Red Dawn.

Art Davie proposed to Rorion Gracie and John Milius an eight-man single-elimination tournament with a title of War of the Worlds.

Contracts with actress and director Barbra Streisand, actors James Caan, Jane Fonda, Peter Sellers, and Burt Reynolds, directors Francis Ford Coppola and Blake Edwards, writer John Milius, singer Peter Frampton, and producer Ray Stark quickly followed.

Both John Milius and John Huston each attempted to adapt the novel into a feature film before Suzanne De Passe and McMurtry decided to adapt the novel as a mini-series.

Arleigh Burke class destroyers so equipped include the USS Wilbur, USS Stout, USS John S. McCain, USS Russell, USS Paul Hamilton, USS Ramage, USS Fitzgerald, USS Stethem, USS Benfold, USS Milius, USS Decatur, USS O ' Kane.

" Milius approved of the naming: " I was deeply flattered and honored.

Along with other film students such as Walter Murch, John Milius, and Howard Kazanjian, the group, known as The Dirty Dozen, went on to degrees of success in the film industry.

According to Milius, his friend " rarely brought people back " but was, contrastingly, extremely gentle with animals.

Terrence Malick wrote a draft of the film dated November 1970 ( John Milius and Harry Julian Fink are also named as co-writers ) in which the shooter ( also named Travis ) was a vigilante who killed wealthy criminals who had escaped justice.