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The film's directors, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, chose Nielsen for the role based on his ability to play " a fish in water ", stating that " You could have cast funny people and done it with everybody winking, goofing off, and silly ... we wanted people to be oblivious to the comedy.
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Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.
Cahiers du Cinema authors also championed the work of directors Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Kenji Mizoguchi, Max Ophüls, and Jean Cocteau, by centering their critical evaluations on a film's mise en scène.
Though directors wield a great deal of power, they are ultimately subordinate to the film's Producer or Producers.
One of the few critics to praise the film was Roger Ebert, and in fact, the film's reputation has grown in recent years, with many noting its uncompromising vision as well as its anticipation of the violent black comedy which became famous in the works of such directors as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.
The film's script was written by Leone and his longtime friend and collaborator Sergio Donati, from a story by Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento, both of whom went on to have significant careers as directors.
The film's directors made Letter to Jane, in which the two spent nearly an hour discussing a news photograph of Fonda.
The film was strongly influenced by the French New Wave directors, both in its rapid shifts of tone, and in its choppy editing, which is particularly noticeable in the film's closing sequence.
However, the film's tremendous success did establish Vidor as one of MGM's top directors for the rest of his career.
In the film's introduction, the directors stated, " That it happened is fact.
He then reworked it into a shooting script with Slovak dialogues in cooperation with the film's designated directors Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos.
game based on the film was released by Atari, who worked closely with one of the film's directors, Patrick Gilmore.
Much of the film's visual style shares that of the Asian action cinema, and particularly Hong Kong action cinema, of John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, and the relentless pace of the second unit directors, like Vic Armstrong and Guy Hamilton, in the James Bond films.
Early drafts of the film's screenplay were written by playwright David Henry Hwang in the nineties, but the project languished in pre-production for years ( with directors like Sydney Pollack and Gillian Armstrong working on the film and eventually giving up ) before LaBute came aboard.
According to DVD commentary by the film's directors, Papantonio was added to the film later on because they felt there wasn't any " tension " in it, and they wanted another viewpoint.
From May to July 2011, The Farrelly brothers filmed The Three Stooges as the film's directors and producers.
The band Chiodos is also a tribute to the film's directors
Eastwood has noted that the graveyard set featured in the film's finale had tombstones reading " Sergio Leone " and " Don Siegel ," intended as a humorous tribute to the two directors.
Bharathiraja, one of Tamil film's famous directors, was in the audience and was searching for a heroine to star in his new film.
The film's box office success led to the creation of a Mr. Vampire franchise, with the release of four sequels directed by Ricky Lau from 1986 to 1992, and subsequent similarly themed films with different directors released between 1987 and 1991.
Charlie Jenkins, one of the film's key creative directors, was responsible for the entire " Eleanor Rigby " sequence, as well as the submarine travel from Liverpool, through London, to splashdown.
Dennis Lim, in a review for the Village Voice, observed the film's " meticulous framing and haunting use of repeated motifs " reflects the influence of Taiwanese New Wave directors Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang.
In addition to the film's " Corman University " being named for horror / sci-fi director / producer Roger Corman, several last names of the main characters are based on other horror / sci-fi directors:
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Evans had also hired Jim Bridger ’ s great-grandnephew, Bobby Bridger, to sing the film's theme song.
He abandoned most of this footage ( which included him being chased through the snow by Big Jim, instead of just around the hut as in the final cut ), retaining only the film's opening scene.
The film's theme song is " In the Sentimental Past " ( 當年情 ), performed by lead Leslie Cheung, composed and arranged by Joseph Koo and written by Wong Jim.
According to the film's conceptual designer Brian Froud, Labyrinth was first discussed between himself and director Jim Henson during a limousine ride on the way back from a special screening of their 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal.
Jim Henson approached Terry Jones to write the film's script as " his daughter Lisa had just read Erik the Viking and suggested that he try me as screen-writer.
* Jim Dale as Dr. Terminus, a scheming quack and the film's antagonist
He also did the skydiving scenes himself and the film's aerial jump instructor Jim Wallace found that the actor was a natural and took to it right away.
Jim Henrikson edited the film's music ; while Shawn Murphy mixed the score.
He also had a cameo in Johnny Dangerously as the Pope and in Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie as a wayward Hollywood talent agent who comes across Kermit the Frog singing " The Rainbow Connection " in the film's opening scene.
The director features prominently as the film's silent, expressionless protagonist in an iconic and powerfully moving performance has been compared to the work of Buster Keaton, Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Tati.
The film's script was initially written with Jim Carrey in the role of Greg and contained much more physical comedy, something that Stiller did not think would be successful with himself playing the role.
The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, who would go on to write and direct Airplane !, Top Secret!
" Trevor Johnston suggested that the film " seems to mark a point of decline in the Schwarzenegger career arc " and the anti-consumerism message largely failed, with " Jim Belushi's corrupt mall Santa with his stolen-goods warehouse ... provid the film's sole flash of dark humour.
Though Jones and Stirling were considered great golfers in their day, the big contrast between Sparks and the film's star, Jim Caviezel, who played Bobby Jones, was that Sparks was once a great player with much promise, though it was never completely fulfilled, and Caviezel had never picked up a golf club in his life.
Composer John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet contributed the film's jazz score, played by an orchestra that included bandmates Milt Jackson on vibraphone, Percy Heath on bass and Connie Kay on drums, as well as Bill Evans on piano, and Jim Hall on guitar.
The year following the film's release, Silicon Graphics released a rebadged, limited edition Crimson R4400 / VGXT called the " Jurassic Classic ", which included a special logo and featured SGI co-founder Jim Clark's signature on the drive door.
One ITC production, The Dark Crystal, is now owned by The Jim Henson Company, with theatrical distribution rights handled by Universal Pictures ( the film's original distributor ).
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David Robinson writes that the film's failure was probably due to it seeming too old-fashioned compared to many of the other films released that year, such as the French New Wave films.
The film's electronic score was composed and performed by David Newman and a soundtrack CD was subsequently released.
However, Oxford Brookes University historian David Nash says the removal of the scene represented " a form of self-censorship " and the Otto sequence " which involved a character representative of extreme forms of Zionism " was cut " in the interests of smoothing the way for the film's distribution in America.
In the film The Great Mouse Detective, the villain Ratigan attempts to kill the film's heroes, Basil of Baker Street and David Q. Dawson, with a Rube Goldberg style device.
In April 2003, Revolution Studios hired screenwriters David Elliott and Paul Lovett to pen the film's script.
Baumgarten's is the company that manufactures Plastiklips and other fastening devices ; they constructed displays made of green plastic paper clips shaped into the Star of David to assist with the film's promotion at theaters around the United States.
The film's success prompted the 1934 sequel Lady by Choice, directed by David Burton and starring Carole Lombard.
* In 1974 The Big Con author David Maurer filed a ten million dollar lawsuit claiming at least part of the film's story had been taken from his book.
William Cameron Menzies, the film's production designer, was hired by producer David O. Selznick to design every shot of the film.
Altman was introduced to the story by David Foster, one of the film's producers.
According to Disney archivist David Smith, the sequence was aired uncut on television in 1966 before the edits were made for the film's 1969 theatrical reissue.
The film's reputation improved over time, with David Denby in New York magazine calling it " the most acrid, and the best " of all New York movies because it captured, " better than any film I know the atmosphere of Times Square and big-city journalism ".
They divorced not long after the movie was completed, and Jones later married the film's producer, David O. Selznick.
For the film's 25th anniversary, filmmakers David and Scott McVeigh tracked down the participants in Pumping Iron to follow up on their lives and see how the film's success had affected them personally and professionally.
The film was produced by Ron Howard and David Wolff acted as the film's associate producer.
He worked closely with David Newman on the film's score as well.
When The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was finally completed, David Puttnam, who had originally got the film's distribution rights in the US for Columbia Pictures, had been replaced as CEO of Columbia ; coupled with Gilliam's prior quarrels with major studios over Brazil, the film saw only very limited distribution in the US, earning $ 8 million in US box office.
So strong was her box office appeal by 1939 that she was one of four finalists that year for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone with the Wind ; the film's producer, David O. Selznick, had briefly romanced Arthur in the late 1920s when they both were with Paramount Pictures.
The Omen was released following a successful $ 2. 8 million marketing campaign inspired by the one from Jaws one year prior, with two weeks of sneak previews, a novelization by screenwriter David Seltzer, and the logo with " 666 " inside the film's title as the centerpiece of the advertisement.
In his essay, David Lynch Keeps His Head, David Foster Wallace offers a behind-the-scenes look at the film's production and critical discussion of Lynch's art.
The script was primarily written by David Odell, with contributions from Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, and the film's director.
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