Clerks

Clerks is a movie which was produced in 1994. It is a black-and-white movie and is directed by Kevin Smith. He does not have the lead role in the movie, and does not appear that as much, but he is know as the character Silent Bob, who hangs out with his best friend Jay, who is played by the actor Jason Mewes. Later on, Kevin Smith directed another film, focusing only on the two characters Jay and Silent Bob and it was called “Jay and Silent Bob:Strike Back”. The setting of Clerks is in a convenience store, where Kevin Smith worked in real life, and it was shot for $27,575. Upon release in theaters, the film gorssed over $3 Million, and it started Kevin Smith’s carrier as a producer. There are not that many actors in the movie, because of the low budget, so usually Smith’s friends played multiple roles.

Actors:

• Brian O’Halloran as Dante Hicks
• Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves
• Marilyn Ghigliotti as Veronica Loughran
• Lisa Spoonhauer as Caitlin Bree
• Jaosn Mewes as Jay
• Kevin Smith as Silent Bob
• Scott Moiser as Willam the Idiot Manchild / Angry hockey-playing customer / Angry mourner
• Scott Schiaffo as Chewlies gum representative
• Al Berkowitz as Old man
• Wait Flanagan as Woolen cap smoker / Egg man / Offended customer / Cat admirer
• Ed Hapstak as Sanford / Angry funeral woman
• Pattijean Csik as The Coroner
• Ken Clark as Administer of Fine / Orderly
• Ernest O’Donnell as Rick Derris
• Kimberly Loughran as Heather Jones
• Frances Cresci as Little smoking girl
• Joey Lauren Adams (The Lost Scene) as Alyssa Jones (voice)
• Gary Stern as Tabloid Reading Customer

The Godfather

The Godfather is movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1972.  It resembles The French New Wave more than New Hollywood. “The Godfather” has 32 wins and 19 nominations in total.

Awards:

• Academy Awards, USA 1973
  
• Golden Globes, USA 1973
  
• BAFTA Awards 1973
• American Cinema Editors, USA 1973
• DVD Exclusive Awards 2001
• David di Donatello Awards 1973
• Directos Guild of America, USA 1973
• Golden Screen, Germany 1973
• Grammy Awards 1973
• Kanas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1972
• Las Vegas  Film Critics Society Awards 2002
• National Board of Review, USA 1972
• National Film Preservation Board, USA 1990
• National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1973
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1973
• Online Film Critics Society Awards 2002
• Satellite Awards 2008
• Writers Guild of America, USA 1973

 

 

Cast:

	Marlon Brando	…	Don Vito Corleone
	Al Pacino	…	Michael Corleone
	James Caan	…	Sonny Corleone
	Richard S. Castellano	…	Clemenza (as Richard Castellano)
	Robert Duvall	…	Tom Hagen
	Sterling Hayden	…	Capt. McCluskey
	John Marley	…	Jack Woltz
	Richard Conte	…	Barzini
	Al Lettieri	…	Sollozzo
	Diane Keaton	…	Kay Adams
	Abe Vigoda	…	Tessio
	Talia Shire	…	Connie
	Gianni Russo	…	Carlo
	John Cazale	…	Fredo
	Rudy Bond	…	Cuneo
	Al Martino	…	Johnny Fontane
	Morgana King	…	Mama Corleone
	Lenny Montana	…	Luca Brasi
	John Martino	…	Paulie Gatto
	Salvatore Corsitto	…	Bonasera
	Richard Bright	…	Neri
	Alex Rocco	…	Moe Greene
	Tony Giorgio	…	Bruno Tattaglia
	Vito Scotti	…	Nazorine
	Tere Livrano	…	Theresa Hagen
	Victor Rendina	…	Philip Tattaglia
	Jeannie Linero	…	Lucy Mancini
	Julie Gregg	…	Sandra Corleone
	Ardell Sheridan	…	Mrs. Clemenza
	Simonetta Stefanelli	…	Apollonia – Sicilian Sequence
	Angelo Infanti	…	Fabrizio – Sicilian Sequence
	Corrado Gaipa	…	Don Tommasino – Sicilian Sequence
	Franco Citti	…	Calo – Sicilian Sequence
	Saro Urzì	…	Vitelli – Sicilian Sequence

“A Bout de Souffle” -“Breathless”

The movie “A Bout de Souffle” is directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was filmed in 1960 in Paris, France. At the time, the film attracted much attention for its bold visual style and the innovative use of jump cuts. A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. The jump cit was implanted in order to either make the film shorter, or to remind the viewers that they are watching a movie. The film is in black-and-white, but there is sound in it. The plot is about how a French guy lives his life and how he tries to run away from the police and be together with an American girl. A fully restored version of the film was released in the U.S. for the 50th anniversary of the film in May 2010. When originally released in France, the film had 2,082,760 cinema goers.

Awards:

• 1960 Prix Jean Vigo
• 1960 Berlin International Filp Festival: Silver Bear for Best Director
  

Cast: 

• Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel Poiccard
• Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini
• Daniel Boulanger as Police Inspector Vital
• Henri-Jacques Huet as Antonio Berruti
• Roger Hanin as Carl Zumbach
• Van Doude as Van Doude
• Liliane David as Lilane
• Michel Fabre as the other Inspector
• Jean-Pierre Melville as Parvulesco
• Claude Mansard as the used car salesman
• Jean-Luc Godart as an informer
• Richard Balducci as Tolmachoff
• Philippe de Broca as an extra
• Jean Domarchi as an extra
• Jean Douchet  as an extra
• Jean Herman as an extra
• Andre S. Labarthe as an extra

The Matrix

Is technology harmful or helpful ?

Depends on the circumstances. If technology is used for the purpose of war, it will be harmful for humanity. Many weapons and air-crafts were created due to technology and killed many people. It was also used to take advantage of someone, like the British did to the Africans. But, it has brought happiness to people around the world. It also has made peoples lives easier. With the creation of the rail roads, people could transport goods faster. It also led to the invention of the telephone, computer, and the internet. People can get all kinds of information faster than ever. It is like “Fast and Furious”, but even faster. So did it make peoples lives better or worst ?

Are the technology seen in the movie realistic ?

Not yet. The closest that human kind has gotten to the matrix is maybe the Oculus Rift. The ,Oculus Rift is an invention with the purpose of developing gaming experience. You can see the virtual world with your own eyes, similar to the matrix. In the future, there is a chance were people could download their consciences in the virtual world.

What technology can we expect in our life time ?

The highest possibility is maybe the matrix itself, but without converting humans into batteries for the robots.

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon is a movie directed in 1941 by John Huston. The movie is based on the novel by the same name from Dashiell Hammett. It was one of the first movies ever directed. The picture is in black and white, but you can still hear the voices of the characters. For one of the first movies ever directed it was nominated for three Academy Awards. There were other two versions of the movie, but this was the last one. Warner Bros. had been prevented by the Hays Office censors from re-releasing the 1931 version due to its “lewd” content; it was not until after 1966 that unedited copies of the 1931 film could be shown in the U.S. Though largely compliant with the Production Code, Huston’s remake did contain some innuendo: when the police implicate Spade in his partner’s murder, Spade asks Det. Polhaus, “What’s your boyfriend gettin’ at, Tom?”. During his preparation for The Maltese Falcon, first-time director John Huston planned each second of the film to the very last detail, tailoring the screenplay with instructions to himself for a shot-for-shot setup, with sketches for every scene, so filming could proceed fluently and professionally. Huston was adamant that the film keep to schedule, and that everything be methodically planned to the fullest to ensure that the film never went over budget. By providing the cast with a highly detailed script, Huston was able to let them rehearse their scenes with very little intervention.

Fred Sexton (June 3, 1907 – September 11, 1995) was an American artist and sculptor of the Maltese Falcon statuette prop for the 1941 Warner Bros. film production of “The Maltese Falcon.” During the 1930s and 1940s, Sexton was championed by Los Angeles Times Art Critic Arthur Millier, and his work was acquired by Los Angeles-area art collectors including actor \edward G.Robinson and movie director John Huston. Sexton also taught art and headed the Art Students League in Los Angeles between 1949 and 1953.

“Nosferatu”, by F.W. Murnau

Nosferatu is German horror film directed by F.W. Murnau in 1922. The movie was shot in 1921, and it was based on the novel Count Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Unfortunately the could not use Dracula, because they did not own the rights to the novel, and had to use Nosferatu, which meant Vampire ( Count Dracula meant Count Orlok ). Because the movie was a lot similar to the novel, the court ordered for all copies of the film to be destroyed. Luckily, one print of Nosferatu survived and it was made to a movie, which was one of the most popular ones in 1922.

Filming began in 1921, with most of the scenes shot in Wismar, a German town. The scenes were filmed from the Marienkirche’s tower over the Wismar marketplace with the Wasserkunst Wismar. Other filming locations were the Wassertor the Heiligen-Geist-Kirche yard and the harbour. The film was mostly in black and white color, but there were other scenes in more lighter colors like orange, which represented day time, and more darker colors like dark blue, which represented the night time. In Lubeck, the abandoned Salzspeicher served as Nosferatu’s new Wisborg house, the one of the churchyard from Aegidienkirche served as Hutters and down the Depenau coffin bearer bore coffins.

For cost reasons, cameraman Fritz Arno Wagner only had one camera available, and therefore there was only one original negative. The director followed Galeen’s screenplay carefully, following handwritten instructions on camera positioning, lighting, and related matters. Nevertheless Murnau completely rewrote 12 pages of the script, as Galeen’s text was missing from the director’s working script. This concerned the last scene of the film, in which Ellen sacrifices herself and the vampire dies in the first rays of the Sun. Murnau prepared carefully; there were sketches that were to correspond exactly to each filmed scene, and he used a metronome to control the pace of the acting.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Copyright

Advantages:
The advantages of copyright are that people can’t steal other peoples work. It would be a shame if some1 worked so hard to do something, and it got stolen by some other dude. Also that dude will get the credit for the work instead of the guy who created it. The creator can steal sew them, but he has to have proof that it’s his work. You can protect your work to prevent further conflict w/ other people. The artist Vanilla Ice got sewed because he stole a beat from a song by the band Quinn. He won in court because he changed the beat a little bit.

Disadvantages: 
“Copyright” is the right of a creator of an original artistic work to the exclusive use, benefit and republication of the work. These rights are based on equitable principles rooted in English common law and attach automatically upon publication of the work. This means that a creator has an automatic copyright in his work, whether or not he decides to register his copyright with a government agency. Registration brings significant advantages, however, that make it an essential step in protecting the creator’s rights.

Conclusion:
Copyright has brought more good than evil to this world. We

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Steve Wozniak short biography

Stephen Gary “Steve” Wozniak was born August 11, 1950, known as “Woz“, is an American inventor, computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Vayne. Wozniak single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late 1970s. These computers contributed significantly to the microcumputer revolution.

Wozniak was born in San Jose, California, the son of Margaret Elaine (Kern) and Jacob Francis “Jerry” Wozniak born in Poznań Poland. He is of Polish ancestry on his father’s side, and of German, Northern Irish, and English descent on his mother’s.

Wozniak’s friend at the time, Steve Jobs, was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game “Breakout”. According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari offered $100 for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little specialized knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50 by using RAM for the brick representation. Too expensive to use at the time, the fact that this prototype also had no scoring or coin mechanisms meant Woz’s prototype could not be used. Jobs was paid regardless.

Jobs told him that Atari gave them only $700 (instead of the offered $5,000), and that Wozniak’s share was thus $350. Wozniak did not learn about the actual bonus until ten years later, but said that if Jobs had told him about it and had said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him.

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