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God Bless IMAX
As a resident of the American South for 27 out of the 28 years of my life and a childhood “Dukes of Hazzard” fan, let me start this by saying the following: I’m really sick of us Southerners making ourselves look like ass-clowns. Get it together...
High Definition – When?
High definition will inevitably become a widespread if not universal television broadcast format. However, it’s not yet clear when that will happen. So it’s also not yet clear when high definition camcorders will be routinely required for...
Samurai Sword Basics, A Brief History
Capturing the spirit of old Japan and recognised by its deadly curvature, the samurai sword is widely recognised throughout the world as the most deadly of all Japanese weaponry. Although gaining modern fame and notoriety in modern epic cinema in...
The Majestic Beauty of Balboa Park
Balboa Park, home of the San Diego Zoo and the Culture Center of San Diego
Romantic Balboa Park is a lush 1,400 acre forest of exotic trees, well-kept gardens, and a majestic lily pond, which is the most photographed site in the park. It is...
What are Plasma televisions?
What are Plasma televisions?
Televisions previous to the Plasma TV explosion used the (CRT)
cathode ray tube to give users the ability to watch television.
CRT televisions works by shooting out a beam of negative charged
particles...
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Machiavelli Hangman, The Next Back To The Future?
While some films like Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher have recently tried to emulate Robert Zemeckis's 1985 smash hit, none have achieved a fair amount of critical success. While Back to the Future was not Zemeckis's first directorial venture - he had directed Romancing the Stone with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas the previous year - it was the first box office success that he penned himself.
Everyone can remember Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly as he, along with Dr. Emmett Brown - acted superbly by Christopher Loyd - flew back and forth between the present and the past. This jumping through time-frames technique was reused in the sequels but they lost the freshness of the original that manipulated and put to work the audience's imagination.
Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com), the predicted-to-be sleeper hit of 2006, is said to have the same story structure and patterns as the
beloved time-travel films. However, in this case, there is no literal depiction of the time-traveling however, the audience goes through the different dates and although this is a simple use of flashback and flash-forward, there is a very uncanny sense of time-traveling involved.
"I wouldn't say so much that Machiavelli Hangman is like Back to the Future but that it's perhaps a cinematic rendition of Marcel Duchamps's drawings, you could say" explains the writer-director Shervin Youssefian (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1352346/), who is better known for his award-winning short films on the film festival circuits.
About the author:
Phillip Kevin is a senior editor for various online publishing companies. This is his review of the upcoming movie, Machiavelli Hangman. http://www.hangmanmovie.com
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