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A Cruise Through Royal Caribbean's History
Copyright 2005 http://royal-caribbean-world.info
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Ever heard of a luxury hotel that moves every half hour?
You guessed it: it's a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, a mass of
one hundred thousand tons, that glides on the...
Classic Orson Welles, Writers Boot Camp, People's Choice Awards, NAMM Music Market, Trailblazers of Gospel Music, Animex Awards, SAG Awards, Academy Awards Nominations Announcement Highlight January Media Industry Dates
The January 4 HDTV Business Conference in Las Vegas is a one-day executive-level event that covers topics in the HDTV industry, including: HD content, ipTV, mobile video, MSO competitiveness, digital rights management, HD DVD vs. Blu-ray, MD-TV,...
Monsters and Demons: A Short History of the Horror Film
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The Metaphors of the Net
A decade after the invention of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee is promoting the "Semantic Web". The Internet hitherto is a repository of digital content. It has a rudimentary inventory system and very crude data location services.
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The Ultimate iPod Video Experience
With your new 5th generaton iPod you can see a very clear 36 inch picture in front of you eyes while enjoy Hi-Fi stereo sound. Well, almost - you just need some extra equipment.
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Sin City; Antagonist Fatalism or the Ultimate Good vs. Evil?
The Sin City DVD blew my mind, or maybe I should say, warped my
mind. I haven't been a great fan of Graphic Novels, but this
movie encouraged me to purchase a few of the Sin City books.
Frank Miller's now famous, series creations have taken us into
the world of a bizarre surreal environment of death, destruction
and gallows underbelly lifestyles.
Is the story telling and artistry supposed to show a world we
hope would never exist in our white bread world? Or is it an
ultimate achievement of good (disguised as part of the
underbelly) trying to subdue evil? I prefer to think the latter.
The film itself is a work of pure cinematography genius. With
the classic film noir overlay and the visual tricks and special
effects, it looks as if you would open the Sin City graphic
novel and have the pages come to life. This, I do believe, is
the closest I have seen a movie come to the actual artwork and
content of the original paper versions.
The very concept and style of Sin City, whether it be the movie
or the novels, is not for everyone. The plot and violence are
very graphic and definitely not for younger audiences. But as
graphic as the movie is, due to the nature of the moving comic
book background, it doesn't bring out the reality and gore that
could have been pictured. Personally, I enjoyed this toning
down. I would hate to think that I could actually condone this
kind of violent activity.
Robert Rodriguez in collaboration with series creator, Frank
Miller have ingeniously intertwined four of the Graphic Novels
into the making of Sin City. "The Customer is Always Right",
opens the movie even before the credits starts. Then "The Hard
Goodbye", "Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard" make up the
rest of the movie.
I for one was impressed with the casting and how the actors
seemed to fit the characters to perfection. I am
starting to see
a pattern though, in that certain actors are starting to show up
in various comic book related movies of the new Hollywood
features. The Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) from Daredevil,
for example, is also a character in Sin City. Do you think you
can spot him? He is pretty hard to miss.
It looks like by now, Jessica Alba may be vying for the Title
"Queen of the Comic Book Movies" (ha ha). She also came out this
year in The Fantastic Four and will be in the sequel when it
comes out.
With the new outcry for realistic comic book character movies
and the new Hollywood technologies that make them possible, it
looks like the original character creators want to reap some of
the exposure. Stan Lee, of Marvel Comics fame, manages to get a
cameo appearance every now and again in his character creation
movies. And now, in Sin City, Frank Miller was justified in
putting his mug on the wide screen. He appears as the, shall we
say, sinister priest that Marv (Mickey Rourke) decides he is
justified in blowing away. How many more comic book character
creators do you think we will see in cameo rolls as more movies
are produced?
If you are an avid fan of Frank Miller and, in particular, Sin
City, then you will quite probably feel this one of the best
movies to come out of Hollywood in 2005. If you are unfamiliar
with the entire Sin City theme and series, advance with caution
and don't watch it with the young or the young at heart (ha).
The movie, in my mind, is definitely a visual sensation. And I
hear that Sin City II may be ready for us in the summer of 2006.
Enjoy.
About the author:
Dave Gieber is the owner and editor of a website built around
one of his childhood passions. Learn the basic essentials to
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