Fist Full of Dollars (Review)

The hugely influential A Fistful of Dollars launched the careers of star Clint Eastwood, director Sergio Leone, and composer Ennio Morricone. Essentially a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, the film was one of the first low-budget, Italian-made "spaghetti westerns" to reap a significant amount of money and develop a cult following in the U.S. marketplace. Though John Ford's 1956 film The Searchers marked the of end the traditional western, Leone's "Man with No Name" trilogy ushered in a new, highly stylized version of the genre, revitalizing it in the late 1960s. Dollars and its companions, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, are raw portrayals of suffering and violence which blur the lines of good-versus-bad. Eastwood's cold, squinting, anti-hero is at the heart of the new amorality; it would be a role that would influence the rest of his career. For Leone, the trilogy would be a training ground for his masterpiece, the big-budgeted Once Upon a Time in the West. Morricone went on to become one of the most prolific, instantly recognizable composers in movie history. ~ Brendon Hanley, All Movie Guide

A Fist Full Of Dollars Beatsheet

1. Opening Image: A man arrives at a Mexican Border.

2. Theme Stated: All about money and Greed

3. Set-up: So they showed the money and made them want it

4. Catalyst: So then they made him mad and made him want the money even more.

5. Debate: So both gangs wanted the money and that's how the conflict started.

6. Break into: Was that they had the shoot out and they had to see who gets the money

7. B Story: Is when the child wants to get back to his mother.

8. Fun and Games: So they have a fast paste fight that kind of solves the problem.

9. Midpoint: The guys are constantly fighting and going on.

10. Bad Guys Close In: Is when they find out which one is going to get the movie for sure.

11. All Is Lost: Is when the gangs know that they have lost the fight and the money goes to (NO Name)

12. Dark Night of the Soul: So then the gang comes back and tries to get the money once again.

13. Break into: So then everyone started to get alone.

14. Finale: Is when he has on a metal plate that kepps him from getting shot.

15. Final Image: He left on a donkey.

Rio Bravo

Beat Sheet

PROJECT TITLE: Rio Bravo
GENRE: Action/Western

1. Opening Image (1): A drunk enters a saloon

2. Theme Stated (5): The drunk wants something to drink

3. Set-up (1-10): Joe sees dude eyeing his glass

4. Catalyst (12): He throws a silver dollar into a cup to mock him.

5. Debate (12-25): They started fighting

6. Break into 2 (25) The sheriff stops the fight.

7. B Story (30): Burdette shoots the guy in the stomach

8. Fun and Games (30-55): The sheriff walks into a saloon

9. Midpoint (55): The sheriff arrests Burdette for the murder of the person he shot

10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75): Dude shoot the gun out of Burdette's hand

11. All Is Lost (75): Chance knocks out Burdette with a rifle

12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85):

13. Break into 3 (85): The rancher's men break try to break into the place to help Burdette escape

14. Finale (85-110): They all have a shootout

15. Final Image (110): They capture everybody.



Review: For anybody that likes action movies with a western setting mixed with action, violence, shocking things, and John Wyane then you should check this movie out. It's about a guy named Burdette who gets arrested b a sheriff for committing a murder in the saloon. The ranchers men try to help save and rescue him but before they try to they end up in a shootout with the guards of the building. I'm not really into these kind of movies but from what I watched it was actually alright.

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys is an 80's vampire movie. The movie takes place in Santa Carla California. It is about 2 brothers named Michael and Sam who move in with their mother and the neighborhood is full of gang activity and deaths. Lucy gets a job at a local video and electronics store run by a man named Max (Edward Hermann), Michael is fascinated by a beautiful young woman he sees at a concert. When Michael follows her, she leaves the boardwalk with the leader of the local gang. The following night, Michael finds the young woman again and learns that her name is Star. As they are about to leave together on Michael's motorcycle, the gang leader, David reappears and provokes Michael into a motorcycle race where Michael is almost baited into going over the edge of a sea-cliff. Michael punches David, who merely sees potential in Michael. David invites Michael back to his secret hangout, a dilapidated old hotel that sank underground after an earthquake. The gang tells him that they are vampires and they go murder teenagers at a party to prove that they are vampires. Sam learns that if the "head vampire" is slain, all "half vampires" will revert back to human form t one of them is the head vampire. When the Frog brothers kill the first vampire, his dying screams awaken David and the others. Sam and the Frog brothers manage to escape from David while Michael takes Star and a young vampire boy named Laddie back up to his car. The Frog brothers, Michael and Sam, plus the two vampires drive out of the cave. David wants revenge come sundown.

If you like vampire horror movies from the 80's this is a must watch.

Texas Renaissance Festival 2009

Psycho (1960)

Hey yall it’s Big Boi. A couple of days back we watched a movie called Psycho. Yeah sounds Crazy but any who it IST. Well in this movie, In need of money to marry her boyfriend Sam Loomis, Marion Crane steals $40,000 from her employer and flees Phoenix, Arizona by car. While en route to Sam's California home, she parks along the road to sleep. A highway patrol officer awakens her. Marion's agitation arouses his suspicions and he decides to follow her. When she trades her car for another at a dealership, he notes the new vehicle's details. Marion returns to the road but rather than drive in a heavy storm, decides to spend the night at the Bates Motel. She checks in under an Assumed name, although she unwittingly gives Norman her real name later. Then later on in the story when Marion Crane was found in her house by herself. Then she was stabbed to death and she was trying to stick through it but oh well. So once she was dead for a few weeks and then her boyfriend found her dead in her home. Her boyfriend panicked and cleaned up the blood and wrapped her up and then pushed her car in the swap. Man she was a good woman.

TJ: Psycho is about Marion Crane who steals $40,000 from her employee and leaves to go to Phoenix, Arizona in her car. While she is driving she eventually stops in the middle of the road to go to sleep because she is tired and she is worried about getting into an accident. A highway patrol officer wakes her up and she starts to get annoyed by the cop making him suspicious about Marion and decides to follow her. While Marion is back on the road driving she trades in her car for a different car. A storm erupts and she decides to go to the Norman Bates Motel. When she checks in she gives Norman Bates a different name. Norman Bates talks to her about not having that much customers because of the location disconnecting at a interstate or something like that and since it is raining he offers Marion to stay at his house and then that is when things start to get worse. This movie was very good even though it was kind of quiet. It's very famous for the stabbing in the shower scene which was the most crazy part for me. I also liked the part when Norman Bates had disguised himself as his mom and was murdering people. I like old horror movies because most of todays horror aren't really that good they usually try to do a remake and make a lot of money on it just because the original version was a classic. To me the movie wasn't really that scary but if I was living in the 60's I would probably be standing on my feet screaming at the screen.

Beat Sheet

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates

Janet Leigh as Marion Crane

Martin Balsam as Detective Milton Arbogast

John Gavin as Sam Loomis

Vera Miles as Lila Crane

Simon Oakland as Dr. Fred Richmond

John McIntire as Sheriff Al Chambers

Frank Albertson as Tom Cassidy

Patricia Hitchcock as Caroline

John Anderson as California Charlie

Mort Mills as the highway patrolman

Virginia Gregg, Jeanette Nolan, and Paul Jasmin (all uncredited) as the voice of Norma Bates

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)#Cast

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Hush Episode)

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TJ: This episode was the most creative when it comes to directing and producing. It was about people losing their voices & they aren't able to say anything. Then these monsters come to town and they try to cut peoples hearts out of their body. Nobody can really kill them unless they have a human voice and they scream really loud. It all starts when Buffy has a vision of this little girl singing this nursery rhyme:

"Can't even shout, can't even cry

The Gentlemen are coming by.

Looking in windows, knocking on doors,

They need to take seven and they might take yours.

Can't call to mom, can't say a word,

You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard."

The nursery rhyme is the whole metaphor because that is what exactly happened to a lot of people and since people cannot talk they have to really express themselves through emotions and actions and it really makes them communicate in an emotional way, a way that people aren't really used to. It is so easy to talk with words but when you are in a very dangerous situation and you can't talk you really express and show what you mean by your emotions. (It is very ironic because Buffy and Willow were recently both talking about how they couldn't express themselves to each others' mate.) It continued when this curse came out of a book and while everybody was sleep their voices would come out their body and when everybody woke up they were scared and shocked. Xander had blamed Spike for why nobody could talk. Buffy and Willow walk through the town, with dry-erase boards to write down their words so Sunnydale is closed down, except for bars and liquor stores an open-air, silent church service suggests this is the end of the world. A television news report states that everyone in Sunnydale has come down with a case of laryngitis and the town has been quarantined. Professor Walsh has Buffy, Riley, and other people to patrol the streets. The monsters in the nursery rhyme (the people in the picture above) would come from this dimension thing at night and literally glide through the neighborhood dressed in formal suits with silver teeth. They also had these hunchback looking monsters with big arms that worked for those monsters they were like the henchmen doing the dirty work by chasing people, grabbing them, and holding them down while the formal looking monsters would pull out a scalpel and cut their heart out. I think it was one of the best episodes of the show. So Buffy and her friends had to figure out a way to reverse the curse A lot of this stuff can relate to a lot of people who have nightmares of not being able to talk and not be heard and monster(s) come and try to put you in harms way Anybody that likes horror mixed in with nursery rhymes to make it more interesting will love this episode.

Big Boi's Blog:

Hey yall it’s big boi. Today I watched this movie that was kind of all right. I normally don’t watch scary movies but this one was all right. On a number scale 1-5 this one would receive a 3. I enjoyed it but it was to predictable. I think that the girls that was the main character (Buffy) was a little to weird. She always was the one to be left by her and or with a boy that has to deal with the evil. In this episode Buffy was in a college class and the teacher asks her come up for a quick demonstration. As Buffy was preparing to do the demonstration the teacher asks for Riley to come down and help her with the demonstration. When they had began to do the action Riley says that if he kisses Buffy then the sun would go down Weird right? Yeah I know well on we go, so as they are kissing the sun goes down and then it happens. Everyone had disappeared and she was questioning him asking where is everyone, then this little noise was picking through the air. “What is that Buffy asked.” So as she was following the voice she starts to have a type of fear in her face. Just kind of funny I could say. Well so on, so on at the end of the movie Buffy finds out that her and Riley were dating. Some more things that were pretty weird were that everyone in the town (Sunnydale) no one could talk. Ha very funny then Xander was trying to call someone to see if anyone has the disease. Come to find out none of them can communicate through mouth. Yeah laugh away…………..

The following is our beat sheet… Enjoy:

Cast

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
• James Marsters as Spike
• Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
• Marc Blucas as Riley Finn
• Emma Caulfield as Anya
• Leonard Roberts as Forrest Gates
• Phina Oruche as Olivia
• Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
• Brooke Bloom as Nicole
• Jessica Townsend as Cheryl
• Lindsay Crouse as Maggie Walsh
• Camden Toy as Gentleman
• Charlie Brumbly as Gentleman
• Doug Jones as Lead Gentleman
• Don W. Lewis as Gentleman
• Carlos Amezcua as Newscaster
• Elizabeth Truax as Little Girl
• Wayne Sable as Freshman

Cast Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)#Acting