THE INVISIBLE MAN : What you can’t see can hurt you

 

COOMING SOON…..

MILLION DOLLAR BABY : Always protect myself

Recently,the 96th Oscar award ceremony has been in .As a usual,apart from the awards,it is a ceremony which always claim some relevant issues in our society such as corruption,climate change or war conflicts.Nevertheless,this year,it is an important claiming to women.This is the first time that 3 film production are directed by women.There is not doubt that women are breaking the glass ceiling in Hollywood.However,this fact already happened in 2004 with Hilary Swank.In that ceremony,not only won award the main character to Million Dollar Baby,but also broke the man’s rules in a boxing world. 

Million Dollar Baby is an American sport and drama film.It was directed,co-produced and starring by the genius Clint Eastwood in 2004.This successful movie was based on the 2000 collection book by F.X.Toole.Yet,according to BBC,it might have been inspired on boxier  Katie Dallam in his tragic story.This brilliant film received seven nominations at the Academy Oscar award and it ended up winning four of them (best picture,best director,best actress (Hilary Swank) and best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman).There is not doubt that its unbeatable cast was the key of this acknowledgement.In this case,audience,critics and cinema worker considered that this tape as one of the best films of the 2000s.I’d finally like to point out that not all that glitters is gold about opinions,a group of disabled people felt the Swank picture wasn't appropriated.

Margaret Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) struggles her way up in the women’s amateur boxing while she is working as a waitress.After her workday,Maggie trains in a boxing gym in Los Angeles.There,the owner is underrapprediated boxing trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood).Despite her huge efford,Dunn considers that Maggie is too old to begin a boxing career,and he nevers train women.Besides,he is totally focused by in a another male boxer.In this gym also works Eddie Dupris (Morgan Freeman) who helps to Maggie to convince Frankie’train.Yet,not only would be their relationship difficult,but also to achieve Maggie’s dream.

Million Dollar Baby was superbly directed and wonderfully acted by a cast who are all on absolute top.We all knew how mesmerising Eastwood and Freeman could be in the film but Swank is a real revelation in what was an Oscar worthy performance.For good or bad,the ending will stay with you forever.

...The Magic of risking evetything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Baby

REAR WINDOW : I’m not much into rear window ethics

Why are we so curious about other people’s lives? There are two ways of addressing this topic.Most of the time,it is because we tend to think that their lives of others are upgrade than our own,which shows a huge lack of self-confidence.Yet,in less cases,this fact is considered a distractions from our personal problems or it is simply that to learn from other’s experiences …which is good.Alfred Hitchcock,in Rare Window,transformed this frivolous topic to a masterpiece of mystery.

Rear Window is an American mystery film.It was directed and written by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954.This movie was based on a short story ‘It Had to Be Murder’ by Cornell Woolrich’s.It goes without saying that Rear Window is considered by critics and scholars as a film and audiovisual heritage.So,It stands to reason that this movie received four Academy Award nominations.Needless to say that it was named for one of the best 100 Movies on AFI’s 100 Years.There’s not escaping the fact that nowadays,this film is a successful reflection upon the concept of voyeurism.

L.B,.Jefferies is a a well-known photographer.He is recovering from a broken leg and he is confined to a wheelchair in his apartment,in Manhattan.To Jeff,days are too long and he spends all the time watching his neighbors’ life though his rear window,especially ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ (Judith Evelyn) and ‘Miss Torso’(Raymond Burr),who live in front of him.These nicknames are invented by Jeff and to him their life is so entertaining.One night,Jeff is visited by his girlfriend,Lisa (Grace Kelly) ,who regularly visited him.After Lisa leaves the apartment,Jeff hears a strong sound and a loud scream of a woman.Soon,Jess looks though from his window to his neighbour and he realizes that Thorwald (Mister Torso) abandons the flat.In that moment.It is clear that something had happened.The next morning,Jeff notices that Thorwald’s wife isn’t at home as a normal.What’s more there are weird movements in his apartment and Thorwald is cleaning a knife.It is crystal clear that this situation isn’t the same that Jeff is used to seeing to from their stranger couple.

One of Hitchcock’s best films and my favourite one,Rear Window remains a brilliant thriller half a century later,It’s tense and suspenseful and it has a little lighthearted humor which makes it both exciting and fun to watch.The acting is great,especially from James Steward.There’s not dull moment in this masterpiece

…We’ve become a race peeping toms.What people ought to do it get outside their own house and look in for a change. 

C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window

ALIVE : The answer is in the mountain

To get started,I would like to bring forward a topic that has been on everyone’s lips lately,especially in Hollywood.Some cinema experts totally agree over a opinion about the new way to release remakes over previous blockbuster.In fact,they tend to think,nowadays,there aren’t new ideas,and in doing so,they just invest over versions.In my view,to call Bayona’s film a remake is a mistake,as it is simply another version of the story that was once told in Marshall’s very intense,epic.To my mind,Alive,there is a film I should definitely write before the Society of the Snow.

Alive is an American survival and biographical film.This film was released in 1993 and it was based,firstly over the facts of the Uruguayan rugby team’s crash aboard a flight into the Andes mountains in 1972.This shocking movie was directed by Frank Marshall and written by J.P Shanley.Furthermore,one of the survivors,Nando Parrado helps as an advisor on this film.This year,in 2024,on Netflix and the large screen,we will able to enjoy a new adaptation of Alive,The society of the snow,by the Spanish director J.Bayona.It goes without saying that this last film is an absolutely masterpiece and a perfect version.

After their last match,The Stella Maris College’s Rugby team are invited to an upcoming match in Chile.The team finally decides to fly with some relatives and friends over the Andes in the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.During the flight,there are some turbulences due to the strong storm.The young passengers are really afraid with this emergency because the situations are each more and more dramatic.Finally,the wings and the tail are separated from the fusulage owing to the colliction with a mountain.The plane ends up in the middle of Andes.In a short space of time,some passengers die and some of them are highly ill.The suffering and desperation appears due to the fact they realize that they don’t have enough food and the tracing from the authorities is over.Yet,it is in these moments when the human survival emerges.

Alive is a great film experience. It is based on true events.The film is uplifting and kind of rough to watch at times. Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano give excellent performances. The screenplay is well written and touching. Frank Marshall did a great job directing this film.I’m not sure over what of these two versions I prefer.And you,what both adaptations do you prefer?

…I’m not dead.I’ve never felt worse in my life,but I’m not dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_(1993_film)