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Post by NoShear on Sept 18, 2023 20:06:50 GMT
Thank you NoShear...great stuff! Coming from you, TopBilled, that's a wonderful compliment for me. |
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Post by topbilled on Sept 18, 2023 21:33:26 GMT
Thank you NoShear...great stuff! Coming from you, TopBilled, that's a wonderful compliment for me. |
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Post by NoShear on Sept 18, 2023 21:56:16 GMT
Coming from you, TopBilled, that's a wonderful compliment for me. Actually, it felt presumptious on my part, TopBilled, and I'd meant to qualify it by first typing that Fading Fast or, say, I Love Melvin are far better suited to take up your mantle but, pressed for time, I just abruptly pressed "Create Post"... Am hoping that there could be some alternating between posters since I just don't have the time nor the knowledge to offer up worthy examinations year-by-year which you consistently do, TopBilled. |
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Post by topbilled on Sept 19, 2023 0:05:50 GMT
With regards to the 1970s, we start to get to the deaths of several golden age movie stars...like Joan Crawford's death, Rosalind Russell's death and John Wayne's death. Of course, more of these will occur in the 80s and 90s.
We also see a shift from the artistic anti-establishment films from the early 70s (after the abolishment of the code) to the more financially driven formula films later in the decade, like ROCKY and STAR WARS. Plus we have the lingering effects of Vietnam and the Watergate era playing out.
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Post by NoShear on Sept 20, 2023 15:48:15 GMT
 On January 25th of the young year, Charles Manson and three of his flower girls are convicted of the Tate-LaBianca killings which transpired during August of 1969. That month's spree of perverse hippiedom and its sensationalized trial the following year "will be the movies for tomorrow"... One of the immediate drops of blood gleaned from the Manson madness for film projection and the theater audience projecting on, though not necessarily originally intentioned, features Charlton Heston, in the midst of renewed marquee value thanks to post-apocalypticism characters, playing a military scientist terrorized by a family of crazed Luddites:  The shooting of THE OMEGA MAN is said to have been interrupted at one point when a strong earthquake strikes the San Fernando Valley on February 9th of that year. If true, it's an interesting anecdote because the earthquake's seed will lead to a 1974 disaster role for the busy Heston... Richard Matheson's I AM LEGEND is not the only dystopian novel to see screen adaptation for '71. Warner Bros studio also produces Anthony Burgess' 1962 dark satire:  Burgess fears that the Stanley Kubrick work might too "brilliant", and in fact, there is some copycat crime attributed to the number seven grossing release in its aftermath. The eventual(!) number two grossing movie for the year of 1971, BILLY JACK, has been some time coming and despite its '71 realization, actually belongs in the "1973" post for this thread...
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Post by topbilled on Sept 20, 2023 15:50:39 GMT
Good job NoShear...it's interesting to see which films you choose to focus on.
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Post by NoShear on Sept 20, 2023 15:55:07 GMT
Coming from you, TopBilled, that's a wonderful compliment for me. TopBilled, I hope you won't find my time-strapped "1971" post to be too objectionably brief but thought I would keep the thread moving forward... |
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Post by NoShear on Sept 20, 2023 15:56:18 GMT
Good job NoShear...it's interesting to see which films you choose to focus on. Just saw this: I was worried it was too truncated, so thank you, TopBilled! |
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 20, 2023 18:05:49 GMT
I'm very much enjoying your "A Year in the Movie" posts, NoShear. I like the history tie in to the movies. Thank you for doing them.
Tangentially related, the Manson crazy is woven into Tarantino's 2019 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," a movie which I really enjoyed.
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Post by kims on Sept 20, 2023 18:43:54 GMT
I really enjoyed ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD also. I do wish Tarantino changed the names though. If I were a family member of those murdered, I wouldn't like the story. Rewriting that mayhem to have a happily ever after ending would have hurt me.
Otherwise, it is a film to put on your list-knowing that reality didn't end so well.
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Post by NoShear on Sept 21, 2023 17:41:55 GMT
 A cursory glance of Dan Curtis' credits suggests that the producer lived and died by the vampire, and to some extent he did. When his soap opera Dark Shadows was about to have a stake driven into its heart, Curtis introduced the Barnabas Collins character, and Dark Shadows took flight. For a made-for-television movie early year Curtis enlisted the aid of noted vampire expert Richard I AM LEGEND Matheson to adapt Jeff Rice's yet-to-be published novel of a vampire who moves about the Las Vegas nightlife without attracting much attention. Unlike Jonathan Frid's romantic character, though, Barry Atwater's Janos Skorzeny is drained of any culture and lives simply to replenish his drive for blood through the opposite sex:  On January 11 THE NIGHT STALKER broadcast for the ABC Movie of The Week was a huge ratings success and set the(n) bar for the TV film. Only a little over three weeks later a different kind of scary was seen in a teleplay. THE GLASS HOUSE dealt with the terror of prison life (read: sexual assault) and acted as something of a proto- Scared Straight. As was sometimes the case with American made-for-TV movies, Truman Capote's story was screened in at least one UK theater. One of the teleplay's screengoers - a British bloke - will later comment on IMDb to something of the following: "When I visited the United States, I pretty much behaved myself as there was no way I wanted to end up in one of your prisons!" Male rape even showed up in one of the most lauded dramas of the year, DELIVERANCE, which will be one of a pair of man-against-nature releases from Warner Bros. that will gross earnings in the top ten for the year. (JEREMIAH JOHNSON being the other.) A reworking of Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith's standard, "Feudin' Banjos", is dramatically used during the film and will go on to be a hit single: The instrumental is one of several tracks which makes '72 a memorable one for movie music. Another example, "Ben" - the title song of the Willard sequel, is spotlighted in the 45th Academy Awards the following year, and it's suggested that Michael Jackson lip-synchs the song since it's been a year and a half since the young artist originally recorded the tune with his changing voice:
The Academy that year finds The Godfather, the second number one movie for Paramount Pictures in three years, to be too good a film to refuse.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 21, 2023 18:04:43 GMT
⇧ Great stuff. I was keeping an eye out for "The Godfather" to get a mention, which of course it did. One other from '72 that I like, probably because TCM runs it a lot, so I've seen it several times, is "The Getaway." I think it's one of McQueen's really good performances, especially early on, when he's adjusting to being out of prison.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Sept 21, 2023 18:25:37 GMT
⇧ Great stuff. I was keeping an eye out for "The Godfather" to get a mention, which of course it did. One other from '72 that I like, probably because TCM runs it a lot, so I've seen it several times, is "The Getaway." I think it's one of McQueen's really good performances, especially early on, when he's adjusting to being out of prison. The two male leads, McQueen and Al Lettieri are great in The Getaway, but Ali MacGraw, falls flat in so many ways. |
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 21, 2023 18:33:43 GMT
⇧ Great stuff. I was keeping an eye out for "The Godfather" to get a mention, which of course it did. One other from '72 that I like, probably because TCM runs it a lot, so I've seen it several times, is "The Getaway." I think it's one of McQueen's really good performances, especially early on, when he's adjusting to being out of prison. The two male leads, McQueen and Al Lettieri as great in The Getaway, but Ali MacGraw, falls flat in so many ways. |
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Post by NoShear on Sept 22, 2023 16:45:46 GMT
 Despite three studios involved with Tom Laughlin's BILLY JACK Laughlin still found himself having to personally book the 1971 movie into theaters. The action indie did OK during its initial year, but Laughlin re-distributed it himself in '73, and it was nearly five times as successful at the box office the second time around. Han Bong-soo, a martial-arts instructor who'd been teaching Armed Forces soldiers self-defense, was discovered by Laughlin, supervised the fight sequences for BILLY JACK and actually performed the celebrated inside roundhouse kick:  No doubt the movie gets support the second time around with the previous year's appearance of KUNG FU on television. Said to have been involved in the concept of the series and denied the starring role because of his ethnicity, Bruce Lee, late of THE GREEN HORNeT and other television appearances, turns to Hong Kong cinema and finds posthumous success with the United States distribution of Enter The Dragon. There's some irony in seeing Lee's image up in the bright lights of probably the most celebrated American theater:  African Americans are experiencing a newfound expression in Blaxploitation during the early 1970s. The genre even extends to United Artists' latest James Bond affair, "LIVE AND LET DIE", which introduces dapper Roger Moore as the new lead. UK audiences make their superspy treasure number one... Number one eventually on this side of the proverbial pond will be a cultural phenomenon of 1974:  THE EXORCIST never really has seen the end of its successful run. In three weeks, THE EXORCIST BELIEVER will begin its wide release...
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