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‘Must-have’ DVDs: The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of The Rings was directed by Peter Jackson. They are three films: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King, and they are based on the books written by JRR Tolkien, who wrote them about 80 years ago.
The films were filmed in New Zealand, where Peter Jackson was born. He chooses this place because he thinks it’s look like the Middle Earth, the fictician land of the story.
The film is about a hobbit, and how he could chance the future of the world trying to destroy a magic ring, and the eternal war between good and evil.
The soundtrack is fantastic. It was composed by Howard Shore, who is a famous composer, and it’s one of the best soundtrack I’ve never listened to, and it be able to introduce you into the Middle Earth.
Although I prefer the books of Tolkien, I recommend The Lord of The Rings films to everybody, because I think they are some of the best films of the history.
`Must-have´ DVDs: Legends of the Fall: 1994
Legends of the Fall was directed by Edward Zwick in 1994. The film is based on the novel written in 1979 by Jim Harrison. It stars Brad Pitt as Tristan, Anthony Hopkins as coronel Ludlowes, Aidan Quinn as Alfred, Henry Thomas as Samuel and Julia Ormond as Susannah. The film was nominated to 4 Oscars and it won the Oscar for Best Picture.
The film is set in Montana in the 1930s. It was filmed on location in Canada.
The film is about the family Ludlow. The coronel Ludlow was a brave soldier who defended the Indians’ rights. After his defeat, he decided to go to live with his sons to a cottage in the middle of the mountains. There grew up his sons: Alfred, who was obedient and responsible; Tristan, who was difficult and adventurous, and Samuel, the youngest, the most idealistic. A day, Samuel comes to the family’s house with his girlfriend Susannah, who is a pretty woman. Very early, Susannah attracts the attention of the Samuel’s siblings and father. Tristan falls in love with Susannah and goes to look for new emotions to try to forget this forbidden passion. The three siblings go to the war (although their father doesn’t want it) and this fact marks their future life, because the youngest brother dies and the both surviving brothers fight to get the Susannah’s love.
I strongly recommend Legends of the Fall. It makes you cry, it has a memorable soundtrack and some breathtaking pictures. This film makes you think about the love between siblings and the love between a man and a woman, and ask you “Which of these forms of love is stronger?” If you saw this film, you would understand how difficult is to choose one of them.
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
The boy in the striped pyjamas was directed by Mark Herman in 2008. It is based on a best-selling novel of the same name written by John Boyne. Both the book and the film have received several awards.
It stars Asa Butterfield as Bruno and Jack Scanlon as Shmuel. The shooting of the film took place in Budapest, Hungary. The soundtrack was composed by James Horner, one of the most awarded composers in the world, who has worked with George Lucas, Spielberg, Oliver Stone,…The film is set during World War II, in 1942.
The story is about Bruno who is the son of a Nazi officer. He’s nine years old. His father promotes at work and they must leave their comfortable home in Berlin to go away. Now he’s bored. He must not go out of the garden. But, a day, he does it. He meets another child that lives on the other side of the fence and he wears a striped pyjamas. Bruno visits everyday to his new friend. It begins a friendship between the concentration camp officer’s son and a Jewish child. In the end, Bruno goes into the camp and both children die.
It is an interesting, emotional and sad film because you sense that the end is not going to be happy. I read the book and then I saw the film and I have to say that the film liked more, but you have to see it knowing that it is a film and not a documentary.
The film Pride and Prejudice was directed by Joe Wright in 2005. The film is based on the Jane Austen’ s famous novel with the same name. The film main stars are: Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet, Mathew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy, Donal Sutherland as Elizabeth’s father and Brenda Blethyn as Elizabeth’s mother. It has been nominated to four Oscars.The soundtrack is also remarkable, it was performed by an italian composer, Dario Marianelli.
It is set in the Georgian England. It was filmed entirely on location within England in the summer of 2004 and used several stately homes, including Chatsworth House in Derbyshire and Wilton House in Salisbury (as Pemberley), Groombridge Place in Kent (as Longbourn), Basildon Park in Berkshire (as Netherfield Park) and Burghley House in Lincolnshire (as Rosings . The Temple of Apollo and Palladian Bridge of Stourhead also appeared (as set in the Gardens of Rosings).
The film is a about five sisters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet. Their lives suffer a big change when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood. It is a tale of love and values that shows us which was the society’s mentality of that age, where the parents were always worried looking for a good marriage for their daughters.
I strongly recommend watching Pride and Prejudice. It makes you travel to another age and to a very different world view. The soundtrack is so emotive that put you into the film without possibility of distraction.
“MUST-HAVE” DVDs: FORREST GUMP : 1994
Forrest Gump was directed by Robert Zemeckis and it was based on a novel of the same name written by Winston Groom. The novel ridicule the idea that the American dream exist in the real Word. There are some difference between the story of the novel and the plot of the film. Forrest Gump was nominated for thirteen oscars but won six in 1995 for the best actor (Tom Hans), director, film, special effects, adapted script and montage.
The film is set in Alabama (North America) in the 1950s and 80s (three decades). It was shotting on location mainly in California.
Zemeckis use the digital technology to mix the fiction with the historical event. For instante Tom Hans who stars Forrest seems to greet the president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. We can watch in this film the sociocultural e historical event more representatives of the most recent history in the USA, as such Vietnam war, the Ku-Kux-Klan movement, the hippie movement, legend as Elvis Presly, the president Nixon…
This film is about a man with a intelligence quotient of 75 who tells the story of his life to some unknowns sitting on a bank while he is waiting a bus. Despite his limitations, Forrest, name which the star repeat again and again throughout the film, get to be a football rugby star, a player of ping pong, a multimillionaire, a soldier… and he became in an American hero. The director also introduce to spectators in a romantic story between Forrest and his impossible love called Jenny. Even so the Only thing that Forrest want is to be in the arms of Jenny, his unique and true love.
There are some important sentences in the philosophy of Forrest, which Forrest’s mum teach him and have been perpetuated:
– Life is a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to win.
– Foolish is the one who makes foolishness.
I strongly recommend Forrest Gump because is a story wich entertains and thrills all kind of audience. Forrest is a person who never lost the innocence and fought to get his dreams. In my opinión the World would be better if more people were as Forrest., a person with a good heart.. On the other hands the interpretation of Tom Hans is breathtaking. Tom Hans took a long time removed the accent of delayed after shooting the film, I am not surprised because he convinced the public more demandin
Must-have DVDs: Notting Hill
Notting Hill was directed by Roger Michell. It stars Julia Roberts as a Hollywood star actress Anna Scott, and Hugh Grant as Will the owner of an independent bookshop.
The film is set in Notting Hill a famous neighbourhood of London.
The film is about William the owner of a little bookshop in a neighbourhood of London who changed his life the day that he met Anna Scott a famous Hollywood star who entered in his bookshop to buy a book and since that moment he fell in love with her and she felt the same attraction for him. They can’t imagine that they’re going to start a relationship neither the problems that you have when you go out with the most famous person of the world.
I recommend Notting Hill because is a lovely romcom. I’m sure it will make you laugh.
MYSTIC RIVER
It’s an American film directed by Clint Eastwood in 2003. The film opened to widespread critical acclaim. It was nominated for Academy Awards for 6 Oscars. Sean Penn won the Oscar for best actor and Tim Robbins at the best supporting actor. Mystic River was the first film wich won both awards since Ben-Hur in 1959.
The film is a drama based on the novel of the same name written by Dennis Lehane.
The plot is about the lives of three close friends since childhood until events happen that will change their lives. During a summer in 1975, Dave Boyle and two friends, Jimmy and Sean, are playing on a sidewalk in Boston when Dave is abducted by two men and subjected to sexual abuse over a period of several days. He escaped, but he lives haunted by his trauma. Dave becomes a primary suspect when Jimmy’s daughter, Katie, is found murdered. Sean, who is the chief of police, is charged with solving the murder, but Sean can not keep Jimmy take the law into their own hands.
I recommend it. It’s a masterpiece as lucid as tense with a plot that touches very deep ethical issues and delicate. A superb performance with a wonderful cast, an unexpected ending.
I’m sorry, but it’s the fragrance that the violet loose when lifting the shoe that crushed it.
MUST-HAVE DVD’S:IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER.
In the name of the father is a film that was directed by Jim Sheridam.Daniel Day Lewis ,who played the character of Gerry Conlon,starred the film. He was nominated with an Oscar for the best actor.The film got too other six nominations more: Oscar for the best sopporting actress, Oscar for the best sopporting actor, Oscar for the best director , Oscar for the best adapted script. It won the Bear of ring in the International film Festival of Berlin in 1994.
The film is set in Ireland in 1975.Few scenes was shot on location as you can notice at the begining of the film, probably in London.But the almost scenes was filmed in Kilmainham prison in Dublin.
The film is about a Gerry Conlon ,a thief from Belfast, who goes to London with another friend to have a good time. There, IRA make a terrorist attack where a lot of people die and He is accused by police to do it.When his father arrive London to see him is arrested and accused too to put the bomb in this place.
Gerry Conlon and his friend are obligated to plead ghilty because of the polices’s maltreats .
Even more, their relatives are accused of bieng who make bombs at home. In the court they all are pleaded ghilty by the justice. Gerry Colon goes to prison with his father where spends 15 year trying to show his innocence , he is helped by a law called Garet.He has a hard time in prison when his father dies.But at the end he gest his freedom.
The cast is great, Enma Thompson play the character of Garet.
I strongly recomend” In the name of the father” because it’s based in a reality story.You can see a desesperated person fighting against polices and judges.
Polices who hide information that can help Gerry and his family to show their innocence . Polices who are pressured by people in the country who need a ghilty .
And public prosecutors who ignore IRA’S statements where they say, there are persons who are in prison unfairly.
“Must-have’ DVDs: The Others: 2001
The Others was directed by Alejandro Amenabar, he also was the composer and scriptwriter in this film.
It stars Nicole Kidman as Grace, Alakina Mamm as Ann, James Bentley as Nicholas plays her son and Fionnula Flanggan. The film was nominated 15 prizes Goyas and it won eight prizes Goyas. It was filmed in language English.
This film is set in a stately home in the Island Yersey in 1945. It was filmed on location in “Las Fraguas” (Cantabria) to 49 Km. from Santander (Spain).
Graces lives with their son in a stately home quite isolated. The Second Warm on the World has finished, her husband hasn’t come back, and she is waiting.
She is a person very religious; she gives her children a strict education. The children have a strange illness, they couldn’t receive sunshine. The news servants arrived and a strange phenomenon started into home.
I strongly recommend “The Others” because during all the time you are exciting, intriguing and you can feel afraid of in several scene. The best of film is its surprising end.
My favourite scene is when Nicole Kidman down stairs with a candle in her hand, her looks is terrifying.
`Must-have´ DVDs: Life is Beautiful
Life is Beautiful is an Italian film made in 1997, It was directed by Roberto Benigni. It starts Roberto Benigni as Guido and Gioargio Cantarini as Josué. The film won three Oscars for best actor, best foreign language film and best music, and other 40 prizes more. It is based on a novel by Vicenzo Cerami.
The film is about an Italian Jewish, called Guido and his son Josué. When Guido lived in Arezzo in 1939, he, his uncle and his son, are taken to a concentration camp. Guido employs his imagination to help his family during their internment in this Nazi concentration camp.
He decides to make his son believe that everything is a game. They must win 1000 points for a real tank and they will go. Guido maintains this story until the end. Josué thinks he has won the game when an American tank arrives to liberate the people in the camp. He is reunited with his mother, but he doesn´t know that his father has died. Years later, he realizes the sacrifice his father made for him, thanks to that sacrifice he is still alive.
I recommend this film, because it is very beautiful, it has a wonderful soundtrack and it teaches us that a father is capable of doing anything for his son.
“MUST-HAVE” AVATAR DVD
Avatar is a science fiction film which was directed, written and produced by James Cameron in 2009. On the 67th edition of the Golden Globe Price won the globes for the Best Film and Best Director too. The soundtrack was composed by James Holner, who made the main theme of Titanic. Three weeks later the film was premiered it became in the second film of the all times box-office-receipts after Titanic.
Sigourney Weaven, who was an unknown Australian actor, played the part of Jake Sully and Zoe Saldaña played the part of Neitiri, a “Navi” woman, both were the protagonists of the film.
The film is set in 2154 on Pandora, one of the moons of Polifemo Planet, where live a race named “Navi”. Human were in conflict with on of the Navi clans, because they live around of an enormous holy tree where, below it, there was a huge seam mineral which could solve the Earth energy problems.
In my modest opinion, we would enjoy the scenery, the fantasy or maybe the plot but at the end we should think about what are human doing with the natural word, its wild life and its resources. Also we could think about imperialism and the economic power of our time. That is why I recommend you (214 words).
`Must-have´ DVDs: Dead Poets Society
I would like to recommend you an interesting film I saw some years ago. Although I’m not very keen on going to the cinema or watching films at home, there are a few of them I really enjoyed. Today I remember specially which I think is one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Its name is Dead Poets Society. It was directed by Peter Weir, and it’s based in the same name novel written by Tom Schulman. Its stars are Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke.
The film is set in New England in the 1950s, and it has an original plot.
It’s about a lonely and shy teenager called Todd Anderson( played by Ethan Hawke ). He’s sent to the school where his older brother got the best results. It’s a boarding school, so he shares room with a brigth and popular student who lives under preassure by his parents, who want him to go to Yale and become a lawyer. These two clasemates and their other friends meet professor Keating (played by Robin Williams), their new English teacher, who tells them about the Dead Poets Society and encorages them to go against the status quo. Little by little they do it and change for life.
The film was released on 2 June 1989 in USA. The whole film was shot in USA.
It had 4 nomination for Oscar Prizes and won one of them, the best original script.
Its soundtrack is really good( clasical music, mainly), and it was composed by Maurice Jarre.
“Must-have” DVDs: Babel
Babel was directed by Alejandro González Iñárrituz in 2006. It stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael García Bernal as leading lights. The premier was in Cannes and it completes “the Death Trilogy” which started with ‘Dogs Loves’ and went on with ‘21 Grams’. Babel won the Golden Globe for the Best Dramatic Film and was nominated for 7 Oscars but it only won the Oscar for the Best Soundtrack.
The film is set in four different places. It was filmed on location in the Moroccan desert, Mexico, Japan and the US.
The film is based on the Babel Tower, which joins people from all ethnic groups, in this case the lives of four families, which are American, Mexican, Moroccan and Japanese. The film starts when two moroccan boys decide to try a winchester and accidentally, an American tourist is injured. At the moment, the lives of four groups of stranges in three different continents, interlock between them.
I strongly recommend this film. It shows us how these people will always be alone due to their own incapacity of communication with their environment.
WITNESS
Witness was directed by Peter Weir. It stars Harison Ford as John Book, Kelly McGillis as Raquel and Josef Sommer who plays the part of the boy. The film won two Oscars in 1985 for Best Original Script and Best Assembly.
The film is set in an American Amish country in the 1980s.
The film is about a little Amish boy called Samuel, his mother Raquel and an American policeman called John Book.
At the beginning of the film, Raquel and Samuel are in Philadelphia, in a railway station, Samuel leaves his mother and goes to the toilet. He witnesses a murder there. John Book is a police who goes into hiding in the Amish country to protect him until the trial. John lives as an Amish people and wears the same clothes. Raquel and John fall in love with each other. But they have their love in secret because the Amish rules are very strict. The killers discover where the witness is and go to the Amish country. They try to kill Samuel but John fights against them and the killers die. After that, although John and Raquel are in love, John leaves the Amish country.
I strongly recommend WITNESS. It makes you keep in suspense and feel romantic. It has a very good soundtrack and it shows you the Amish people’s lifestyle.
Must-have DVDs.
I would recommend people to see the scenical film named The Name of the Rose. It was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and it´s based on the book written by Umberto Eco. The most important actor, who he is the star, is named Sean Connery. He plays a role of Franciscan friar. It was filmed on location in French, Italy and Germany in 1986, It´s about the investigation of the strange death of a monk in a Franciscan Italian abbey. The actors originally spoke in English but it was dubbed into other languages. Its soundtrack was made by James Horner.
The film won several international awards and I think that it´s a jewel belonging to the seventh art which everybody must have in their collection.
“MUST-HAVE” DVDs: A ROOM WITH A VIEW
I’ve choosen this film because it has breathtaking views of Florence, mainly of the Signoria square ( the film was shot on location in here) in which I’ve been lucky to visit two times.It’s a superb place where fantastic antique buildings are surrounding it.There are also several marvellous statues wchih are fakes of Miguel Angelo’s originals (e.g. his famous David) .
The film is based on a known novel written by E.M.Foster ; it was directed by James Ivory and has been dubbed in other languages.It won three Oscars in 1986 for Best Dressed,Best script and Best Artistic Direction.
It was set in England and Italy in the 19th century.
It stars Helena Bonham-Carter as Lucy Honey, a shy English girl belonging to the high society, and Maggie Smith who plays the part of the bossy Lucy’s cousin Charlotte.They both travel on holidays to Italy to be exact to Florence where they stay in a guest-house in the Signoria Square and in which Lucy meets Sr Emerson whose son falls in love whith Lucy as soon as he first meets her.The young couple are witnesses of a murderer.
Charlotte decides to come back to England hoping Lucy can forget George, but in the end Emerson family rent a house near them.
I strongly recommend this film. It makes you smile ( comedy) and cry(drama and romantic film) and it’s worth seeing it because of the magnificent views which look wonderful on the big sreen.
MUST-HAVE’ DVDs: The Pursuit of Happy/i/ness.(En busca de la felicidad)
¨Do not allow that anybody should say to you that you unable to do something…..If you have a dream, you must preserve it…….If you want something, go out to look for it”.
The Pursuit of Happyness was directed by Gabrielle Muccino. This film was led for Will Smith as Chris Gardner and Jaden Christopher Syre Smith as Christopher. It was nominated for two golden globes(Best Dramatic Actor and Best Original Song) and for an Oscar(Best Principal Actor).
The film is set in the city of San Francisco in the 1980s. It was filmed on location in USA.
Chris Gardner is a father of family who fights to survive. He is a brillant and talent salesmann who must sell many obsolete and expensive equipment of medicine to feed his wife and his song. He doesn´t get to sell them and he is ruined.
Since of then he and his son live all kinds of misfortunes and economic penuries such as the abandonment of his wife, to sleep in centers of receptions for homeless, bus stations, bathrooms and so on.
Later, thanks to his witness and tenacity he manages to be employed at a brokerage of insurances and to solve his problems.
I Recommend this film because is an interesting, emotional and sad who gets out both, the best and the worst of the human being full of hopes and worries and with a happy ideal end for sensitive people.
MUST-HAVE’ DVDs: It´s a wonderful life
It´s a wonderful life was directed by Frank Kapra in 1946. The film is based on the short story “The Greatest Gift”written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
It stars James Stewart as George Bailey, Henry travers as Guardian Angel, Donna Reed as Mary Hatch Bailey, Lionel Barrymore as Henry F. Potter, Thomas Mitchell as Uncle Billy.
The film was nominated to 5 Oscars but the film didn´t win anyting altohught it is the biggest film broadcast on television around the world for Christmas. I like a lot of this film. One time, a american judge forced a person who tried suicide to see this film.
The film begins on the day before Christmas Eve, an Angel Second Class(Henry travers) is assigned to save George Bailey and earn his wings becuase George Bailey tried suicide.
George wanted suicide but saw a man fall off the bridge then he helped him. Later, the old man say to George that he is a angel so George tells Angel that wouldn´t have been born, Clarence granted his wish, and when they return to town, everything has changed.
Clarence does to see George that the town have stopped calling Bedfordfalls and now the town is called Poterville. He helped neighbors and friends but now they don´t recognize him because he hasn´t born. He sees the grave of his brother who couldn´t save by haven´t born, and remember the soldiers who died in war because his brother wasn´t there to save them. He helped build houses with his company but now those were never built. His uncle billy is in a asylum. His mother is widow, hasn´t children and runs a pension. Finally his wife was a spinster librarian and his children haven´t born.
George is desperate for the vision, then returns to the bridge where he had tried suicide, and asks God to give him back his life, so God accept.
He returns home wishing Merry Christmas to all that is and even Mr. Potter. There, there, he embraces them all, his children, wife …, and greets the police inspector and the Sheriff are expected to arrest him.
His wife tolk with a his friends because George had economic problems and all the people made enough donations to save George.
Christmas Tree ring some bells, announcing that Clarence has earned his wings.
I strongly recommend “It´s a wonderful life”. This film makes you think about your life, friends and family.
“Must-have” DVDs: Pretty Woman: 1999
There is a film that I like a lot, it´s “Pretty Woman”.
Pretty Woman was directed by Garry Marshall. The stars are Julia Roberts as Vivian a prostitute from Hollywood and Richard Gere as Edward a businessman. It was nomitated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for the Best Actress.
The film is set in the city from Bervely Hills, California. It was filmed in the hotel Regent Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles .
The film is about Vivian a beautiful girl who works on the street like a prostitute. One night she was talking with her friend and suddenly a man appeared in a luxurious car. He was lost and she helped him. Then they went to a hotel. The next morning as he was a businessman and he needed an accompany for going to some meeting, he asked her to stay for a week with him and she was all right. For all the week they went to parties, they went to eat out. She bought a lot of clothes and met a lot of people. Little by little they fell in love although they didn´t know. When the week finished he had to go out and she had to come back home. He asked her that she stayed with him but she couldn´t. Julia thought that always there will be somebody who will recognize her. At the end while he went to the airport, he changed the street and he went to her home. He gave her a beautiful and big bunch of red flowers. Finally they were together forever.
I strongly recommend Pretty Woman. It´s a funny, romantic and comedy film and it makes to feel well because the plot of the film is the dream of some prostitute. Also it has a memorable soundtrack, “Oh, Pretty Woman” by Van Halen.
AMELIE
The original title is “le fabuleux destin d´Amelie Poulin”.
This film was directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet in 2001. It stars Audrey Tautou as Amelie and Mathieu Kassovitz as Nino.
The film was nominated to 5 Oscar and to the “Golden Globe”
Amelie is set in Montmatre. It was filmed on location in Paris.
The film is about Amelie, a different woman. Amelie is an innocent and naive woman.
She saw her mother dead in Notre Dame´s Square, and his father was a mistake with Amelie: he thought she had a heart illness. Because of that she grew up isolated from other children.
When she was 22 she became a young woman and moved to the Montmatre as a waitress. She found a lost treasure that belonged to young a boy in the 1950´s, so she decided to find him and give it back to him.
She knows a mysterious man who took his picture in a photo booth.
She decides to help people around her and she discovers love.
I recommend Amelie, it makes you cry and laugh. She is a person who never loses the imagination and innocence, she sees life like a girl. If you see this film you will love or hate it, but I´m sure you´ll never forget it. It has also an excellent and emotive soundtrack by Jann Tiersen.
APOCALYPSE NOW
‘Apocalypse Now’ is an epic film which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979. A lot of great wonderful actors acted in the film but it starts Martin Sheen as Captain Willard and Marlon Brando, who plays Colonel Kurtz’s role. The film was nominated for 8 Oscars and it won two, a Palme d’Or and three Golden Globes. In 2001, Francis Ford Coppola released in Cannes an extended version called ‘Apocalypse Now Redux’, which received great reviews.
The film is set during the Vietnam War and the script was based in Joseph Conrad’s novel ‘Heart of Darkness’. It was shot in Filipinas and the filming was really hard.
The film is about a man called Captain Willard who is sent in a secret mission to the dangerous jungle in Cambodia in order to find and kill Colonel Kurtz, who is an ex member of the US Army Special Forces and lives in a hidden village. While they are looking for Colonel Kurtz, Willard and their soldiers suffer fear and drugs effects as well as horrible diseases and violent conflicts.
I strongly recommend “Apocalypse Now” because is an amazing film and it is considered one of the best films in history. It has a great soundtrack, and the picture is marvellous. I couldn’t choose a scene because from my point of view the film is almost perfect, a masterpiece.
MUST-HAVE DVD: MILLION DOLLAR BABY by Clint Eastwood (2004).
Million Dollar Baby is a film which was made in 2004 and it was directed by Clint Eastwood, who participated also in the film’s production, in the soundtrack’s composition and he played the part of the Maggie’s trainer, Frankie Dunn.
Besides Eastwood, we can find in the cast some starts, for instance, Hilary Swank who played the part of Maggie, and Morgan Freeman, who played the part of Eddie Dupris who is Frankie’s close friend.
The script was written by Paul Haggis and it was based on a novel by FX Toole which is named Stories from the corner.
This film is set in The Lakers in the late 1990s. It was filmed on location in a The Lakers’ slumb.
Million Dollar Baby won 4 Oscar in 2005 for Best Film, Best Director, Best Main Actress and Best Secondary Actor.
This film was dubbed into other languages and it has won international prices.
The film is about a waitress 31 years old who wishes to be a professional boxer woman.
She trains every day in the Frankie’s gym and she wishes Frankie’s going to be her trainer, but he repels her because he want to get that another boxer, Willie’s going to be a champion.
However, Willie looks out another trainer who can get to increase his fame and he leaves to Frankie.
So, Frankie decides to train Maggie to do her a champion. For doing this, Frankie is convinced by Dupris, who is attached just with Maggie.
For this way, Maggie and Frankie start a relation as soon as dad and daughter.
When Maggie is a famous boxer woman, they will begin a tour around Europe. There, Maggie decides to fight against Billie, who is the present winner.
The fighter is celebrated in The Lakers and in it Maggie suffers a terrible accident and she results paralytic. Frankie is upset with her and he looks after her every day because Maggie has some problems with her family.
This last theme opens some debates or chats about euthanasia which is still illegal in most countries.
I strongly recommend Million Dollar Baby. It will make you laugh and cry. It has a memorable soundtrack written by Eastwood.
With her effort Maggie gets to touch the spectators’ hears. It is an open door to debate.
MUST-HAVE DVD: MILLION DOLLAR BABY by Clint Eastwood (2004).
Correction:
Million Dollar Baby is a film which was made in 2004 and was directed by Clint Eastwood, who participated also in the film’s production, in the soundtrack’s composition and he played the part of the Maggie’s trainer, Frankie Dunn.
Besides Eastwood, we can find in the cast some starts, for instance, Hilary Swank who played the part of Maggie, and Morgan Freeman, who played the part of Eddie Dupris who is Frankie’s close friend.
The script was written by Paul Haggis and it was based on a novel by FX Toole which is named Stories from the corner.
This film is set in The Lakers in the late 1990s. It was filmed on location in a The Lakers’ slumb.
Million Dollar Baby won 4 Oscar in 2005 for Best Film, Best Director, Best Main Actress and Best Secondary Actor.
This film was dubbed into other languages and it has won international prices.
The film is about a 31 years old waitress who wishes to be a professional boxer woman.
She trains every day in Frankie’s gym and she wishes Frankie’s going to be her trainer, but he repels her because he want to get another boxer, Willie’s going to be a champion.
However, Willie looks out another trainer who can get to increase his fame and he leaves Frankie.
So, Frankie decides to train Maggie to do her a champion. For doing this, Frankie is convinced by Dupris, who is attached just with Maggie.
For this way, Maggie and Frankie start a relation the same as if they were dad and daughter.
When Maggie is a famous boxer woman, they begin a tour around Europe. There, Maggie decides to fight against Billie, who is the present winner.
The fighter is celebrated in The Lakers and in it Maggie suffers a terrible accident and she results paralytic. Frankie is upset with her and he looks after her every day because Maggie has some problems with her family.
This last theme opens some debates or chats about euthanasia which is still illegal in most countries.
I strongly recommend Million Dollar Baby. It will make you laugh and cry. It has a memorable soundtrack written by Eastwood.
With her effort Maggie gets to touch the spectators’ hearts. It is an open door to debate.