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In order to distance his version of Bond from Sean Connery's, Roger Moore did not order a martini. [185] The martini was present in the first Ian Fleming novel, Casino Royale, where Bond eventually named it "The Vesper", after Vesper Lynd. The same recipe was then used for the 2006 film of the novel, with the martini ordered by Daniel Craig's Bond.
[a] They each make extensive use of the leitmotif, or a series of musical themes that represents the various characters, objects and events in the films. Throughout all of the franchise, which consists of a total of over 18 hours of music, [ b ] Williams has written approximately sixty or seventy themes, in one of the largest, richest ...
The Movies That Made Us is an American documentary television series created by Brian Volk-Weiss, and a spin-off to The Toys That Made Us. The four episode debut season of the new series is dedicated to popular movies from the 1980s and 1990s, and tells the stories behind them.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) (non-music overture featuring a comical telling of the history of man wanting to fly, from cavemen to when the film is set) The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) (non-music overture featuring narration over montage of Michelangelo's sculptures) Battle of the Bulge (1965) Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Nevertheless, Claxton wrote that "the setting, the use of people and their movement, and various bits of action stand out as extraordinary and make it nearly an obligatory picture." [ 72 ] Other critics considered the film a remarkable achievement that surpassed even its high expectations, praising its visual splendour and ambitious production ...
A thriller soaked in paranoia, Gaslight is a period films noir that, like Hitchcock's The Lodger and Hangover Square, is set in the Edwardian age. It's interesting to speculate about the prominence of a film cycle in the 1940s that can be described as 'Don't Trust Your Husband'.
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American epic swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures.It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and written by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller.
The Birth of a Nation was the first movie shown in the White House, in the East Room, on February 18, 1915. [59] (An earlier movie, the Italian Cabiria (1914), was shown on the lawn.) It was attended by President Woodrow Wilson, members of his family, and members of his Cabinet. [60] Both Dixon and Griffith were present.