The Wolf of Wall Street: The Chase For Money The best things in life, are the things that grab our attention and keep it. The things that stand about because they are real and entertaining as hell. If The Wolf of Wall Street is anything, it is no doubt many of these things. It is honest, shameless, inappropriate, a classic comedy, and shows the struggle with business and pleasure. This movie has many, if not all, the best qualities a movie could have in my opinion. But you still have to ask what
movie that adds the best of all worlds to create the masterpiece seen today. Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, Gladiator, was released to the public in 2000. Received with initial success and regarded as one of the best movies of the year, during its release in 2000, Gladiator had received numerous awards. The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning five including Best Picture, twelve BAFTA Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards, winning two including Best Original Score. AFI’s 100 Heroes and
author of librettos and original lyrics for multiple musicals including: La Révolution Française (1973), Les Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996) and The Pirate Queen (2006), all in collaboration with Claude-Michel Schönberg. Boublil won two Tony Awards for best score and best book, two Victoire de la Musique Awards, two Grammys, and a Molière Award for Les Misérables. He co-wrote the screenplay and also co-produced the soundtrack of the Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated
movie that got Oscar 11 awards with Ben-Hur which from 1959 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King which from 2003. And it was the movie that was nominated to win 14 times, the number of nomination and winning is the most amount which has in Oscar history. The another famous award is Golden Globe, Titanic got 4 awards of Golden Globe in Best motion picture, Best original score ,Best director and Best original song. Titanic was nominated in another 4 branches; Best performance by an actor
After just reading the title,You probably have never heard the name Hans Zimmer until just now(Don’t worry no one has). Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film score composer and record producer. Since the 80s, he has composed music for more than 150 films. He is famous for his works in movies like “The Lion King,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Dark Knight Trilogy,” “Inception,” and “Interstellar.” Hans may not be as famous as John Williams but I feel he needs some recognition. Hans Zimmer was
crucial elements of the franchise’s vast popularity. The score of the first movie, Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), not only won an Academy Award for Original Score, but also a Golden Globe for Best Original Score, and a BAFTA for Best Film Music, among other awards. More than thirty years later, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) held its own in terms of fantastic music as it was nominated for the Academy Award and BAFTA. Overall, the film score from Star Wars: The Force Awakens emotes originality with
Antonio Pinto is one of the well-known film score composer. He is also known as Antonio Alves Pinto which is said to be his nickname. He is a Brazilian film score composer. He was born in the year 1967. He was born in the famous city of Rio de Janeiro of Brazil. He is a Brazilian citizen. His parents are Ziraldo Alves Pinto and Vilma Gontijo. His father was a famous cartoonist. He also has a brother named Daniela Thomas. His brother is a famous film-maker. This signifies that his family is in the
Lin Manuel Miranda is a playwright, songwriter, singer, actor, and rapper. He has many accomplishments during his career, including Tony awards, Grammys, emmys, and other awards. He is most popular for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals Hamilton, and in the heights. Lin was born in Manhattan, New York, on January 16, 1980, in the neighborhood of Washington Heights. His mother luz towns was a clinical psychologist, and his father Luis A. Miranda was a Democratic Party consultant who
The Critical History of Singin’ in the Rain The 1952 original musical, Singin’ in the Rain is one of the most treasured musical films ever made. This heartwarming, hysterical, and enjoyable movie illustrates the challenging shift from silent pictures to speaking films. Singin’ in the Rain was created in a way that gives the viewer a surprisingly accurate glimpse into the history of this period of cinematic evolution. This is all done while providing non-stop entertainment for the audience. The
Ray Charles one of the greatest African-American artists of all time. He left a legacy of hits and Grammy awards, but the musicians he influenced were very diverse in genre as the music he wrote, arranged, performed, and recorded. Ray Charles died at the age of 73 on June 10, 2004 from acute liver disease. Months after his death on October 29, 2004 the movie Ray was released to the U.S on a budget of forty million dollars. The film went on to become a box-office hit, earning over $100 million dollars
Born on 14 August 1953 in Los Angeles, California, James Horner was an American composer, conductor, and film score orchestrator. He was born to Jewish immigrants. His father was born in Holíč, immigrating to the United States in 1935 to work as a set designer and art director. His mother was born to a distinguished Canadian family. Horner began playing piano at the age of five. He studied at the Royal College of Music. When he returned to the United States in the early 1970s, he attended Verde
Schindler's List, by Steven Spielberg is an award-winning masterpiece - a movie which portrays the shocking and nightmarish holocaust in a three-hour long epic. The documentary touch re-creates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Jews in Nazi-occupied Krakow were first deprived off , of their businesses and homes, then placed in ghettos and were then forced to labor for no consideration in camps in Plaszow, and finally they were resettled in concentration camps for execution
In 2010 the Academy Awards gave its best picture award to a film called The King’s Speech directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. It was a well written and executed film however there was another film that should have won instead of The King’s Speech. That film was called The Social Network directed by the revered David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film starred Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake. It was adapted from a book called “The Accidental Billionaires”
Included in the several awards, was one for Best Director bringing worth to Spielberg’s name. Following Close Encounters of the Third Kind were films: I Wanna Hold Your Hand, 1941, four time Academy Award Winning Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well as the unforgettable ET: The Extraterrestrial. E.T was eventually became the highest grossing movie in history, and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, earning four as well as multiple Golden Globes and Grammy’s (DreamWorks Studios)
important element of movies that help shape the meaning of a film is the soundtrack. The soundtrack is a selection of recorded music that can be synchronized to the film. There are five main types of soundtrack recording which include Musical film, Film scores, Pop albums, videogame sounds, and albums with dialogue and music. All of these types of sound creates the environment of specific scene. There are three movies that interests me with its stimulating storyline and soundtrack
What makes these movies so different? The Great Gatsby 1974 version and The Great Gatsby 2013 version show the love Gatsby has for Daisy, but both movies show it in different ways which is seen through the scene selection, cinematography, music and awards. This essay will discuss in detail how these differences make the movies distinguishable. Some scenes from 1974 are not included in the 2013 one such as the hotel scene where Gatsby tells Tom about his affair with Daisy. Daisy runs out of the room
festival awards, and got him attention of Universal Studios. Not only does he direct movie; he also directs television sitcoms. Steven’s first feature film was in 1974, The Sugarland Express. This was a comedy/drama based on a true story of a fugitive couple who flees the authorities with their child, whom they refuse to give up for adoption. This film won an award at Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for Best screenplay. One of his biggest films that he ever directed was Jaws. Jaws was one of the best films
New York Times bestseller book written by Jon krauker about a boy who leaves everything behind to live the aesthetic life. The film directed by Sean Penn won ten awards including a Golden Globe award for best original song and was nominated for over twenty awards including two academy awards for best supporting actor and best film editing. The elements in this film such as music, sound, picture, and visual effects create a great overall combination that compliment the beautiful storyline
The best known work from these years is his “Music in Twelve Parts,” this is a six-hour composition. It is a perfect example of minimalism because of the slow transformation and the repetitive structure of the composition. He wrote it so that he could combined
taxi-driver at night; many of his customers represent the people from the lowest class of society: prostitutes, adulterous husbands and wenchers. Since Travis has promised the cab company that he will drive anywhere, at anytime, his likelihood of seeing the best of human nature is fairly slim. So, he tries to create an extra-occupational life for himself. He befriends Betsy, a beautiful girl working at a Senator's campaign office. Unluckily, with on possession of the slightest amount of social skills, Travis