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PBS has an interview with Acadamy Award winner Geena Davis wherein she talks about her namesake foundation that researches the impetus of gender disparities in entertainment, especially in G-PG13 films.
Check out the interview.PBS has an interview with Acadamy Award winner Geena Davis wherein she talks about her... more
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This spring marks the 20th anniversary of Thelma & Louise, which is being commemorated by a special edition re-release of the DVD and a retrospective of Susan Sarandon's work at BAM, called the Susan Sarandon Picture Show. But despite the film's iconic status, Sarandon said that her acting in some parts was an afterthought.
"It was my job to drive the car and line up the camera which was outside the car, attached to a truck following us," the actress revealed at her retrospective. "I had to drive and talk to [Geena Davis] and line up the camera between the rear view mirror and her face as I was talking, and keep the distance for the focus. It was great, because I was barely acting! And I got an Oscar nomination!"
Sarandon wasn't so distracted that she didn't pay attention to details. She brought it to director Ridley Scott's attention that the characters needed to have accents, so we as the audience would know they were in the South. "I said to him, 'Where does this take place?' Nobody knew. They're going somewhere, and we have to figure out where they are."
Callie Khouri's script (which won Best Original Screenplay) had a lot of detail, but there was still room to tweak a few scenes, which Sarandon did. The scene where Louise takes off her watch and jewelry, and trades it with an old man for a hat? That was Sarandon's idea, she said, because she felt like Louise "didn't need time" anymore. "I didn't feel that I would have on [my jewelry] still," she said, "and it was time to decide who they are and where they were going."
Another scene that changed based on Sarandon's suggestion was the grace note at the climax. The filmmakers had left the scene with the car going over the cliff until the end, and by the time they were ready for the actors, the sun was going down.
"I was so sick of being in that car," Sarandon said, "So I said, 'Can't we have a scene that's quiet?' It just seemed like they had been talking so much up until now that they should be finishing each other's sentences. So we moved the lines that were needed to a car chase scene, where we could yell the lines over that, and we got to the climax, where it's like no dialogue whatsoever. We're just looking at things like we're present for the first time."
Sarandon called Scott "brilliant" for putting the characters in "that incredible, heroic frame and vista." "I'm happy this film ended up stirring up so much dialogue," she said, "whether we anticipated it or not." This spring marks the 20th anniversary of Thelma & Louise, which is being... more
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The days of inaccurate, stereotypical or even missing portrayals of women and girl characters on television and in movies are long over.
Or so actress Geena Davis was told when she approached studio and television executives six years ago about the problem she was seeing in the shows and films she was watching with her then-2-year-old daughter.
"That issue has been taken care of," Davis told a gathering here earlier this month, hosted by the Girl Scouts of the USA. The event focused on improving media treatment of girls.
Girl Scouts of the USA--an umbrella organization for 3.4 million girls in scouting troops--has enlisted the help of such industry leaders as the National Association of Broadcasters and the National Cable and Television Association. The goal is to get entertainment and media companies to improve the images of girls projected by Hollywood, advertising and even among kids on the Internet.
The girls' image campaign and ongoing gatherings is led by a partnership of 12 groups representing girls' advocates, broadcasters, studios and lobbying firms. The Girl Scouts said they have no funding numbers to put on the project, just "countless staff hours."
Get the full story at Women's eNews http://www.womensenews.org/story/media-stories/101015/girl-scouts-bushwhack-new-trails-in-media-jungle?page=0,1The days of inaccurate, stereotypical or even missing portrayals of women and girl... more
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The Rotten Tomatoes Show runs down the top five dream sequences of all time, including the scene featuring a giant metal Samurai in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil." Surprisingly, Hitchcock's "Spellbound" misses the list -- Ellen Fox explains, the sequence designed by Salvador Dali is somehow not weird enough.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30/9:30c on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
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The Big Lebowski premieres on Current TV Thursday, November 4th at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT.The Rotten Tomatoes Show runs down the top five dream sequences of all time, including... more
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"There are many types of horror movies, and certain subgenres have more films than others. Zombie movies are a dime a dozen, and you can't throw a dead, pasty faced goth kid without hitting a vampire flick. There are horror movies with monsters, with aliens and with good old fashioned, down-to-earth, honest to God psychopaths. There are slasher movies and ghost stories and whatever you want to call the Saw and Hostel movies. But the genre that stands out above the rest in terms of intense horror, inventive gore and real terror is the same genre that has even less film entries than movies about evil toys, and that is the often overlooked genre of body horror."
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http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-7322-Orlando-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Halloween-movie-review-The-Fly"There are many types of horror movies, and certain subgenres have more films... more
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