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The end of the silent movie era
By 1929, “silent cinema” had become an international language. The film, shot in Germany, could be understood and felt, both in America and in Europe. But the appearance of the phone required the movie to "speak." Will “talking films” destroy the international language? Will they sweep away everything that cinema learned in the era of "silent cinema"? This did not happen right away. For a while, “silent films” existed in parallel with “speakers.” Two years earlier, with the release of "The Jazz Singer" (1927), sound cinema came to America...
5 лет назад
Winged phrases
Both old and young people perfectly remember the “catchphrases” from old films - they have survived to the present day. Let's take a trip together to our beloved cult movie. And at the same time, remember that cinema has always been a mirror of the era, the history of the country. Sergei Ezenshtein once said: "We thought we were making a new life and cinematography, but that it, life, made us." One of the characteristic features of the life of the 30s was short and energetic slogans and catchy phrases that sounded at all meetings, campaigning from posters and street banners...
5 лет назад
Rambo Last blood.
Thirty-seven years ago, the cult First Blood, a very brave mixture of action movie and social drama, was released. Due to the fact that the script had a strong literary basis, the protagonist John Rambo turned out to be not just a killing machine, but a deep tragic character. Unfortunately, the popularity of the picture played a cruel joke with her: the studio wanted to make money on the sequels, although this story, they certainly did not need it. As a result, we got a couple of stupid action movies and even a cartoon series (!)...
5 лет назад
Cinema history
The visual series has always played an important role in human perception. We can remember the rock paintings of our ancestors to say with certainty that as soon as a man became a man, as he tried to fix and portray his actions. And, the primitive person fixed the actions in the accurate chronological order - here our ancestors go on hunting, here in a mammoth fly spears, and here already the happy community feasts. However, millennia passed before mankind invented cinema. Experiments with optical devices were set in the IV century BC...
5 лет назад
Charlie Chaplin and his women
Once a Romani woman told him that he would be famous, would be rich, would marry 3 times and would give birth to 3 children. Looking at the lines of his hand, she added that 2 marriages would be unsuccessful, and the third would be happy. Finally, the Romani woman said that he was destined to live a long life and die at the age of 82. Years passed... Charles Spencer Chaplin got rich, became a sir and one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century. However, he was married four times and he had five more children than the Romani woman predicted...
5 лет назад