Sunday, November 16, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Moviie shots globally.,
The Lord of the Rings, a multi-million trilogy shot solely in New Zealand amidst breathtaking scenary, Middle earth, has won millions of hearts world-wide, making it a HUGE financial success.
Gladiator (2000) is another spectacular film set inside the Colosseum in Rome, a real exciting movie shoting scene, was also a big blockbuster movie, winning many Oscar awards.#
Blood diamond, a fabulous movie set during the Sierra Leone Civil war in 1999 was shot entirely in Africa, showing its troubles and issues.
Jumper (2008) was a hollywood movie featuring Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Samuel Jackson, Rachel Bilson that was shot in 20 cities in 14 countries around the world! Take a look at the trailer for more detail of these places...
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Cinema of China & Japan
There are three sectors in Chineese film: Cinema of HongKong, cinema of China and cinema of Taiwan.
Many Chinese films have achieved box-office success abroad. Films like House of Flying Daggers, and Farewell my Concubine have received world-wide recognition. 2004 saw the light of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, another phemoninal hit across the world, that almost matched movies of Hollywood.
Infact, it became the highest-grossing-foreign-language film in American History and won many Academy awards, including the Best foreign Language Film.Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi, two well-known chinese actors are seen in this film.
JAPANESE..
There are actually many genres in Japanese film..
Anime:: Japanese animation that is now even hugely popular in english.Anime itself has a huge culture in Japan and dates back to about 1917.The influence of Japanese Calligraphy and Japanese painting also influence the anime style of creation. The mega sucess of the Nintendo series Pokemon was helped by anime.Anime dramatically interested more Westerners to the culture of Japan...
Americans have used this animations for satirical shows, such as South Park and Family Guy...which are hugely popular nowadays in the western world.
J-Horror:: Japanese horror movies are given this name, due to the fact that they tend to be more psychological and tension building than normal terror.Its origins come from the Ejo period and the maijin period, which are known as kwaidan.
Japanese Horror movies such as the Ring and the Grudge have been made into Hollywood movies also, which became extremely popular.
This is a well-known Japanese animated movie.
Source:http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s95/bollywood_movies/SpiritedAway.jpg
This is Pirates of the Caribbean in a chinese release...
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Bollywood Movie- saawariya
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Friday, October 24, 2008
cinema of India
The most well-known and largest branch would have to be the Hindi speaking-Bollywood industry. The name Bollywood originated from the city Bombay and is also derived from 'Hollywood'. {B+ Hollywood=Bollywood}.
Bombay {now called Mumbai}, as one can guess is the base of Bollywood movies.
Bollywood films are nowadays influenced largely by the western cultures...the movies are now more or less a blend of indian and western cultures.. An entire movie shot in a foreign country has become the norm in these bollywood films. Many of the times, the moviemakers even shoot song scenes in a variety of foreign countries...so that they can make the movie all the more glamourous and entertaining for the audience.
They show the real Indian culture in that they are mostly always a combination of song, dance and acting....much like a musical!
They are viewed by a large number of South-asians living abroad in other western countries, i.e. USA, Canada, UK...
Theres no doubt that Bollywood has increasing international recognition nowadays... its actors such as the bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai are well-known Indian ambassidors in Hollywood.
Monday, October 20, 2008
US Cinema/ Hollywood
We all love Hollywood films, whether it be the Disney-pixar animations, a Spilsberg blockbuster like Jaws {which was in 1965 considered the first summer blockbuster} or the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy featuring Johnny Depp!! It is without question that hollywood makes a huge impact on the world with its actors and directors having fame worldwide.
Hollywood cinema's do realease globally. Infact some movies are even released in other countries earlier than in the US, for example Japan or Australia where there is a HUUGE audience for hollywood movies.
The fact that English is the core language of these Hollywood movies makes it all the more accesible for the world. People around the world watch Hollywood movies in addition to the movies made by their own countries!
SOURCE: wikipedia.com
Spider Man trilogy- set in NYC
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