46º – Piranha (Ricardo)

Sessão no dia 12 de julho de 2009.

38º – Death Proof (Ricardo)

Sessão no dia 12 de abril de 2009.

35º – Planet Terror (Ricardo)

Sessão no dia 1 de março de 2009.

25° – Gremlins (Ricardo)

21 de setembro

Momento ‘Filmes da Infância’ – acho que vou utilizar esse expediente mais vezes.
Desde o início do Film Club eu imaginava que ver Gremlins com todos vocês seria muito divertido. É um clássico dos anos 80 e um clássico com a participação de um cineasta que teve uma grande importância dirigindo/produzindo pérolas de nossa infância, como ET, Goonies, O Enigma da Pirâmide e por aí vai – puxa, ‘O Enigma da Pirâmide’ daria uma ótima sessão, não? Eu precisava homenagear esse período tão legal, com tantos filmes marcantes e fundamentais para nossa vida, para nossa formação. Aquele ‘filtro’ da época, aquela abordagem que o Spielberg utilizava caracterizou uma das melhores fases para o cinema infanto-juvenil na história do cinema. Enquanto crianças, acredito que fomos privilegiados. Pudemos aproveitar o melhor que os anos 80 ofereceu. Vivemos essa época tão rica e constatamos hoje – duas décadas depois – que era de fato algo especial. E continua especial. Gremlins é uma parte disso.

Ah, e agora a Trivia, é claro! Ou vocês acham que eu iria dispensar uma trivia para Gremlins?

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When Billy calls home to tell his mother to get out of the house right after the Gremlins hatch, one of the creatures reaches up to pull out the phone line and says “Phone home, caca”, paraphrasing the famous line from Steven Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

Steven Spielberg had broken his leg and he does a cameo as a inventor in a motorized wheelchair, if you look closely you can see his leg in a cast.

Originally planned and scheduled for a Christmas release, the film was rushed into production shortly after Warner Bros. found out that it had no major competition against Paramount’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) or Columbia’s Ghost Busters (1984) for the summer movie season.

In Chris Columbus’s original script, Lynn Peltzer was killed by the gremlins and her head rolled down the stairs. This along with several other darker elements (ie, the family dog is eaten by the gremlins, the gremlins attack a McDonald’s and eat the customers but refuse to touch the hamburgers) were never shot due to the fact that both, Joe Dante and Warner Bros. wanted the movie to be more family oriented.

In Cantonese Chinese, mogwai means demon or gremlin. The Mandarin pronunciation is mogui.

Both Judd Nelson and Emilio Estevez were considered for the role of Billy.

At the end, when the old Chinese shopkeeper comes to get Gizmo, you can hear Gizmo say, “Baba,” which is Chinese for “Dad”.

Little to no actual dialogue for the Gremlins and Mogwai exists in the script in itself. In addition to several instances of on stage rewrites changing or adding to much of the script, the voiceovers were all mostly ad libs, repeating snippets of just performed dialogue or in reaction to other sound effects or environment. To this end, Howie Mandel recorded Gizmo’s lines phonetically for foreign dubs of the movie, where localized dialogue and in jokes helped make the picture successful with audiences world wide.

Joe Dante says that in the original draft of the script, Gizmo turns into Stripe. But, Steven Spielberg overruled this plot element saying that Gizmo was too cute to be turned evil, and it would be too confusing for audiences to understand that he is evil for the second half of the film. This became stressful for Chris Walas who had designed the Gizmo puppet only for the actions that happened in the first half of the movie and had to figure out how to make it work in the rest of the film, hence why Gizmo is always seen in Billy’s back pack for the rest of the film.

At least one of Phoebe Cates’s screams in the scene at Dorry’s Tavern is genuine. An enormous cockroach crawled out in front of her during one take.

After watching his earlier short films, Steven Spielberg considered Tim Burton to direct the film. But decided against it because at the time Burton had never directed a full feature length film.

See Ya!

15º – Chinatown (Ricardo)

6 de julho

Eu sempre gostei muito do Polanski. Sua obra é muito pungente, muito pessoal. Fica bem claro que todo o sofrimento do cinesta é, de uma certa forma, canalizado para seus filmes – isso é bem evidente em filmes como ‘Lua de Fel’ ou ‘O Pianista’.  Um outro aspecto que me atrai é sua capacidade técnica e o seu talento para agregar os melhores em torno dele, com resultados quase sempre brilhantes. ‘Chinatown’ é, talvez, o melhor exemplo disso.
Selecionei esta Trivia bem legal sobre o filme:

- The scene where Roman Polanski slits Jack Nicholson’s nose was extremely complex to film, and the two men involved got so tired of explaining how it was done that they began to claim Nicholson’s nose was actually cut.

- The prop knife used to cut Jack Nicholson’s nose had a special hinged blade that would only bend in one direction. If it were inserted the wrong way, it would have really cut Nicholson who was understandably nervous during the filming of that scene.

- At one point, Roman Polanski and Jack Nicholson got into such a heated argument that Polanski smashed Nicholson’s portable TV with a mop. Nicholson used the TV to watch L.A. Lakers basketball games and kept stalling shooting

- Because this film was the first of a planned trilogy, Jack Nicholson turned down all detective roles he was offered so that the only detective he played would be Jake Gittes

- The last movie Roman Polanski filmed in the US.

- In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #21 Greatest Movie of All Time.

- Ranked #2 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre “Mystery” in June 2008

- Faye Dunaway and Roman Polanski were notorious for their on-set arguments; during filming, Polanski pulled out some strands of Dunaway’s hair.

- After several takes that never looked quite right, Faye Dunaway told Jack Nicholson to actually slap her. He did, and the scene made it into the movie.

- Peter Bogdanovich turned down the chance to direct. He later regretted his decision.

- Roman Polanski has said that the dark ending to the film was a result of his own despair following the murder of his wife, actress Sharon Tate.

11º – Kung Fusão (Ricardo)

5 de Junho

Nada como um bom filme de Artes Marciais, não? Pois é, eu gosto. Na verdade eu não curto muito comédias Kung Fu, mas o nosso filme de ontem é muito legal. Grandes lutas e vários elementos da Cultura chinesa – e oriental. E, claro, quis trazer algo diferente para o projeto. Somente a Tuana viu o filme, então acredito que foi algo interessante. Gostaram? Adadaiadeiôôôôôôô… Até o ____________, meu próximo filme!

1º – Plan 9 – (Ricardo)

9 de Fevereiro