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'Jaws' (1975)
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Jaws (1975)
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Steven Speilberg
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John Williams
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Peter Benchley
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Robert Shaw
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The 1970s began in turmoil and ended in a return to ________ values, best illustrated perhaps by the agenda of the Ronald Reagan years in the 1980s. For some, this symbolized a trip from darkness to light. For others, it represented the transformation of a great promise into a defining 1980s phrase, “diminished expectation."
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Name the “elder statesman” of the directors who came into their own in the 1970s. He too started as a TV director in the 1960s but when he finally was given a major studio film M.A.S.H. (1970), he broke many rules like deemphasizing plot, showcasing characters, revising genre expectations with a humorous pessimism and overlapped dialogue, often with a large ensemble cast.
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Name the most prestigious filmmaker of the 1970s, winning Oscars for Best Picture for The Godfather (1972) & The Godfather II (1974) as well as the Grand Prize at cannes for The Conversation (1974). The film were all made with extreme details and were cast of mostly unknowns to guarantee a sense of authenticity.
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Name the 1970s director who graduated from NYU’s film program, started as an editor and transitioned into making Independent violent and personal films based in Little Italy of New York. His films are technically elegant while showing very gritty and inarticulate characters. His most personal films are Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980).
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Born and raised in New York, this comedian started writing jokes as a teenager for 1950s TV. He turned to doing stand-up himself in the 1960s and even though he hated it, he perfected it. His persona as a small, frail, klutzy, cowardly, sex-obsessed, Jewish, intellectual was celebrated unanimously with Annie Hall (1977) when it won an Oscar for Best picture. He has since made a movie every year for almost 40 years.
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On the basic of some 8 mm/16mm student films that this film freak had made as a teenager in Arizona, this twenty-one-year-old was hired by MCA to direct TV episodes. he then was assigned an adaptation of the book Jaws (1975), which became highest money-maker of all time. Each of his films following he has been able to choose to make including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) & E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982) .
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Shortly after the middle of the decade, American movies became progressively more optimistic, less concerned with social tensions. Name the screenwriter and star of the boxing film Rocky (1976) that won Best Picture. He has since made five sequels and has become an icon of American cinema for all time.
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The Godfather (1972)
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Francis Ford Coppola | Gordon Willis | Al Pacino
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The Godfather (1977)
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L Actor : Diana Keaton
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Rocky (1976)
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Sylvester Stallone | John Vildsen
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Director: John Vildsen
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Star Wars (1977)
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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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Network (1976)
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Director : Sidney Lumet
Camera: Owen Roizmen
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Robert Duvall
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Faye Dunaway
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Name the president of the U.S from 1981-1989. He had become famous from being a B-Movie actor in Action films during the 1930s & 1940s. _______
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The advent of what new device added yet another diversion (like the television in the 1950s) with which movie theatres had to compete with. Hint: The way movies were screened, the number of revival movie houses declined, as well as how movies were filmed, widescreen processes diminished because this new invention allowed audiences to have most of film history at their fingertips.
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| The video cassette record (VCR) |
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Major studios started rebuilding vertical integration that controlled films and their makers. By the end of the 1980s, the studios owned 3,500 of the countries 22,000 theatres. List the three branches.
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1. Disney's TouchStone
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The top 10 box office performers of the 1980s were all men. The return to conservative "traditional" values in the 1980s did not bode well for female actresses & directors who had a difficult time finding good work in the 1980s. Name three of the top male 1980s star moneymakers.
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Harrison Ford| Robert Zemeckis | Dan Aykroud | Meryl Streep | Eddie Murphy |
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| Harrison Ford | Dan Aykroud | Eddie Murphy |
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The 1980s was a decade of big money and military spending both of which were what people wanted to see at the movies. The richest 20% of the U.S accounted for 44% of the income while the poorest 20% received only 4.6% of the income. Close to 3 million Americans were homeless, mostly consisting of Vietnam veterans, women and children and who are still barely surviving to this day. What Charles Dickens line can sum up the decade's ironic dilemma?
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The War Film. Name the actor helped re-invent the glory and the proud American post-Vietnam War, with his recurring portrayals of the "common man" characters Rocky Balboa & John Rambo.
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With Steven Spielberg as his mentor, this energetic protege brought a comedic zest to family friendly film creating the Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989), the ingenious amalgam of live action and animation, which served as both a tribute to and rebirth to classical animation.
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Name the "Actress of the 1980s (&1990s)" best known for her diverse roles Sophie's Choice (1982) playing tragic, comedic and courageous women and has now (by 2012) been nominated 17 times winning 3 Oscars.
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What 1975 film is known as the "godfather of summer blockbusters"?
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This Canadian horror filmmaker has consistently explored the grotesque physical transformations within in human beings with films like Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983) and his most commerciallly successful film, a remake of The Fly (1986) which works as an allegory for AIDS, canner and every human being's inevitable aging process. Truly a movie for the 1980s, name this one-of-a-kind artist.
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David Cronenberg | Oliver Stone | Spike Lee
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Achieving his biggest popular success with Vietnam war film Platoon (1986) winning best picture, director and editing, this filmmaker had been working for a full decade having won an Oscar for his screenplay Midnight Express (1978). His overt and heavy-handed questioning of the era's conservative status quo polarized audiences, yet was the perfect counter-balance to the patriotic flag-waving blockbusters i.e. Top Gun (1986) & Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
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This New York filmmaker opened the world's eyes to the complexities in the modern ghetto neighborhood. His first film She's Gotta Have It (1986) was a breath of fresh air about a woman who explains why she doesn't need to commit to one man. His film Do the Right Thing (1989) is an uunsentimental critique of bigotry from black, white, brown and yellow! His combination of brilliant comic timing, improve acting, melodrama and inventive camera techniques amkes him one of the most exciting filmmakers of the decade!
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Debuting with his midnite movie sensation Eraserhead (1977), this painter turned surreal filmmaker combines a truly original subconscious vision, dredging up images and abstract images with very little explanation. Yet somehow he is able to make the irrational simultaneously seductive and terrifying. His films The Elephant Man (1980) and Blue Velvett (1986) are among the strongest made of the decade.
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This independent filmmaker began as a novelist and screenwriter writing screenplays for B-movies (Piranha, 1978 and Alligator, 1980) and using the money to make his own films that explored historical and social troubles with a Marxist analysis of capital and labor (Matewan, 1987, and Eight Men Out, 1988). Unfourtunately, the decade mainstream audience was not interested in these subtle and subversive stories.
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Attending the Calidornia Institute of the Arts, with a major in animation, this director worked with Disney initially and made his feature film debut with the off beat comdy Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985). His weird sensibilities are fable-like with a fondness for the bizarre and grotesque yet presented in an accessible childlike way. One of the 1980s biggest box office sucesses was his comic adaptation of Batman (1989)
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The leader of the most famous British comedy troupe is in fact American. his curious cut-out collage style of antic animation has become the dominant mode of his live action work as well as inspiring modern lo-fi shows like Trey Parker's South Park. His films in the 1980s never fully connected with mainstream critics or audiences ranging from his beautifully designed Time Bandits (1981), his Orwellian masterpiece Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989).
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First Blood (1982)
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Anold Schwarzegger | Ted Kotcheff | Sylvester Stallone | John Rambs | Meryl Streep |
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Director: Ted Kotcheff
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