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      <title>Film:Cape Fear</title>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Cape Fear<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 1991<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Martin Scorsese<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> <a href="/players/P___110533/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Martin Scorsese</a>'s remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's <a href=/films/13828/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Goodfellas</a>. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (<a href="/players/P____17593/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Robert De Niro</a>) comes calling on the man who served as his public defender, Sam Bowden (<a href="/players/P____52916/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Nick Nolte</a>). Max begins a campaign of harassment against the man and his family because Bowden buried a report that would have in all likelihood acquitted Cady of the charges against him. Bowden's shaky ethics continue in his personal life as he is considering beginning an extramarital affair with colleague Lori Davis (<a href="/players/P____19863/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Illeana Douglas</a>), since he and his wife, Leigh (<a href="/players/P____40447/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jessica Lange</a>) have had a difficult time coming back together since he has admitted to previous indiscretions. Cady infiltrates the family most insidiously by cultivating a relationship with the Bowden's troubled teenage daughte, Danielle (<a href="/players/P____42230/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Juliette Lewis</a>), who is all the more susceptible to Cady's advances because of her parents' problems. <a href="/players/P____49738/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Robert Mitchum</a> and <a href="/players/P____55747/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Gregory Peck</a>, the stars of the original film, have cameo appearances in this version of Cape Fear. De Niro and Lewis were both nominated for Academy Awards for their work in the film. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 21<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 31<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 10<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 6<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 3<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:44:21 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Cape Fear</spout:Title><spout:Year>1991</spout:Year><spout:Director>Martin Scorsese</spout:Director><spout:Plot>&lt;a href="/players/P___110533/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Martin Scorsese&lt;/a&gt;'s remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's &lt;a href=/films/13828/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Goodfellas&lt;/a&gt;. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (&lt;a href="/players/P____17593/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Robert De Niro&lt;/a&gt;) comes calling on the man who served as his public defender, Sam Bowden (&lt;a href="/players/P____52916/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Nick Nolte&lt;/a&gt;). Max begins a campaign of harassment against the man and his family because Bowden buried a report that would have in all likelihood acquitted Cady of the charges against him. Bowden's shaky ethics continue in his personal life as he is considering beginning an extramarital affair with colleague Lori Davis (&lt;a href="/players/P____19863/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Illeana Douglas&lt;/a&gt;), since he and his wife, Leigh (&lt;a href="/players/P____40447/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Jessica Lange&lt;/a&gt;) have had a difficult time coming back together since he has admitted to previous indiscretions. Cady infiltrates the family most insidiously by cultivating a relationship with the Bowden's troubled teenage daughte, Danielle (&lt;a href="/players/P____42230/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Juliette Lewis&lt;/a&gt;), who is all the more susceptible to Cady's advances because of her parents' problems. &lt;a href="/players/P____49738/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Robert Mitchum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/players/P____55747/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Gregory Peck&lt;/a&gt;, the stars of the original film, have cameo appearances in this version of Cape Fear. De Niro and Lewis were both nominated for Academy Awards for their work in the film. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>21</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Tag Target (&gt;10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>31</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>10</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads>6</spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads><spout:SpoutRating>3</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t64450ov57e.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/Cape_Fear/5129/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Cape fear</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/gerosimov/archive/2009/6/6/42560.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t64450ov57e.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 6/6/2009 10:33:35 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Scorseses directing choices (even the over the top ones) make this movie pretty unique. Robert De Niro is very convincing and scary as the revenge thirsty ex-con. Also Juliette Lewis fills the screen with her charisma.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:33:35 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Gerosimov</spout:postby><spout:postto>Gerosimov Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>6/6/2009 10:33:35 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Scorseses directing choices (even the over the top ones) make this movie pretty unique. Robert De Niro is very convincing and scary as the revenge thirsty ex-con. Also Juliette Lewis fills the screen with her charisma.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:What is your favorite Martin Scorsese (directing) and Robert De Niro (acting) collaboration?</title>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/7/2009 12:01:53 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Well I voted for Taxi Driver.  I think it's just overall more focused in my opinion, over the big gangster ones like Casino and Goodfellas (which are both very good). I have yet to see some of these.  I'm interested in Cape Fear since the original was so great.  But I'm surprised no one has even mentioned The King of Comedy.  I know some Scorcese fans that say it's actually maybe his best or at least most underrated movie.  Anyone seen it an have a comment?<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:01:53 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Polls</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/7/2009 12:01:53 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Well I voted for Taxi Driver.  I think it's just overall more focused in my opinion, over the big gangster ones like Casino and Goodfellas (which are both very good). I have yet to see some of these.  I'm interested in Cape Fear since the original was so great.  But I'm surprised no one has even mentioned The King of Comedy.  I know some Scorcese fans that say it's actually maybe his best or at least most underrated movie.  Anyone seen it an have a comment?</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:What is your favorite Martin Scorsese (directing) and Robert De Niro (acting) collaboration?</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/129163/default.aspx'>Macabre_FilmNut</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/6/2009 4:38:42 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="Risselada"] Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. So it was announced a while ago that Martin Scorsese will again be directing Robert De Niro in an upcomming movie called I Heard You Paint Houses.  While the potential release is still a long way off lets talk about your favorite of these filmmakers' previous collaborations.    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Cape FearCasinoGoodfellasThe King of ComedyMean StreetsNew York, New YorkRaging BullTaxi Driver [/quote] Wow, this is a tuff one for me.I am huge fan of Scorsese and De Niro.I remember seeing Cape Fear at the theaters when I was a kid and liked very much. Raging bull was another good one, but not a favorite. Huge fan of mob movie and books. Casino was good but it didnt do nothing for me. I remember reading a book entitled Murder Machine which was about a serial killing hit squad among the time Goodfellas was supposed to take place. This crew in the book was alot like Pesci's   character, but more sinister.  I loved Mean Streets and it was pretty much what Scorsese saw as a child grewing up in the mean streets of New york. I remember him saying in an interview that he had alot of  associates tied into the mob and the only reason he didnt get involved was something to do with health issues, so this was tribuate so to say to his heritage and what he saw. All in all I would have to go with cult favorite, Taxi Driver. I really liked the grittyness of it. Alot of people say it was just an orgy of violence, but to alot of people it was one of the greatest films of our time.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:38:42 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Macabre_FilmNut</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Polls</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/6/2009 4:38:42 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="Risselada"] Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. So it was announced a while ago that Martin Scorsese will again be directing Robert De Niro in an upcomming movie called I Heard You Paint Houses.  While the potential release is still a long way off lets talk about your favorite of these filmmakers' previous collaborations.    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Cape FearCasinoGoodfellasThe King of ComedyMean StreetsNew York, New YorkRaging BullTaxi Driver [/quote] Wow, this is a tuff one for me.I am huge fan of Scorsese and De Niro.I remember seeing Cape Fear at the theaters when I was a kid and liked very much. Raging bull was another good one, but not a favorite. Huge fan of mob movie and books. Casino was good but it didnt do nothing for me. I remember reading a book entitled Murder Machine which was about a serial killing hit squad among the time Goodfellas was supposed to take place. This crew in the book was alot like Pesci's   character, but more sinister.  I loved Mean Streets and it was pretty much what Scorsese saw as a child grewing up in the mean streets of New york. I remember him saying in an interview that he had alot of  associates tied into the mob and the only reason he didnt get involved was something to do with health issues, so this was tribuate so to say to his heritage and what he saw. All in all I would have to go with cult favorite, Taxi Driver. I really liked the grittyness of it. Alot of people say it was just an orgy of violence, but to alot of people it was one of the greatest films of our time.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: What is your favorite Martin Scorsese (directing) and Robert De Niro (acting) collaboration?</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/What_is_your_favorite_Martin_Scorsese_directing/657/39152/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t64450ov57e.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/6/2009 2:27:44 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. So it was announced a while ago that Martin Scorsese will again be directing Robert De Niro in an upcomming movie called I Heard You Paint Houses.  While the potential release is still a long way off lets talk about your favorite of these filmmakers' previous collaborations.    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Cape FearCasinoGoodfellasThe King of ComedyMean StreetsNew York, New YorkRaging BullTaxi Driver<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:27:44 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Polls</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/6/2009 2:27:44 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. So it was announced a while ago that Martin Scorsese will again be directing Robert De Niro in an upcomming movie called I Heard You Paint Houses.  While the potential release is still a long way off lets talk about your favorite of these filmmakers' previous collaborations.    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Cape FearCasinoGoodfellasThe King of ComedyMean StreetsNew York, New YorkRaging BullTaxi Driver</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: creepy</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/critick_chick/archive/2008/6/20/31454.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t64450ov57e.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 6/20/2008 2:47:58 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> this movie is so creepy i just loved it, it's a psychological thriller, and those are the scariest. this is one of my favorites, and i loved robert de niro in this.<br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 6/20/2008 2:45:26 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> this movie is so creepy i just loved it, it's a psychological thriller, and those are the scariest. this is one of my favorites, and i loved robert de niro in this.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:45:26 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>critick_chick</spout:postby><spout:postto>critick_chick Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>6/20/2008 2:45:26 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>this movie is so creepy i just loved it, it's a psychological thriller, and those are the scariest. this is one of my favorites, and i loved robert de niro in this.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Cape Fear (1991, USA, Martin Scorsese) *</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemarian/archive/2008/5/12/28611.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t64450ov57e.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/131080/default.aspx'>CinemaRian</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 5/12/2008 11:46:33 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> When you think of a director doing a movie for the money or the chance to make another film he really wants to make, you generally think of someone going through the motions, lack passions.  Although he never explicitly said so, it often thought that Cape Fear was an commercial effort made either to pay back Universal for financing his dream project, The Last Temptation of Christ,  or to show that he could direct a hit in order to make more "personal" material like his next film, The Age of Innocence, or both.  The surprising thing about Cape Fear is that it's actually worse than a by-the-numbers, phoned in effort- it like the work of a film student who has unending passion, but no judgment.  It is so ridiculously over the top that it would be laughable if it were not so damn boring.  The problem is not that is commercial (lots of great movies are), it's that it's stupid.             The movie is of course a remake of the original Cape Fear, an extremely minor classic directed by J. Lee Thompson, the British filmmaker best known for The Guns of Navarone and the last two Planet of the Apes movies.  I didn't like the original very much and Scorsese is certainly a better director than Thompson, but the latter's film is so superior it's not even a close comparison.  The first movie was just plain boring, Scorese's is boring, obnoxious AND moronic.               Both films are extremely similar in plot and structure.  The remake is more like the original on steroids than a new script or take on the novel by John D. MacDonald that the screenplays are adapted from.  Florida prosecutor Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) is dismayed to learn that convicted rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is being released from prison after fourteen years.  Cady blames Bowden for his prison sentence, and decides to make Bowden's life hell, harassing his wife (Jessica Lange), "courting" his daughter (Juliette Lewis), and threatening to expose and affair he's been having.  The bookish Bowden is unable to defend himself within the law, so he takes his annoying family and a private investigator (Joe Dawn Baker) to an isolated location in Cape Fear, North Carolina, where of course Cady follows.             Comparing the two films, similar as they are, it seems as if Scorsese figured that he could make the movie more exciting if he just made it more violent-lots more violent.  In the first movie, Max Cady was a deplorable person, but he was indeed something approaching human.  In Scorsese's film, Cady is something like a less cultured version of Hannibal Lector.  He is a supervillain.  He is uneducated but knows the law well enough to avoid getting arrested for his behavior, even though I have a hard time believing that a prosecutor would have a hard time getting people to believe that a convicted violent sex offender is a danger to him.  To explain how Cady gets away with all is very implausible.  Isn't he on parole?  Shouldn't a parole officer be checking up on him?  How does this guy have the personal skills to mentally seduce Bowden's daughter (in a completely unconvincing scene), and what does she see in this creep three times her age?               The movie is like a novel written entirely in capitol letters and with on exclamation points as punctuation.  HEY LOOK! MAX CADY, IS REALLY, REALLY REALLY BAD!!!!  The music, re-arranged from the original, is used to punctuate everything as to clue the audience into the fact that the movie is REALLY, REALLY SCARY!!! The addition of the subplot about Bowden's affair doesn't work either and is unnecessary.  The original pitted classic nice guy Gregory Peck against Robert Mitchum (both have cameos in the remake), here we have a sleazeball vs. Satan incarnate.  There's no one to root for.  And then, like most that turn the knob to eleven, it just gets boring,  and the endless fight at the end of the film where Bowden survives things that would kill both Dracula and the Frankenstien monster, is unforgivable.               It seems a rule that most great directors have to make at least one really awful movie- Spielberg made The Color Purple, Coppola made Jack, Herzog made Fata Morgana, Stone made Alexander, Altman made Popeye and Scorsese has made Cape Fear.  This is even worse than New York, New York, and feels longer. Cape Fear (1991)<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:46:33 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>CinemaRian</spout:postby><spout:postto>CinemaRian Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>5/12/2008 11:46:33 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>When you think of a director doing a movie for the money or the chance to make another film he really wants to make, you generally think of someone going through the motions, lack passions.  Although he never explicitly said so, it often thought that Cape Fear was an commercial effort made either to pay back Universal for financing his dream project, The Last Temptation of Christ,  or to show that he could direct a hit in order to make more "personal" material like his next film, The Age of Innocence, or both.  The surprising thing about Cape Fear is that it's actually worse than a by-the-numbers, phoned in effort- it like the work of a film student who has unending passion, but no judgment.  It is so ridiculously over the top that it would be laughable if it were not so damn boring.  The problem is not that is commercial (lots of great movies are), it's that it's stupid.             The movie is of course a remake of the original Cape Fear, an extremely minor classic directed by J. Lee Thompson, the British filmmaker best known for The Guns of Navarone and the last two Planet of the Apes movies.  I didn't like the original very much and Scorsese is certainly a better director than Thompson, but the latter's film is so superior it's not even a close comparison.  The first movie was just plain boring, Scorese's is boring, obnoxious AND moronic.               Both films are extremely similar in plot and structure.  The remake is more like the original on steroids than a new script or take on the novel by John D. MacDonald that the screenplays are adapted from.  Florida prosecutor Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) is dismayed to learn that convicted rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is being released from prison after fourteen years.  Cady blames Bowden for his prison sentence, and decides to make Bowden's life hell, harassing his wife (Jessica Lange), "courting" his daughter (Juliette Lewis), and threatening to expose and affair he's been having.  The bookish Bowden is unable to defend himself within the law, so he takes his annoying family and a private investigator (Joe Dawn Baker) to an isolated location in Cape Fear, North Carolina, where of course Cady follows.             Comparing the two films, similar as they are, it seems as if Scorsese figured that he could make the movie more exciting if he just made it more violent-lots more violent.  In the first movie, Max Cady was a deplorable person, but he was indeed something approaching human.  In Scorsese's film, Cady is something like a less cultured version of Hannibal Lector.  He is a supervillain.  He is uneducated but knows the law well enough to avoid getting arrested for his behavior, even though I have a hard time believing that a prosecutor would have a hard time getting people to believe that a convicted violent sex offender is a danger to him.  To explain how Cady gets away with all is very implausible.  Isn't he on parole?  Shouldn't a parole officer be checking up on him?  How does this guy have the personal skills to mentally seduce Bowden's daughter (in a completely unconvincing scene), and what does she see in this creep three times her age?               The movie is like a novel written entirely in capitol letters and with on exclamation points as punctuation.  HEY LOOK! MAX CADY, IS REALLY, REALLY REALLY BAD!!!!  The music, re-arranged from the original, is used to punctuate everything as to clue the audience into the fact that the movie is REALLY, REALLY SCARY!!! The addition of the subplot about Bowden's affair doesn't work either and is unnecessary.  The original pitted classic nice guy Gregory Peck against Robert Mitchum (both have cameos in the remake), here we have a sleazeball vs. Satan incarnate.  There's no one to root for.  And then, like most that turn the knob to eleven, it just gets boring,  and the endless fight at the end of the film where Bowden survives things that would kill both Dracula and the Frankenstien monster, is unforgivable.               It seems a rule that most great directors have to make at least one really awful movie- Spielberg made The Color Purple, Coppola made Jack, Herzog made Fata Morgana, Stone made Alexander, Altman made Popeye and Scorsese has made Cape Fear.  This is even worse than New York, New York, and feels longer. Cape Fear (1991)</spout:body></item>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/3/2008 3:00:42 PM<br/>
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Star Wars may have the most famous opening title sequence in film history, but in terms of influence it’s got nothing on the work of Saul Bass. He’s the brilliant graphic designer who gave us the animated credits for Hitchcock’s Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho and Scorsese’s Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence and Goodfellas and most of Otto Preminger’s work, including Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder and The Man With the Golden Arm. You’ve also seen his work at the beginning of West Side Story and Alien and Big and The Seven Year Itch and Spartacus.
But what if he had designed the opening credits to Star Wars? Well, it might have looked something like this video, which was created for a school project. Interesting, yes. Creative, yes. Entertaining, yes. Memorable, no. It just goes to show how significant some credit sequences can be, because this is hardly appropriate for George Lucas’ film. And I don’t just mean because the music is all wrong. If this student wanted to go with a jazz score for the titles, he should have gone with a jazz cover of the Star Wars theme. And if he wanted something more upbeat, he could have used a jazz cover of the Cantina Band song (both covers can be heard on this album).
If I was this guy’s professor, I’d give him a B+, mostly for effort and the fact that I love the lazer blasts and the zoom in on the Death Star at the end. For the A, though, he’d need to resubmit with something more suitable than a Buddy Rich soundtrack.
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Star Wars may have the most famous opening title sequence in film history, but in terms of influence it’s got nothing on the work of Saul Bass. He’s the brilliant graphic designer who gave us the animated credits for Hitchcock’s Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho and Scorsese’s Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence and Goodfellas and most of Otto Preminger’s work, including Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder and The Man With the Golden Arm. You’ve also seen his work at the beginning of West Side Story and Alien and Big and The Seven Year Itch and Spartacus.
But what if he had designed the opening credits to Star Wars? Well, it might have looked something like this video, which was created for a school project. Interesting, yes. Creative, yes. Entertaining, yes. Memorable, no. It just goes to show how significant some credit sequences can be, because this is hardly appropriate for George Lucas’ film. And I don’t just mean because the music is all wrong. If this student wanted to go with a jazz score for the titles, he should have gone with a jazz cover of the Star Wars theme. And if he wanted something more upbeat, he could have used a jazz cover of the Cantina Band song (both covers can be heard on this album).
If I was this guy’s professor, I’d give him a B+, mostly for effort and the fact that I love the lazer blasts and the zoom in on the Death Star at the end. For the A, though, he’d need to resubmit with something more suitable than a Buddy Rich soundtrack.
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      <title>Spout Post: movie year countdown #45 - 1962 - Cape Fear</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2007/12/12/22743.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t64450ov57e.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/12/2007 3:59:02 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> This blog entry is part of my &ldquo;movie year countdown&rdquo;.  To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.Cape FearThis movie certainly deserves the adjective &quot;Hitchcockian.&quot;  You can tell the filmmakers had him in mind during every step of the process.  The music was even done by Bernard Herrmann!  They did it right though, as this film rivals almost any authentic Hitchcock film I&#39;ve seen.Robert Mitchum plays one of cinema&#39;s great creep performances.  I know when putting the movie together they tried two give the two lead male roles equal time, but Mitchum just steals it all in every scene he&#39;s in.  Gregory Peck knew this too, but as one of the producers (I think) he just let Mitchum go at it because he knew what the movie needed.I haven&#39;t seen Scorsese&#39;s version of Cape Fear yet, but I can totally picture DeNiro in the role as well.  Although it&#39;s difficult to imagine if it can come close to the original.  I&#39;ll seek it out eventually.Rating: 9/10<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:59:02 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Risselada Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/12/2007 3:59:02 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>This blog entry is part of my &amp;ldquo;movie year countdown&amp;rdquo;.  To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.Cape FearThis movie certainly deserves the adjective &amp;quot;Hitchcockian.&amp;quot;  You can tell the filmmakers had him in mind during every step of the process.  The music was even done by Bernard Herrmann!  They did it right though, as this film rivals almost any authentic Hitchcock film I&amp;#39;ve seen.Robert Mitchum plays one of cinema&amp;#39;s great creep performances.  I know when putting the movie together they tried two give the two lead male roles equal time, but Mitchum just steals it all in every scene he&amp;#39;s in.  Gregory Peck knew this too, but as one of the producers (I think) he just let Mitchum go at it because he knew what the movie needed.I haven&amp;#39;t seen Scorsese&amp;#39;s version of Cape Fear yet, but I can totally picture DeNiro in the role as well.  Although it&amp;#39;s difficult to imagine if it can come close to the original.  I&amp;#39;ll seek it out eventually.Rating: 9/10</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re: hard to scare</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_hard_to_scare/222/19356/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t64450ov57e.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/4/2007 5:57:07 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="Dr_Gor"] And I thank you, Rizzo!   As one of the very first members of this group, you perhaps know me about as well as anybody.[/quote]And a very fine group it has become![quote user="Dr_Gor"]I was telling FroggyBabe recently that when I first joined SPOUT you and I didn&#39;t get along very well, but over time we seem to have grown on each other a bit.   She said, "Yeah, like fungus...".   [/quote]Ah well no one gets along well all the time.  If they do, then they aren&#39;t really engaging!  Where is the fun otherwise?[quote user="Dr_Gor"] Anyhow,   I enjoy talking to you, as well, Rizzo...   You are intelligent and knowledgeable and you get my sense of humor!  (sometimes). [/quote]I try.  I try.  (I must laugh or face the wrath!).  :)[quote user="Dr_Gor"]It is a pleasure to have you here![/quote]Right back atcha![quote user="Dr_Gor"]I enjoyed the original version of "Cape Fear" a great deal, and Robert Mitchum&#39;s &#39;Max Cady&#39; DID remind me of me more than Deniro in the remake.   Although that version was quite good as well!   Also,  if I WERE tempted to seduce someone&#39;s teenage daughter for nothing more than revenge,  it would be an added bonus if she happened to look like Juliet Lewis![/quote]All the more reason for me to search out that remake when I&#39;m done with this one!<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:57:07 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>HORROR MOVIES 101</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/4/2007 5:57:07 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="Dr_Gor"] And I thank you, Rizzo!   As one of the very first members of this group, you perhaps know me about as well as anybody.[/quote]And a very fine group it has become![quote user="Dr_Gor"]I was telling FroggyBabe recently that when I first joined SPOUT you and I didn&amp;#39;t get along very well, but over time we seem to have grown on each other a bit.   She said, "Yeah, like fungus...".   [/quote]Ah well no one gets along well all the time.  If they do, then they aren&amp;#39;t really engaging!  Where is the fun otherwise?[quote user="Dr_Gor"] Anyhow,   I enjoy talking to you, as well, Rizzo...   You are intelligent and knowledgeable and you get my sense of humor!  (sometimes). [/quote]I try.  I try.  (I must laugh or face the wrath!).  :)[quote user="Dr_Gor"]It is a pleasure to have you here![/quote]Right back atcha![quote user="Dr_Gor"]I enjoyed the original version of "Cape Fear" a great deal, and Robert Mitchum&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;Max Cady&amp;#39; DID remind me of me more than Deniro in the remake.   Although that version was quite good as well!   Also,  if I WERE tempted to seduce someone&amp;#39;s teenage daughter for nothing more than revenge,  it would be an added bonus if she happened to look like Juliet Lewis![/quote]All the more reason for me to search out that remake when I&amp;#39;m done with this one!</spout:body></item>
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