Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People always tell me to do 'Run, Forrest! Run!'" Hale says, in a reference to celluloid football hero and Alabaman Forrest Gump...
...original inspiration for all these celluloid Frankensteins is James Whale's 1931 film which in fact takes only minimal plot elements from Mary Shelley's novel. Karloff's monster stands out in a production which is in many ways simply a Hollywood fluff treatment of the story. This time around, the handsome Dr. Frankenstein animates a monster who terrorizes the countryside, and Frankenstein's lovely fiancee, until he is hunted down and dies in a bizarre finale sequence at a windmill...
...plot, after being transferred from crayon on lined elementary school paper to disaster on celluloid by director Stephen Hopkins looks something like this: Jack Dove (Bridges) and Ryan Garrity (Jones) were IRA buddies. Garrity makes Dove unwittingly blow up a bunch of Brits and his girlfriend, who is also Garrity's little sister. Garrity goes to jail Dove heads for the Hub with a new identity courtesy of the British, who he helped in nailing Garrity...
...Gareth (Simon Callow of "A Room with a View") and Matthew (John Hannah in his screen debut). Hannah's reading of W.H. Auden's great love poem, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" at Gareth's funeral is one of the most poignant moments ever captured on celluloid...
...Gutenberg generation. And even more anachronistic are newspaper movies, which were nearly always about rapacious reporters chiseling bereaved losers out of their private dignity. Five Star Final, The Front Page (His Girl Friday in the Cary Grant edition) and Ace in the Hole were papers in nutshell, tabloid on celluloid. They gave you the headlines, the editorial and the funnies too. The subject of these movies wasn't even newspapers; it was the American urge for speed and aggression -- corporate, personal, romantic...