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When Willis O'Brien, the pioneering special-effects genius, went back to his drawing board in the 1940s, he gave Mighty Joe Young two things King Kong, his first and greatest ape, lacked: a user-friendly name and a lady friend who didn't burst into screams every time she...
As a college senior and science major who knows little about business, I think it is important for the members of Generation X to learn who helped push this great nation forward. My favorite is air conditioning's "King of Cool," Willis Carrier. He is responsible for the refreshing air...
Their financial calculations make sense. Producers know that big stars and unprecedented explosions are a winning combination. We are all inherently intrigued by the idea of watching Bruce Willis save the Earth from a deadly asteroid, or Ferris Bueller take on a 50-ton lizard.
Voicing complaints about the state of movie-making is always frustrating. Defenders of the status quo will inevitably claim that the American people want to see high-tech action flicks with hackneyed plots. The truth, however, is that we are tricked into seeing blockbuster films by carefully crafted media blitzes...
--Domestic Air Conditioner 1928, by Willis Carrier. Model name: the Weathermaker