ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[oilgun]

A film based on a real plane hijacking with a horribly tragic ending is pretty much the polar opposite of a movie of a fictional subway train highjacking that ends well. 

[southendmd]

The opposite of a true tragedy in the air is a fictional nuclear submarine trying to save the world.

[MaineWriter]

The opposite of a fictional nuclear submarine has to be a documentary of the Norwegian training vessel, the tall ship Christian Radich, filmed in beautiful Cinemiracle!






The 1958 film Windjammer recorded an actual voyage of the Norwegian sail Windjammer training ship Christian Radich. It was the first movie to be shot in Cinemiracle with 7-track stereophonic sound and gave the viewers a panoramic image of the 17,500 nautical mile voyage. The motion picture was produced by Louis de Rochemont.

The ship and its Norwegian crew were filmed while sailing from Oslo, across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, to New York City, Portsmouth in New Hampshire, and then back home to Oslo. The movie featured a score by Morton Gould, with additional musical performances by cellist Pablo Casals and Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra.

The film also features a meeting with the German Pamir (ship), which sunk in a hurricane in September 1957.

The world-premiere was at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood on April 8, 1958 and the movie ran for 36 weeks. The film was also released at selected cinemas in America, Canada, and Europe that were specially equipped to project the movie on a wide screen. It was particularly popular in the Scandinavian nations.

[oilgun]

I think that an unchanging blue image qualifies as the opposite of panoramic views of a 17,500 nautical mile ocean voyage.



Plot Summary:  
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

IMDb Comment:

A touching farewell

Derek Jarman's final work is perhaps his most unusual. The visuals are nothing but a solid screen of bright blue. The soundtrack is a montage of sound effects, voice overs, and music. The dialogue is Derek Jarman's coming to terms with himself, and his terminal illness.

Some will find the whole affair a pretentious bore. Others will find it a moving farewell from a groundbreaking British film-maker who was completely blind by the time the film was completed. He broke the rules, especially with this film, and it's probably how he wanted to be remembered.

[southendmd]

The opposite of Derek Jarman's blue monochrome is Yves St. Laurent's ever-changing colorful palate of fabulousness.

YSL with Catherine Deneuve.

[MaineWriter]

A movie with a female Japanese cop (a member of the elite Zero Unit) who wears lingerie as her uniform-du-jour has to be the polar opposite of YSL's fabulousness!

[MaineWriter]

For our next round...I got this idea from the last round, with all the planes, submarines, subways, etc. that were popping up in movies....

We're On The Move!

Movies played must prominently feature some sort of means of transportation or conveyance or the movie must mostly take place on said means of transportation. So, from the last round, "United 93," "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three," and "Windjammer" would all qualify in this round (except, of course, they've all been played).

The new archive is up-to-date for your searching convenience.

Have fun!

Leslie
GameMistress

[oilgun]

IMDb Post Summary:Another of the Lumiere Brothers' one-shot films, this time showing a steam train arriving at a station and moving towards the camera It has passed into film folklore for the incident that occurred at its world premiere, when the audience, unfamiliar with the cinema thought the train was really coming right at them, and panicked!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cUEANKv964[/youtube]

Note:   IMDB shows the year as 1896, but on the clip and on Youtube it's listed as 1895

[memento]

From IMDB:
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the Oil lobby. When the driver is injured a washed up, down on his luck, but used to be great type, who as it happens, used to be engaged to the inventor's daughter is brought in to drive the giant bus which includes a one lane swimming pool and a one lane bowling alley.

[MaineWriter]