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PS3 Consoles – Well Cool!

After purchasing a 40″ Sony Bravia we were looking to buy a BlueRay Player – the price difference between a nice BD Player and the PS3 Consoles Slim was not hugely different so I opted for the PS3 Consoles. My only other foray in to games consoles was an X-Box many years ago (which I have mainly used for playing back DVDs! The PS3 Consoles has surprised me in so many ways…

1)It’s set up was very straight forward via HDMIDI cable.

2)It automatically picked up our WIFI (I thought this would have to be an extra purchase). So I can now surf the net ‘big screen style!)

3)No extras are required to watch DVDs (I purchased a DVD remote for £14 as my parents found it easier to use than the controller)

4)BBC Iplayer (and Five on Demand) finally comes into its own – the streaming quality and resolution on full screen are quite incredible. (From those that I have tried, the only one I can’t play is the ITV one)

5)The resolution on PS3 Consoles Games is pin sharp, the Dual Shock controller takes a bit of getting use to until you realise it moves with you! – I would recommend the Wireless mics if you want to use Sing Star

I have barley touched the surface of this product yet but, if you are looking for a multimedia player that covers BlueRay, WIFI and gaming I would really recommend this to you!

PS3 Consoles – Impressed

I decided I wanted a second PS3 Consoles to go in my office, so I can play my games whenever I feel like, rather than sitting there sulking when I’ve been kicked off the big LCD TV in the lounge so that she-who-must-be-obeyed can watch the latest installment of some stick insect parading down a catwalk wearing bin liners!

I’ve still got the original launch model (60GB with the extra features) and still liked the glossy black finish, the well built feel and the quiet and hushed tones of the fan, even when it’s on full. It’s a solid and impressive bit of kit.

So, I was somewhat worried that the new machine was going to be some flimsy plastic affair, a bit like my XBox 360. Thankfully, this is not the case at all. It’s as solid as the original machine, and the matt-black affect is much better in the flesh, than in the photos you see. It’s not rough at all, and it feels well built. It sits well with other black home cinema gear and is definitely smaller than the original – flatter, less height (if both lying down) but just as deep.

Addressing one issue that I noticed in a lot of these reviews, regarding fan noise. Mine simply does not make any annoying sounds. It’s quieter than the original PS3 Consoles. It is not silent like some have said – no fan in a confined space would be, but it doesn’t make as much noise – I’d say by at least a half, over the original unit. The fan comes on a little earlier when the machine is idling, compared to the original, but again, this is to be expected as there is less space in the machine now. It most certainly cannot be heard over any games. If your machine is doing this, it is faulty, and should be returned.

Overall, it’s the typical high quality Sony kit, that looks very smart and is more accepted in the lounge, than the outgoing model due to the smaller size.

PS3 Consoles – Does It All and Does It Brilliantly!

I decided that I needed to overhaul my audio-visual set up so recently treated myself to a stunning new telly (Samsung 7020, 40″) which is absolutely awesome! Having had such an upgrade it seemed only right to get a bluray player. I had a look at prices, spec, reviews – and one of THE best players (getting 5* in all the audiophile mags) is the PS3 Consoles. Better investigate, I thought…

Now, I’m no gamer these days, I grew up on 80s consoles and do have a Wii, so I wondered if I’d really use the console. Still, I went for the PS3 Consoles, mainly for it’s bluray and forward compatibility (as it can easily download updates from the wifi connection it is considerably more future-proof than many players.) And what can I say?? Stunning!!

Not only is it a fantastic bluray player BUT it is a total media centre! The TV on demand is easy (and has high quality option and PS3 Consoles specific settings – at least on the BBC iPlayer) Media streaming (which I wasn’t sure of the point of) works beautifully. My telly has DLNA but won’t work with my mac – gaaaaah! The PS3 Consoles however made networking ridiculously simple (mac users need to download medialink for mac – then off it goes!) It won’t play protected content from the apple store but then I think that is apple being toxic about their licenses rather then Sony’s fault.

And games…? I got uncharted 2 as part of the deal and can’t put it down – it is like a brilliant epic action film starring you!! My 73-year old mum came to visit and was hooked watching me play it! I’ve downloaded a few other game demos (playable) from the playstation store as well as a couple of films. The store works ok, and you can rent the latest movies on HD on there (or stream them I think, if you want to watch them now). One criticism of the store would be that a lot of the films are only in 2 channel audio – when the bluray of the same film is in 5.1/7.1)

I was a little concerned when I purchased this that it might just be an expensive bluray player that would sit gathering dust but I shouldn’t have worried – in actual fact I barely turn it off and use it for everything!!

If you want an award-winning future-proof bluray player, an awesome gaming console, and a do-it-all high quality media box then buy this!! Stunning all round!

PS3 Consoles – A Great Upgrade From the Old PS3′s

Awhile ago my old 60GB PS3 Consoles died from the Yellow Light off death and was told it would cost 120 pounds to get a refurbished one, but it only came with a 3 month warranty, so I decided it would be a better investment for the new Slim PS3 Consoles, and I haven’t looked back!

First impressions were great; it’s slim, sleek and after a few hours I noticed it wasn’t a dust magnet like the old PS3 Consoles.

The HDD capacity is great, but it’s also even easier than before to upgrade your HDD if you want a bigger one.

The slim also runs literally silent, it’s well self ventilated so you don’t need to buy a fan for it and it wont over heat easily; infact it hasn’t over heated at all since I’ve had it.

Obviously there are some fall backs, you cannot play PS2 games at all, however you can play PSX games, but this has been like that for awhile since the 80GB PS3 Consoles, there are no card reader slots which is a downer, and the main issue which gets me is the 2 USB slots, so if you are wanting to play Band Hero, or Rock band with more than 2 players then I suggest you invent in a USB slot expander.

However, brushing the negatives aside the Slim does deserve praise for being a better system in general. I have noticed that games runs a lot smoother than the old PS3 Consoles and load up faster, not only that the power consumption has also been reduced by 38%, so it’s more eco friendly.

PS3 Consoles – Small Package Big Heart

Decided to upgrade from our beloved 40gb PS3 Consoles to this gorgeous thing. We’ve used our 40gb machine every day for either playing games or watching a blu-ray since it came out and I think what swayed us most were two things the great saving on electrical consumption and the massive hard drive.

The machine itself is a lot smaller than the original especially in height IE the old machine is nearly 4″ high and this is nearly half that. Depth is about the same but on the width approximately a couple of inch has been removed and the surface texture is much improved. Although we loved the glossy finish of our old machine this matt (slightly rough) surface is much more finger-friendly. The power-on switch is now at the front with the eject button – a great improvement from having to rummage around the back of the machine, and they are both actual round buttons that click not the touch-sensitive panel, again for us an improvement, also the power cable is slightly less bulky (two pin instead of three). Other than that everything else seems the same for setting up. I checked the the latest software upgrade and ours is up-to-date.

For us a big improvement on a system that we loved anyway – very happy to recommend.

PS3 Consoles – Very Good, Get One

A big improvement over my original 80Gb PS3 Consoles, due to it being nice and quiet, plus smaller so it now fits nicely in my AV cabinet.

Be aware that there is no multi-card reader on this unit unlike the original PS3 Consoles, but the fan vent is on the back and much, much, much less like a jet taking off.

You can upgrade the HDD yourself and I have put a 500Gb in my original PS3 Consoles and intend to put a 1Tb model in my new slim once they become available.

PS3 Consoles – The PS3 Does It All

This is the new PS3 Consoles slim which I invested in shortly after they came out, the workings of console itself is the same as the original PS3 Consoles but the shell is considerably smaller and the scale on which is made and works is smaller to save power and money. This means it easier to move about because its smaller and lighter, its also uses about a third less energy now also.

As a games console the PS3 Consoles is excellent, it may not have as good a library of games as the xbox and it may not have as good an online service, but its online is free which is great and the games it has are now starting to show the difference graphically between the xbox and PS3 Consoles e.g. uncharted 2 against any xbox game will show the PS3 Consoles to be considerably more powerful. In saying this I don’t mean the PS3 Consoles has bad games it still has some great exclusives e.g. metal gear, uncharted, killzone and little big planet to name but a few. So don’t be too much put off by the 360′s catalogue.

Another advantage is that you don’t need to pay for the additional bits and bobs that you do with xbox e.g. if you want to go wireless its built into the PS3 Consoles but with the xbox its around £60 for the adapter, the batteries are built in rechargeable with the playstation the xbox requires a play and charge kit at around £15.

The PS3 Consoles is also a media playback machine, it can play just about any common file type thrown at it except. mkv, it plays music, videos , dvds, pictures but another big advantage is it a blu-ray player built in, and not a awful quality blu-ray player , a very high quality one doe to the magnitide of processing power supporting the PS3 Consoles. This is the 250GB model also, this gives you a huge amount of room to save any media you may be wanting, so you can wirelessly transfer videos over from your pc and watch them on a tv rather than a monitor. Or if you want install a full operating system on it, the hard drive has the room for it.

The only minor concern with it is it can heat up a lot when playing this is because its been smaller and therefore the heat will have more of an effect against the casing, but I just hope that it isn’t too detrimental on the workings of the PS3 Consoles.

PS3 Consoles – Very Pleased

I’ve been a gamer since the Sega Mega Drive days, and Sony consoles are normally the home of some of my favourite games. But I wasn’t in any hurry to buy a PS3 Consoles due to the price and the games I was interested in not coming out till later in its lifeline. I’ve had it now for over a week and have been very happy with it so far!

I first set it up on my standard TV in the front room (so scart set up), the picture was very clear with crisp details. It took no more than a few minutes to set it all up, I was happy with the menu layout (if you have a PSP you’ll know your way around). I wasn’t used to the waiting duration of downloading a game onto my hard drive but I’m sure I’ll get used to this as I go along. When I moved the console to the HD TV using the HDMI cable it only asked if I wanted to change the resolution, and it did everything else itself! The games look gorgeous on my huge TV and our first bluray DVD experience (Up by Pixar) was brilliant too (despite having some initial problems with what buttons on the control paused and play the film).

The controller itself is very easy to hold, as it’s always been as it’s the same design as previous Playstation remotes. However after 1 week of playing for 1 – 3 hours per day it had to be recharged…which surprised me as my Wii remotes usually last longer than that…The USB cable used to recharge it is a little short too so I had to sit close to the TV if I want to recharge my remote whilst playing.

The PS3 Consoles had no trouble picking up my BT broadband connection and I set up an account with no problems at all. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the games to download selection (the PS1 section is small compared to its monster library and no arcade games interested me) but the movies pretty much wowed me! You can rent titles as well as buy and there’s a lovely variety of genres, with both classics and recent blockbusters available.

The console itself is much bigger than most consoles I own, but at the same time it fells solid (although I wouldn’t want my 6 year old brother going anywhere near it!)

Overall, I’m very happy with my purchase. It was easy to set up, enjoy, play and find what I wanted from the console. Still slightly sad that I can’t play my PS2 library on it (so I can clear space under my TV) but I won’t hold it against it. Recommended.

PS3 Consoles – More Than a Games Station

Having had Playstation (1?) a few years ago that only played games and which I didn’t use much as I was a PC gamer, I was reluctant to buy another PS because I thought I wouldn’t use it. But I was fed up of buying PC games, having to register them online etc. then not being able to do anything with them after playing them, e.g. sell them or trade them, due to the fact that they were registered to me, and having them pile up alongside the computer.

So I looked at the PS3 Consoles slim and thought if I get one of those, I can at least sell/trade the games after I’ve finished with them, so I bought one.

I was happy to say that it was a very wise purchase. Not only can I play then trade/sell the games, but I can surf the internet, shop online, join the playstation community, play DVD and Blu-ray films and Wi-Fi connect via my LAN network and play music and videos that are on my other PCs. It also has Bluetooth connectivity that I have yet to try out. The PS3 Consoles gets more use than my PC now.

PS3 Consoles Does Everything!

I originally wrote a review on the original 60 gb PS3 Consoles right after it launched in November, 2006. Like the original 60 gb the new PS3 Consoles slim 250 gb is almost as good once you get past its few flaws. The new PS3 Consoles has the same specifications as the previous models, but it’s 32% smaller, 36% lighter and 33% more energy-efficient than the regular PS3 Consoles. It sports a slightly different look and the touch buttons are now replaced with real buttons. I have to say the SONY PS3 Consoles is one amazing system. With a 250 gb hard drive you will have plenty of memory to download a ton of stuff.

One of the most welcome features is the PS3 Consoles Slims ability to bit stream both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. As for the games we are finally starting to see the true potential of this amazing system. You get an amazing blu-ray player that is future proof thanks to the system being able to receive firmware updates via the web. If you have a 1080p HDTV you will be amazed at the picture quality which is up to six times more detailed than DVD. You also get theater quality sound and picture that DVD, cable, satellite HD, and even apple TV just can’t touch because of their bandwidth limitations. If you have standard DVDs the PS3 Consoles upscales them to 1080p which brings all your DVDs to life.

Don’t expect blu-ray quality from watching DVDs, but do expect them to look much better and sharper because they are being upscaled to look better on your HDTV. I like the fact that the system has online connectivity and that it also has a built in browser should you just want to surf the internet. Most of all I like the fact that you get built in wi-fi. if you all ready have internet access you just have to set this up with your wi-fi router, or if your lucky enough you might be able to pick up free wi-fi if you don’t have internet access. You can download your favorite music/videos to the PS3 Consoles hard drive and if available online it will display the artist names and songs. You can even connect a USB keyboard (along with almost any type of USB device) to make surfing the internet faster and more enjoyable. With the recently launched Playstation Store you can play demos, download classic PS1 and PS2 (and some new PS3 Consoles games) games, get wallpapers, and watch blu-ray and new movie trailers. With the new virtual world Home you can create a virtual character and explore the virtual world. If your friends have a PS3 Consoles you can meet them in home and Play virtual Pool, bowling, or invite them in to a PS3 Consoles game to play with you.

You can rent movies (some in HD) from an always growing catalog and purchase many of them. The things that this new PS3 Consoles lacks from the original 60 gb model is SACD support, it only has 2 USB vs. the 4 on the original. The top left part of this PS3 Consoles doesn’t open up like the old one because this one lacks the memory card slots. The good thing is that this PS3 Consoles is so much quieter and takes up less space than my original 60 gb because it uses a smaller chip which now makes it use less electricity. That was my biggest annoyance with the original PS3 Consoles was that it got a bit loud sometimes when watching movies or playing games which I felt a bit distracting. This new model is as quit as a mouse. The PS3 Consoles does everything.

It plays CDs, DVDs, and, blu-ray discs. You get video chat, an internet browser, digital photo viewing, Playstation store movie rental (and video game) and purchases, and now Netflix streaming. The PS3 Consoles will likely be your home entertainment centerpiece. I have to say I am very happy with giving the PS3 Consoles a chance and I highly recommend it for anyone who appreciates a great game system with some awesome entertainment features. With the new PS3 Consoles slim and a long overdue price cut SONY is back in the game, and with new games like Uncharted 2 and may other exclusives this is going to be the start of the new Playstation revolution. This system may be lacking some of the original PS3 Consoles 60 gb features, but it is still one awesome entertainment powerhouse that I highly recommend!

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The Losers is really a 2010 American activity film adaptation of Vertigo comic book series with the very same name. Directed by Sylvain White, the film features an ensemble cast that contains Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans.

5 members of an elite United States Special Forces team are sent in the Bolivian jungle over a research and destroy mission. The elite team including Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar discover themselves the target of a betrayal instigated from within by a effective enemy recognized only as Max.

Thought being dead, the set tends to make plans to even the score when they are joined because of the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with instead sly moves. Together they track and adhere to the ruthless and seriously armed and guarded Max to foil his ideas of transforming the planet as we know it into a brand new high-tech international battleground.

The film presently holds an approval score of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 114 evaluations, using a consensus stating “The Losers is loud, rapid, and unrelentingly violent, but it is also funny and well-acted, which will make all of the distinction for some activity fans.” An additional review aggregator Metacritic assigned the film a weighted common score of 43 away from 100 dependant on 31 opinions from mainstream critics.

Roger Ebert gave the movie three plus a fifty percent stars, writing “”The Losers” knows what it is performing and the way to do it. Sylvain White doesn’t have a lot of credits but he knows tips on how to direct and not trip over his own feet. The cinema receives the job completed, as well as the actors display a whole lot of self-confidence in occupying that tricky center ground among managed satire and comic overkill. It’s fun.”

The film played in 2,936 theaters and earned $9,406,348 on its opening weekend at the box office at #4.

If you’ve just overcome the hurdles of making your first independent film, the experience of finding festivals and distribution for your project can be incredibly daunting.  The A-List festivals frequented by Hollywood’s Who’s Who are usually the first choices for an independent filmmaker. Unfortunately, they are also the most difficult ones for small independent films to be accepted into because of the high standards and politics that they employ in their selection processes. Most of the films that win awards and screen at the elite festivals are made either by so-called “specialty” divisions of the major studios, i.e. Warner Bros., Disney, 20th Century Fox, etc. or are represented by high power sales agency firms who specialize in getting their projects into these festivals to facilitate sales on them. Moreover, the major studios themselves are increasingly using film festival premieres to promote their own projects in order to garner positive publicity and platform their theatrical release.

So in the past thirty years , a system that was designed to promote movies produced in opposition to the studios has been almost entirely co-opted by them, leaving the beginners and true independents out in the cold. Every year, 120 films are selected for exhibition at one particular star-studded festival. These films are chosen from more than 8000 dramatic, documentary and short film submissions. However, most indie directors and producers starting out probably aren’t going to have access to an Angelina Jolie or Johnny Depp right off the bat and seeing as how nearly all high-profile festival projects are celebrity-driven, the chances for an intriguing film with a no-name cast becomes even slimmer. Many first time filmmakers are eager to get noticed with their breakout film that was often done on a small budget with savings or mortgaging their house.  They find it harder to attract star power and it becomes an impossible task to stand out against the films that have millions invested in them and celebrity attachment.

Just ask director Dan Frank who applied to all the major festivals with his films Little Bruno and Devils Highway. Frank says, “After figuring out that my independent low-budget films were being ignored because they had no major stars in them, I realized nobody at film festivals were even looking at them and I was wasting my money sending out entry fees. So I entered my films into the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival ( NYIIFVF)  and my life has changed for the better. I go to the Cannes Film Festival and Marche du Film every year with them and I’m actually making a living in the film business.”  Since the entering the NYIIFVF, Frank’s films have sold to several international territories including: Russia, Thailand and Germany, through the festival’s distribution company ITN Distribution.  He’s made a TV cooking series called “Bikini Kitchen” with Stormy Daniels that has buyers interested around the world and produced and directed the documentaries Medicinal which has screened in 16 cities and Medicinal 101 and is screening 43 times this August 2009  “Since my screenings at the NYIIFVF in New York, LA and at the Cannes/Marche du Film. I’ve learned more about the film business that I ever did in film school ” says Mr Frank. His company URD ( Upward Rising Development) is currently theatrically re releasing Steve Soderberghs epic film “Che” starring Benicio De Toro in Los Angeles.

The NYIIFVF showcases independent films in real independent theaters in NYC and LA and serves as a unique platform for emerging filmmakers to gain a voice and network amongst distributors. No hotel ballrooms or bingo halls are used, unlike other festivals. The festival is known as “the voice for independent film” and receives extensive coverage in media outlets. A cross-section of media outlets which have covered the festival are: Hollywood Reporter, Fox 5, CNN, New York Observer, New York Times, Newsday, LA Times, LA Weekly, Time Out NY, E News, NY Daily News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Movie Maker, Star Magazine, Screentalk Magazine, etc.  The Wall St. Journal has even called The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival “The independent filmmakers alternative to the grand New York Film Festival.” Indie guru Abel Ferrara said in an interview with MovieMaker Magazine, “This festival is the real deal: Everybody else just talks about doing it, these guys just do it!”

The festival was founded in 1993 by entrepreneur Stuart Alson and is noted for promoting independent films that you’d never get access to in multiplexes across the country, whether it be via the festival circuit or regular theatrical distribution. Alson himself was formerly a stand-up comedian and produced successful live shows in New York before making his own feature length independent film. However, after the film’s completion he began enter it into the festival circuit and began to understand the politics that dominated it as well as now. Alson noted, “I was a businessman and didn’t have time to attend events and schmooze festival directors. I created my own festival because I was tired of entering a lottery that was rigged. When over 2000 filmmakers were sending in their $50 submission fees and all that was happening was their checks were being cashed and they’re paying for the 100 films that do have stars in them, I realized the only way to develop a true independent film festival is to give independent filmmakers a chance to actually show their work—not just give them a rejection letter.”

Alson then experienced the difficulties of distribution when he traveled to various film markets to sell his film and realized that distributors didn’t want to pay independent filmmakers for their work. Alson said, “This made no sense to me when the distributors kept the money they sold the film for and told filmmakers it was under ‘expenses’. I then created my own distribution company that actually pays filmmakers.” As a result of that experience, Alson formed the festival’s distribution wing, ITN Distribution, which travels to major film and television markets where it has successfully acquired and licensed quality product in all major territories. ITN Distribution has quickly established itself as a major player in the world of distribution and specializes in negotiating the best deal possible for international and domestic filmmakers and buyers. ITN’s objective is to become a top source for attracting, acquiring, understanding and selling product; their international presence at Cannes/Marche du Film, NATPE and AFM has shaped a realistic approach to selling, programming and closing deals with buyers worldwide.

“The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival is an integral part of every filmmakers journey to achieve greatness in the art of film making,” says New York based actor and director Matt Jade. He has appeared in over a dozen films in the festival since 2001 and has made many valuable contacts to move his career forward because of the festival. Jade is a working actor on TV shows and major motion pictures and his independent films The Gleam and Searching for Bobby D have received distribution and are available in Hollywood Video, Netflix and Blockbuster. Each year success stories from alumni from the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival emerge. For example, Australian Director Greg McLean’s first film ICQ screened at the 2001 festival where it won Best Director. He then moved on to write and direct the international box office hit Wolf Creek. Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber’s (The Butterfly Effect) first feature film Blunt won an award for Best Comedy at the 1998 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. More recently, New York director Lana Pashina’s documentary Svetlana About Svetlana premiered at the 2007 NYIIFVF and since then, has scored US/Canada distribution with First Run/Icarus Films as well as airing in Russia and Europe.

Her New York and LA premieres at the NYIIFVF attracted international press from Europe. Pashina says, “The festival was a vehicle to ultimately get distribution for my documentary and it opened the doors for new opportunities. The PR marketing of the festival was amazing and such good exposure.” Pashina is now in pre-production in LA for her first feature Reflections with Das Films. Holistic practitioner and former geologist turned screenwriter Dr. Andrea Levinson is proving she has the goods to become just as successful in the film business. Recently Levinson completed the festival circuit of her first film Death, Taxes… and Chocolate! in Los Angeles, Cannes and New York. “Getting into the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival is the best thing that ever happened to me. And it wasn’t fixed, it’s the real deal,” says Levinson.

She continues, “Since being in the film business, I feel like I’m in a shark-like environment. However, I felt I could really trust the NYIIFVF. The festival has exceeded my expectations. I had a wonderful experience and distributors are calling me and I don’t need to call them. I like that the festival has educational seminars for filmmakers. One time, I had a bad experience at one film festival that was fixed, however at the NYIFVF, we won Best Comedy and Best Screenplay without knowing a single person and having ‘connections.’” Dr Levinson’s film Death, Taxes…Chocolate! is a comedy based on a true story about a group of baby boomers who take charge of their lives and destiny. Levinson has begun to work on the sequel. She has two distributors interested in DVD rights and it iss being considered for theatrical release. Due to her exposure at NYIFVF, a number of South American and Iranian film festivals have invited her to screen as well.

Ultimately, The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival cares about filmmakers. They are passionate about exposing the films and documentaries that regular people make without subjecting them to the internal politics that the bulk of many other festivals are governed by. They are proud of their filmmakers and have a long list of festival friends, delegates and repeat clients. It is very important that you choose the right film festivals to enter your movie into if you want to realistically increase your chances of receiving commercial distribution and winning awards. Of course, it would be nice to win an award at an A-list film festival and have a bidding war over your film. However, you have to be realistic and find a festival that is friendly to small independent filmmakers and their projects.

The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival will at the very least give your film a quality screening in a superior, as well as proper, theatrical screening in either New York and Los Angeles. They genuinely understand the needs of true independent filmmakers and are the professionals when it comes to working with small budgets and big ideas. The festival represents a new wave of independent filmmakers looking to get their voices heard and movies seen and offers a unique opportunity for members of the film industry as well as delegates and attendees without the pretentiousness. According to popular Micro Cinema Magazine’s editor Dave Sardella, “For any aspiring musicians, producers or directors, the NYIIFVF is the place to have your projects seen and reviewed by the best of the best. This world renowned festival can be the launching pad to a successful career.”

Alvin and chipmunks’ opening musical taping

An animated musical group known as watch Alvin and the chipmunks comprising of three singing chipmunks were brought together by Ross Bagdasarian. Alvin was a truant and the chief persona. There was Simon who was the intellectual with specs. The third was Theodore the popular sweetheart. The trio was supervised by their father who was human. The stage name of Bagdasarian was David Seville.

In the year 1950 Bagdasrian by the name of David Seville first off produced mus alic recordings and got the chipmunks to liveliness. In Ed Sullivan show Bagdasarian applied his voice to get them talk in a theater. The puppet also lip synchronized. The watch Alvin and the Chipmunks show experienced big success. The Alvin and chipmunks were later featured in a cartoon employing humanlike chipmunks. Bagdasarian executed all the vocalizations of the group utilizing payback pitched voices. The process though not innovative to Bagdasarians gained him two Grammy Awards for proficiency.

From the time period 1961 to 1962 Alvin and Chipmunks was transmitted on T.V as the Alvin show. It was valued and welcomed by all. This was telecasted in prime time on CBS. The T.V serial was aired in Black and white and subsequently in color. In 1983, the acting group’s name transformed to Alvin and the Chipmunks with Alvin as the top vocalist. A second animated T.V series produced by Ruby – Spears production and title Alvin and the Chipmunks the show was by and large identical to the first Alvin show. The serial held up till 1990. The program ushered in three female variants of chipmunks.

In 2007 December the Bagdasarian Productions released a motion picture titled Alvin and the Chipmunks – The Squeakquel. Nonetheless the critics were not comfortable seeing it. The film got only 26% approval grading. A magazine called the movie a a harmless and oftentimes humorous trifle that might be a potent box office performer if only by default — nonetheless , despite these awful reviews, the cinema grossed an astounding 44 million dollars in 3475 theaters and was set second in the Box Office. The cinema closed in June 2008 and had by then earned 217 million bucks in the domestic market alone and 141 million dollars in the foreign marketplace. The brilliant box office success astonished the 20th Century Fox.

The roles of Alvin and the chipmunks online got colored in 1999 after Universal studios bought the right to the parts. The video was Alvin and chipmunks meet Frankenstein. The motion picture was prosperous so that the continuation played along and in 2000, Alvin and The Wolfman came along. Both pictures contained the special cast of the second serial. A live-action motion picture named Little Alvin and the mini munks was launched shortly after. The flick patched puppetry for the chipmunks and the chipettes. Ross Bagdasarian (Jr) who has acted in the flick, made the only live action appearance in it. Alvin and the chipmunks can be watched online on a number of sites.

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Early

Roy was born in Bangalore and was Krishnaraj Rai and Vrinda Rai. He’s a big brother, Aditya Rai, an engineer in the Merchant Navy and co-Ray film, Heart (2003) is the producer of the relationship. Very soon, his parents Mumbai, went where he attended school in Santa Cruz Arya Vidya Temple. Opinion for a year joined Jai Hind College and Ruparel College in Matunga Churchgate transfer complete HSC exams. They do well in school and intends to become an architect and an architecture student went on. Communicate in several languages native language Tulu, including can [5], and Hindi, English, Marathi and Tamil. 6 [] He began studying architecture, but has a career in modeling studies.

Miss World

While continuing to study composition, Roy started modeling part. Miss contest 1994, India won a second behind Sushmita Sen, and was crowned Miss India World. Miss World title later that year when he won won Miss photogenic. College closed after winning the show and spent a year in Miss World in London. Roy as a business model and began working actor is existing business.

Their 1997-1998 (at debut)

Mani Ratnam’s Tamil film biography Ray and his first film, (1997) Mohanlal Iruvar, done [8] the controversial film was a critical success and won many awards, Cannes Film Festival in Belgrade in two National Film Awards, including best film and two South Filmfare Awards. In a double role opposite veteran actor Mohanlal Rai appeared, and political leader and former model in its function as a cinematic representation of J. Jayalalitha [9]. Rai, Bollywood films, and love Bobby Deol, who also published this year was unlike entered her first film at the box office not play very well, [10], as well as filtered by critics . However, the third project, S. Shankar’s Tamil film, Jeans (1998) S was a commercial success. The film is also evidence that the song “Poovukkul”, Vairamuthu and music video by strong written some of the world’s leading monuments are testing.

Hits 1999-2005 ()

In 1999, Roy and Sanjay Leela Bhansali Hum Dil De Chuka Sanam, acted in the opposite Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan. Film Rai, Nandini, who is forced to marry focus on the nature, while Devgan and one man (Khan) and is in love with her husband has sex before she tries to prepare for it. Roy is an important success factor, which Aishwarya Rediff.com »is spelled as usual a beautiful representation of the lives … Braces for the film everywhere, you can be identified and actress Manisha Koirala’s silence is expected. In many scenes, there is no detection of makeup and looks very fresh. “[13] even before the film is successful at the box office in Bollywood for her first Filmfare Best Actress Award. That same year, she has appeared in Subhash Ghai’s Taal, she’s a girl Manasi village, where was The Akshaye Khanna injured after pop-star general will be her lover, drama, film in India was an average performance, but had great success with an international audience, especially the U.S., where he reached the first Indian film to box office top 20 list, variety. [14] Writing on his performance in the film, Rediff.com has been praised for, “once praised for his presence and acting talent Sanam Hum Dil De Chuk, rhythm is Aishwarya’s premier. It is essential, and unlike the first film is very simple and sweet. Though it seems a sad and tragic film mostly a good thing that a woman very protective father, and who twice rejected lover, who injured his father does not think before. [15] received a second nomination performance film 16 [is for the Filmfare Best Actress].

In 2000 he performed Mansoor Khan and Shah Rukh Khan Chandrachur Singh Josh, where a Catholic Shirley, who falls in love with his enemy’s name is the role of a girl, her sister’s brother. The film was a commercial success. Later that year she opposite Anil Kapoor, Satish Kaushik is with you in the heart of twilight appeared. It was a moderate success, and his performance earned him nominations for Best Actress Filmfare. Later that year, with Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan, Mohabbatein, Aditya Chopra’s role was supported. The film was a huge commercial success and Grosser, becoming the highest Filmfare Best Supporting Actress nomination is the second year. Later that year she starred in the Tamil film Kandukondain Kandukondain while Mammooty, Ajith Kumar and Tabu.

In 2002, Rai appeared with Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, a famous novel of the same name friendly. Paros (Parvati), the main character’s love interest, the role played by Khan. Film at Cannes was a special performance. [17] years of the most successful film in India and abroad, the country’s 390 million for research to obtain business. [18] [19] 10 Devdas Filmfare awards, won several awards, including opinions and other Filmfare Best Actress Award for her performance was. In 2003 he was the Bengali film Chokher Bali, Rituparno Ghosh, Rabindranath Tagore’s novel, adapted the same name. The character of a young woman called Binodini, which shows when he was her husband’s ill, died soon after they married. [20] That same year she appeared in a production house, heart and Abhishek Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, with which a successful relationship with Rohan Sippy’s Kuch Na Kaho.

In 2004, he showed Gurinder Chadha Bollywood style pride and Jane Austen, Bride and Prejudice with Martin Henderson Prejudice adaptation of the English. Movies, Lalita Bakshi, Elizabeth Bennet’s equal role in the film Jane Austen’s novel. Then Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan and khaki with Jayapradha film role in his career after Prince satisfaction was negative for the first time. That same year, Rituparno Ghosh, raincoat appeared in another film with the Ajay Devgan. The film was critically acclaimed, where Roy [received rave reviews for its performance in 21].

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In 2006 Rai Umrao Jaan JP Datta, Urdu novel Umrao Jaan (1905) Ada, wrote the second film adaptation of Mirza Hadi Ruswa acted. He and 19 th century courtesan poet of the same name played in Lucknow. The film was a critical and commercial failure, though generally well received Ray’s work. Critic Taran Adarsh wrote, “Aishwarya Rai looks ethereal. Seemed heavenly, and even concrete. The expressive eyes and the performance from beginning to end with continuity seen emotes.” 22 [] Later that year she a master thief, Sunheri and Yash Raj Films Dhoom 2 Director: Sanjay Gadhvi, Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu and Uday Chopra in artists appeared. India’s film came out and film rip-roaring success of extrapolation is the nearest country to 770 million in research income has increased. [23] The film is also a source of contention include kissing scenes with her and Hrithik Roshan. [24] However, Ray’s film performance received negative comments are often collected researcher Rediff.com, “Ash too deep and the wind. Rarely realized their behavior and expression is an indication of the excitement that potentially dangerous activities as part master thief. After the opening film about Sunehri disguise took 50 minutes. Time, and risk for clothes. When his mouth opens and his attendance at two minutes after the movie, it ruins the image. No longer desire a half hour later, one ask, what has happened in the fall of thieves Thurs. Is “[25]. However, performance for the Filmfare Best Actress nomination brought her sixth.

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Aishwarya 2008 (Rai at Cannes)

In 2008 she starred with Hrithik Roshan in part a historical drama Jodhaa Akbar, Ashutosh Gowariker, is the Muslim Mughal Emperor Akbar Muhammad Jalaluddine, Roshan and his Hindu wife Jodha Bai of the phone records of life, Roy says. The film was a critical and commercial success, more than Rs 590 million revenue in the country. They describe the performance of Ray’s film criticism, with Rajeev Masand says, Aishwarya Rai is a wonderful and easy to use experts to discuss his eyes so much, so it runs best on screen is one of , “. [32] for the Filmfare Best Actress nomination for its performance VIII. Later that year she co her husband, Abhishek Bachchan and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan starred with the Raj Ram Gopal Varma, the last film continuity . He is a Managing Director role of power in rural Maharashtra, a new power plant will create.

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In 2009, Roy received the Padma Shri for her contribution to Indian cinema.

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History

The unnamed, prototype Warner Bros. rabbit

Main article: Evolution of Bugs Bunny

An unnamed rabbit bearing some of the personality, if not physical characteristics of Bugs, first appeared in the cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt, released on April 30, 1938. Co-directed by Ben Hardaway and an uncredited Cal Dalton (who was responsible for the initial design of the rabbit), this short had a theme almost identical to that of the 1937 cartoon, Porky’s Duck Hunt (directed by Tex Avery), which had introduced Daffy Duck. Porky Pig was again cast as a hunter tracking another silly prey who seemed less interested in escape than in driving his pursuer insane; this short replaced the black duck with a small white rabbit. The rabbit introduces himself with the odd expression “Jiggers, fellers”, and Mel Blanc gave the rabbit nearly the voice and laugh that he would later use for Woody Woodpecker. This cartoon also features the famous Groucho Marx line that Bugs would use many times: “Of course you know, this means war!” The rabbit developed a following from the audience viewing this cartoon which inspired the Schlesinger staff to further develop the character.

First incarnation of the rabbit debuts in Porky’s Hare Hunt (1938)

The rabbit’s second appearance came in 1939′s Prest-O Change-O, directed by Chuck Jones, where he is the pet rabbit of unseen character Sham-Fu the Magician. Two dogs, fleeing the local dogcatcher, enter his absent master’s house. The rabbit harasses them, but is ultimately bested by the bigger of the two dogs.

His third appearance was in another 1939 cartoon, Hare-um Scare-um, directed by Dalton and Hardaway. This short, the first where he was depicted as a gray bunny instead of a white one, is also notable both for the rabbit’s first singing role. Charlie Thorson, lead animator on the short, was the first to give the character a name. He had written “Bugs’ Bunny” on the model sheet that he drew for Hardaway, implying that he considered the rabbit model sheet to be Hardaway’s property. In promotional material for the short (such as a surviving 1939 presskit), the name on the model sheet was altered to become the rabbit’s own name: “Bugs” Bunny (quotation marks only used at the very beginning), evidently named in honor of “Bugs” Hardaway.

In Chuck Jones’ Elmer’s Candid Camera the rabbit first encounters Elmer Fudd. This rabbit has more of a physical resemblance to the present-day Bugs, being taller and having a more similar face. The voice for this rabbit, however, was not similar to the well-known Brooklyn-Bronx accent, but spoke in a rural drawl. In Robert Clampett’s 1940 Patient Porky, a similar rabbit appears to trick the audience into thinking that 750 rabbits have been born (however the design is of the earlier white rabbit).

In his later years, Mel Blanc stated that a proposed name was “Happy Rabbit”. Ironically, the only time the name “Happy” was used was in reference to Bugs Hardaway. In the cartoon Hare-um Scare-um, the newspaper headline reads, “Happy Hardaway”.

Bugs Bunny emerges

The official debut of Bugs Bunny in A Wild Hare (1940)

Bugs’ appearance in A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery and released on July 27, 1940, is considered the first appearance of both Elmer and Bugs in their fully developed forms. It was in this cartoon that he first emerged from his rabbit hole to ask Elmer Fudd, now a hunter rather than a photographer, “What’s up, Doc?” Animation historian Joe Adamson counts A Wild Hare as the first “official” Bugs Bunny short. It is also the first cartoon where Mel Blanc uses a recognizable version of the voice of Bugs that would eventually become the standard.

Bugs’ second appearance in Jones’ Elmer’s Pet Rabbit finally introduced the audience to the name Bugs Bunny, which up until then had only been used among the Termite Terrace employees. However, the rabbit here is absolutely identical to the one in Jones’ earlier Elmer’s Candid Camera, both visually and vocally. It was also the first short where he received billing under his now-famous name, but the card, “featuring Bugs Bunny”, was just slapped on the end of the completed short’s opening titles when A Wild Hare proved an unexpected success. He would soon become the most prominent of the Looney Tunes characters as his calm, flippant insouciance endeared him to American audiences during and after World War II.

Bugs would appear in five more shorts during 1941: Tortoise Beats Hare, directed by Tex Avery and featuring the first appearance of Cecil Turtle; Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt, the first Bugs Bunny short to be directed by Friz Freleng; All This and Rabbit Stew, directed by Avery and featuring a young African-American hunter (based heavily on racial stereotypes) as Bugs’ antagonist; The Heckling Hare, the final Bugs short Avery worked on before being fired and leaving for MGM; and Wabbit Twouble, the first Bugs short directed by Robert Clampett. Wabbit Twouble was also the first of five Bugs shorts to feature a chubbier remodel of Elmer Fudd, a short-lived attempt to have Fudd more closely resemble his voice actor, comedian Arthur Q. Bryan.

World War II

By 1942, Bugs had become the number one star of the Merrie Melodies series, which had originally been intended only for one-shot characters in shorts after several early attempts to introduce characters failed under Harman-Ising, but had started introducing newer characters in 1937 under Schlesinger. Bugs’ 1942 shorts included Friz Freleng’s The Wabbit Who Came to Supper, and the Robert Clampett shorts The Wacky Wabbit and Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (which introduced Beaky Buzzard). Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid also marks a slight redesign of Bugs, making his front teeth less prominent and his head rounder. The man responsible for this redesign was Robert McKimson, at the time working as an animator under Robert Clampett. The redesign at first was only used in the shorts created by Clampett’s production team but in time, it would be adopted by the other directors, with Freleng and Frank Tashlin the first to adopt this design. Upon his own promotion to director, McKimson created yet another version with more slanted eyes, longer teeth and a much larger mouth, which he (and, for the one Bugs Bunny cartoon he directed, Art Davis) used until 1949, when he started using the version he had designed for Clampett. Jones would come up with his own slight modification, and the voice as well would vary mildly between the units.

An alternate version of Bugs used by Robert McKimson and Art Davis between 1946 and 1949.

Other 1942 Bugs shorts included Chuck Jones’ Hold the Lion, Please, Freleng’s Fresh Hare and The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (which restored Elmer Fudd to his previous size), and Jones’ Case of the Missing Hare. He also made cameo appearances in Tex Avery’s final Warner Bros. short, Crazy Cruise, and starred in the two-minute United States war bonds commercial film Any Bonds Today.

Bugs was popular during World War II because of his free and easy attitude, and began receiving special star billing in his cartoons by 1943. By that time, Warner Bros. was the most profitable cartoon studio in the United States. Like other cartoon studios, such as Disney and Famous Studios had been doing, Warners put Bugs in opposition to the period’s biggest enemies: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and the Japanese. The 1944 short Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips features Bugs at odds with a group of Japanese soldiers. This cartoon has since been pulled from distribution due to its racial stereotypes.

Since Bugs’ debut in A Wild Hare, he had appeared only in color Merrie Melodie cartoons (making him one of the few recurring characters created for that series in the Leon Schlesinger era prior to the full conversion to color, alongside Elmer’s prototype Egghead, Inki, Sniffles, and Elmer himself – who was heard but not seen in the 1942 Looney Tunes cartoon Nutty News, and made his first formal appearance in that series in 1943′s To Duck or Not To Duck). While he did make a cameo appearance in the 1943 Porky and Daffy cartoon Porky Pig’s Feat marking his only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tune cartoon, he did not star in a cartoon in the Looney Tunes series until that series made its complete conversion to only color cartoons beginning with 1944 releases. Buckaroo Bugs was Bugs’ first cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, and was also the last WB cartoon to credit Leon Schlesinger.

Among his most notable civilian shorts during this period are Bob Clampett’s Tortoise Wins by a Hare (the sequel to Tortoise Beats Hare from 1941), A Corny Concerto (a spoof of Disney’s Fantasia), Falling Hare, and What’s Cookin’ Doc?; and Chuck Jones’ Superman parody Super-Rabbit, and Freleng’s Little Red Riding Rabbit. The 1944 short Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears introduced Jones’ The Three Bears characters.

In the cartoon Super-Rabbit, Bugs was seen in the end wearing a USMC dress uniform. As a result, the United States Marine Corps made Bugs an honorary Marine Master Sergeant.

A scene from George Pal’s Jasper Goes Hunting (1944).

From 1943-1946, Bugs was the official “mascot” of Kingman Army Air Field, Kingman, Arizona, where thousands of aerial gunners were trained during World War II. Some notable trainees included Clark Gable and Charles Bronson. Bugs also served as the mascot for 530 Squadron of the 380th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force, USAF, which was attached to the Royal Australian Air Force and operated out of Australia’s Northern Territory from 1943 to 1945, flying B-24 Liberator bombers.

In 1944, Bugs Bunny actually made a cameo appearance in Jasper Goes Hunting, a short produced by rival studio Paramount Pictures. In this cameo (animated by Robert McKimson, with Mel Blanc providing the voice), Bugs pops out of a rabbit hole, saying his usual catchphrase; Bugs then says, “I must be in the wrong picture” and then goes back in the hole. He also appeared fleetingly in the 1947 Arthur Davis cartoon The Goofy Gophers.

The post-war era

A scene from Bewitched Bunny (1954)

A slight variation of how the character was drawn in the 1950s can be seen in the frame from Bewitched Bunny (1954). The inner pinkish parts of the ears have been reduced becoming more v-shaped at the top end and the ovalness of the eyes also replaced with a more top v shaped look. His cheeks protrude out more, and body is more compacted, when compared how he was drawn in the 1940s, arising to the distinct look of how he is drawn today.

Since then, Bugs has appeared in numerous cartoon shorts in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, making his last appearance in the theatrical cartoons in 1964 with False Hare. He was directed by Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Arthur Davis and Chuck Jones and appeared in feature films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which featured the first-ever meeting between Bugs and his box-office rival Mickey Mouse), Space Jam (which co-starred Michael Jordan), and the 2003 movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

The Bugs Bunny short Knighty Knight Bugs (1958), in which a medieval Bugs Bunny traded blows with Yosemite Sam and his fire-breathing dragon (which has a cold), won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons of 1958. Three of Chuck Jones’ Bugs Bunny shorts–Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck, Rabbit, Duck!— comprise what is often referred to as the “Duck Season/Rabbit Season” trilogy, and are considered among the director’s best works. Jones’ 1957 classic, What’s Opera, Doc?, features Bugs and Elmer parodying Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and has been deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was the first cartoon short to receive this honor.

Bugs appeared in the 1957 short Show Biz Bugs with Daffy Duck, which features a controversial finish in which Daffy Duck, in an attempt to wow the (partisan) audience, did a dangerous magical act in which he (in sequence) drank gasoline, swallowed nitroglycerine, gunpowder, and uranium-238 (in a greenish solution), jumped up and down to “shake well”, and finally swallowed a match that detonated the whole improbable mixture. That incident caused some TV stations, and in the 1990s the cable network TNT, to edit out the dangerous act, fearing that young kids might try to imitate it.

In the fall of 1960, The Bugs Bunny Show, a television program which packaged many of the post-1948 Warners shorts with newly animated wraparounds, debuted on ABC. The show was originally aired in prime-time. After two seasons, it was moved to reruns on Saturday mornings. The Bugs Bunny Show changed format and exact title frequently (the packaging was completely different, with each short simply presented on its own, title and all, though some clips from the new bridging material was used as filler), but it remained on network television for 40 years.

After the classic cartoon era

When Mel Blanc died in 1989, Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey and Billy West became the new voices to Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes, taking turns doing the voices at various times.

Bugs has also made appearances in animated specials for network television, mostly composed of classic cartoons with bridging material added, including How Bugs Bunny Won the West, and The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special. 1980′s Bugs Bunny’s Busting Out All Over, however, contained no vintage clips and featured the first new Bugs Bunny cartoons in 16 years. It opened with “Portrait Of The Artist As a Young Bunny”, which features a flashback of Bugs as a child thwarting a young Elmer Fudd, while its third and closing short was “Spaced Out Bunny”, with Bugs being kidnapped by Marvin the Martian to be a playmate for Hugo, an Abominable Snowman-like character (a new Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner short filled out the half hour). Also, there have been various compilation films, including the independently produced Bugs Bunny: Superstar (utilizing the vintage shorts then owned by United Artists), while Warner Bros. assembled The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Daffy Duck’s Fantastic Island, Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales and Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters. He also made guest appearances in episodes of the 1990s television program Tiny Toon Adventures as the principal of Acme Looniversity and the mentor of Babs and Buster Bunny, and would later make occasional guest cameos on spinoffs Taz-Mania, Animaniacs and Histeria!

He appears in the beginning of Gremlins 2: The New Batch, where he tries to ride the opening Warner Bros logo, but is interrupted by Daffy Duck.

Bugs has had several comic book series over the years. Western Publishing had the license for all the Warner Brothers cartoons, and produced Bugs Bunny comics first for Dell Comics, then later for their own Gold Key Comics. Dell published 58 issues and several specials from 1952 to 1962. Gold Key continued for another 133 issues. DC Comics, the sister/subsidiary company of Warner Bros., has published several comics titles since 1994 that Bugs has appeared in. Notable among these was the 2000 four-issue miniseries Superman & Bugs Bunny, written by Mark Evanier and drawn by Joe Staton. This depicted a crossover between DC’s superheroes and the Warner cartoon characters.

Bugs Bunny’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Like Mickey Mouse for The Walt Disney Company, Bugs has served as the mascot for Warner Bros. Studios and its various divisions. He and Mickey are the first cartoon characters to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In the 1988 animated/live action movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bugs is shown as one of the inhabitants of Toontown. However, since the film was being produced by Disney, Warner Bros. would only allow the use of their biggest star if he got an equal amount of screen time as Disney’s biggest star, Mickey Mouse. Because of this, both characters are always together in frame when onscreen. They appear in a scene where they are skydiving while Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) has no parachute, so Bugs offers him a “spare” which turns out to be a spare tire. They appear in the end as well, along with all the other toons. For the same reasons, Bugs never calls Mickey by his name, only referring to him as “Doc” (while Mickey calls him “Bugs”).

Bugs Bunny came back to the silver screen in Box Office Bunny in 1990. This was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon short since 1964 to be released to theaters, and it was created for the Bugs Bunny 50th anniversary celebration. It was followed in 1991 by (Blooper) Bunny, a short that has gained a cult following among some animation fans for its edgy humor.

Bugs made an appearance in the 1990 drug prevention video Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. This special is notable for being the first time that somebody other than Mel Blanc voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (they were voiced by Jeff Bergman.)

In 1997, Bugs appeared on a U.S. postage stamp, the first cartoon to be so honored, beating the iconic Mickey Mouse. The stamp is number seven on the list of the ten most popular U.S. stamps, as calculated by the number of stamps purchased but not used. The introduction of Bugs onto a stamp was controversial at the time, as it was seen as a step toward the ‘commercialization’ of stamp art. The postal service rejected many designs, and went with a postal-themed drawing. Avery Dennison printed the Bugs Bunny stamp sheet, which featured “a special ten-stamp design and was the first self-adhesive souvenir sheet issued by the U.S. Postal Service.”

A younger version of Bugs is the main character of Baby Looney Tunes, which debuted on Cartoon Network (United States) in 2002. In the action comedy Loonatics Unleashed, his definite descendant Ace Bunny is the leader of the Loonatics team and seems to have inherited his ancestor’s Brooklyn accent and comic wit. Lexi Bunny who is Lola Bunny’s confirmed descendant seems to be his second in command and likely love interest. Danger Duck, a descendant of Daffy, has a similar relation with him to that between Bugs and Daffy – envy (jealousy in the extreme case) mixed with a grudging respect.

Bugs has appeared in numerous video games, including the Bugs Bunny’s Crazy Castle series, Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage and the similar Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble, Looney Tunes B-Ball, Space Jam, Looney Tunes Racing, Looney Tunes: Space Race, Bugs Bunny Lost in Time, and its sequel, Bugs Bunny and Taz Time Busters, and Looney Tunes: Back in Action and the new video game Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal.

Personality and catchphrases

Bugs has feuded with Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian, Beaky Buzzard, Daffy Duck, Tasmanian Devil, Cecil Turtle, Witch Hazel, Rocky and Mugsy, Wile E. Coyote, Count Blood Count, and a host of others. Bugs almost always wins these conflicts, a plot pattern which recurs in Looney Tunes films directed by Chuck Jones. Concerned that viewers would lose sympathy for a protagonist who always won, Jones had the antagonist characters repeatedly attempt to bully, cheat or threaten Bugs who has been minding his own business. He’s also been known to break the 4th wall by “communicating” with the audience, either by explaining the situation (ex. “Be with you in a minute folks!”), describing someone to the audience (ex. “Feisty, ain’t they?”), etc.

Bugs will usually try to placate the antagonist and avoid conflict, but when an antagonist pushes him too far, Bugs may address the audience and invoke his catchphrase “Of course you realize, this means war!” before he retaliates, and the retaliation will be devastating. This line was taken from Groucho Marx and others in the 1933 film Duck Soup and was also used in the 1935 Marx film A Night at the Opera. Bugs would pay homage to Groucho in other ways, such as occasionally adopting his stooped walk or leering eyebrow-raising (in Hair-Raising Hare, for example) or sometimes with a direct impersonation (as in Slick Hare).

Other directors, such as Friz Freleng, characterized Bugs as altruistic. When Bugs meets other successful characters (such as Cecil Turtle in Tortoise Beats Hare, or, in World War II, the Gremlin of Falling Hare), his overconfidence becomes a disadvantage.

During the 1940s, Bugs was immature and wild, but starting in the 1950s his personality matured and his attitude was less frenetic. It’s worth noting, however, that some feel this shift in Bugs’s personality marked a significant decline in the quality of his cartoons. Though often shown as highly mischievous and violent, Bugs is never actually malicious, and only acts as such in self-defense against his aggressors; the only cartoon where Bugs ever served as a true villain was Buckaroo Bugs.

Bugs Bunny’s nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett, originated in a scene in the film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable’s character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert’s character. This scene was well known while the film was popular, and viewers at the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny’s behavior as satire.

The carrot-chewing scenes are generally followed by Bugs Bunny’s most well-known catchphrase, “What’s up, Doc?”, which was written by director Tex Avery for his first Bugs Bunny short, 1940′s A Wild Hare. Avery explained later that it was a common expression in his native Texas and that he did not think much of the phrase. When the short was first screened in theaters, the “What’s up, Doc?” scene generated a tremendously positive audience reaction. As a result, the scene became a recurring element in subsequent films and cartoons. The phrase was sometimes modified for a situation. For example, Bugs says “What’s up, dogs?” to the antagonists in A Hare Grows in Manhattan, “What’s up, Duke?” to the knight in Knight-mare Hare and “What’s up, prune-face?” to the aged Elmer in The Old Grey Hare. He might also greet Daffy with “What’s up, Duck?” He used one variation, “What’s all the hub-bub, bub?” only once, in Falling Hare. Another variation is used in Looney Tunes: Back In Action when he greets a lightsaber-wielding Marvin the Martian- “What’s up, Darth?”

Several Chuck Jones shorts in the late 1940s and 1950s depict Bugs travelling via cross-country (and, in some cases, intercontinental) tunnel-digging, ending up in places as varied as Mexico (Bully For Bugs, 1953), the Himalayas (The Abominable Snow Rabbit, 1960) and Antarctica (Frigid Hare, 1949) all because he “shoulda taken that left toin at Albukoikee.” He first utters that phrase in Herr Meets Hare (1945), when he emerges in the Black Forest, a cartoon seldom seen today due to its blatantly topical subject matter. When Hermann Gring says to Bugs, “There is no Las Vegas in ‘Chermany’” and takes a potshot at Bugs, Bugs dives into his hole and says, “Joimany! Yipe!”, as Bugs realizes he’s behind enemy lines. The confused response to his “left toin” comment also followed a pattern. For example, when he tunnels into Scotland in 1948′s My Bunny Lies Over The Sea, while thinking he’s heading for the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, it provides another chance for an ethnic stereotype: “Therrre’s no La Brrrea Tarrr Pits in Scotland!” (to which Bugs responds, “Uh…what’s up, Mac-doc?”). A couple of late-1950s shorts of this ilk also featured Daffy Duck travelling with Bugs (“Since when is Pismo Beach inside a cave?!”).

Bugs Bunny has some similarities to figures from mythology and folklore, such as Br’er Rabbit, Nanabozho, or Anansi, and might be seen as a modern trickster (for example, he repeatedly uses cross-dressing mischievously). Unlike most cartoon characters, however, Bugs Bunny is rarely defeated in his own games of trickery. One exception to this is the short Hare Brush, in which Elmer Fudd ultimately carries the day at the end; however, critics note that in this short, Elmer and Bugs assume each other’s personalitieshrough mental illness and hypnosis, respectivelynd it is only by becoming Bugs that Elmer can win. However Bugs was beaten at his own game. In the short Duck Amuck he torments Daffy Duck as the unseen animator, ending with his line, “Ain’t I a stinker?” Bugs feels the same wrath of an unseen animator in the short Rabbit Rampage where he is in turn tormented by Elmer Fudd. At the end of the clip Elmer gleefully exclaims, ‘Well, I finally got even with that scwewy wabbit!”

Although it was usually Porky Pig who brought the WB cartoons to a close with his stuttering, “That’s all, folks!”, Bugs would occasionally appear, bursting through a drum just as Porky did, but munching a carrot and saying in his Bronx-Brooklyn accent, “And dat’s de end!”

The name “Bugs” or “Bugsy” as an old-fashioned nickname means “crazy” (or “loopy”). Several famous people from the first half of the twentieth century had that nickname. It is now out of fashion as a nickname, but survives in 1950s-1960s expressions like “you’re bugging me”, as in “you’re driving me crazy”.

Bugs wears white gloves which he is only known to remove in Long-Haired Hare. In this episode, Bugs pretends to be the famed conductor Leopold Stokowski and instructs opera star “Giovanni Jones” to sing and to hold a high note. As Giovanni Jones is turning red with the strain, Bugs slips his left hand out of its glove, leaving the glove hovering in the air in order to command Jones to continue to hold the high note. Bugs then nips down to the mail drop to order, and then to receive, a pair of ear muffs. Bugs puts on the ear defenders and then zips back into the amphitheater and reinserts his hand into his glove as singer Jones is writhing on the stage, still holding that same high note).

Bugs Bunny is also a master of disguise: he can wear any disguise that he wants to confuse his enemies: in Bowery Bugs he uses 5 disguises: fakir, gentleman, women, Baker and finally policeman. This ability of disguise makes bugs famous because we can recognize him while at the same time realizing that his enemies are trapped. Bugs has a certain preference for the female disguise: Taz, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam were fooled by this sexy bunny (woman) and in Hare Trimmed, Sam discovers the real face of “Granny”(Bugs disguise) in the church where they attempt to get married.

Rabbit or hare?

The animators throughout Bugs’ history have treated the terms rabbit and hare as synonymous. Taxonomically they are not synonymous, being somewhat similar but observably different types of lagomorphs. Hares have much longer ears than rabbits, so Bugs might seem to be of the hare family, and many more of the cartoon titles include the word “hare” rather than “rabbit.” Within the cartoons, although the term “hare” comes up sometimes (for example, Bugs drinking “hare tonic” to “stop falling hare” and being doused with “hare restorer” to bring him back from invisibility), Bugs as well as his antagonists most often refer to the character as a “rabbit”. The word “bunny” is of no help in answering this question, as it is a synonym for both young hares and young rabbits.

In Nike commercials with Michael Jordan, Bugs had been referred to as “Hare Jordan.”

The opening and closing

In the opening of many of the Bugs Bunny cartoons, the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes rings contain Bugs Bunny’s head after the Warner Bros. shield (generally from 1944 and 1949 onward). Others have Bugs Bunny relaxing on top of the Warner Bros. shield: He chews on his carrot, looks angrily at the camera and pulls down the next logo (Merrie Melodies or Looney Tunes) like a window shade (generally on cartoons between 1945 until early 1949). Then he lifts it back up, to now be seen lying on his own name, which then fades into the title of the specific short. In some other cases, the title card sometimes fades to him, already on his name and chewing his carrot then fade to the name of the short. At the finish of some, Bugs breaks out of a drum (like Porky Pig) and says, “And that’s the end”.

Voice actors

The following are the many voice actors who have voiced the character Bugs Bunny over the last seventy years:

Mel Blanc voiced the character for 49 years, from Bugs’ debut in A Wild Hare (1940) until Blanc’s death in 1989. Blanc described the voice as a combination of Bronx and Brooklyn accents; however, Tex Avery claimed that he asked Blanc to give the character not a New York accent per se, but a voice like that of actor Frank McHugh, who frequently appeared in supporting roles in the 1930s and whose voice might be described as New York Irish. In Bugs’ second cartoon Elmer’s Pet Rabbit, Blanc created a completely new voice for Bugs, which sounded like a Jimmy Stewart impression, but the directors decided the previous voice was better. Though his best-known character was the carrot-chomping rabbit, munching on the carrots interrupted the dialogue. Various substitutes, such as celery, were tried, but none of them sounded like a carrot. So for the sake of expedience, he would munch and then spit the carrot bits into a spittoon rather than swallowing them, and continue with the dialogue. One oft-repeated story, possibly originating from Bugs Bunny: Superstar, is that he was allergic to carrots and had to spit them out to minimize any allergic reaction but his autobiography makes no such claim; in fact, in a 1984 interview with Tim Lawson, co-author of The Magic Behind The Voices: A Who’s Who of Cartoon Voice Actors (University Press of Mississippi, 2004), Blanc emphatically denied being allergic to carrots.

Jeff Bergman was the first to have the honor of voicing Bugs (and several other Looney Tunes characters) after Mel Blanc died in 1989. He got the job by impressing Warner Bros. higher-ups with a tape of himself re-creating the voices of several of Blanc’s characters, including Bugs Bunny. He had rigged the tape player so that he could use a switch to instantly toggle back and forth between the original recording of Blanc and Bergman’s recording of the same lines. Upon doing this, it was almost impossible for the producers to tell which voice was Blanc’s and which voice was Bergman; thus his vocal ability was established and his career launched.

Bergman first voiced Bugs during the 1990 Academy Awards and then in Box Office Bunny, a 4-minute Looney Tunes short released in 1990 to commemorate Bugs’ fiftieth anniversary. Bergman would next voice Bugs Bunny in the 1991 short (Blooper) Bunny, a Greg Ford-directed cartoon also produced to coincide with Bugs Bunny’s fiftieth anniversary. However, the short never received its intended theatrical release and was shelved for years, until Cartoon Network rediscovered it and broadcast it on their channel several years later. (Blooper) Bunny has since garnered a cult following among animation fans for its use of edgy humor. Other works for which Bergman provided Bugs’ voice include Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (an obvious parody of the 1950s sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Tiny Toon Adventures (a popular television program of the early nineties that featured the classic Looney Tunes characters as mentors to their younger counterparts) in the first season, and Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (a television special exposing children to dangers of marijuana). Bergman would continue to do the voice of Bugs Bunny until 1993.

Greg Burson first voiced Bugs in later episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures. He was then given the responsibility of voicing Bugs in 1995′s Carrotblanca, a well-received 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon originally shown in cinemas alongside The Amazing Panda Adventure (US) and The Pebble and the Penguin (non-US); it has since been released on video packaged with older Looney Tunes cartoons and was even included in the special edition DVD release of Casablanca, of which it is both a parody and an homage. Burson next voiced Bugs in the 1996 short From Hare to Eternity; the film is notable for being dedicated to the memory of the then-just deceased Friz Freleng, and for being the final Looney Tunes cartoon that Chuck Jones directed. Greg Burson also provided Bugs’ voice in The Bugs and Daffy Show, which ran on Cartoon Network from 1996 to 2003. He died in 2008.

Billy West has been in television since the late 1980s. His first role was for the 1988 revived version of Bob Clampett’s Beany and Cecil. West’s breakthrough role then came almost immediately, as the voice of Stimpy and later Ren in John Kricfalusi’s Ren & Stimpy. West has since been the voice talent for close to 120 different characters, including some of the most iconic animated figures in television history. Perhaps West’s most notable film work came in the 1996 movie Space Jam. Starring alongside Michael Jordan, West provided the voice of both Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. West would go on to reprise the roles of Bugs in subsequent Looney Tunes productions, including his cameos on Histeria!, the Kids’ WB! promotional spots, and the 2006 Christmas-themed special Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas and the DVD compilations “Reality Check” and “Stranger Than Fiction”, along with several Looney Tunes-centric CDs, cartoons, and video games. Billy West is, along with fellow voice artist Joe Alaskey, credited as one of the current successors of Mel Blanc in impersonating the voice of Bugs Bunny.

Joe Alaskey, like Jeff Bergman, is well-known for his ability to successfully impersonate many Looney Tunes characters. In fact, Alaskey voiced Yosemite Sam in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as original voice actor Mel Blanc had found it too hard on his vocal cords. (This makes Sam one of the few voices created by Blanc to be voiced by someone else during his lifetime.) Joe Alaskey’s first performance as Bugs Bunny came in the 2003 feature film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, although he had tested performing the role in a few earlier projects, such as Tweety’s High-Flying Adventure. While still best known for providing the voice of Daffy Duck, Alaskey has also gone on to do Bugs’ voice in several subsequent productions, including Daffy Duck for President (which was released on The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 and dedicated to then-just deceased Chuck Jones) and several recent video games. Joe Alaskey is, along with fellow voice actor Billy West, credited as one of the current successors of Mel Blanc in impersonating the voice of Bugs Bunny.

Samuel Vincent served as the voice of Bugs in the Cartoon Network TV series Baby Looney Tunes.

Noel Blanc, Mel Blanc’s son, voiced Bugs for the Tiny Toons special It’s a Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas Special. The elder Blanc claimed in his later years that Noel substituted for Mel in various cartoon studios, including doing Bugs at Warner Bros., while he was recovering from a near-fatal car wreck. Noel can also be seen doing Bugs’ voice with his father in the documentary on the making of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Noel voiced Elmer Fudd in a cut-away scene for the animated TV series Family Guy (in “Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story”).

Cameos

Bugs Bunny has had cameo appearances in several cartoons, including one Private SNAFU short. For his appearance in The Goofy Gophers his voice was sped up.

Crazy Cruise (1942)

Porky Pig’s Feat (1943) This marks Bugs’ only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes short.

Jasper Goes Hunting (1944, for Paramount)

Odor-able Kitty (1945)

The Goofy Gophers (1947)

The Lion’s Busy (1950)

Duck Amuck (1953)

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008, as one of the forms of The Martian Manhunter )

International

Bugs Bunny cartoons air in countries outside of the United States. In most cases, the original US cartoons are simply redubbed in the native language and the characters are usually given names more fitting for the country in which they are appearing. For example, in Finland, Bugs Bunny is called Viski Vemmelsri.

Current popularity

In 2002, TV Guide compiled a list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time as part of the magazine’s 50th anniversary. Bugs Bunny was given the honor of number 1. In a CNN broadcast on July 31, 2002, a TV Guide editor talked about the group that created the list. The editor also explained why Bugs pulled top billing: “His stock…has never gone down…Bugs is the best example…of the smart-aleck American comic. He not only is a great cartoon character, he’s a great comedian. He was written well. He was drawn beautifully. He has thrilled and made many generations laugh. He is tops.” Additionally, in Animal Planet’s 50 Greatest Movie Animals (2004), Bugs was named #3, behind Mickey Mouse and Toto.

Bugs Bunny’s enduring impact on comedic actors also cannot be overestimated. During an interview for Inside the Actors Studio, comedian Dave Chappelle cited Bugs Bunny as one of his earliest influences, praising voice actor Mel Blanc.

According to Time Warner, Bugs Bunny became the current official mascot for Six Flags theme parks beginning with their 45th anniversary.

Awards

Academy Awards

Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)

Academy Award nominations

A Wild Hare (1940)

Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt (1941)

See also

List of Bugs Bunny cartoons

Looney Tunes

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Bibliography

Adamson, Joe (1990). Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-1855-7. 

Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2. 

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Jones, Chuck (1989). Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-374-12348-9. 

Maltin, Leonard (1987). Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons (Revised ed.). New York: Plume Book. ISBN 0-452-25993-2. 

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Plot

In 1988 Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a brilliant teenager, has been seeing a psychiatrist, as he seems to be going through a particularly painful puberty. His mother becomes worried about him, after his sister suggests over dinner that he hasn’t been taking his medication. Later that night (October 2) Donnie is awakened by a voice and goes downstairs as if sleepwalking where he meets Frank (James Duval), a man in a menacing rabbit costume. Frank tells him that in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds, the world will end. While he is outside, a jet engine crashes through Donnie’s bedroom.

Jim Cunningham (Patrick Swayze) wakes Donnie where he had fallen asleep on the golf course. Donnie notices his forearm where the numerals 28:06:42:12 are written in jagged script. Returning home he is surprised to find police and firemen have cordoned off his home. Donnie is told a jet engine has fallen through his room, although it is unknown where it came from.

As Eddie, Donnie’s father, drives him to the office of Dr. Thurman (Katharine Ross), Donnie’s therapist, Eddie nearly runs over Roberta Sparrow (Patience Cleveland), also known as “Grandma Death”: a seemingly senile old woman who spends her days walking back and forth from her house to a mailbox for a letter that never comes. Grandma Death whispers something in Donnie’s ear that startles him. It is later learned that she had whispered, “every living creature on earth dies alone.”

In his English class Donnie meets a new student, Gretchen Ross (Jena Malone). Meanwhile, Frank continues to appear to Donnie and tell him that he can do anything and will not get caught. Frank also tells Donnie about time travel, further confusing him. Donnie, apparently at Frank’s urging, commits several acts of violence against property; flooding the school and torching the home of Jim Cunningham, an inspirational speaker. Cunningham’s methods have been much admired by Kitty Farmer, one of the teachers at Donnie’s school.

Gretchen and Donnie grow closer. She is one of the few people he opens up to about his time-travel visions. Dr. Thurman increases Donnie’s medication and begins hypnotherapy with him. Frank continues to appear to Donnie.

With the inspirational speaker, Jim Cunningham, accused of running a “kiddie porn dungeon”, Kitty Farmer asks Donnie’s mother to accompany the schools dance team to LA for an appearance on the show Star Search. Donnie’s sister Elizabeth (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Donnie decide to throw a Halloween party while their mother, Rose, and younger sister are away. The night of the party, October 30, Gretchen comes to Donnie’s house for safety because her mother has suddenly disappeared.

At midnight, Donnie realizes that the 28 days have passed, and that only 6 hours remain until the end of the world. Convinced that Grandma Death is in some way connected to Frank, Donnie persuades Gretchen and two other friends to leave the party and go with him to her house. There, they are assaulted by the high school bullies (Alex Greenwald and Seth Rogen). Gretchen is knocked unconscious and thrown into the street. An approaching car scares the bullies off but swerves to avoid Grandma Death who is standing in the road and runs directly over Gretchen. Stopping the car, Frank gets out and starts yelling at Donnie, who lifts his father’s stolen pistol and shoots Frank through his right eye (a wound seen earlier as the ‘menacing rabbit’ Frank pulled off his mask).

Grandma Death tells Donnie (Director’s cut) that he must hurry as a storm is forming and he has a lot to do. Donnie can’t wake Gretchen and ends up carrying her lifeless body to his home. There he kisses his sleeping sister’s forehead, grabs some keys and speeds away in the family car with Gretchen. We see a strange, inverted, black cloud forming over Donnie’s house. Next Donnie watches from some road in the hills above town as a tornado forms over the city. Donnie seems at peace now, as a vortex engulfs the jet his mother and sister are returning home in, apparently they are caught up in the storm above Donnie’s home. Suddenly the jet is shaken violently and we see the engine torn from the wing and begin to fall, creating a whirling pathway through the sky.

Director’s cut ending

Suddenly Donnie’s elder sister opens the family’s home’s front door, closes it, and leans against the door, as she had done at the beginning of the film. Her father is asleep in his chair. Donnie, lying upstairs in his bed, starts to laugh maniacally, then the noise grows as the house begins to shake violently. Donnie is now seen asleep in his bed. As the house starts to fall apart, we see his mother in her bed as the massive jet engine that had, only minutes before, fallen from the plane carrying his mother and sister, crashes through Donnie’s bedroom.

Theatrical version ending

In the theatrical version it is once again October 2. Donnie is once again in bed, having possibly travelled back in time to create an ontological paradox, where his future self takes the place of his past self. On this occasion Donnie has returned to his bed, where in the beginning of the film he had followed a strange voice, as he walked outside and met Frank. As he laughs maniacally, a jet engine crashes through the roof, killing him.

Common ending

All the people affected by Donnie’s actions are then shown in short scenes that briefly reference the events as they happen with Donnie never having taken his walk to meet Frank. The Tears For Fears’ song “Mad World”, covered by Gary Jules, is played with the words matching the scenes. As Donnie’s body is taken away, Gretchen, having never met Donnie, rides by the Darkos’ house on her bicycle. She learns from a neighborhood boy about what has just happened and then waves to Donnie’s mother who stands smoking a cigarette.

Director’s interpretation

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Writer/director Richard Kelly does not deny the validity of personal interpretations, but has expressed his own theories through the extra commentary on the two DVDs, and in various other interviews.

According to Kelly and his fictional Philosophy of Time Travel, at midnight on October 2 – a Tangent Universe branches off the Primary Universe around the time when Donnie is called out of his bedroom by Frank, immediately before the appearance of the Artifact, the faulty jet engine. The inherently unstable Tangent Universe will collapse in just over 28 days and take the Primary Universe with it if not corrected. Closing the Tangent Universe is the duty of the Living Receiver, Donnie, who wields certain supernatural powers to help him in the task.

Those who die within the Tangent Universe (and would not have died otherwise) are the Manipulated Dead (Frank, Gretchen). Frank, at least, is also given certain powers in that he is able to subtly understand what is happening and have the ability to contact and influence the Living Receiver via the Fourth Dimensional Construct (water). All others within the orbit of the Living Receiver are the Manipulated Living (e.g. Ms. Pomeroy, Dr. Monnitoff), subconsciously drawn to push him towards his destiny to close the Tangent Universe and, according to the Philosophy of Time Travel, die by the Artifact.

Frank appears in the story in two guises (three guises if we assume that he ‘never’ dies on account of the restoration of the Primary Universe through the negation of the Tangent Universe). First, there is the Manipulated Dead Frank who appears to Donnie as a premonition from the future of the Tangent Universe in the disturbing rabbit suit. Dead Frank is aware of Donnie’s fate and destiny, and impels him to realize it so that the Primary Universe can be restored at the point where/when the Tangent Universe branched off from it. Secondly, Frank appears alive as Donnie’s sister’s boyfriend, whose fate unfolds within the Tangent Universe by means of Donnie’s successes in realizing his mission. This living boyfriend is fatally shot by Donnie towards the end of the film, a killing which was foreseen by Donnie.

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko

Jena Malone as Gretchen Ross

James Duval as Frank

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth Darko

Mary McDonnell as Rose Darko

Holmes Osborne as Eddie Darko

Katharine Ross as Dr. Lilian Thurman

Drew Barrymore as Karen Pomeroy

Noah Wyle as Dr. Kenneth Monnitoff

Patrick Swayze as Jim Cunningham

Daveigh Chase as Samantha “Sam” Darko

Beth Grant as Kitty Farmer

Stuart Stone as Ronald Fisher

Alex Greenwald as Seth Devlin

Seth Rogen as Ricky Danforth

Patience Cleveland as Roberta Sparrow (“Grandma Death”)

Jolene Purdy as Cherita Chen

Ashley Tisdale as Kim

Jerry Trainor as Lanky Kid

William Adams as little boy in the end

Production

Filming

The Long Beach, California home used in Donnie Darko as the fictional, upscale home of motivational speaker Jim Cunningham.

Donnie Darko was filmed in 28 days on a budget of $4.5 million. It almost went straight to home video release but was publicly released by the production company Flower Films.

The film was shot in California. The “Carpathian ridge” scenes were shot on the Angeles Crest Highway. Loyola High School, a prominent Catholic school in Los Angeles, California, was used as Donnie’s high school. The house where the Darko family lives is located in Long Beach, California. Donnie awakens in a golf course in Long Beach, California; the hotel where his family lodges is the Burbank, California, Holiday Inn; and the Aero theater where Donnie and Gretchen watch the double feature is a cinema in Santa Monica, California.

The home of Patrick Swayze’s character, Jim Cunningham, is at 4252 Country Club Drive Long Beach, California.

Music

Main article: Donnie Darko (soundtrack)

In 2003, composer Michael Andrews and singer Gary Jules found their piano-driven cover of the Tears for Fears’ hit “Mad World”, featured in the film as part of the end sequence, and the song was the UK Christmas Number One single in 2003. One continuous sequence involving an introduction of Donnie’s high school prominently features the song “Head Over Heels” by Tears for Fears, Samantha’s dance group, “Sparkle Motion,” performs with the song “Notorious” by Duran Duran, and “Under the Milky Way” by The Church is played after Donnie and Gretchen emerge from his room during the party. “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division also appears in the film diegetically during the party and shots of Donnie and Gretchen upstairs. However, the version included was released in 1995, although the film is set in 1988. The opening sequence is set to “The Killing Moon” by Echo & the Bunnymen. In the theatrical cut, the song playing during the Halloween party is “Proud to be Loud” by Pantera, a track released on their 1988 album, which would concide with the time setting of the film. However, the band is credited as “The Dead Green Mummies”.

In the re-released Director’s Cut version of the film, the music in the opening sequence is replaced by “Never Tear Us Apart” by INXS; “Under the Milky Way” is moved to the scene of Donnie and his father driving home from Donnie’s meeting with his therapist; and “The Killing Moon” is played as Gretchen and Donnie return to the party from Donnie’s parents’ room.

Release

The limited release of the film occurred during the month after the September 11 attacks. It was subsequently held back for almost a year for international release, where it garnered more favorable reviews.[citation needed] From this point, a large cult following for the movie began. Its DVD release gained an increased American audience for the film.

Marketing

The Donnie Darko Book, written by Richard Kelly, is a 2003 book about the film. It includes an introduction by Jake Gyllenhaal, the screenplay of the Donnie Darko Director’s Cut, an in-depth interview with Kelly, facsimile pages from the Philosophy of Time Travel, photos and drawings from the film, and artwork it inspired.

NECA released first a six-inch (15 cm) figure of Frank the Bunny and later a foot-tall (30 cm) ‘talking’ version of the same figure.

Home video

The film was originally released on DVD and VHS in March 2002. Strong DVD sales led Newmarket Films to release a “Director’s Cut” on DVD in 2004. Bob Berney, President of Newmarket Films, described the film as “a runaway hit on DVD,” citing United States sales of more than $10 million.

The director’s cut of the film was released on May 29, 2004, in Seattle, Washington, at the Seattle International Film Festival and later in New York City and Los Angeles on July 23, 2004. This cut includes twenty minutes of extra footage, an altered soundtrack, the director’s commentary assisted by Kevin Smith, the director’s interpretation, and visual excerpts from the book The Philosophy of Time Travel. The director’s cut DVD, released on February 15, 2005, included the new footage and more soundtrack changes, as well as some additional features exclusive to the two-DVD set: excerpts from the storyboard, a 52-minute production diary, “#1 fan video,” a “cult following” video interviewing British fans, and the new director’s cut cinematic trailer. The director’s cut DVD was released as a giveaway with copies of the British Sunday Times newspaper on February 19, 2006.

The film was released on Blu-ray on February 10, 2009.

Reception

Box office performance

Donnie Darko had its first screening at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2001, and debuted in United States theaters in October 2001 to a tepid response. Shown on only 58 screens nationwide, the film grossed $110,494 in its opening weekend. By the time the film closed in United States theaters on April 11, 2002, it had earned just $517,375. It ultimately grossed $4.1 million worldwide.

Despite its poor box office showing, the film began to attract a devoted fan base. It was originally released on DVD and VHS in March 2002. During this time, the Pioneer Theatre in New York City’s East Village began midnight screenings of Donnie Darko that continued for 28 consecutive months.

Critical reception

The film received widespread critical acclaimotten Tomatoes gave the film an 84% rating (the Director’s Cut received 91%), while Metacritic gave it a 71 out of 100 (the Director’s Cut received 88 out of 100). Critic Andy Bailey billed Donnie Darko as a “Sundance surprise” that “isn’t spoiled by the Hollywood forces that helped birth it.” Jean Oppenheimer of New Times (LA) praised the film, saying, “Like gathering storm clouds, Donnie Darko creates an atmosphere of eerie calm and mounting menace — stands as one of the most exceptional movies of 2001.” Writing for ABC Australia, Megan Spencer called the movie, “menacing, dreamy, [and] exciting” and noted that “it could take you to a deeply emotional place lying dormant in your soul.” At first when the movie was released, Roger Ebert gave the film a less than positive review but later became more enamored by the film after seeing the release of the director’s cut.

Awards

2001 Richard Kelly won with Donnie Darko for “Best Screenplay” at the Catalonian International Film Festival and at the San Diego Film Critics Society. Donnie Darko also won the “Audience Award” for Best Feature at the Sweden Fantastic Film Festival. The film was nominated for “Best Film” at the Catalonian International Film Festival and for the “Grand Jury Prize” at the Sundance Film Festival.

2002 Donnie Darko won the “Special Award” at the Young Filmmakers Showcase at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The movie also won the “Silver Scream Award” at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival. Kelly was nominated for “Best First Feature” and “Best First Screenplay” with Donnie Darko, as well as Jake Gyllenhaal being nominated for “Best Male Lead,” at the Independent Spirit Awards. The film was also nominated for the “Best Breakthrough Film” at the Online Film Critics Society Awards.

2003 Jake Gyllenhaal won “Best Actor” and Richard Kelly “Best Original Screenplay” for Donnie Darko at the Chlotrudis Awards, where Kelly was also nominated for “Best Director” and “Best Movie.”

2005 Donnie Darko ranked in the top five on My Favourite Film, an Australian poll conducted by the ABC.

2006 Donnie Darko ranks ninth in FilmFour’s 50 Films to See Before You Die.

It also came in at number 14 on Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 50 Best High School Movies and landed at number 2 in their “Greatest Independent Films of All Time” list.

Sequel

Main article: S. Darko

A 2009 sequel, S. Darko, centers on Samantha Darko, Donnie’s younger sister. Again played by Daveigh Chase, Samantha begins to have strange dreams that hint at a major catastrophe. Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly has stated that he has no involvement in this sequel, as he does not own the rights to the original. Daveigh and producer Adam Fields are the only creative links between it and the original film. The sequel received mostly negative reviews.

Adaptations

Marcus Stern, Associate Director of the American Repertory Theater, directed a staged adaptation of Donnie Darko at the Zero Arrow Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fall of 2007. It ran from October 27 to November 18, 2007, with opening night fittingly scheduled on Halloween. An article written by the production dramaturg stated that the director and production team planned to “embrace the challenge to make the fantastical elements come alive on stage.” In 2004, Stern adapted and directed Kelly’s screenplay for a graduate student production at the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training (I.A.T.T./M.X.A.T.).

A 60 second version was created for the Empire Film Awards by Tea Fuelled Art

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Commentary with Kevin Smith (2003), Donnie Darko Directors Cut, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0571221246 

External links

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Is Ghajini, like every Aamir Khan movie, a flick with a difference? Not at all, it has the clichéd ‘good triumphs over the evil’ subject, which you may be watching for the 117th time. If you look at the basics of Ghajini, it is your usual revenge drama that the sort of Ajay Devgans and Mithuns would dabble in the early 90s. But what livens up the film; makes you stand up and notice is its treatment. Action has been one genre which was relegated to the background with comedies and candifloss romances warming up the box office for nearly a decade. Ghajini brings the ‘action’ back into your life.

Story of Ghajini
Aamir Khan suffers from acute short term memory loss because he is hit on the head by the villain Pradeep Rawat, who also kills Aamir’s girlfriend Asin. Aamir Khan has to fight his handicap of ‘ short term memory loss’ while his mind is working overtime seeking vengeance. He cannot remember anything more than 15 minutes, yet with determination and logic, sets cues that make him disciplined enough to seek vengeance. He has cues written on his body including Polaroids which aid him in memory and recall. Jiah Khan, a medical research student who has her eyes on Aamir as an object of scientific experimentation, initially perceives Aamir as a threat. After coming to know more about his background and the tragedy that befell him, she seeks to help him out. How Aamir gets his revenge forms the rest of the plot. But it not as simple as it seems, the plot is rivetingly complex.

Technical aspects of Ghajini
The strong point of Ghajini is its screenplay and its script. There is enough content in the movie for you to lap up 3 hour and 15 minutes span of the movie. Ghajini has been splendidly directed by A.Murgadoss who has taken pain to ensure that finer points of the movie are taken care of. The hall mark of an interesting screenplay, Ghajini shuffles intelligently between the placid past, the troubled present, back into the romantic past before zeroing into the present with vengeance.

Not one single scene seems to be in waste and every sequence seems to compliment the plot of the film. The climax scene is raw and sordid, as Aamir uses brute force to bash up villains to pulp, while chasing Pradeep Rawat in revengeful angst. The chasing scene through the dingy lane has been shot beautifully to the credit of camera man Ravi K. Chandran who has shot scenes with remarkable elan.

A.R.Rahman’s music is a soother to the fast tempo of the film, especially the Kaise Mujhe song which is placed at Ghajini’s most sensitive moment. Murgadoss has made sure that the songs do not overwhelm the movie and has even intelligently snipped a significant part of the Latoo number, so that the pace is not hindered.

Best scenes of Ghajini and plus points of Ghajini
1. Asin and Aamir Khan share a pleasant chemistry. Scenes where Kalpana(Asin) flaunts that Sanjay(Aamir Khan) the owner of Air Voice mobile, is her boyfriend, without even having met him, is funny . The fact that Asin dies in the movie without ever realizing who her boyfriend really is, is touching.
2. Romance has not been given a step motherly treatment in Ghajini. Murgadoss cooks up enough romantic situations between the lead pair, with the right amount of sensitivity and depth
3. The superb picturization of the ‘Behka Behka’ number.
4. The raw action scene at the climax.

Minus points of Ghajini:
The Tamil version had the villain in a double role, which perplexes the hero. Doing the same would have added more depth in Hindi Ghajini, and give it a touch of ‘difference’. Also the fight scenes could have been more imaginative.

Performances of Ghajini
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The villain Pradeep Rawat is menacing and good enough for you to hate him. The lifeline of Ghajini is volcano of volatile talent-Aamir Khan. He fits the character like a glove and he is remarkably efficient in both the aspects of his character-the owner of Air Voice Mobile madly in love with Asin and also as the psycho character, who cannot remember anything beyond 15 minutes. Vulnerability and Violence are performed with clinical perfection by this acting maestro AK. Aamir Khan’s is truly an award winning performance. His body language and eyes venture far beyond what a standard dialogue would.

Verdict on Ghajini:
The Hindi Ghajini replicates the Tamil Ghajini movie scene by scene, except for little amendments. Most of the people in the team are the same including Asin, villain Pradeep Rawat and even the director Murgadoss. The major difference is the treatment of the climax. To sum up, Ghajini is not path breaking cinema, but it is entertainment laden, adrenalin pumping, visual treat at its best. Watch it in the theater, for total entertainment!