Posts Tagged ‘19th-century’

Corpse Bride (2005)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bonham Carter, Helena | Watson, Emily | Ullman, Tracey | Whitehouse, Paul | Lumley, Joanna | Finney, Albert | Grant, Richard E. | Lee, Christopher | Gough, Michael | Horrocks, Jane | Reitel, Enn | Roy, Deep | Elfman, Danny | Ballantyne, Stephen
Directors: Burton, Tim | Johnson, Mike
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Blue-tinted, eye-ball-popping, maggot-infested beauty Emily (Bonham Carter) has become known as the Corpse Bride after waiting for her fiancĂ© where the couple planned to rendezvous before getting hitched. When her groom arrives, he kills her, and she rests in the ground to wait for her soul mate, whether he knows he is the Corpse Bride’s groom or not. It’s a cold dark night, the moon is full, the stars are bright and the forest is a little bit creepy. Wandering through the black mangled trees, Victor (Depp) just can’t memorize his wedding vows. Victor’s hesitance towards marriage causes him to jumble the words. Two prominent families have arranged their children to be married in order to overcome financial difficulties. As the objects of betrothal, Victor and Victoria (Watson) met for the first time the night before their wedding. It only makes sense that Victor, a groom with cold feet, would have trouble remembering tedious wedding vows. Thus Victor ends up in the dark forest ringing his hands and muttering his vows, the vows that the Corpse Bride hears, bringing her out of the grave. Victor suddenly finds himself married to another woman, a voluptuous bombshell bride who also happens to be dead. Whisked away to the Land of the Dead, Victor finds out that living amongst corpses is not as easy as it seems. Heads easily loose their owners and eyes never seem to stay in their sockets, an adjustment that Victor seems reluctant to accept. Once taken into the Land of the Dead, it is nearly impossible to return, causing Victor to choose between risking Victoria’s life or giving up his own.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Pitt, Brad | Dunst, Kirsten | Rea, Stephen | Banderas, Antonio | Slater, Christian | McCollam, Virginia | McConnell, John | Seelig, Mike | Logan, Bellina | Newton, Thandie | Ové, Indra | McCrory, Helen | Owen, Lyla Hay | Scharfstein, Lee E.
Directors: Jordan, Neil
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It hadn’t even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis’ mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.

Last Samurai, The (2003)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Watanabe, Ken | Cruise, Tom | Atherton, William | Lindberg, Chad | Godshall Sr., Ray | Connolly, Billy | Goldwyn, Tony | Harada, Masato | Odate, Masashi | Koyama, John | Spall, Timothy | Nakamura, Shichinosuke | Igawa, Togo | Nikaido, Satoshi | Wada, Shintaro
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…