Movie-Favs: THE MATRIX

The Matrix franchise comprises a trilogy of science-fiction-adventure films written and directed by the Wachowski brothers and produced by Joel Silver. The first film The Matrix was released in March, 1999. After the film's success, two sequels were greenlighted, titled The Matrix Reloaded (May 2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (November 2003). The characters and settings of the Matrix fictional universe are further explored in other media, including animation, comics, and video games.



The series depicts a complex science fiction story incorporating many philosophical elements. Other influences include cyberpunk, mythology, anime, Hong Kong action films (particularly "heroic bloodshed" and martial arts movies), simulated reality and philosophy of mind. Though not directly, key concepts of several beliefs are touched upon, including Buddhism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Judaism, Jainism, Islam, and Atheism.

The series began with 1999's The Matrix. The film, directed by the Wachowski brothers and produced by Joel Silver, was highly successful, earning $460 million worldwide and beating Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace for the Academy Award for Visual Effects. In addition, by 2000, the DVD release of the film reached three million sales, the first DVD release in the United States to do so.

The movie's mainstream success led to the greenlighting of the next two films of the trilogy, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. It took a number of years and several iterations of scripts before the final films were approved. The two sequels, which tell a continuous story rather than being stand-alone episodes, were filmed simultaneously and released six months apart. The trilogy is known as The Matrix Trilogy.

Source: wikipedia
Official Matrix Site

Genre Cut Part 3- a-capella

As promised, here is the third part of genre cut.



And yes, again Handball , be patient, you will discover some a-capella buried treasures later on the video.
But damned, why does it become never less than 6 minutes?
Pardon me!

The groups and songs:
6 Zylinder:
- Scaborough Fair, old english folksong


Kontrollöre:
- "Ich mag es", CD Vollgas (2007)
- Durch den Konsum, live
- Röslein auf der Heide, lyrics: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, composed by Franz Schubert

Füenf:
- "Music" from Madonna, CD Feingefühl (2003)

TheGlue:
- Esperanza, CD Boca Juniors (2005)

All contact informations are listed at the left side under the heading of Introduced Artists.

I just saw Criminal Minds Season3 Episode 15 and heard a remarkable quotation of Ben Okri:
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

Still trust in yourself.

Genre-Cut Part II

Here we go, the cabarett-cut has been finished. And what a surprise, I drag it out, cause there are so many excellent comedians, I had to choose some of my favorites and the vid is still over 6 minutes.... too long and only german.

Genre-Cut

okay,
my first vid is a bit too long and fully packed with different genres.
So I decided to split it up and I will give the category groups
some more space to introduce themselves.

The Films:


to be continued with cabaret and a-capella

I have a vision

When I was a child, there were still pirate films at cinema and TV.
Unforgotten actors such as
Errol Flynn in " Captain Blood" or " The Sea Hawk" and

Burt Lancaster in " The Crimson Pirat" gave me a beautiful time.

Suddendly the category ceased existing.

A fulminate revival experienced it however through "Pirates of the Caribbean".


How would it be now, if this success story with another category could be repeated?
I'm thinking of films that would kidnap us into the time of the Middle Ages.

Some examples are:

Robert Taylor in "Knights of the Round Table" from 1953








or the TV serial Cadfael
from the years 1994-1998,
which is based on the books by Ellis Peter,
source : www.cadfael.de.

Here are some books which are ideally suited for use as a TV serial or for cinema screen.


Rebecca Gablέ:

Das Spiel der Könige ISBN: 978-3-431-03721-0
Die Hüter der Rose ISBN: 978-3-431-03635-0
Der König der purpurnen Stadt ISBN: 978-3-431-03439-4
Das zweite Königreich ISBN: 978-3-431-03584-1
Das Lächeln der Fortuna ISBN: 978-3-431-03610-7

Source: www.ehrenwirth.de and www.gable.de

The books are introducing Middle Ages at the time of Richard III.
and the fortunes of Waringham.


Diana Gabaldon:




The stories center around a time-travelling 20th-century nurse (Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser) and her 18th-century Scottish husband (James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser), and are located in Scotland, France, the West Indies and America.

Outlander ISBN: 978-0-440-21256-0 (0-440-21256-1)
Dragonfly in Amber ISBN: 978-0-440-21562-2 (0-440-21562-5)
Voyager ISBN: 978-0-440-33515-3 (0-440-33515-9)
Drums of Autumn ISBN: 978-0-440-33517-7 (0-440-33517-5)
The Fiery Cross ISBN: 978-0-440-33388-3 (0-440-33388-1)
A Breath of Snow and Ashes ISBN: 978-0-7393-2201-7 (0-7393-2201-X)
and the upcoming “Echo in the Bone”.

source: www.randomhouse.com and www.dianagabaldon.com


Where are the ambitious film script writers and the visionary producers, who are inspired to give life to the stories of Diana Gabaldon´s Outlander series and Rebecca Gables medieval novels?

If I appealed your interest, feel free to leave a comment.

True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series

Sookie Stackhouse is the main character in The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of eight books written by New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris that were first published in 2001.

The series is a first-person account of Sookie's life as a barmaid and telepath in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001.

In the HBO series True Blood, which is based on the The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Sookie is portrayed by Academy Award-winning actress Anna Paquin.



Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders and government officials around the world have chosen their sides, but in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.

Local waitress Sookie Stackhouse, however, knows how it feels to be an outcast. "Cursed" with the ability to listen in on people's thoughts, she's also open-minded about the integration of vampires — particularly when it comes to Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a handsome 173-year-old living up the road. But as Sookie is drawn into a series of mysteries surrounding Bill's arrival in Bon Temps, that tolerance will be put to the test.

A sexy, scary new drama from 'Six Feet Under' creator Alan Ball, 'True Blood' delves into the meticulously-crafted world of novelist Charlaine Harris. Described by the Emmy®-winning Ball as "popcorn for smart people" and featuring a colorful cast of local misfits, 'True Blood' promises an intense ride.

Link to HBO's True Blood Site

Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951 in Tunica, Mississippi) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. Born and raised in the Delta, she began training for her career as soon as she could hold a pencil. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and (later) teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, graduating to books a few years later.

Harris created an entirely new series for release in 2001. The series has gathered a strong following with its unique blend of mystery, humor, romance, and the supernatural. The series has been released in Japan, Spain, Greece, Germany, France, Brazil and Great Britain.

Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of the acclaimed HBO television series Six Feet Under, announced he would undertake the production of a new HBO series based upon the Southern Vampire Mysteries.[1] He also wrote and directed the pilot episode for the series, "True Blood", which premiered on HBO on September 7, 2008.

Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series

1. Dead Until Dark (2001, ISBN 0-441-00853-4)
2. Living Dead in Dallas (March 2002, ISBN 0-441-00923-9)
3. Club Dead (May 2003, ISBN 0-441-01051-2)
4. Dead to the World (May 2004, hardcover ISBN 0-441-01167-5)
5. Dead as a Doornail (May 2005, hardcover ISBN 0-441-01279-5)
6. Definitely Dead (May 2006, hardcover ISBN 0-441-01400-3)
7. All Together Dead (May 2007, hardcover ISBN 0-441-01494-1)
8. From Dead to Worse (May 2008, hardcover ISBN 0-441-01589-4)

Source: wikipedia

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Most welcome to Culture-Freaks

Hi, my name is gala and I arranged some of my favoured objects of desire.

Lotti and I decided to share what´s on our hearts and created a home for a collection into world of culture, arts, cabaret, media and society
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See the uncutted version of Joseph Fiennes monologue.
I didn´t have the heart to cut this haunting speech.: