Day #2 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

It's Day #2 of the 30 DAY FILM CHALLENGE - a film you like that starts with the first letter of your name.

I've decided to go with my online name "shadowkat", you may do what you wish.

This has got to be among my favorite vampire movies ever. It's clever. And a kind of meta-narrative/meta-fiction on the whole vampire film and monster movie trope - before anyone else appeared to come up with the idea. The story is about the making of the film Nostrefratu (an unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's Dracula in Germany) with an actual vampire, which the director fails to disclose to the cast and crew.

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Comments

[cactuswatcher]

Yeah, when I saw the prompt yesterday for today. I thought, nope. I'm not doing that with my real first name. If for no other reason than there aren't a lot of good movies to start with that letter and the one I thought of instantly is a good movie that I don't like! So I'll go with the first letter of my on-line last name (Cactus Watcher, two words even if they are run together on various accounts I have.) and pick not an old classic, but a more modern favorite of mine...Wonder Woman (2017)

[shadowkat]

Hee, you cheated - cactuswatcher is set as one word. Although I did think of one that starts with a C...Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn (which just came to me, took me a while).

But Wonder Woman is a good pick.

[cactuswatcher]

I'll admit using the last name may be cheating, but, no, it was always two words that got mushed together here and on other internet platforms that either don't allow spaces or don't allow underscores or both. I was always Cactus Watcher on ATPo where you and I first met.

[shadowkat]

Well, to be fair - I did tell you that you could do whatever you wanted. :-)

[cjlasky7]

This is my favorite performance by Willem Dafoe. His, um, "interpretation" of Max Schrek isn't remotely human, but it has a weird charm that almost demands to be put on film. You understand why Murnau is willing to use his cast and crew as cannon fodder to capture the creature's essence.

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The movie that changed Hollywood. Ground Zero for the Summer Blockbuster. Spielberg's film making instincts turned a potential disaster into a masterpiece of suspense. Universal's p.r. department turned it into a phenomenon.

Jaws, dir. by Steven Spielberg (1975)

https://youtu.be/U1fu_sA7XhE

[shadowkat]

Great pick. I love JAWS. It's notable for how much better a film it is - due to the fact that the special effects didn't work. Because of the problems they had with the mechanical shark - they had to film it differently and focused more on the characters. The three men in the boat sequence is cinema classic.

It was apparently filmed on location in Martha's Vineyard, which doubled as Amity Island.

[atpo_onm]

Great film, great music. What more could one ask?

Falling slowly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=726SFblz9Lk

Take this sinking ship / And point it home / We've still got time

-OnM

[shadowkat]

You know that may end up in another one of my categories. ;-)

Apparently the Bway musical was very good.

Also, you went with your last name. Sigh.

[atpo_onm]

Like Cactus Watcher, I had to modify my "official" online handle when the move to LJ took place, because apparently there is a popular TV show in some Eastern European country that has the initials o,n,m, and so someone else had already taken that login there. I did what several other ATPo folks did, and added that prefix to the OnM. That carried on to DW.

So... Objects in Mirror, or OnM... "o" would be the first character of the first name.

Yeah, yeah, picky me! ;-)

[petzipellepingo]

Jules et Jim .

[shadowkat]

Interesting pick thank you.

[wendelah1]

Wizard of Oz!