In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire Posted By : Emtyaz Ahmud
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
The movie is about the Indian version of the hit TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Dev Patel plays Jamal Malik, a former Mumbai street-kid who has a job making tea at a call centre. He astonishes all of India by entering the show as a contestant and triumphantly getting question after question right. Is he a fraud? A savant genius? Or is something weird going on? His amazing winning streak means he has to come back the next evening for the final big-money question and overnight he is brutally interrogated by Mumbai cops convinced he is a cheat. They take him through each of the questions he got right, and Jamal's life story unfolds in flashback as our hero reveals that each question, like each of Max Bygraves's cards, has a special significance. His tale involves crime, drama, knockabout comedy and romance. Various characters determine his fate: his gangster brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), the love of his life Latika (Freida Pinto) and Prem (Anil Kapoor), the creepy quizmaster himself, who has his own interest in Jamal's staggering success.
This movie has interesting antecedents. It is not the first to be made about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Patrice Leconte's 2006 film My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, features a nailbiting edition of the French version of Millionaire. Leconte's film, like Boyle's, culminates with a "phone a friend" showstopper and both cheekily suggest the show is transmitted live, when, in real life, it is of course recorded and edited well in advance, at least partly to weed out the cheats.
Slumdog Millionaire is The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."
Slumdog director Danny Boyle - whose works such as Trainspotting, The Beach and Sunshine have all featured scores of nearly equal grandeur to the movies themselves - chose Rahman due to his unparalleled success (he's sold over 100 million records and 200 million cassettes worldwide) and ubiquity in the Bollywood world in order to add to the film's authenticity. Planning and completing the score in only two and a half months, Rahman worked out a sharp composite that reflects both the present day electronica/house/hip-hop sector of flashing lights, street life and constant movement, along with the long-inherited Indian flavor of heavy sitars, vibrant tablas and hypnotizing voices.
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Three Reasons Americans Need Theaters Now Posted By : Richard McNeal
In today's economic recession, many have lost their jobs, more can't find work, and unemployment rates are breaking records. While many businesses are as hard-pressed as consumers, one industry could see an increase in business during these rough economic times: movie theaters.
Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
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Historically, Americans have always turned to the cinema to escape their everyday woes. In the Great Depression, movie theaters drew nearly 60-70 million viewers each week, more than half of the population at the time. Skip ahead to today's recession, and it's easy to see why Americans still love to go to the movies. Here are a few reasons why Americans are attracted to movie theaters during times of economic hardship.
1. Cinema is an affordable form of entertainment.
Logic would seem to dictate that with money and budgets getting tighter, less people would find themselves spending extra cash at the theater. Yet, some sources say that movie theater attendance during the Great Depression was higher than attendance during times of economic growth and expansion. And that makes sense. As a relatively cheap form of entertainment, attending a local movie theater allowed Americans to forget the troubling economic times without making their financial situation worse.
The same principle should apply today, too. While many of us can't afford to take a luxury vacation, or spring for a night in a ritzy hotel, we can usually spare the admission to a local movie theater. According to a recent study from the Motion Picture Association of America, 172 million people went the movies in 2007. That year, there was also an increase among occasional and non-moviegoers -- which means more people are filling up theaters. Instead of attracting consistent moviegoers, the industry is drawing a broader audience, perhaps due to the dismal economy.
2. Movies can improve your mood and outlook.
In the Great Depression, many people enjoyed going to the movies because a trip to the theater often seemed to improve their outlook. Since movies tended to conclude with a happy ending, people left the theater with an equally positive sense of pleasure and warmth. You'll get the same warm, fuzzy feeling from watching a modern uplifting film.
3. Movies help viewers escape from everyday concerns.
So what is it about a movie theater that so effortlessly appeals to the human spirit? Escape, perhaps. People want to escape from the pressures of life, and they want to forget about the crummy economy. And movies theaters provide just that. They allow the mind to transcend its current reality into a new one, even if only for a couple of hours. For a brief moment in time, there are no cares, no worries, and no responsibilities. This ability, to break away from the stresses of life, is that which keeps the spirit alive, and eventually, leads back to prosperity.
Thus, the movie theater is a potentially powerful force in our current economic crisis. Movie theaters definitely do their part in the journey. They help lift spirits and rejuvenate those who make America work -- not presidents and politicians, but you and me.
If you need to unwind, if you need a break from reality, if you need a little hope: grab friend and family, and head to your local movie theater. You'll leave inspired, hopeful, and ready to face the world.
~Richard McNeal, 2009
Nelly Furtado MP3
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