I love
movies!! These are some of my favorites. Check'em out!!
1) "The Legend of 1900" (Year: 1999)
A great film (my favorite!!) from Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the Academy Award-winning
Cinema Paradiso. It's a remarkable fable about a boy raised on a steam ship who never once sets foot on the land. Tim
Roth stars as "1900" who grows up during dozens of journeys across the sea, discovering that he can do absolutely anything
he wants within the confines of the ship he calls home. Anything, that is,except be ordinary.
On the very first day of the brand new century, a baby boy is found on the Virginian,
a ship that ferries immigrants from Europe to the USA. Danny Boodman (Bill Nunn), a coal room worker, discovers the abandoned
newborn in a lemon crate in the first-class cabin. Not wanting to give the child up, Danny raises him hidden in the great
ship's belly. He christens the boy Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon 1900, but the boy becomes known simply as 1900. Knowing nothing
of the world beyond the coal room and his porthole view of the sea, 1900 is devastated when his adopted father is fatally
wounded in a terrible ship accident. His identity is revealed to the captain who threatens to expose him to the authorities.
But 1900 saves himself when he wanders into first class and finds a shipboard piano discovering he is a prodigy who can naturally
play glorious, soulful music. 1900 stays on the ship, entertaining the world, 2,000 people at a time.
Three decades later, a down-and-out jazzman named Max (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who
is about to sell his beloved trumpet, discovers in a dusty English music shop the only remaining recording of 1900 playing
the piano. Max is haunted by the sound, not only by its beauty, but because he knew 1900 years ago. Thrust backwards into
dizzying memories, Max begs the shop owner to tell him how he came upon the "impossible" record.
The shopkeeper tells Max that the recording was removed off a rusting ship scheduled
for immediate demolition. This sets Max reeling. He is convinced that 1900, who was never willing to go ashore, still remains
alive on board. Battling against time, Max rushes to the shipyard hoping to convince the demolition crew to halt their dynamiting.
In a last ditch effort to save 1900's life and prove he exists, Max tells the story of how the recording that brought him
to the shipyard came to be the fairy-tale of 1900's miraculous rise to fame and disappearance from existence.
I'm pretty sure that you'll love "Lost Boys Calling", the film song theme,
beautifully performed by Roger Waters. Are you listening it now? No? So, turn the sound of your PC to full volume and enjoy
it!!
2) "The
Color Purple" (Year: 1985)
Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel stars Whoppi Goldberg, in her impressive screen debut, as Celie, a sharecropper's daughter living in rural Georgia.
The film opens in 1909 when Celie is a young girl, a victim of incest, pregnant with her father's child. Ugly and unloved,
separated from her children and her sister, Celie's only option is marriage to an abusive, philandering husband (Danny Glover)
who treats her little better than a slave. Her life changes forever when her husband brings his mistress, a beautiful blues
singer named Shug (Margaret Avery), into the house. THE COLOR PURPLE was also the film debut for Oprah Winfrey, who beautifully
plays Celie's sister-in-law, Sofia. THE COLOR PURPLE was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including one each for Goldberg,
Avery, and Winfrey) but surprisingly won no Oscars, and although the film was nominated for a Best Picture award, Spielberg
was snubbed by the academy and was not nominated for Best Director.
Below you can find scenes from Color Purple with a background track of "God Is Trying To Tell You Something". Vocals:
Tata Vega (the real singer), or Shug Avery :0)
If you wanna see the video before finishing listening to "Lost Boys Crying" (The Legend of 1900 music theme),
just scroll down to the end of the page and turn off the song.
“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t
notice it.” / Shug Avery
