Blockbusters and Birdwalks

This is part of a series about movies based on comic books. 

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Referenced media:

• “Superman” (Richard Donner, 1978)
• “Adventures of Superman” (Whitney Ellsworth and Robert J. Maxwell, 1952-1958)
• “Batman” (Bob Kane and Bill Finger, 1939-now)
• “Wonder-Woman” (William Moulton Marston, 1941-now)
• “Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut” (Richard Donner, 2006)
• “Spider-Man” (Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, 1962-now)
• “Dr. Strange” (Steve Ditko, 1963-now)
• “The Incredible Hulk” (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, 1962-now)
• “Man of Steel” (Zack Snyder, 2013)
• “Super Friends” (Lewis Marshall and Iwao Takamoto, 1973-1985)
• “Superman III” (Richard Lester, 1983)
• “Spider-Man” (Sam Raimi, 2002)
• “Team America: World Police” (Trey Parker, 2004)
• “The Adventures of Superman” (George Putnam Ludlam, 1940-1951)
• “Unbreakable” (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)

Audio quotation:

• “Superman II” (Richard Lester, 1980), including music composed and arranged by John Williams and Ken Thorne
• “’50s Adventures of Superman – Intro” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2l4bz1FT8U

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “A Beautiful Mind” (Ron Howard, 2001)
• “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Mike Nichols, 1966)

Audio quotation:

• “Carnal Knowledge” (Mike Nichols, 1971)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “Song of the South” (Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, 1946)
• “The Birth of a Nation” (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
• “Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976)
• “Mandingo” (Richard Fleischer, 1975)
• “Django Unchained” (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
• “Gone with the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939)
• “Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)
• “Pig” (Michael Sarnoski, 2021)
• “The Beguiled” (Sofia Coppola, 2017)
• “Fury” (David Ayer, 2014)
• “Fury” (Fritz Lang, 1936)
• “Cold Mountain” (Anthony Minghella, 2003)
• “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971)
• “Wild Rovers” (Blake Edwards,1971)
• “The Hunting Party” (Don Medford, 1971)
• “Doc” (Frank Perry, 1971)
• “Johnny Got His Gun” (Dalton Trumbo, 1971)
• “Bless the Beasts and Children” (Stanley Kramer, 1971)
• “Bonanaza” (David Dortort, 1959-1973)
• “Gunsmoke” (Charles Marquis Warren, 1955-1975)
• “The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971)

Audio quotation:

• “The Beguiled” (Don Siegel, 1971)
• The Beguiled (1971) Original Trailer [FHD], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2ckK1Pia8

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
• “Jules and Jim” (Francois Truffaut, 1962)
• “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)
• “Red Dead Redemption” (Steve Martin, Josh Needleman, and David Kunkler, 2010)
• “A Fistful of Dollars” (Sergio Leone, 1964)
• “For a Few Dollars More” (Sergio Leone, 1965)
• “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (Sergio Leone, 1966)
• “Once Upon a Time in the West” (Sergio Leone, 1968)
• “Once Upon a Time in America” (Sergio Leone, 1984)
• “Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)
• “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
• “Billy Jack” (Tom Laughlin, 1971)
• “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (Terry Giliam and Terry Jones, 1975)
• “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid” (Philip Kaufman, 1972)
• “Chato’s Land” (Michael Winner, 1972)
• “Deep Throat” (Gerard Damiano, 1972)
• “Frenzy” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972)
• “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” (J. Lee Thompson, 1972)
• “Joe Kidd” (John Sturges, 1972)
• “Deliverance” (John Boorman, 1972)
• “Junior Bonner” (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)
• “Sounder” (Martin Ritt, 1972)
• “Aliens” (James Cameron, 1986)
• “Rio Bravo” (Howard Hawks, 1959)
• “Being There” (Hal Ashby, 1979)

Audio quotation:

• “Duck, You Sucker!” (Sergio Leone, 1971)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971)
• “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
• “Arabian Nights” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
• “The Original Kings of Comedy” (Spike Lee, 2000)
• “Big Love” (Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, 2006-2011)
• “Last Temptation of Christ” (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
• “The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971)
• “The Decameron” (Kathleen Jordan, 2024)
• “Straw Dogs” (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
• “Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)
• “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

Audio quotation:

• “The Decameron” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)
• “The Original Kings of Comedy” (Spike Lee, 2000)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “The Omega Man” (Boris Sagal, 1971)
• “The Last Movie” (Dennis Hopper, 1971)
• “The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971)
• “The Last Picture Show” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
• “The Big Boss” (Lo Wei, 1971)
• “Duck, You Sucker!” (Sergio Leone, 1971)
• “Fiddler on the Roof” (Norman Jewison, 1971)
• “Duel” (Steven Spielberg, 1971)
• “The War Game” (Peter Watkins, 1966)
• “THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)
• “The Hunger Games” (Gary Ross, 2012)
• “Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
• “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)
• “Man Bites Dog” (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde, 1992)
• “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
• “Running Man” (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987)

Audio quotation:

• “Punishment Park” (Peter Watkins, 1971)
• “The Running Man Revolution End Credits” from “The Running Man” (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987), written by Harold Faltermeyer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl73wrJU1nw&list=PLk83Uk_KUSSfJjwF0oZnhaESCw2cG9j0t&index=18

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “Crimes of Passion” (Ken Russell, 1984)
• “Deep Throat” (Gerard Damiano, 1972)
• “Behind the Green Door” (Artie Mitchell and Jim Mitchell, 1972)
• “Whore” (Ken Russell, 1991)
• “E.T.” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• “Pretty Woman” (Garry Marshall, 1990)
• “The Transformers: The Movie” (Nelson Shin, 1986)
• “Elmer Gantry” (Richard Brooks, 1960)
• “Blue” (Derek Jarman, 1993)
• “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
• “The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)
• “Gladiator” (Ridley Scott, 2000)
• “Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)

Audio quotation:

• “The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971)
• “Whore” (Ken Russell, 1991)
• Theme from “Elmer Gantry” (Richard Brooks, 1960), written by André Previn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL6UGHLl3hk
• “Goodbye, My Life, My Love” from “Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960), written by Alex North,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pajZbfZvgXE&list=PL91EBC569483515E4&index=21

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “Benson” (Susan Harris, 1979-1986)
• “First Cow” (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
• “Dances with Wolves” (Kevin Costner, 1990)
• “Unforgiven” (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
• “Bonanza” (David Dortort, 1959-1973)
• “Gunsmoke” (Charles Marquis Warren, 1955-1975)
• “M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)
• “Nashville” (Robert Altman, 1975)
• “Deadwood” (David Milch, 2004-2006, 2019)
• “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
• “American Graffiti” (George Lucas, 1973)
• “Big Jake” (George Sherman, 1971)
• “The Beguiled” (Don Siegel, 1971)
• “Klute” (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
• “Two-Lane Blacktop” (Monte Hellman, 1971)
• “Bless the Beasts and Children” (Stanley Kramer, 1971)
• “The Omega Man” (Boris Sagal, 1971)
• “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• “The Sting” (George Roy Hill, 1973)
• “Chinatown” (Roman Polanski, 1974)
• “Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)

Audio quotation:

• “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “The Deuce” (George Pelecanos and David Simon, 2017-2019)
• “Halloween” (John Carpenter, 1978)
• “Friday the 13th” (Sean S. Cunningham, 1980)
• “Red Dragon” (Brett Ratner, 2002)
• “Manhunter” (Michael Mann, 1986)
• “The Silence of the Lambs” (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
• “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
• “Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971)
• “Cruising” (William Friedkin, 1980)
• “American Psycho” (Mary Harron, 2000)

Audio quotation:

• “Klute” (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
• “Mom and Dad” (William Beaudine, 1945)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “The Muppet Show” (Jim Henson, 1976-1981)
• “The Benny Hill Show” (Benny Hill, 1955-1989)
• “Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)
• “The Critic” (Al Jean and Mike Reiss, 1994-1995)
• “The Simpsons” (Matt Groening, 1989-now)
• “Manhattan” (Woody Allen, 1979)
• “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, 1969-1974)
• “The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
• “Straw Dogs” (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
• “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
• “Wide World of Sports” (Edgar Scherick, 1961-1997)
• “Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
• “THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)
• “Summer of ’42” (Robert Mulligan, 1971)
• “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
• “The Andromeda Strain” (Robert Wise, 1971)
• “Billy Jack” (T.C. Frank, 1971)
• “Plaza Suite” (Arthur Hiller, 1971)
• “Johnny Got His Gun” (Dalton Trumbo, 1971)
• “Escape from the Planet of the Apes” (Don Taylor, 1971)
• “Pink Narcissus” (James Bidgood, 1971)
• “The Beguiled” (Don Siegel, 1971)
• “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971)

Audio quotation:

• “Bananas” (Woody Allen, 1971)
• “Fog Horn SOUND EFFECT - Nebelhorn SOUNDS”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z1xvXDdjMU
• “The Stranger Song” by Leonard Cohen from McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzcNu016Cbo