Here's a few big films from the 1970's & 1980's that helped create the blockbuster phenomenon.
Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather (1972)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf16Vc3iZjE
George Lucas:
Jaws (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zkYRD51I34
Star Wars (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ
Lucas and Spielberg:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiQse9XibQw
John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LydgEmQWOp0
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqLyTdcMLhc
Stephen Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YXw7BxYGMU
ET (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4yUQJeKZNs
This blog is designed for Rochester City School students at the School of the Arts in support of their classes: Playwriting & Film Studies.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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