Movies and movie directors:
Directors: Orson Welles, John Ford, Steven Spielberg, Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Sydney Lumet, Edward Dmytryk, James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese.
Movies (Will's Top Ten): The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Ben Hur, The Godfather, Star Wars (all three), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws.
Actors (too numerous to mention but here it goes): Charleton Heston, John Wayne, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Robert Di Nero, Henry Fonda.*
*We judge actors by one criteria; do we forget we're watching that actor? To put it another way, when watching Harrison Ford we don't think, oh there's Han Solo.
Showing posts with label Garden of Heroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden of Heroes. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Monday, July 6, 2020
Garden of Heroes in Fives: Part II
Music:
Stephen Foster: If you want to know what was on antebellum America's mind, Stephen Foster will tell you
Benny Goodman: Biggest, loudest orchestra of the era
John Philips Sousa: Marching music was incredibly popular from 1890 to 1920 and he was the greatest composer of them all
Frank Sinatra: Do I have to explain this?
Robert Johnson: Hello, blues licks
Elvis Presley: Mainstreamed Rock and Roll
Chuck Berry: Turned Rock into guitar music
Hank Williams: Made Country Music popular*
Beach Boys: Took Berry's idea and made harmonies with it
Michael Jackson: King of Pop and music videos
What about Jazz? People don't actually like Jazz. They just say they do.
*Could probably use some help in this department.
Stephen Foster: If you want to know what was on antebellum America's mind, Stephen Foster will tell you
Benny Goodman: Biggest, loudest orchestra of the era
John Philips Sousa: Marching music was incredibly popular from 1890 to 1920 and he was the greatest composer of them all
Frank Sinatra: Do I have to explain this?
Robert Johnson: Hello, blues licks
Elvis Presley: Mainstreamed Rock and Roll
Chuck Berry: Turned Rock into guitar music
Hank Williams: Made Country Music popular*
Beach Boys: Took Berry's idea and made harmonies with it
Michael Jackson: King of Pop and music videos
What about Jazz? People don't actually like Jazz. They just say they do.
*Could probably use some help in this department.
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