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BBC - Culture - Greatest US films: Amazing facts. A – Aliens. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, number 7. Director Steven Spielberg was inspired by watching a meteor shower with his father as a child. He later recalled: “When I was a five- year- old kid in New Jersey. We finally pulled over to the side of the road, and there were a couple hundred people, lying on their backs in the middle of the night, looking up at the sky.

My dad found a place, spread the blanket out, and we both lay down. ET was about the divorce of my parents, how I felt when my parents broke up. ET: The Extra- terrestrial, number 9. The film was based on Spielberg’s need for an imaginary friend after his parents’ divorce. I responded by escaping into my imagination to shut down all my nerve endings crying .

And that’s how ET was born.” Apart from Elliott’s mother, adults are not seen from the waist up in the first half of the film, reinforcing a child’s viewpoint. B – Bombshells. The icy, sophisticated blonde – personified by the stars Ingrid Bergman, Tippi Hedren and Grace Kelly – is an iconic part of the director’s style. He explained his choice in an interview with Fran.

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• B – Bombshells. The icy, sophisticated blonde – personified by the stars Ingrid Bergman, Tippi Hedren and Grace Kelly – is an iconic part of the director’s style.

If sex is too blatant or obvious, there’s no suspense. You know why I favour sophisticated blondes in my films?

We’re after the drawing- room type, the real ladies, who become whores once they’re in the bedroom. Poor Marilyn Monroe had sex written all over her face.” Hitchcock favoured suspense over shock, saying: “There is no terror in the bang.

When James Stewart’s character begs Kim Novak to dye her hair, she asks him: “If I let you change me, will that do it? If I let you change me . He said in an interview: “Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”Marnie, number 4. Hitchcock wanted Grace Kelly to play the title role.

The actress- turned- royal consort was forced to turn down the part after the citizens of Monaco objected to their princess playing a sexually disturbed thief: former model Tippi Hedren took her place. The Tramp’s voice can be heard for the first time, as he sings a song in gibberish. C – Charlie Chaplin on cocaine. Modern Times, number 6. The Tramp character struggles to survive in an industrialised world – with assembly lines, factory machinery and cocaine in salt shakers.

Charlie Chaplin planned Modern Times as his first . The Tramp’s voice can be heard for the first time, as he sings a song in gibberish.

D – Dreams Mulholland Drive, number 2. The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can’t stop watching it,” wrote Roger Ebert in his review of Mulholland Drive.

Mulholland Drive isn’t like Memento, where if you watch it closely enough, you can hope to explain the mystery. There is no explanation.

There may not even be a mystery.” Director David Lynch has said: “I don't know why people expect art to make sense when they accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.”E – Ear. Blue Velvet, number 6. Jeffrey finds an ear in a field as the clue,” Lynch told the New York Times in 1. Except it needed to be an opening of a part of the body – a hole into something else, like a ticket to another world. The ear sits on the head and goes right into the mind so it felt perfect.

Maybe a psychiatrist would have something to say about that.”F – Foreigners. Casablanca, number 9. Many of the actors playing exiles were themselves refugees from war- torn Europe. According to Aljean Harmetz, who wrote The Making of Casablanca: “A dozen good actors, cast adrift, brought to a dozen small roles in Casablanca an understanding and a desperation that could never have come from Central Casting.” Just three of the credited actors were born in the US. G – Gunslingers. Johnny Guitar, number 6.

In his book The Films of My Life, the French New Wave director Fran. Variety’s review declared it “somewhat disappointing”. H – Hats. Raiders of the Lost Ark, number 8. George Lucas created the character of Indiana Jones (originally named Indiana Smith) in 1. Star Wars. Avoiding the spotlight as Star Wars opened in 1. Hawaii with Steven Spielberg, who told Vanity Fair: “I told him that I wanted to, for the second time, approach . And George said, .

It’s called Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ He pitched me the story, and I committed on the beach.” They based the film on the action serials of the 1. Indy kept his hat on in even the most hair- raising sequences.

I – Idols. Some Like it Hot, number 3. Marilyn Monroe’s contract stipulated that her films had to be shot in colour, but test shots of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag were said to be so grotesque that director Billy Wilder opted for black and white. Jerry Lewis turned down Jack Lemmon’s role, later telling Esquire: “I felt I couldn’t bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don’t need to compete with the wardrobe. So whenever Billy Wilder saw me, he said, .

Writer Todd Mc. Ewen even wrote a short story called Cary Grant’s Suit, telling the film from its viewpoint. J – Jungle. Apocalypse Now, number 9. George Lucas was originally going to direct the 1. Star Wars. Francis Ford Coppola stepped in, setting out to take the audience . The line “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” topped a 2. K – Kisses. It’s A Wonderful Life, number 4. This was James Stewart’s first screen kiss after returning from World War Two.

To help with his nerves, director Frank Capra shot it in one take – it worked so well that Hollywood Production Code representatives demanded cuts to some of the scene, deeming it too passionate. L – Laments. Sunset Boulevard, number 5. Director Billy Wilder wanted the corpse of Joe Gillis to be viewed from the pool’s bottom, but was unhappy with shots taken from a camera placed underwater in a box. In the end, the corpse’s reflection was filmed in a mirror on the bottom of the pool. M – Mobsters. Mean Streets, number 9. The title was inspired by Raymond Chandler’s essay The Simple Art of Murder, which contains the line: “But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.” I’ve directed eight films, and I’ve been able to edit only three of them myself N – Noir Touch of Evil, number 5.

Orson Welles’s noir won first prize at the 1. Brussels World Fair; Fran. It was said to influence both – they went on to make their debut films (The 4. Blows and Breathless) in 1. Yet Welles had been denied the final cut, with Touch of Evil edited against his wishes. It occurred to us that for the Greeks the vast stretches of the sea must have had the same sort of mystery and remoteness that space has for our generation.”P – Private eyes. Chinatown, number 1.

Director Roman Polanski was good friends with Jack Nicholson and screenwriter Robert Towne. Order Top Cat Begins (2017) Movie there. The script for the 1. LA noir is now considered .

He inscribed it . In Italian, they said .

According to Roger Ebert, “stung by criticisms that the second half of his masterpiece was racist in its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan and its brutal images of blacks, Griffith tried to make amends in Intolerance (1. And in Broken Blossoms .

He chose a rich visual style for the film, saying: “When you think about Goya, who painted the most horrendous pictures of violence and torture and so forth, and they’re amazing, exquisite paintings, one of the reasons they’re such wonderful paintings is because what he’s saying is, . The force of the water as the spout opened was so great that his head was knocked against a rail, giving him regular migraines. During a routine check- up years later, it emerged that he had fractured his neck doing the stunt.

T – Technicolor. The Wizard of Oz, number 3. The transition from black and white (or sepia- coloured) footage for the Kansas sequences into the full Technicolor Oz scenes required some sleight of hand on set,” according to A Brief Guide to Oz. She then backed out of the frame, and Judy Garland, wearing the full- colour bright- blue dress, walked forward into the Technicolor Oz.”U – Umbrellas.