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Stoner Film
Stoner film is a subgenre of comedy film based on marijuana themes, where recreational use often drives the plot, sometimes representing cannabis culture more broadly or intended for that audience. Genre The midnight movie scene in theaters of the 1970s revived the hectoring anti-drug propaganda film ''Reefer Madness'' (1936) as an ironic counterculture comedy. The broad popularity of ''Reefer Madness'' led to a new audience for extreme anti-drug films bordering on self-parody, including '' Assassin of Youth'' (1937), '' Marihuana'' (1936), and '' She Shoulda Said No!'' a.k.a. ''The Devil's Weed'' (1949). The duo Cheech & Chong established the archetypal " stoner" comedy throughout the 1970s, taking their antics to the big screen for '' Up in Smoke'' in 1978, establishing the contemporary stoner film genre. ''High Times'' magazine, founded in 1974, began sponsoring the first Stony Awards in 2000, celebrating stoner films and television, recognizing a broad scope of not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subgenre
Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, based on some set of stylistic criteria, as in literary genres, film genres, music genres, comics genres, etc. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. Stand-alone texts, works, or pieces of communication may have individual styles, but genres are amalgams of these texts based on agreed-upon or socially inferred conventions. Some genres may have rigid, strictly adhered-to guidelines, while others may show great flexibility. The proper use of a specific genre is important for a successful transfer of information ( media-adequacy). Critical discussion of genre perhaps began with a classification system for ancient Greek literature, as set out in Aristotle's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stony Awards
The Stony Awards (a.k.a. the Stonys) recognize and celebrate notable stoner films and :American television episodes about cannabis, television. Created by ''High Times'' magazine in 2000, six Stony Award ceremonies were held in New York City before the Stonys moved to Los Angeles in 2007. Stony Award winners received a bong-shaped trophy. Locations and hosts * 2000 - Anthology Film Archives in New York City; hosted by Upright Citizens Brigade * 2001 - Anthology Film Archives in New York City ; hosted by Brian McCann (actor), Brian McCann * 2002 - March 3 at B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill in New York; hosted by Jim Breuer * 2003 - B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill; hosted by Pauly Shore * 2005 - September 28 at Spirit Nightclub; hosted by Tony Camin * 2006 - October 24 at BB King's in New York City; co-hosted by Redman (rapper), Redman and Doug Benson * 2007 - October 13 at The Knitting Factory in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Hollywood; hosted by Tommy Chong * 2008 - September 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal House
''National Lampoon's Animal House'' is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller (writer), Chris Miller. It stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hulce, Thomas Hulce, and Donald Sutherland. The film is about a trouble-making Fraternities and sororities, fraternity whose members challenge the authority of the dean of the fictional Faber College. Produced by Matty Simmons of ''National Lampoon (magazine), National Lampoon'' and Ivan Reitman for Universal Pictures, it was inspired by stories written by Miller and published in ''National Lampoon'', which were based on Ramis' experience in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, Miller's Alpha Delta Phi experiences at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and producer Reitman's at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Of the younger lead actors, only the 28-year-old Belushi was an established star, but even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chicken Chronicles
''The Chicken Chronicles'' is a 1977 American teen stoner comedy film set in 1969 and starring Steve Guttenberg. Plot David Kessler is a high school student who will go to any lengths to impress a pretty cheerleader and lose his virginity, while juggling his job at a chicken restaurant and trying not to get thrown out of Beverly Hills High School — a fate that could get him sent to the Vietnam War. Cast *Phil Silvers as Max Ober *Ed Lauter as Vice Principal Nastase *Steve Guttenberg as David Kessler * Lisa Reeves as Margaret Shaffer * Gino Baffa as Charlie Kessler * Meridith Baer as Tracy Vogel *Branscombe Richmond as Mark *Jon Gries Jonathan Gries ( '; born June 17, 1957) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Uncle Rico in '' Napoleon Dynamite '' (2004), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, the recurring rol ... as Tom * Raven De La Croix as Mrs. Worth Production The film was based on a novel by Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acapulco Gold (1976 Film)
''Acapulco Gold'' is a 1976 crime film directed by Burt Brinckerhoff and starring Marjoe Gortner and Randi Oakes. Premise Insurance salesman Ralph Hollio (Marjoe Gortner) gets arrested for heroin smuggling in Acapulco. Captain Carl Solborg (Robert Lansing Robert Lansing (; October 17, 1864 – October 30, 1928) was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 42nd United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. As Counselor to the State Department and then a ...) breaks him out of jail to get his help to sail a boat to Hawaii. Cast References External links * 1976 crime thriller films 1976 crime drama films American crime thriller films American crime drama films Films about drugs Films scored by Craig Safan Films set in Mexico Films shot in Mexico Films set in Hawaii Films shot in Hawaii 1976 films Films directed by Burt Brinckerhoff 1970s English-language films 1970s American films English-language crime drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nine Lives Of Fritz The Cat
''The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat'' is a 1974 American adult animated anthology black comedy film directed by Robert Taylor as a sequel to Ralph Bakshi's '' Fritz the Cat'' (1972), adapted from the comic strip by Robert Crumb, neither of whom had any involvement in the making of the film. The only two people involved in the first film to work on the sequel were voice actor Skip Hinnant, and producer Steve Krantz. The film's music score was composed by jazz musician Tom Scott, and performed by Scott and his band The L.A. Express. Like the first film, ''The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat'' focuses on Fritz (voiced by Hinnant), a fraudulent womanizer and leftist, who is shown in this film to have married an ill-tempered woman named Gabrielle, with whom he shares an apartment room with their infant son. Unlike the first film, ''The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat'' adopts a non-linear narrative and is presented as an anthology of loosely connected short stories, connected as cannabis-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz The Cat (film)
''Fritz the Cat'' is a 1972 American adult animated black comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi in his directorial debut. Based on Robert Crumb's comic strip of the same name, the film focuses on its Skip Hinnant-portrayed titular character, a glib, womanizing and fraudulent cat in an anthropomorphic animal version of New York City during the mid-to-late 1960s. Fritz decides on a whim to drop out of college, interacts with inner city African American crows, unintentionally starts a race riot and becomes a leftist revolutionary. The film is a satire focusing on American college life of the era, race relations, and the free love movement, as well as serving as a criticism of the countercultural political revolution and dishonest political activists. The film had a troubled production history, as Crumb, who is a leftist, had disagreements with the filmmakers over the film's political content, which he saw as being critical of the political left. Produced on a budget o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' is a 1970 American satire (film and television), satirical Musical film, musical melodrama film starring Dolly Martin, Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, Phyllis Davis, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, Erica Gavin, and David Gurian. The film was directed by Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert from a story by Ebert and Meyer. Originally intended as a sequel to the 1967 film ''Valley of the Dolls (film), Valley of the Dolls'', ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' was instead revised as a parody of the commercially successful but critically reviled original. ''Beyond'' met a similar fate; critics initially panned it, but it became a box office success. The film developed a cult film, cult following in subsequent decades and earned some critical reappraisal for its satire (film and television), satirical and metafictional elements. Plot Three young women—Kelly MacNamara, Casey Anderson, and Petronella "Pet" Danforth—perform in a rock band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Rider
''Easy Rider'' is a 1969 American road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern. It was produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and the South, carrying money made from a cocaine deal. Other actors in the film include Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Toni Basil. The success of ''Easy Rider'' helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s. A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" which "captured the national imagination," ''Easy Rider'' explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions towards adolescents in the United States during the 1960s including the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances. An independent production, the film was released by Columbia Pictures on July 14, 1969, and earned $60 million worldwide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love You, Alice B
I, or i, is the ninth Letter (alphabet), letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western Languages of Europe, European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the "long I" sound, pronounced . In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a Egyptian hieroglyphs, hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian language, Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Ancient Greeks, Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician alphabet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewel Robbery
''Jewel Robbery'' is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy heist film, directed by William Dieterle and starring William Powell and Kay Francis. It is based on the 1931 Hungarian play ''Ékszerrablás a Váci-utcában'' by Ladislas Fodor and its subsequent English adaptation, ''Jewel Robbery'' by Bertram Bloch. Plot Viennese Baroness Teri von Horhenfels (Kay Francis) relieves the boredom of her marriage to her rich but dull older husband (Henry Kolker) with love affairs. One day, she meets both her husband and a current lover, Paul ( Hardie Albright), at an exclusive jewel shop, where the Baron is to buy her an extravagant diamond ring. While he and the shop owner retire to haggle over price, her tedium is lifted by the arrival of a suave jewel thief (William Powell) and his gang. In turn, he is entranced by her beauty and uninhibited, even cheeky, personality. He locks her husband and Paul, a young cabinet minister she has already tired of, in the vault, and forces shop own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as saws and ladders. The term arises from a device developed for use in the broad, physical comedy style known as ''commedia dell'arte'' in 16th-century Italy. The "Clapper (musical instrument), slap stick" consists of two thin slats of wood, which makes a "slap" when striking another actor, with little force needed to make a loud—and comical—sound. The physical slap stick remains a key component of the plot in the traditional and popular Punch and Judy puppet show. More contemporary examples of slapstick humor include ''The Three Stooges'', ''The Naked Gun'' and ''Mr. Bean (character), Mr. Bean''. Origins The name "slapstick" originates from the Italian ''batacchio'' or ''bataccio''—called the "Clapper (musical instrument), slap sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
