why is birdy........?
why is the movie "Birdy" filmed in 1984, a rated R movie?
because of adult situations/language, nudity, violence
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086969/
^^i googled and some of that info was on this page
Birdy (1984) - Trailer
Trailer to the Alan Parker movie. Music by Peter Gabriel.
WILDWOOD ON FILM - BIRDY (1984)
A great clip from an equally great movie. "Birdy" stars Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage and is one of several movies partially filmed on ...
Peter Gabriel gives his greatest hits the orchestral treatment
) And a whole lot in between. There have been bluesy dates (Deep Purple at the Albert Hall), gothic tempests (Within Temptation) and symphonic metal collisions where guitar riffs and Beethoven bang, for better or worse, like hammer and tongs (Metallica). So, what makes it work, when it works? What do the new arrangements reveal in the old songs?“Well, we didn’t want to just have the orchestra scraping out the melodies in a literal way. You’ll get bands with orchestras sampled on their keyboards, and they just plonk out the chords. I myself was ignorant about where the individual instruments speak best, and what range of sound possibilities they all have, but with the wonderful John Metcalf arranging for me, we laboured hard on capturing the warmth of the instruments, the timbre and texture – the wood and the strings, and achieved a certain to and fro.”
Gabriel’s collaboration with Metcalf (the British violist and composer who’s
Birdy 1984 - Bookshelf
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The war veteran in film Birdy, 1984 Birdy, directed by Alan Parker, was released in 1984. It is what I have referred to as a war veteran's triptych film, with most of the action ... |
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Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America Birdy (1984), directed by Alan Parker, starred Nicholas Cage and Michael Modine. Birdy, one of two working-class boys from Philadelphia, who loved flight ... |
Birdy 1984 - News
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Actor Matthew Modine has worked with the greats That's high praise coming from Modine, a 53-year-old actor/writer/director whose 30-year career has afforded him the opportunity to work for some of the world's most respected directors: Alan Parker on "Birdy" (1984), Stanley Kubrick on "Full Metal |
