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"Pumped Up Kicks" is a song by American indie pop band Foster the People. It was released as the group's debut single in September 2010, and the following year was included on their EP Foster the People and their debut album Torches. "Pumped Up Kicks" became the group's breakthrough hit and was one of the most popular songs of 2011. The song was written and recorded by frontman Mark Foster while he was working as a commercial jingle writer. Contrasting with the upbeat musical composition, the lyrics describe the homicidal thoughts of a troubled youth.
The track received considerable attention after it was posted online in 2010 as a free download, and it helped the group garner a multi-album record deal with Columbia Records imprint Startime International before they had issued a commercial release. The song became both a crossover hit and a sleeper hit in 2011, as it received significant airplay on modern rock and contemporary hit radio stations. The song spent eight consecutive weeks at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, making it the first Billboard Alternative Songs number-one single to crack the U.S. top 5 since Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" in 2009. The song was widely praised by critics, and it has been licensed for use in a wide range of popular media since its release. "Pumped Up Kicks" received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
"Helena Beat" is a song by American indie pop group Foster the People. It is the opening track from their debut studio album Torches and was released as the record's second single. It was solicited to radio on July 26, 2011, and solicited to radio in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2011. On August 10, 2011, BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James selected the song as his Record of the Week.
It was announced in January 2012 that "Helena Beat" was the most-played track on Australian radio station Triple J in 2011. The song appeared at number 15 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2011 poll. "Helena Beat" was the fifth most streamed song of 2011 on Spotify.
"Helena Beat" was written by the group's lead songwriter Mark Foster to embody the attitude of the drug culture within Hollywood. Foster says the lyrics—the line "yeah its okay, I tie my hands up to a chair so I don't fall that way" in particular—are meant to express the nonchalant attitude that people had to their destructive tendencies. He said, "They're the young, hot, up and coming, powerful people that are gonna run the world. But they're just going out and doing drugs every night. They're saying it with this big smile of their face like 'I'm great, everything's great,' 'but don't you see that you're completely out of your mind on drugs right now that you can't even stand?'." The title of the song is derived from an ex-girlfriend of Foster's that used to party heavily.
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC (born November 1, 1949), is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Céline Dion, Andrea Bocelli, Toni Braxton, Madonna, Air Supply and Michael Jackson. Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. David Foster is the current Chairman of Verve Music Group.
Throughout his career, he has produced recordings for a wide range of musical artists, including Bryan Adams, Tamia, Christina Aguilera, The Bee Gees, Andrea Bocelli, Boz Scaggs, Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Chicago, Destiny's Child, Neil Diamond, Céline Dion, Earth Wind and Fire, Gloria Estefan, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Beyonce Knowles, Kenny Loggins, Madonna, Olivia Newton-John, Nsync, All-4-One, Plus One, Charice Pempengco, Prince, LeAnn Rimes, Kenny Rogers, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Shania Twain, Hall & Oates, Tim Feehan, The Tubes, and Jackie Evancho.
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all-time. Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. She released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African American female artists to follow in her footsteps.
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Plot
Earth is attacked by the Kulkus, a hostile alien breed infected by a lethal virus and needing human blood to develop an antidote. The worldwide governments negotiate with the humanoid ambassador the terms of peace, giving eight million humans shared between the nations to the aliens and in return they would spare our planet. When Heather Chase, the daughter of the scientist Stephen Chase, is one of the selected, her father fights to save her, joining the resistance force. He proposes to Blair and Alex, the leaders of the resistance, to give his researches with some alien material found in 1947, exchanging for the liberty of his daughter. But Heather is an unique species, having a genetic that heals the aliens and they do not accept to release her.
Keywords: father-daughter-relationship, kidnapping, spaceship
They've Come For Our Blood
They Were Asked To Die For The Good Of Humanity. They Chose To Fight For Freedom Instead
Blair: [Pointing a gun at a soldier] I honestly wouldn't move a muscle. I have anger issues I still need to resolve. [Evil smirk]
Plot
Earth is attacked by the Kulkus, a hostile alien breed infected by a lethal virus and needing human blood to develop an antidote. The worldwide governments negotiate with the humanoid ambassador the terms of peace, giving eight million humans shared between the nations to the aliens and in return they would spare our planet. When Heather Chase, the daughter of the scientist Stephen Chase, is one of the selected, her father fights to save her, joining the resistance force. He proposes to Blair and Alex, the leaders of the resistance, to give his researches with some alien material found in 1947, exchanging for the liberty of his daughter. But Heather is an unique species, having a genetic that heals the aliens and they do not accept to release her.
Keywords: father-daughter-relationship, kidnapping, spaceship
They've Come For Our Blood
They Were Asked To Die For The Good Of Humanity. They Chose To Fight For Freedom Instead
Blair: [Pointing a gun at a soldier] I honestly wouldn't move a muscle. I have anger issues I still need to resolve. [Evil smirk]
Lois: As far as I'm concerned, men are like razors. After you use them once, they start to get dull.
Tucker: Lois, looks like you're celebrating. Did you get the job?::Lois: No, but I bought a lot of stuff to drown my sorrows.
Lois: I mean, it's not like I'm trying to break anyone's heart. Its not revenge or anything.
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21st century. USA. The second civil war. The whole country is in a state of emergency. What was formerly called the American Congress now rules with fascistic methods. There is only one free city left, Steel Harbor, headquarter for the resistance. This is the hometown of Barb Wire, owner of the night club Hammerhead. As times aren't good, Barb has a second job. She's a bounty hunter and you probably wouldn't want her after you. Barb's credo is to never take sides for anybody and that's the only way to survive these days. As her former lover Axel Hood appears asking for a favour, Barb suddenly finds herself to be key player on high political stage. Now she has to take sides...
Keywords: 2010s, action-heroine, airplane, airport, armored-truck, bail-bondsman, bar, bare-breasts, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book
Don't call me babe!
No laws. No limits. No turning back.
Alexander Willis: Add it to my tab, Miss Kopetski. Boom boom boom!::Barb Wire: Barbara Kopetski died in the war. I'm Barb Wire.
[repeated line]::Barb Wire: Don't call me babe!
[an Asian stripper asks Barb a question in French]::Barb Wire: [not understanding] Come again?::Stripper in Dressing Room: [to Barb] She's Chinese.
Alexander Willis: Colonel Pryzer. Alexander Willis, Director of Police Operations. Welcome to Steel Harbor.::Coloney Pryzer: Wipe that smile off your face, Willis! This burned-out hellhole is the last place on Earth I want to be right now. And if it wasn't for your almost complete incompetence, I wouldn't be here in the first place. Would I?::Alexander Willis: Yes, well needless to say I intended to have both Krebs and Cora D extraditcated and sent back to Washington by now. However, due to circumstances...::Coloney Pryzer: [interupting] Listen carefully, if Cora D escapes, I will personally rip your heart out of your ass and stuff it back down your throat!::Alexander Willis: [sarcastic] That's not very sanitary.
Manny: What are you doing here?::Barb Wire: [holds up a cigarette] Looking for a light. Got one?::Manny: [laughing] I don't smoke.::[Barb shoots him in the head with a mini-dart from the fake cigarette]::Barb Wire: Neither do I.
[last lines]::Alexander Willis: Where will you go now, Barb?::Barb Wire: Well, I hear Paris is nice this time of year.::Alexander Willis: Mind if I tag along with you?::Barb Wire: Don't mind.::Alexander Willis: I do believe I'm falling in love.::Barb Wire: Get in line!
[Col. Pryzer is torturing Charlie with electric shocks]::Coloney Pryzer: One last chance, Charlie. Where are the rental lenses?::Charlie Kopetski: [defiant] The Easter Bunny took 'em!::[Charlie is hit with more electric shocks and he screams in pain]::Charlie Kopetski: [in agony] Please... stop! I'll talk! This guy has them. I gave the lenses to this guy.::Coloney Pryzer: What guy?::Charlie Kopetski: This big guy. He's big and fat. He has a white beard, he wears a red suite, he lives at the North Pole... and he goes by the name of Kringle. Kris... Kringle.
Woman in Torture Room: [moans]::Colonel Pryzer: Why don't we start again? From the beginning.::Woman in Torture Room: I told you. I told you everything I know. I told you.::[Mind scan up on screen one]::Woman in Torture Room: [Image is present. Image is recording]::Colonel Pryzer: Citizen, I... uh, I abhor torture. But your words just don't match your thoughts. There are too many details you're just not sharing with us. Our little mind-reading device doesn't lie.::Woman in Torture Room: [groans]::[Reset sensors. Go]::Colonel Pryzer: Now, where's Dr Corrina Devonshire?
Woman in Torture Room: You'll never find her.::Colonel Pryzer: You're so beautiful. I'm sorry.::[electrocutes her to death]
Axel: What happened to "Barb doesn't take sides"?::Barb Wire: Keep it to yourself.
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A photographer, who has been hired to photograph the wild west of America where he has lived his entire life, tells his client of a photograph he has that was taken one hundred years ago by his French great-grandmother that epitomizes what he is trying to capture. The story behind the photographer's heritage and that photograph... In the early 1870s, photographer Francis Leroy and who would eventually becomes his wife, Jeanne Leroy née Perriere, a baker's daughter and an aspiring photographer in her own right, move from Paris, where strife has taken hold due to Napoleon's loss in the Franco-Prussian War, to the American west, where the light is more conducive for their photography work. The move is despite not knowing about life at their destination and not knowing how to speak English. Veterinarian David Williams and his wife Mary Williams love each other, but their wants in life are incompatible with each other, David who loves his work treating real animals on farms and ranches, while Mary would rather live in Philadelphia where she was raised, especially as she feels isolated more often than not being alone on their remote farm. Several years later after both Francis and Mary are tragically killed in separate incidents, Jeanne and David meet for the first time as they both drop their respective children off at the same boarding school run by its unconventional teacher, Alice. Despite Jeanne and David's attraction to each other, a second chance at love for both may be impeded by the memories of their respective first spouse, for David especially as Mary's murderers were never caught.
Keywords: 1870s, 1970s, 19th-century, 20th-century, emigrant, france, franco-prussian-war, photography, united-states, western-united-states
David Williams: I guess if you're gonna spend your life with yourself, you might as well to learn to be good company.
[in French with English subtitles]::Francis' Friend: Your pessimism is alarming.::Francis Leroy: A pessimist is an optimist with experience.
Chad Morgan: What's the matter?::Joe Jagger: I've been eating so much rabbit, when I sleep at night, I keep dreaming about carrots.
Chad Morgan: Don't you want a drink?::Joe Jagger: Water? What am I, a trout?
Joe Jagger: Well, you know my problem. What's yours?::Chad Morgan: I should have killed a man the other day.::Joe Jagger: Killed a man? What for?::Chad Morgan: He needed it.
Sven Johnson: Oh, you boys can sleep as late as you like in the morning... so long as you get up for breakfast. Five o'clock.
Verse 1: To all the rest who have a mother and father
Who have given them a home and a name
Well, check before you walk away like you don’t need them
Cause some of us would kill just to have them for a day.
Well, mom and dad I only wish that you could see me
Following the footsteps of the man who started it all.
Chorus: Cause I’m fine. Living on no bed sheets. Holding on to all that’s mine.
Home just hasn’t yet arrived.
Said, I’m fine. Living in the back streets. Holding on to all that’s mine.
Home just hasn’t yet arrived. For me.
Verse 2: See there’s this boy who has all the answers
But I say that I don’t need them.
Cause I can find my happiness, close to my heart
And along the way in a different world, of a different time
Of a different man, you would come into the better years
The best years of your life!
Bridge: Well, we might meet in a different world, of a different time.
My legs are shaking
As I stare into the waking
Guess I always knew
You were broken on the inside
Watched life passing you by
But you couldn't move
And no one stopped to ask you
If it was okay, oh
Surely there had to be a way to smile, Again
Pale familiar faces remind me
We weren't always strangers
Burying a friend
Remember the year we all spent laughing
Feels guilty to feel happy
It never should
But I didn't stop to ask you
If it was okay, oh
Surely there had to be a way
To feel okay, oh
Surely there had to be a way
To smile again
To let life in
Through the closet closed
Heaven from our souls
I'm okay
Surely there had to be a way
Okay
Surely there had to be a way
Okay