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Taps is a 1981 drama film starring George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, as well as then up-and-comers Tom Cruise and Sean Penn. Hutton was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1982 for his role in the film. The film was directed by Harold Becker. The screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, James Lineberger and Darryl Ponicsan is based on the 1979 novel Father Sky by Devery Freeman. The original music score is composed by Maurice Jarre.
The film follows a group of military school students who decide to take over their school in order to save it from closing.
The story takes place at Bunker Hill, a highly prestigious military academy with a proud tradition of training young men for college and military service. That evening, a rising senior at Bunker Hill, Brian Moreland (Timothy Hutton), is meeting privately with the academy commander, Brigadier General Harlan Bache, USA (Ret.) (George C. Scott), who promotes him to Cadet Major, the highest cadet rank in the academy, and everyone, most especially his best friends Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer (Sean Penn) and fellow company officer Cadet 1st Lieutenant Edward West (Evan Handler), celebrate the occasion afterwards upon learning of this. The next day, at a graduation parade, General Bache announces to everyone in attendance that the school's board of trustees has decided to sell the school and build condominiums in its place. The board allows the school to operate for one more year, giving many at Bunker Hill hope that the school can be saved.
Actors: Thomas Gumede (actor), Motlatsi Mafatshe (actor), Warren Masemola (actor), Nolwazi Shange (actress), Ryan Metcalfe (writer), Thabo Malema (actor), Zola Nombona (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Chris Walden (composer), Steven Nielson (editor), Marcy Levitas Hamilton (producer), Strathford Hamilton (producer), Magi Avila (actress), J.J. Gerber (miscellaneous crew), Pierre Dulat (actor), Sommer Nguyen (actress), Sommer Nguyen (actress), Adam Lawson (actor), Yarek Danielak (producer), Carlos Ramon Meza (actor), Lydia McLane (miscellaneous crew), Tania Damha (actress), Lydia McLane (actress),
Plot: The story follows a young woman who, in an emotional and financial crisis, succumbs to the charm of an aristocratic benefactor. Their relationship develops from her desire to be loved and cared for and his desire to overcome the loss of his beloved setter, a loyal and devoted pet. She agrees for a considerable sum of money to become his human pet, to sleep in a cage, never wear clothes, and to be led on a leash for a period of six-months. His desire to showcase his beautiful new pet and to have her market value appraised prompts him to place her on the GSM [Global Slave Market]. His arrogance and wealth together are no match for the power and ruthlessness of 21st century slave traders. This exploration of power, trust and captivity were inspired by the prevalence of more-or-less consensual slave/master related lifestyles as well as the existence of global systemic servitude that allows for cheap labor, sex slaves, organ sales etc. There are 11 companies in the US and the UK that makes human pet cages, human auctions where the purchaser can completes the transaction through "Pay Pal", can be found throughout the Internet and slave marking listings such as branding, piercing, tagging and what insiders refer to as TPE [Total Power Exchange] for consensual slaves number in the thousands on the Internet. The GSM is modeled upon and functions much the same way as the NYSE or NASDAQ but without the pretense of regulation and with humans as commodities.
Keywords: alternative-lifestyle, dominance-submissiveness, economic-disaster, female-nudity, human-branding, human-pet, male-nudity, nude-climbing, nude-training, organ-sellingActors: Merian C. Cooper (writer), Peter Jackson (producer), Naomi Watts (actress), Andy Serkis (actor), Frank Darabont (actor), Peter Jackson (actor), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Howard Shore (actor), Andy Serkis (actor), Adrien Brody (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Jack Black (actor), Rick Baker (actor), Edgar Wallace (writer), Peter Jackson (writer),
Plot: Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is its grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts. But Carl has another plan in mind.
Keywords: 1930s, acrobatics, actor, actress, air-raid, airplane-accident, animal-attack, animal-death, animal-name-in-title, ape-abducts-a-womanIt was July in Virginia.
The scent of the dogwood and the laurel lay heavy on
the land,
While the burgeoning fruit of the peach and the apple
Marked the full sway of summer.
For seven fateful days, the trees, the flowers...
Yes, the very ground itself...
Had shuddered under the roar of cannon...
The bark of howitzers...and the crackling of a legion
of rifles.
Now, all was silent.
The sledgehammer blows of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall"
Jackson
Had mauled the Army of the Potomac...
And yet that army was not destroyed.
Seven thousand men had fallen in that dreadful
week...and the savagery of the conflict
Was grimly evident in the river of wounded...that wound
through the gree hills.
Now, a new sound drifted in the soft evening sky.
For Colonel Dan Butterfield, a courageous and able
soldier,
Was also a man of music.
To honor his fallen comrades, he had composed a simple
and heartrending melody.
On July second, in the year 1862,
Its strains floated over the graves that scarred the
dark Virginia earth.
It has been more than a hundred years since that sound
was born...
but these notes have never died away.
Every night of the year, throughout the world, fighting
men of America,
From the North and the south, the East and the West,
Close their eyes in sleep to its call.
And in each of their hearts...there glows a fierce
surge of pride.
"Fading light...falling night...
Trumpet calls as the sun sinks in flight.
Sleep in peace, comrades dear...