Bringing Out The Dead

Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American neo-noir drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader, based on the homonymous novel by Joe Connelly.^[2][3] It stars Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman,Tom Sizemore and Patricia Arquette. The film was a flop at the box office but received very positive reviews from critics. 

Plot

Set in Manhattan in the early 1990s, Frank Pierce (Cage) is a burned-out paramedic who works the graveyard shift in a two-man ambulance team with various different partners. Usually exhausted and depressed, he has not saved any patients in months and begins to see the ghosts of those lost, especially a homeless teenage girl named Rose whose face appears on the bodies of others. Frank and his first partner Larry (Goodman) respond to a call by the family of a man named Mr. Burke who has entered cardiac arrest. Frank befriends Mr. Burke's distraught daughter Mary (Arquette), an ex-junkie. Frank discovers Mary was childhood friends with Noel (Anthony), a mentally ill drug addict and delinquent who is frequently sent to the hospital.

After a few minor calls (one involving Noel), Frank and Larry respond to a shooting and he tends to one of the surviving victims. Frank notices two vials of a drug named "Red Death", a new form of heroin that has started plaguing the streets of New York and caused cardiac arrest calls to sky-rocket, roll out from the victim's sleeve which implies it was a shooting by a rival drug gang. While in the back of the ambulance with Frank and Noel the victim goes into denial and repents his drug dealing ways but dies before they can reach the hospital.

The next day Frank is paired with his second partner Marcus (Rhames), an eccentric but religious man. They respond to the call of a man in a gothic club who has suffered a heart attack. Frank diagnoses that he has in fact suffering from a heroin overdose caused by Red Death. As Frank injects the man with a chemical, Marcus starts a prayer circle with the baffled club-goers and just as his preaching climaxes the overdosed man becomes conscious again. On the way back to the hospital Frank swings by Mary's apartment building to tell her that her father's condition is improving. Frank and Marcus then respond to a call by a Puerto Rican man whose girlfriend is giving birth to twins despite his claims they are both virgins, calling it a miracle. Frank rushes one baby to the hospital but it later dies. In a moment of desperation Frank starts drinking and Marcus soon joins in, crashing the ambulance into a parked car.

The following morning, Frank sees a stressed Mary leaving the hospital and follows her to an apartment block; she tells Frank that she's going to visit a friend and he escorts her to the room. After a while Frank goes to the room and barges his way in the door, only to discover it's in fact a drug den run by a friendly dealer named Cy Coates (Curtis). Mary has turned back to drugs to cope with her father's fluctuating condition and Frank tries to get her to leave but he is dissuaded by Cy who offers Frank some pills. In another moment of desperation he swallows the drugs and begins to hallucinate, seeing more ghosts of patients and the moment when he tried to save Rose. Once over, he grabs Mary and carries her out of the building. While visiting a comatose Mr. Burke in the hospital Frank starts hearing Burke's voice in his head, telling Frank to let him die but he resuscitates Burke instead.

The next shift Frank is paired with his third partner Tom Wolls (Sizemore), an optimistic man with violent tendencies. At this point Frank is slowly beginning to lose his mind - while tending to a suicidal junkie Frank manages to scare the patient away. The pair are then called to Cy's drug den where another shooting has occurred, however Cy was instead thrown off the balcony and impaled on an iron railing below. Frank holds on to Cy as the other emergency services cut the railing but Cy and Frank are flung off the edge although they are pulled back up. Cy then thanks Frank for saving his life - the first patient Frank has saved in months. Afterwards Frank agrees to help Tom beat up Noel, but Frank is distracted and Noel flees into an area beneath the houses. Tom and Frank chase after Noel but Frank starts to hallucinate again, snapping out of it just as he comes upon Tom beating Noel with his bat. During his second visit to Mr. Burke, the voice again pleas to let him die but this time Frank removes Burke's breathing apparatus causing him to enter cardiac arrest, killing him. Frank then heads to Mary's apartment to inform her that her father has died but seems to be mostly unaffected by the news of her father's death. Frank is invited in, falling asleep on Mary.

Soundtrack[edit]

Track listing[edit]

1. "T.B. Sheets" - Van Morrison
2. "Janie Jones" - The Clash
3. "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" - Johnny Thunders
4. "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - R.E.M.
5. "I'm So Bored with the USA" - The Clash
6. "Red Red Wine" - UB40
7. "Nowhere to Run" - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
8. "Too Many Fish in the Sea" - The Marvelettes
9. "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am a Japanese Sandman)" - The Cellos
10. "Rivers of Babylon" - The Melodians
11. "Combination of the Two" - Big Brother & The Holding Company
12. "Bell Boy" - The Who
13. "So What" - Jane's Addiction

14. Production

    The film was part of a trio of films in the late 1990s starring Nicolas Cage that were co-productions of Paramount Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, with Face/Off(1997) with John Travolta and Snake Eyes (1998) with Gary Sinise. The opening song on the movie is "T.B. Sheets", a lengthy blues-influenced song, about a young girl who lies dying in a hospital bed, surrounded by the heavy smell of death and disease. It was written by Van Morrison and included on his 1967 album, Blowin' Your Mind!. The song was originally going to be used in Taxi Driver.
    Both the director Martin Scorsese and Queen Latifah provided the voice of the ambulance dispatchers.

15. Reception

    Critical response

    The film was well received by critics and holds a 71% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 104 reviews.^[5] Roger Ebert gave it a perfect four star rating, writing, "To look at Bringing Out the Dead--to look, indeed, at almost any Scorsese film--is to be reminded that film can touch us urgently and deeply".
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1.       Does the movie accurately depict the job of an EMT?

2.       Does the movie accurately depict life in the US?

3.       How does the music enhance the themes of the movie?

4.       Describe Frank.

5.       Did you like this movie? Why or why not?

Green Chile

Green chile love sauce 

Even if it's not in your blood, you'll want this local delicacy in your mouth

by J. Adrian Stanley

·         Brienne Boortz

·         Salsa Latina

I have loved green chile since a warm summer night when I was 12 years old. We hadn't even unpacked the moving truck yet, and the long drive from Oregon to our new home in Denver was still weighing on my family's bones. Friends drove us to a hole-in-the-wall a few blocks from their house. The place was badly painted, and none of the tables and chairs matched. I ordered a smothered burrito. I can remember that first mouthful. The way the Anaheim chiles set my virgin tastebuds ablaze, the warm oil of the stewed pork, the thickness of it on my tongue. I scraped the plate clean, my eyes watering. The next morning, I had what I still remember as a terrifying experience in the bathroom. Turns out, green chile is spicy both at the entrance and the exit. But I guess everyone remembers their first time. Ten years later, as enamored as ever with "chile verde," I would embark on what my friend Greg and I dubbed "The Great Green Chile Tour" — a weeklong roadtrip through the Southwest in which we consumed the sauce with every meal.

It's tradition

If you're new to the area, you may not have fully digested the regional obsession with green chile. In a way, green chile is something that unites the cultures of the Southwest, as much a part of us as our wild lands, or legends of cowboys.

You find green chile everywhere in Colorado. It's on the menu at greasy spoons, and under the steel lid at the local buffet. But it is served best at mom-and-pop joints where the folks at the counter remember your name.

Places like tiny Salsa Latina (28 E. Rio Grande St., 328-1513), a strip-mall haven run by Danny Aguilar, his wife Carolina and 19-year-old son Isaiah.

Salsa Latina only has a few tables — you're lucky if you can claim one — and at lunch, the line usually runs out the door. Some of the regulars, like Melody Gardner, grew up eating green chile and can't remember life without it. Others, like Stuart Blom, are converts.

"I'm from the Midwest, so when someone says 'chile' to me, I think red chili with beans," he says. "It took a long time for me; I'm a white boy."

But he caught on. He can't stay away from the restaurant these days.

So what is it that's so addictive?

"It's a Spanish tradition," Carolina says, shrugging. "It's in our blood."

1.       How old was he when he moved to Denver?

2.       What is the topic?

3.       In what part of America is green chile popular?

4.       What is the name of the restaurant discussed in the article?

5.       What is the point of this article?

Final Prop Question Jill Tracy

Jill Tracy

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Biography

San Francisco, United States

Jill Tracy is a singer, pianist, composer, and performance artist based in San Francisco. She has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a femme fatale for the thinking man.” NPR “All Things Considered” has called her “utterly intriguing, transporting you into a magical world solely of her creation.” “My goal is to open the trapdoors, transport the listener into that magical place inside my head,” Tracy said in an NPR interview with Susan Stamberg. “I call it the Kingdom of the Mind’s Eye.”

31. What genre of music does Jill Tracy play? (1)

32. Where is she from? (1)

33. What instrument does she play? (1)

34. Who described her as “utterly intriguing”? (1)

35. What is the thesis of this article? (5)

The Proposal

The Proposal is a 2009 American romantic comedy film set in Sitka, Alaska. Directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Peter Chiarelli, the film features Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in the leading roles, with Betty White, Mary Steenburgen, and Craig T. Nelson in supporting roles. The film was produced by Mandeville Films and released on June 19, 2009, in North America by Touchstone Pictures. The plot centers on a Canadian woman, Margaret Tate, who learns that she may face deportation charges because of her expired visa. Determined to retain her position as executive chief, Tate convinces her assistant, Andrew Paxton, to temporarily act as her fiance. Initially planning on resuming their lives after Tate resolves her visa issues, they appear to abandon those plans as their relationship intensifies.

Development on the film began in 2005, when Chiarelli wrote the film's script. Principal filming occurred over a period of two months from March to May 2008. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who disliked the script, though the performances and chemistry between Bullock and Reynolds were well received. The film was a box office success, grossing over $317 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing romantic comedy film of 2009.

Plot[edit]

Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is an executive editor in chief of a book publishing company. After learning she is about to be deported to Canada because of an expired visa, she persuades her assistant, Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds), to marry her. Mr. Gilbertson (Denis O'Hare), a U.S. immigration agent, informs them that he suspects they are committing fraud to avoid Margaret's deportation. Gilbertson tells them that they'll be asked questions about each other separately. If their answers don't match, Margaret will be deported to Canada and Andrew will be convicted of a felony punishable by a $250,000 fine and five years in prison. Andrew insists that Margaret make him an editor after their marriage and publish his book. Margaret agrees.

The couple travels to Sitka, Alaska, Andrew's home town, to meet his family. Margaret meets Andrew's mother Grace (Mary Steenburgen) and grandmother Annie a.k.a "Gammy" (Betty White). During the trip to the family home, Margaret notices that nearly every shop in town carries the name Paxton and learns that Andrew's family is in fact very wealthy. During a welcome home party, Andrew confronts his father, Joe (Craig T. Nelson), who is angry about Andrew's dating the boss he has so long disliked and thinks he is using her to get ahead in his career. After their argument, Andrew announces the engagement to everyone. Margaret also meets Gertrude (Malin Åkerman), Andrew's ex-girlfriend.

The next day, Grace and Annie take Margaret to a local bar to watch a strip dance by a locally famous but over-the-hill exotic dancer, Ramone (Oscar Nunez). Stepping away from the show, Margaret learns from Gertrude that Andrew wanted to become an editor and make his own life and that Andrew had proposed to Gertrude. However, Gertrude refused because she didn't want to leave Sitka for New York. Returning home, Margaret learns of the conflict between Andrew and Joe. That night, Margaret asks Andrew about his relationship with his father, but Andrew refuses to talk. Instead, Margaret opens up to Andrew.

The next day, the family convinces them to marry while they're in Sitka. After Margaret realizes how close Andrew's family is, she becomes upset, gets on Andrew's boat, and speeds away with him. She tells him she has been alone since she was sixteen years old after her parents died and had forgotten what it felt like to have a family. She lets go of the helm and stumbles to the back of the boat. Andrew makes a sharp turn to avoid hitting a buoy, and Margaret falls out of the boat. Andrew quickly turns the boat around and saves her. At the wedding ceremony, Margaret confesses the truth about the wedding to the guests, including Gilbertson, who informs her she has twenty-four hours to leave for Canada. Margaret returns to the Paxton home to pack her things. Andrew rushes to their room only to find Margaret has already left, leaving his book manuscript with a note of praise and a promise to publish it. Gertrude attempts to comfort Andrew and asks if he is going to go after her. As he rushes out to find Margaret, another argument arises between him and Joe. Annie fakes a heart attack and convinces them to reconcile before she "passes away". After she succeeds in getting things moving again, she owns up to faking the attack. Andrew's parents realize he really loves Margaret. He goes to New York and tells Margaret he loves her in front of the entire office staff. They kiss, then go to Gilbertson and inform him they are again engaged, but for real this time.

Peter Chiarelli initially wrote the script for the film in 2005.^[2] In May 2007, it was announced that Sandra Bullock had been given a lead role for The Proposal.^[3] Julia Roberts was originally approached by producers for a lead role in the film, but later declined.^[4] Nearly two months after the announcement, it was reported that negotiations were being finalized for Ryan Reynolds to star opposite to Bullock.^[2] In January 2008, Touchstone Pictures signed Anne Fletcher to direct the film.^[5] It premiered on June 1, 2009 at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California.^[6]

Production

Filming for The Proposal initiated in April 2008 in Rockport, Massachusetts.^[7] In the oncoming days leading to production, areas of the town were temporarily remodeled to represent Sitka, Alaska, the setting of most of the film.^[7] Principal photography officially began on April 9 at Bearskin Neck, where it continued over a period of 24 hours. Filming continued at the Motif Number One building on Bradley Wharf (April 14–16), the Haskins Building (April 15–18), and the central business district of Rockport (April 17).^[7][8] Principal photography relocated to Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts on April 22, where it resumed over an approximate period of two weeks. In response, city officials accommodated the producers by renting out all publicly owned parking lots. Filming for The Proposal was shortly delayed after Bullock and her husband were involved in a car accident.^[9] The wedding scene was filmed in a three-story twentieth century Victorian home; photography took place at the residence for three weeks.^[10] In an interview with the New York Times, the owners of the home stated thatNelson Coates knocked on their door asking for leaves. Initially, the owners directed Coates to other residences in the area; however, they eventually gave the film's producer a tour of the house. Production occurred on the first floor of the home.^[7][10] Outside of the Cape Ann area, filming took place in Boston, Massachusetts at the State Street Bank Building and in Lower Manhattan in New York City.^[11] The Proposal contained 350 special effect shots, and some parts were edited usingcomputer-generated imagery.^[12] The score to The Proposal was composed by Aaron Zigman, who recorded his score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.^[13]

As part of an extensive advertising campaign, Reynolds discussed about taking part in the production of a nude scene. The scene was filmed in a period of three days, and took approximately twelve takes to complete.^[14] Expressing that she was initially nervous, Bullock stated in an interview with Sky News that "when everyone else acts like it's just a normal day it really helps you relax." Although she revealed that producers provided them with fig leaves, Bullock stated that they would continuously fall off. She added, "You could literally see everything."^[15] Similar sentiments were expressed by Reynolds, who in an interview with People, stated, "Filming a scene that involves being entirely naked and takes a couple days can be a little awkward." He continued: "Thankfully you're there for so long and you're doing it for so long that you dispense with the awkwardness pretty quickly and start to have mundane, normal conversations – the difference being you're not wearing pants."^[16]

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The Waterboy

The Waterboy is a 1998 American sports/comedy film directed by Frank Coraci (who played Robert 'Roberto' Boucher, Sr.), starring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed, Larry Gilliard, Jr., Blake Clark, Peter Dante and Jonathan Loughran, and produced by Robert Simonds and Jack Giarraputo.

Lynn Swann, Lawrence Taylor, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher, Paul Wight and Rob Schneider have cameo appearances. The movie was extremely profitable, earning $161.5 million in North America alone.^[1] This was Sandler's second film to eclipse $120 million worldwide in 1998 along with The Wedding Singer.^[1]

Adam Sandler's character, Bobby Boucher (pronounced /buːˈʃeɪ/ boo-shay), bears a strong resemblance to his "The Excited Southerner" comedic skits from his album What the Hell Happened to Me? The portrayal is one of a stereotypical Cajun from the bayous of South Louisiana, not the typical stereotype of a Southerner. He also shares similarities in speech and mannerism to Canteen Boy, a recurring character, also portrayed by Adam Sandler, onSaturday Night Live.^[2] Like Bobby, Canteen Boy preferred "purified water, right out of the old canteen", which he always carried with him.

Bobby Boucher is a socially inept, stuttering water boy with hidden anger issues due to constant teasing and excessive sheltering by his mother, Helen (Kathy Bates). He became the water boy for the (fictional) University of Louisiana Cougars^[3] after being told his father died of dehydration in the Sahara while serving in the Peace Corps. However, the players always torment him and the team's head coach, Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed), eventually fires him for "disrupting" his players. After a few unsuccessful attempts at finding work, including one attempt to get water for professional wrestler Captain Insano (Paul Wight) (and also his idol, who laughs at him, one of the embarrassing memories he uses to channel his anger in football.), Bobby then approaches Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) of the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs. After realizing that his team has been drinking filthy water, Bobby says that stagnated water must be disposed of and replaced with fresh water daily, a job he knows well. Aware that Bobby will be a fine addition to the team, Coach Klein hires him.

Bobby's mother, Helen tells Bobby of the evils of football, or "foosball" as Helen pronounces it, and forbids him to play. After being picked on again by his new team, Coach Klein encourages Bobby to strike back, which leads to him tackling and knocking out the team's quarterback. Coach Klein convinces Bobby to enroll as a student at SCLSU and play for the team, which he agrees to do as long as nobody tells his mother.

Bobby quickly becomes one of the most feared linebackers in college football, hitting opposing players with injury-causing force visualizing them as someone insulting him, and made a record at that. His attacking skills were just as good. The Mud Dogs manage a winning streak and earn a trip to the annual Bourbon Bowl to face the Cougars and Coach Beaulieu. Bobby's newfound fame also allows him to rekindle a relationship with his childhood friend and crush, Vicki Vallencourt (Fairuza Balk), who has been in prison multiple times. However, Helen forbids Bobby from seeing her again.

Coach Beaulieu arrives at a Mud Dogs pep rally and reveals that Bobby never finished high school, making him ineligible for college and football. Everybody labels him as a cheater. Then Coach Klein admits to Bobby that Red stole his playbook years ago, causing him a mental block. With his encouragement Bobby manages to pass his GED exam, despite his mother's objections about him going back to college. When Bobby finally admits that he's been playing football behind her back, Helen once again gives her "for the devil" lectures, but Bobby finally snaps back, saying that with her, everything's for the devil, and that she's always been holding him back from his life, and professes his love for Vicki Vallencourt, and he angrily storms out of the house to see her. She then fakes falling ill to keep Bobby from playing, but eventually relents after witnessing the town residents' support for Bobby. The next day, Helen awakens and tells Bobby the truth what really happened to his father and why she was faking her illness. Years ago, Bobby's father headed to New Orleans to find work. While there, he fell for a voodoo priestess, changed his name to Roberto and ran off with her, abandoning Helen while she was pregnant with Bobby. This in turn lead Helen to excessively sheltering him all his life out of fear he'd abandon her like his father did. Helen realizes the best thing for her to do is let Bobby go since he has made a lot of friends and encourages him to play in the Bourbon Bowl.

Arriving at halftime of the Bourbon Bowl with Helen and Vicki, Bobby manages to encourage the losing Mud Dogs to make a comeback. The team admits that he has become the heart and soul of the Mud Dogs. With Bobby's help, Coach Klein overcomes his fear of Red Beaulieu, using the same strategy of visualizing Red as a baby and a puppy, which helps him create new plays that allow the Mud Dogs to catch up. Helen helps the cheerleaders out by making coffee and it helps keep their energy up as they cheer their fans on to rally, while Vicki is seen giving out water to the Mud Dogs. During the final play, Bobby throws a touchdown pass to the quarterback and the Mud Dogs win the Bourbon Bowl. Bobby is named the MVP of the game.

Sometime later, Bobby and Vicki get married and are leaving on the riding lawn mower. On their way out, Bobby's father makes an unexpected appearance, telling him that he heard from ESPN that he may go to the NFL. Bobby tells him that he is not going to the NFL because he feels he should earn a college diploma first. Bobby Sr. tries to convince him to take the NFL offers, hoping to gain some of the profits from it, but is tackled by Helen for abandoning her all those years ago. Bobby and Vicki leave to consummate their marriage.

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