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206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
a Melkite Catholic family of Lebanese descent. His father was an attorney originally from Zahle, Lebanon and was a supporter of the Egyptian nationalist Wafd Party. His mother, Claire Bastorous was a tailor. Although Chahine was raised Catholic, he was not a believer in organized religion. If asked of h... | 29,500 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
picturing himself in the industry- whether in a projection theater, a cinema hall or a production company.
When asked about his childhood and early interest in cinema, Chahine said:
"“ At the age of Eight, I discovered that 9.5mm films and projectors were being sold in stores. I saved from allowances ... | 29,501 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
interest: indulging in sexual fantasies and cinema. A few years later, Chahine dealt with the death of his brother Alfred, who was only two years older than him. Chahine always remembered Alfred’s eyes, which influenced his work. Most his male actors had eyes that resembled Alfred’s.
According to Chahi... | 29,502 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
Chahine was fond of, was how his father took him to the desert, and taught him how to look for landmarks and find his way back home. Scouting for film locations often brought back these memories. Their home was aristocratic, even though they were not rich. They had to be well mannered, and mistakes had ... | 29,503 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
film business. Chahine directed his first feature film in 1950, Baba Amin (Daddy Amin) at the age of 23, two years before the revolution of 1952 that saw the overthrow of the monarchy and the rise of the charismatic leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. One year later, with "Nile Boy" (1951) he was first invited t... | 29,504 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
– Special Jury Priz at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival for "Alexandria... Why?" (1978), the first instalment in what would prove to be an autobiographic quartet, completed with "An Egyptian Story" (1982), "Alexandria, Again and Again" (1990), and "Alexandria...New York" (2004). The producer ... | 29,505 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
"I make my films first for myself. Then for my family. Then for Alexandria. Then for Egypt," Chahine once famously said. "If the Arab world likes them, ahlan wa sahlan (welcome). If the foreign audience likes them, they are doubly welcome."
# Notable films.
During his long career Chahine produced diff... | 29,506 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
writing "The Emigrant" (1994), a story inspired by the Biblical character of Joseph, son of Jacob.
This had long been a dream-project and he got to film it in 1994. This film created a controversy in Egypt between the liberal wing and the fundamentalists who opposed the depiction of religious character... | 29,507 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
films starting 1978 and uptill 2004. These films tell Yehia's life- who is a mirroring of Chahine. In this quartet, he explores his sexuality, personality, and family issues. The autobiographical films all take place between World War One and World War Two.
Released in 1979, and set in the 1940s, "Alex... | 29,508 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
in the Egyptian film industry participate in. The film is a political commentary on censorship in Egypt. Chahine uses many directoral styles: "verité," normal narrative and formalism.
The fourth and final film to the autobiographical film is "Alexandria ... New York" which Chahine released in 2004. The... | 29,509 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
the same station. Kinawi cuts pictures of women from magazines for the little cabin that he lives in, and has a psychosexual obsession with Hanouma (played by the acknowledged actress Hind Rostom), who is engaged to Abou Seri' (Farid Shawki), porter and trade union organiser. In a turn of events, Kinawi... | 29,510 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
in prison. She is put on trial in a military court and they try to accidentally kill him, as they have disposed of many witnesses. Luckily, the lawyer survives but the court still gives her the death penalty. The resistance movements rile up and Jamila is a symbol of inspiration and resistance to the Ar... | 29,511 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
three-hour film in CinemaScope named after the 12th century Ayyubid sultan who, as the film begins, is preparing to liberate Jerusalem from its Crusader occupiers. It was scripted by Naguib Mahfouz and the poet and progressive writer, Abderrahman Cherkaoui.
A parallel between Saladin and President Nass... | 29,512 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
of the propaganda dimension that implicitly painted President Nasser as a modern-era Saladin, stating "My own sympathies were with pan-Arabism, which I still believe in." The main reason he made the film was to prove that an epic film with a small budget, by global cinema standards. From then on, he onl... | 29,513 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
(The Choice)," 1970.
The protagonist of the film is schizophrenic, a fact that the audience discovers well into the film. The film mainly follows the police as they try to solve the murder of Mahmoud, who is believed to be the unidentified corpse in the beginning of the film. The older detectives belie... | 29,514 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
we must fight. We won’t accept defeat!"—an iconic scene in Egyptian cinema.
## "Iskinderiya.. leh? (Alexandria, Why?)," 1978.
Yehia, a young Victoria College student, is obsessed with Hollywood and dreams of cinema. It is 1942, the Germans are about to enter Alexandria, a thought that is preferable to... | 29,515 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
secular, open to Muslims, Christians and Jews" or of a more distant past: such as evoked in Adieu Bonaparte (1985), based on the cultural aspect of Bonaparte’s expedition into Egypt (1798). "Out of this marvelous confrontation there was a rebirth of Egyptian consciousness, of its past ... which belongs ... | 29,516 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
killed. It was also a style that Egyptian audiences were not used to, hence it was rejected by the public, but still received appraisal from critics.
"The Sparrow" attacked Egyptian corruption and blamed it for the defeat in the Six Day War, which gained backlash from government supporters.
During the... | 29,517 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine, whereas Sands of Gold, due to delays in shooting and its box-office failure, forced him to quit his work in Lebanon and return to Egypt.
In 1994, with the release of "Al Mohaguer (The Emigrant)," Chahine ran into trouble with fundamentalists. The film tells the story of Joseph, and Isl... | 29,518 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
The film's goal was to initiate religious tolerance, however, it was seen as disrespectful to Ibn Rushd.
Upon the release of "Al Akhar (The Other)" in 1999, the film caused some public controversy. The film features a mother who exposes a woman's scam after she and her son had fallen in love and planne... | 29,519 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
World War II. Yehia’s cousin is gay and ‘buys’ drunken British soldiers. Jewish friends are forced to leave and decide to settle in Palestine.
In "An Egyptian Story" (1982) Yehia is a film-maker, going to London (as Chahine had earlier) for open-heart surgery. He has a brief affair with a taxi driver.
... | 29,520 |
206924 | Youssef Chahine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youssef%20Chahine | Youssef Chahine
, Chahine was flown to Paris on an emergency flight and admitted to the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, where his niece told AFP his condition was "critical but stable."
Youssef Chahine died in his Cairo home on Sunday, 27 July 2008.
He was honored by BAFTA for his contribution ... | 29,521 |
206926 | USS Charleston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Charleston | USS Charleston
USS Charleston
USS "Charleston" may refer to:
- , a galley in commission from 1798 to 1802
- , a protected cruiser commissioned in 1889 and wrecked in 1899
- , a protected cruiser in commission from 1905 to 1923
- , a gunboat in commission from 1936 to 1946
- , an amphibious cargo ship in commissio... | 29,522 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
Seyfert galaxy
Seyfert galaxies are one of the two largest groups of active galaxies, along with quasars. They have quasar-like nuclei (very luminous, distant and bright sources of electromagnetic radiation) with very high surface brightnesses whose spectra reveal strong, high-ionisation emission lines,... | 29,523 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
by accretion discs of in-falling material. The accretion discs are believed to be the source of the observed ultraviolet radiation. Ultraviolet emission and absorption lines provide the best diagnostics for the composition of the surrounding material.
Seen in visible light, most Seyfert galaxies look li... | 29,524 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
who were using the Lick Observatory to look at the spectra of astronomical objects that were thought to be "spiral nebulae". They noticed that NGC 1068 showed six bright emission lines, which was considered unusual as most objects observed showed an absorption spectrum corresponding to stars.
In 1926, E... | 29,525 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
established that it was a discrete source. Its double radio structure became apparent with the use of interferometry. In the next few years, other radio sources such as supernova remnants were discovered. By the end of the 1950s, more important characteristics of Seyfert galaxies were discovered, includi... | 29,526 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
that the emission lines in NGC 1068 were produced in a region over a thousand light years in diameter. Controversy existed over whether Seyfert redshifts were of cosmological origin. Confirming estimates of the distance to Seyfert galaxies and their age were limited since their nuclei vary in brightness ... | 29,527 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
very strong ultraviolet emission, with measurements on the position of some of them being improved in 1973 by other researchers. At the time, it was believed that 1% of spiral galaxies are Seyferts. By 1977, it was found that very few Seyfert galaxies are ellipticals, most of them being spiral or barred ... | 29,528 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
of their emission lines. It has been later noticed that some Seyfert nuclei show intermediate properties, resulting in their being further subclassified into types 1.2, 1.5, 1.8 and 1.9 (see Classification). Early surveys for Seyfert galaxies were biased in counting only the brightest representatives of ... | 29,529 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
Markarian catalog, a list of galaxies displaying an ultraviolet excess in their nuclei.
# Characteristics.
An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a higher than normal luminosity over portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. A galaxy having an active nuc... | 29,530 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
the two being the amount of radiation they emit. In a typical Seyfert galaxy, the nuclear source emits at visible wavelengths an amount of radiation comparable to that of the whole galaxy's constituent stars, while in a quasar, the nuclear source is brighter than the constituent stars by at least a facto... | 29,531 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
implies velocities from , and are believed to originate near an accretion disc surrounding the central black hole.
## Eddington luminosity.
A lower limit to the mass of the central black hole can be calculated using the Eddington luminosity. This limit arises because light exhibits radiation pressure. ... | 29,532 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
Emissions.
The emission lines seen on the spectrum of a Seyfert galaxy may come from the surface of the accretion disc itself, or may come from clouds of gas illuminated by the central engine in an ionization cone. The exact geometry of the emitting region is difficult to determine due to poor resolutio... | 29,533 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
velocities are lower, while the broad lines originate closer to the black hole. This is confirmed by the fact that the narrow lines do not vary detectably, which implies that the emitting region is large, contrary to the broad lines which can vary on relatively short timescales. Reverberation mapping is ... | 29,534 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
source. For 35 AGN, reverberation mapping has been used to calculate the mass of the central black holes and the size of the broad line regions.
In the few radio-loud Seyfert galaxies that have been observed, the radio emission is believed to represent synchrotron emission from the jet. The infrared emi... | 29,535 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
that include both allowed lines, like H I, He I or He II and narrower forbidden lines, like O III. They show some narrower allowed lines as well, but even these narrow lines are much broader than the lines shown by normal galaxies. However, the spectra of Type II Seyfert galaxies show only narrow lines, ... | 29,536 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
both broad and narrow permitted lines, which is why they are classified as an intermediate type between Type I and Type II, such as Type 1.5 Seyfert. The spectra of some of these galaxies have changed from Type 1.5 to Type II in a matter of a few years. However, the characteristic broad Hα emission line ... | 29,537 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
impossible to detect because of the angle we are at with respect to the galaxy. Specifically, in Type I Seyfert galaxies, we observe the central compact source more or less directly, therefore sampling the high velocity clouds in the broad line emission region moving around the supermassive black hole th... | 29,538 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
types.
## Type I Seyfert galaxies.
Type I Seyferts are very bright sources of ultraviolet light and X-rays in addition to the visible light coming from their cores. They have two sets of emission lines on their spectra: narrow lines with widths (measured in velocity units) of several hundred km/s, and ... | 29,539 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
from the time delay corresponding to the time taken by light to travel from the continuum source to the line-emitting gas.
## Type II Seyfert galaxies.
Type II Seyfert galaxies have the characteristic bright core, as well as appearing bright when viewed at infrared wavelengths. Their spectra contain na... | 29,540 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
NGC 1068, nuclear light reflected off a dust cloud was measured, which led scientists to believe in the presence of an obscuring dust torus around a bright continuum and broad emission line nucleus. When the galaxy is viewed from the side, the nucleus is indirectly observed through reflection by gas and ... | 29,541 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
only shows a broad component in the Hα line, and not in higher order Balmer lines. In Type 1.8, very weak broad lines can be detected in the Hβ lines as well as Hα, even if they are very weak compared to the Hα. In Type 1.5, the strength of the Hα and Hβ lines are comparable.
## Other Seyfert-like galax... | 29,542 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
neutral atoms, while the emission lines from strongly ionised atoms are relatively weak by comparison. LINERs share a large amount of traits with low luminosity Seyferts. In fact, when seen in visible light, the global characteristics of their host galaxies are indistinguishable. Also, they both show a b... | 29,543 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
(NLSy1), which have been subject to extensive research in recent years. They have much narrower lines than the broad lines from classic Seyfert I galaxies, steep hard and soft X-ray spectra and strong Fe[II] emission. Their properties suggest that NLSy1 galaxies are young AGNs with high accretion rates, ... | 29,544 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
in the early Universe and, due to cosmic inflation, are receding away from the Milky Way at very high speeds. Quasars are the furthest active galaxies, some of them being observed at distances 12 billion light years away. Seyfert galaxies are much closer than quasars. Because light has a finite speed, lo... | 29,545 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
local (modern-day) counterparts of AGNs found at large redshifts. It has been proposed that NLSy1s could be the small redshift counterparts of quasars found at large redshifts (z4). The two have many similar properties, for example: high metallicities or similar pattern of emission lines (strong Fe [II],... | 29,546 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
are called unified models. Unified models explain the difference between Seyfert I and Seyfert II galaxies as being the result of Seyfert II galaxies being surrounded by obscuring toruses which prevent telescopes from seeing the broad line region. Quasars and blazars can be fit quite easily in this model... | 29,547 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
the brightest Seyfert galaxy as seen from Earth; a giant elliptical galaxy and also classified as a radio galaxy notable for its relativistic jet spanning more than a million light years in length.
- Cygnus A, the first identified radio galaxy and the brightest radio source in the sky as seen in frequen... | 29,548 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
the brightest Seyfert galaxies in the sky.
- Messier 106 (NGC 4258), one of the best known Seyfert galaxies, has a water vapor megamaser in its nucleus seen by 22-GHz line of ortho-HO.
- NGC 262, an example of a galaxy with an extended gaseous H I halo
- NGC 1097, has four narrow optical jets coming o... | 29,549 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
out from its center
- NGC 3185, member of the Hickson 44 group
- NGC 3259, also a strong source of X-rays
- NGC 3783, also a strong source of X-rays
- NGC 3982, also a starburst galaxy
- NGC 4151, has two supermassive black holes in its center.
- NGC 4395, an example of a low surface brightness gal... | 29,550 |
206919 | Seyfert galaxy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seyfert%20galaxy | Seyfert galaxy
arth; has a very long spiraling cloud of gas surrounding its center seen in infrared.
- NGC 4945, a galaxy relatively close to Centaurus A.
- NGC 5033, has a Seyfert nucleus displaced from its kinematic center.
- NGC 5548, an example of a lenticular Seyfert galaxy
- NGC 6240, also classified as an ul... | 29,551 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 American science fiction film directed by Leonard Nimoy and based on the television series "". It is the third film in the "Star Trek" film series, and is the second part of a three-film story arc that... | 29,552 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) who are bent on stealing the secrets of a powerful terraforming device.
Paramount Pictures commissioned the film after the positive critical and commercial reaction to "The Wrath of Khan". Nimoy directed the film, becoming the first "Star Trek" cast member ... | 29,553 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
were shot on Paramount and ILM soundstages. Composer James Horner returned to expand his themes from the previous film.
"The Search for Spock" opened on June 1, 1984. In its first week of release, the film grossed over $16 million from almost 2,000 theaters across North America. It ... | 29,554 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
and second "Star Trek" films. "The Search for Spock" has since been released on multiple home video formats, including VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray high definition discs.
# Plot.
The Federation Starship "Enterprise" returns to Earth following a with the superhuman Khan Noonien Singh, who ... | 29,555 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
visits the "Enterprise" and informs the crew the ship is to be decommissioned; the crew is instructed not to speak about Genesis due to political fallout over the device.
David Marcus (Merritt Butrick)—Kirk's son, a key scientist in Genesis's development—and Lieutenant Saavik (Robin... | 29,556 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
meaning the planet will be destroyed within hours. Meanwhile, Kruge (Christopher Lloyd), the commander of a Klingon vessel, intercepts information about Genesis. Believing the device to be potentially useful as a weapon, he takes his cloaked ship to the Genesis planet, destroys the "... | 29,557 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
from detention, disable the USS "Excelsior", and steal the "Enterprise" from Spacedock to return to the Genesis planet to retrieve Spock's body.
On Genesis, the Klingons capture Marcus, Saavik and Spock and before Kruge can interrogate them their ship signals that the "Enterprise" h... | 29,558 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
sequence, killing the Klingon boarding party while the "Enterprise" crew transports to the planet's surface. Promising the secret of Genesis, Kirk lures Kruge to the planet and has him beam his crew to the Klingon vessel. As the Genesis planet disintegrates, Kirk and Kruge engage in ... | 29,559 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
"Jim" and recognizes the crew. His friends joyfully gather around him.
# Cast.
William Shatner reprises the role of Admiral James T. Kirk, Starfleet officer. Shatner remarked that being directed by Leonard Nimoy, his longtime co-star and friend, was initially awkward, although as t... | 29,560 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
finest celluloid moment ever".
Nimoy, in addition to his directing duties, appears towards the end of the film as Spock, but only appears in the opening credits as the director. Nimoy found the most difficult scene to direct was one in which Leonard McCoy talks to the unconscious Sp... | 29,561 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
at the ages of 9, 13, 17, and 25, was portrayed successively by Carl Steven, Vadia Potenza, Stephen Manley and Joe W. Davis. Frank Welker provided Spock's screams, and Steve Blalock doubled for Nimoy, so that a total of seven actors contributed to the role.
DeForest Kelley returns a... | 29,562 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Playing the other crew members are James Doohan, as Montgomery Scott, the chief engineer; George Takei, as Hikaru Sulu, "Enterprise"s helmsman; Walter Koenig, as Pavel Chekov, navigation and acting science officer; and Nichelle Nichols, as Uhura, the ship's communications officer. Ni... | 29,563 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
He would later admit in his "" that "without that snipe from [the guard], the scene [where Sulu eventually beats up that same guard] would not have played even half as heroically for Sulu."
At age 87, and after an acting break of 14 years, Dame Judith Anderson accepted the role of T... | 29,564 |
206879 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20III:%20The%20Search%20for%20Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
to her height. Kirstie Alley, who had played Saavik in "The Wrath of Khan", did not return to reprise her role because she feared being typecast. Robin Curtis had arrived in Los Angeles in 1982; she became friends with the head of Paramount's casting department, who recommended her f... | 29,565 |
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to the role. Mark Lenard plays Sarek, Spock's father and a Vulcan ambassador. Lenard had previously played the role in the "" episode "Journey to Babel" and the "" episode "". Merritt Butrick reprises his role as David Marcus, Kirk's son and a scientist who had helped develop the Gen... | 29,566 |
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describes as "the thoughtful Klingon". Catherine Shirriff plays Valkris, Kruge's doomed lover. Grace Lee Whitney, who played Janice Rand in the original "Star Trek" series, made a cameo appearance (wearing a wig) as "Woman in Cafeteria". Scott McGinnis plays a young man whom Uhura fo... | 29,567 |
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by Paramount if he wanted to reprise the role for the third feature, Nimoy agreed and told them, "You're damned right, I want to direct that picture!" Studio chief Michael Eisner was reluctant to hire Nimoy because he mistakenly believed that the actor hated "Star Trek" and had deman... | 29,568 |
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writing the screenplay, noting that "seventeen other people could have written [it]" after the hints at Spock's resurrection in the previous film. Bennett and Nimoy used the open thread of Spock mind melding with McCoy at the end of "The Wrath of Khan" as a way to explain Spock's res... | 29,569 |
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Trek" fan magazine. The film's production acknowledged certain expectations from fans—Nimoy remarked that if Spock had not been resurrected and, instead, "Captain Kirk turn[ed] to the camera and [said] 'Sorry, we didn't find him,' people would throw rocks at the screen." A major issu... | 29,570 |
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element be kept a secret.
Nimoy wanted "The Search for Spock" to be "operatic" in scope; "I wanted the emotions to be very large, very broad, life and death themes [...] and the [look of the film] and everything about it derives everything from sizable characters playing out a large... | 29,571 |
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villains, but Nimoy preferred the more "theatrical" Klingons, feeling that their pursuit of Genesis was analogous to the Soviet race for nuclear weaponry. Bennett took the opportunity to flesh out the alien race, who he felt were ill-defined in the television series. The name of the ... | 29,572 |
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as a "toybox" that allowed more leeway and "fun" in planning the scope of the film.
## Design.
Nimoy and Bennett worked with effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) to produce special effects, models, and live-action scenes. ILM received a two-page story treatment in Novembe... | 29,573 |
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that visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston and his team were involved from the planning stages. Nimoy credited this early involvement with increasing the amount of creative input into the film's design and execution.
It became apparent to ILM that "The Search for Spock"s script requ... | 29,574 |
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be used to depict other science vessels in the television series "".
The "Excelsior" was a new design that ILM felt was a better rendition of a Federation starship—sleeker and more modern than the "Enterprise". The art department created concept sketches to show to Paramount, and at... | 29,575 |
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the scope of "Star Trek". After approving a small three-dimensional maquette of the final design, the effects team created an exterior Spacedock model measuring tall. Rather than painstakingly wiring thousands of small lights, ILM made the model out of clear Plexiglass and painted it... | 29,576 |
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Nimoy wanted the ship to be reminiscent of an attacking bird, with movable wings that changed depending on whether the ship was in a cruising or attack posture. George took design cues from sketches of bodybuilders and football players, incorporating the starship equivalents of down-... | 29,577 |
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save money, many sets, particularly interiors, were redresses of existing sets. The "Enterprise" bridge was reconfigured to stand in for the "Grissom", with the chairs reupholstered and the central computer consoles moved to modify the floor plan. An Earth bar and the Klingon medical... | 29,578 |
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was made to Spock's quarters. Nimoy had felt the previous grey color scheme did not express a Vulcan style, and had it brightened with yellows and oranges.
Adding local color to the Klingon bridge was a ragged doglike creature the effects team derisively called "Fifi Rebozo". Ken Ra... | 29,579 |
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sprinkled the creature with water to make it look more unpleasant. The animal was a hand puppet; Ralston operated the head and body by placing his arm into an opening on the creature's side while hidden inside Kruge's command chair. Three helpers operated cables that opened the anima... | 29,580 |
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"live" one for the scene instead.
Many of the props in "The Wrath of Khan" had been reused from "The Motion Picture", or scrounged from other productions, but for "The Search for Spock" Winter wanted to design uniquely "Star Trek" items. George and artist Phil Norwood collaborated o... | 29,581 |
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and materials, rather than blinking lights, to suggest the props were real and manufactured.
## Costumes and makeup.
Robert Fletcher, costume designer for the previous "Star Trek" films, was responsible for "The Search for Spock"s wardrobe. Fletcher's job was to sketch outfits, cho... | 29,582 |
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stone ornaments on Sarek's robe, for instance, were intended to be representative of a Vulcan's level of consciousness. The costumer had the advantage of access to Paramount's store rooms, which contained literal tons of expensive fabrics.
The designer and production staff were sati... | 29,583 |
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jewelry.
In addition to his costume chores, Fletcher designed the Klingon and Vulcan makeup. Makeup artist Thomas R. Burman suggested that Fletcher was asked to help because the studio neglected to contract the work out; Burman received a contract only three weeks before the start o... | 29,584 |
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Motion Picture" were too prominent, obscuring the individuals' faces. "It was just too cartoonish, and I didn't want a "Star Wars" look in [the] movie. There had never been a good marriage between the forehead appliance and the actor's faces. We tried to keep them in character rather... | 29,585 |
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as many pages as they needed to fabricate each locale. Security guards checked the picture identification cards of production staff. Any mention of the production was removed from stationery and documents, and "Trois" (three, in French) was written as a code word. Offices and worksho... | 29,586 |
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word of the "Enterprise"s destruction leaked out before the film's release.
Principal photography commenced on August 15, 1983. All but two days of production were filmed on Paramount soundstages, by cinematographer Charles Correll. "The Search for Spock" was one of the first major ... | 29,587 |
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the Eastman recommendation to keep the image crisp at less than 50 foot-candles.
Many of "The Search for Spock"s dialogue sequences feature tight close-up shots. During Kirk and Sarek's mind meld, Nimoy chose cuts that focused on accentuating the dialogue; "Instead of watching peopl... | 29,588 |
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on location, meaning that Nimoy was preoccupied with making sure the various outdoor settings felt believable. While the various vessel exteriors were handled by ILM, Correll was responsible for the look of the interior sets. He preferred to treat these as actual locations inside the... | 29,589 |
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playing a World War I-era dogfight video game. The wireframe biplanes were created using black lines on clear paper printouts placed on an overlay cell. "It was really just a gag shot", effects artist Charlie Mullen explained, "the idea that people in the future would be playing an o... | 29,590 |
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intended to end in a barroom brawl when security tried to take McCoy into custody; Nimoy decided that "it didn't feel right" and there was not enough time or money to achieve the scene successfully.
The Genesis planet was produced via matte paintings and soundstages on Paramount lot... | 29,591 |
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collapse during the planet's destruction, the set was built off the ground and featured trapdoors and pyrotechnics in the floor. The hundreds of 10,000 watt lights in the rafters were covered in silk for day scenes to soften the light, and fitted with blue filters for night; dimmers ... | 29,592 |
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faces, Correll used a variety of tricks with normal lights; using natural fire would not have provided the required intensity.
A significant feature of the Genesis planet are the alien worms that rapidly evolve from microbes on Spock's coffin. The creatures start as small, slimy cra... | 29,593 |
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the set. Offscreen helpers pushed the rods or pulled fishing line to create motion; the scene required many takes because the fishing line would periodically flash at the camera. The larger worms proved more problematic, with filming taking place at ILM and Paramount Stage 15. Simila... | 29,594 |
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During the scene, the worms attack Kruge, who kills one of them. The usual method for achieving the effect of the creature wrapping itself around Kruge would have been to film the sequence in reverse, but this posed problems: the slime coating Kruge would have been out of place with ... | 29,595 |
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smoke, and earth upheaval. "The main part of the floor was rigged so that rocks would shoot up out of the ground [on catapults]. Trees were rigged to fall and start fires," Correll explained. Producing the shots required meticulous direction and between 20 and 30 helpers were on hand... | 29,596 |
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floodlight, created for the 1983 Peter Hyams film "The Star Chamber", placed on the top of a crane. The location's blue-grey sky was replaced with a matte painting that covered the top half of the stairs shot. Many ornamental touches Nimoy wanted for the procession scene ultimately n... | 29,597 |
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procession dragged on for too long.
Production on the film was temporarily shut down after a fire destroyed several soundstages at Paramount Studios, one of which was adjacent to the set for the Genesis planet. Initially, the set's pyrotechnics were suspected of causing the fire, bu... | 29,598 |
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time and money were major constraints for special effects. The effects artists were concerned about producing the right look no matter the time involved. While effects cameraman Scott Farrar and his assistants constantly traversed the separating ILM from Paramount, teams at the effec... | 29,599 |
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