Yes. Ronald Reagan was a famous western actor before he became the president of the U. S. A. It seems that Arnold Schwatzenegger is not the first actor to enter politics in America!
Well, this is the last stage of our first tour: A New Concept of Cinema
A New Concept of Cinema
(1960 - nowadays)
One of the most important directors of this period is Stanley Kubrick, with films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and A Clockwork Orange (1971).
Films such as Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and George Lucas’s Star Wars (1977) dominated the American box-office, and initiated the 'blockbuster' phenomenon. If you haven't seen Jaws (you should have), you can have a look at the story here:
Other important directors are Woody Allen with Manhattan (1979), Martin Scorsese with Taxi Driver (1976), or Francis Ford Coppola with The Godfather (1972). Tim Burton directed some modern Gothic films in the 1980's, though his greatest film is the dark fairy-tale Edward Scissorhands (1990). Other famous films are James Cameron's The Terminator (1984) and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982).
American cinema began to incorporate digital imagery into films, for example the morphing metal in James Cameron's Terminator II: Judgment Day (1991) and incredible digitally-generated dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993). The next step, total digital animation, was taken by the Pixar studio with Toy Story (1995). Digital effects were also important in the Wachowski brother’s The Matrix (1999). Peter Jackson's trilogy The Lord Of The Rings (2001) integrated digital technology with traditional photographic effects.A new studio, Dreamworks SKG, was created in 1994 by Steven Spielberg and quickly became one of the most successful film studios in Hollywood. Its greatest commercial successes were the digital animations it produced to compete with Pixar, including Shrek (2001).
And that's all folks! Tour number one is finished!
