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Encyclopedia > Bird (film)
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Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Produced by Clint Eastwood
David Valdes
Written by Joel Oliansky
Starring Forest Whitaker
Diane Venora
Michael Zelniker
Sam Wright
Keith David
Music by Lennie Niehaus
Cinematography Jack N. Green
Editing by Joel Cox
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) 1988
Running time 161 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English
All Movie Guide profile
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Bird is an Academy Award-winning 1988 U.S. film directed by Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an award-winning American actor, producer, and director. ... Diane Venora (born August 10, 1952) is an American stage, television, and film actress. ... Keith David (born June 4, 1956) is an American film, television, and voice actor. ... Lennie Niehaus is an American alto saxophonist, arranger, and composer. ... Warner Bros. ... // Michael Jacksons first film was Moonwalker Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Bob Hoskins Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy Big, starring Tom Hanks Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Crocodile Dundee II Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis The Naked Gun... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... // Michael Jacksons first film was Moonwalker Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Bob Hoskins Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy Big, starring Tom Hanks Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Crocodile Dundee II Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis The Naked Gun... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ...


The film is a biopic, a tribute to the life and music of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, written by Joel Oliansky. It is constructed as a collage of scenes from Parker's life, from his childhood in Kansas City, through his marriage to Chan Richardson, to his early death at the age of thirty-four. Poster for Man on the Moon (1999), a biopic A biographical picture— often shortened to biopic— is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States around the start of the 20th century. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ... Charles Bird Parker, Jr. ... A collage composed of magazine articles and pictures Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ...


Forest Whitaker's performance as Parker earned him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. [1] In addition, the film also won an Academy Award for Best Sound. The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most aesthetic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film. ...


Cast

Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an award-winning American actor, producer, and director. ... Charles Bird Parker, Jr. ... Diane Venora (born August 10, 1952) is an American stage, television, and film actress. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Robert Roland Chudnick (September 27, 1927–May 27, 1994), who performed as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter. ... Samuel E. Wright (born November 20, 1948 in Camden, South Carolina) is an American actor who voiced Sebastian the crab in Disneys The Little Mermaid. ... John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... Keith David (born June 4, 1956) is an American film, television, and voice actor. ... Michael Thomas Francis McGuire (born 3 May 1926) is a Labour Party (UK) politician. ... Damon Whitaker (born October 21, 1970) is an American actor; and brother of actor Forest Whitaker. ... Sam Robards is an American actor. ... Penelope Windust (born in New York City, New York) is an American actor who starred on television, and in a few movies. ... Glenn Wright (born February 6, 1901 in Archie, Missouri - April 6, 1984), is a former professional baseball player who played short stop in the Major Leagues from 1924-1935. ... Bill Cobbs (born June 16, 1935) is an African-American film actor. ...

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The Birds (1963) (2453 words)
The attacks are mysteriously related to the mother and son relationship in the film - anger (and fears of abandonment or being left lonely) of the jealous, initially hostile mother surface when her bachelor son brings home an attractive young woman.
On an allegorical level, the birds in the film are the physical embodiment and exteriorization of unleashed, disturbing, shattering forces that threaten all of humanity (those threatened in the film include schoolchildren, a defenseless farmer, bystanders, a schoolteacher, etc.) when relationships have become insubstantial, unsupportive, or hurtful.
Numerous allusions to blindness are sprinkled throughout the film (the farmer's eyes are pecked out, the children play blindman's bluff at the birthday party, the broken glasses of the fleeing schoolchild, etc.), giving the hint that the camera's voyeuristic lens (and its screen-viewing audience) is also being subjected to assault.
PlanetPapers - The Birds (617 words)
In the story the birds attacked when the tide came in and in the film the birds attack in brief intervals, over and over.
The film's characters are a woman and a man, and the man's mother and younger sister.
In the film the characters are able to slip out of the house during a quiet interval and drive away.
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