The best moments of The Return of the King are those where Jackson's mad imagination runs riot: an Uruk - hai captain that looks like Charles Laughton's hunchback; a battlefield amuck
with war elephants («mumaks» in the vernacular) that recalls the desperation of the Hoth sequence of The Empire Strikes Back (itself a landmark of special effects for its time); and a glimpse at some of the ornaments of spider Shelob's lair and various orcan armor that pings off Robert A. Burns's delirious set design for Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Age of Empires Online (PC) It's an RTS
with war elephants.
Not exact matches
The lack of genetic differentiation (aside from the Caprivi Strip) is consistent
with historical evidence of
elephant movements during the Namibian
War of Independence, which increased hunting pressures.
Wag the Dog Mark Knopfler (1997) *** Wah - Wah Patrick Doyle (2005) **** 1/2 Wakolda Andrés Goldstein & Daniel Tarrab (2013) **** The Walk Alan Silvestri (2015) *** A Walk Among the Tombstones Carlos Rafael Rivera (2014) *** A Walk in the Clouds Maurice Jarre (1995) **** A Walk in the Spring Rain Elmer Bernstein (1970) **** Walk of Shame John Debney (2014) ** A Walk
with Love and Death Georges Delerue (1969) *** WALL · E Thomas Newman (2008) **** Wanted Danny Elfman (2008) ****
War Brian Tyler (2007) ** 1/2
War for the Planet of the Apes Michael Giacchino (2017) *****
War Horse John Williams (2011) **** 1/2 The
War of the Roses and The Sandlot David Newman (1989/92) ** 1/2
War of the Worlds John Williams (2005) **** Warcraft Ramin Djawadi (2016) *** Warlock Jerry Goldsmith (1989) ** Warning Shot Jerry Goldsmith (1967) *** Warrior Mark Isham (2011) *** 1/2 Water for
Elephants James Newton Howard (2011) *** The Water Horse James Newton Howard (2007) *** Way Out West Various (2002 compilation) *** We Are Marshall Christophe Beck (2006) ** 1/2 We're Back!
Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 biography of Olympics runner and WWII prisoner of
war Louis Zamperini (O'Connell, 300: Rise of an Empire) provides the basis for this
war - time drama, directed by Angelina Jolie (In the Land of Blood and Honey), from an adaptation by the Coen Brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis, True Grit), along
with Richard LaGravenese (Water for
Elephants, P.S. I Love You) and William Nicholson (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Les Miserables).
The film stars Colin Farrell as «Holt Farrier,» a former circus star and
war - veteran charged
with the care of a newborn
elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock of an already struggling circus.
MTV talks
with actor Robert Pattinson on his role of Jacob in the upcoming film «Water for
Elephants» by director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, Bel Ami, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2) and Reese Witherspoon (This Means
War, Pharm Girl).
The story, told through textless comic book frames, sees you take on the role of Tembo, an
elephant commando, complete
with bandana and
war paint, who is called upon by the army to stop the invading PHANTOM, an evil corporation fixated on global domination.
With the Culture
Wars still in full pitch, a collage by Chris Ofili titled The Holy Virgin Mary and featuring artfully placed clumps of
elephant dung drew outrage from the Catholic community and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who threatened to withdraw funding from the museum.
«Sensation» is best remembered as a battle from the culture
wars, in which Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani denounced as «sick stuff» artwork like Chris Ofili's «Holy Virgin Mary»
with its appended
elephant dung.
The well recognized sound of a Star
War's TIE Fighter zipping through space was created by combining the sound of an
elephant call
with a car driving over wet pavement.