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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie – North By Northwest




Movie – North By Northwest
Score : 9.5/10
Year : 1959
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Country : USA
Language : English
Duration:2h16
Writers : Ernest Lehman  

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One of the best Hitchcok movies sees Cary Grant as Roger Thornhil, an advertising executive on the run across the country, trying to survive as he's mistakenly thought to be a government agent... 

Cary Grant carries this thrilling action movie with superbe acting in the various situations he's thrown into, and thoroughly convinces he's really running for his life. 

The rest of the cast includes : 
Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carrol,  Martin Landau, Edward Platt, and many others, more or less ''important''. 

They deliver the cleverly written dialogues very aptly, and those supposed to be threatening are quite good, just like the comic relief moments break the tension and suspense. 

Bernard Herrmann's music is engaging, and accompanies the scenes very well, no matter which ; from action and adventure, to suspense and humour, everything fits. 

The cinematography in this movie is excellent, and can trull be appreciated in the bluray edition - more on that ''in the medias'' section.  


The intro is very inventive and ahead of its times and leads to Alfred's cameo, whilst various scenes are now cult classic... I'll let you discover them amongst the pictures here 

 the intro








No cameo is ever the same...  









leading to the most famous scene...  










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