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Heaven Only Knows is a 1947 American Western fantasy film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy and Marjorie Reynolds.[1] Produced by German migr Seymour Nebenzal's Nero Films, it was distributed by United Artists.
Due to an error in Heaven, Adam "Duke" Byron, is born without a soul in 1858. The "Book of Destiny" shows that he was supposed to marry a minister's daughter in 1885 and set a fine moral example. Instead, he is a saloon keeper and gambling hall owner in Glacier, Montana. As it was the fault of his department, Michael is sent in 1887 to set Duke on the life path for which he was destined, but Michael must do so as a human being, without miracles, not even a small one.
Michael encounters Bill Plummer. Plummer and Duke are rival saloon keepers and partners in a mining company, but due to a dispute between them, the mine is closed, leaving many of the townspeople destitute. Plummer has hired the Kansas City Kid, a gunslinger, to kill Duke. When Bill finds out that Duke knows about his plan, he gives Michael a lift into town and as Plummer hopes, Duke mistakes Michael for the Kid. Duke's satanic henchman, Treason, takes a shot at Michael, narrowly missing a young girl. Furious, parson's daughter and schoolmarm Drusilla Wainwright storms into the "Copper Queen", Duke's saloon, and slaps him.
Drusilla and most of the other residents want to take the law into their own hands to take back their town, but Sheriff Matt Bodine talks them into waiting until Plummer and Duke's men kill each other first.
Michael accidentally foils the Kid's attempt to shoot Duke. When Duke learns that the dead assassin is actually the Kansas City Kid, he believes that Michael is a smart, ambitious outlaw, so he hires him. Showgirl Ginger, Duke's girlfriend, takes a great liking to Michael; Treason hates him on sight.
Plummer sets fire to Duke's saloon, trapping him inside, with Plummer's men waiting for him to come out. Duke's secret passageway is locked from the outside, but Michael opens it and rescues him. They take refuge in the school. While they wait for darkness, they start talking to Drusilla. Duke admits that he feels that he is "meant for something... something big, something important", not what he is doing now, but he does not know what it is. Before he leaves, Duke kisses Drusilla; she resists at first, but not for long.
In retaliation, Treason, who walked through the blaze unharmed, sets fire to Plummer's saloon. Speck O'Donnell, a sickly child Duke likes, is trapped inside. Michael goes in after him, but Duke follows, sends Michael out and rescues Speck.
Sheriff Bodine maneuvers Duke and Plummer into a showdown for sole ownership of the mine. Duke accepts the challenge, even though he is at a great disadvantage against skilled gunman Plummer. Duke is wounded, but Plummer is blinded by sunlight, perhaps by divine intervention. Speck runs to Duke, pursued by Judd, who is shot saving the boy. Duke manages to kill Plummer with his last shot. In a daze, he walks to the church, where Drusilla waits. Dying, Judd recognizes Michael.
With Plummer dead, vigilantes plot to lynch Duke. Drusilla persuades Duke to flee rather than shoot it out, but he insists he will only go if she comes with him. She agrees. Once they are safely away, she confesses her love but refuses to marry him. Thwarted, the mob decides to lynch Michael instead, but the horse he is on refuses to move. At the last minute, Duke rides back with Drusilla, to save Mike's life and reform. Treason vanishes. That night, Mike rides off on a special coach to Heaven, taking Speck with him. Speck's tearful mother somehow knows her child's fate.
On November 26, 1946 the producer announced he had signed Cummings and Donlevy. Filming began December 2.[3] Helen Walker was originally to have starred; because of her devastating December 1946 auto accident, she was replaced by Marjorie Reynolds.[4]
The New York Times critic wrote that "On the whole 'Heaven Only Knows' comes through as a tolerable entertainment, with such good moral intentions that one may overlook its self-conscious awkwardness in this regard."[5] However, "Mr. Cummings, it seemed to us, never did quite make up his mind whether to be serious or plain supercilious as the detached Archangel Michael. Brian Donlevy as the Duke also never gets any conviction into his role."[5]
Recently I purchased a Canon EOS 630 film camera, and it is smart enough to read DX coding. However I noticed there is only one row of 6 electrical contact inside the film compartment, but DX coding on the film cartridge has two rows. I do know that some cameras only read one row to determine the speed of the film, but I do not think the 630 is one of them, as it not only knows the speed of the film, but also rewinds automatically after 24 exposures with a 24 exposure roll. I wonder how it knows the film has 24 exposures if it only reads the first row? Is there any way that allows it to read both rows with only one row of contacts?
I can only speak about later Canon models, these don't use the number of pictures info from the DX code, they will (sometimes? my memory is a bit rusty) let you take 24 or 37 pictures on a standard film. When cameras feel to much tension while winding the film they will wind back. Or in the case of the Canon Rebels: these start by winding the entire film into the camera and then wind it back into the cartridge with each picture taken.
I've used an EOS 630 for years, sometimes with bulk loaded film. I regularly get 25 exposures from 24 exp rolls with careful loading. But you'll only ever get 36 exp from a longer one. I've bulk loaded 38 or 39 exp and it always rewinds after 36, no matter what, this includes pre-loaded cans I can regularly get 37 or 38 exp with when loaded in other cameras. I can only assume Canon programmed it to do so, because nothing will make it shoot more than frame 36 with a standard back. With a Tech Back E it may well be able to do more, (I don't know, but others may be able to inform on that point).
You haven't mentioned why you have a pressing need to know this information. In the case of the 630/600 (and many other EOS 35mm models) it is possible to manually over ride the canisters DX film speed coding and set any ASA the camera can meter (6 to 6400, off the top of my head). Does it really matter how it picks up the film speed? It does, reliably and accurately, and, if you should ever need to, you can change it--so what's the problem?
Screenwriting is a craft that occasionally rises to the level of an art. An art because there are times when it taps directly into the human heart, transcending time, place, language and culture. A craft because it depends upon form, concept, character and structure. 'Magnolia' pushes the form of the screenplay to another level.
Why and how were the questions I wanted to ask. How did the writer structure the film, and what were the elements that made it work? I hadn't seen 'Magnolia' when it was first released, and I hadn't seen 'Boogie Nights' or 'Hard Eight' either, so I literally knew nothing about the work of Paul Thomas Anderson other than what I had heard or read about him. When I did finally get to see 'Magnolia,' it was late in the afternoon and a light drizzle was falling. I jumped into my car, drove to the theater, walked inside, got my popcorn, found a seat and waited for the film to begin.
As the movie unfolded, I saw there were ideas here, ideas of death, of reconciliation and forgiveness, relationships between fathers and sons and fathers and daughters, relationships between chance, destiny and fate and the interconnectedness of all things. Anderson's style of filmmaking seemed more like poetry than a series of staged dramatic actions. As 'unconventional' as it may seem, 'Magnolia' has its own unique style and works incredibly well.
When I talk about 'Magnolia' in my seminars and workshops, some people object and tell me it's too long. They say it's too melodramatic. They tell me it pushes the boundaries of reality. Yes, thank God. It's the brilliance of Anderson's vision, the intelligence of the emotional tapestry he weaves into his fluid style of filmmaking that makes it so powerful.
Many people insist that 'Magnolia' is an excellent example of an 'unconventional' film because it doesn't follow the 'conventional' guidelines of structure, whatever that means. I confess that after all these years of studying and thinking and teaching thousands and thousands of people about the movies, I still don't know what the phrase 'conventional structure' really means. When people insist on telling me how unconventional it is and ask if I think it still follows structure, I reply definitely, pointing out that 'form follows structure;' structure is only the start point, not the end point.
It may seem that 'Magnolia' is a fragmented, non-linear story experience, but that's not the case at all. The nine stories told in 'Magnolia' are all connected and related to each other. The actions of each character are superimposed, one on the other, and the film's structure begins at the beginning of the day and ends with Earl's death, at the end of the day.
The more I studied the film, the more I saw that it revolves around the dying Earl Partridge. On this, the very last day of his life, Earl wants Phil, his nurse, to find his son, Frank T. J. Mackey. Earl, as seen on the background credits on the always playing TV set, is the owner/producer of the 'What Do Kid's Know' show, where Stanley is a key contestant. Linda is Earl's wife. Jimmy Gator works for Earl, and, as we'll learn later, Jimmy molested his daughter, Claudia. As I began to see the connections of the individual stories, I had the image of an old wagon wheel, where the hub at the center connects all nine spokes to the outer rim.
That image stayed with me as I began analyzing the film; Earl is the hub of the story, and his past actions are the glue that holds the story together in terms of the present. Earl's guilt at leaving his wife so many years before, letting his 14-year-old son Frank take care of his dying mother, has paid a heavy price on Earl's conscience. The dying man has hidden that fact, and only now, as the cancer eats away at him, riddled with pain and memory, does he seek forgiveness.
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