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I’ll say it upfront. I like to sit at home, in my shorts, a can of beer in hand and a bunch of friends hanging around, watching the latest free movie downloads online we can possibly watch.

Its great fun being able to invite your friends over and have this “movie download argument” – which free movie downloads do we download online today?!!?

…Now in a more serious note…it truly is a real treat to be able to sit at the comfort of my own home and watch the latest, most favorite movie downloads online I ever wish to watch – for free.

The internet allows us to do so many things today – make new friends, shop, visit far away places, listen to music, enjoy free movie downloads online and much more.

I am a movie freak and the fact that there are some wonderful free movie download websites – makes my life so much better, fun and comfortable.

Free movie downloads online make my life very convenient. Not needing to go to the movie rental store but just get online and download whatever I choose – is shear fun. A major benefit is that I don’t have to pay every time watch my favorite movies.

Free Movie Downloads Online – The Legal Movie Downloads way…

I must emphasize. The Free Online Movie Downloads that I enjoy and highly recommend are all legal movie download websites.

These movie sites I enjoy are all legitimate and legal. These sites are spyware and adware free and guarantee no pop-ups and advertisements. Downloading is secure and is protected against any viral attacks. This is very important and not to be taken lightly.

These sites have customer service and offer 24-hour customer support which is always very nice to have, especially when you encounter some unexpected problems…

Free Movie Downloads Online – The way it works….

Established legal free movie downloads online sites are very fast. All you need to do is plan which movies you want to watch that evening, click a couple of clicks and the free movie downloads are ready for your later viewing.

Free movie downloads online sites offer a lifetime membership. Once a member, you can gain access to virtually unlimited movie downloads. Pay a one time low payment for a lifetime access and from there on there are no extra costs. Download as many free full version, full length movies online whenever you want.

Learning more about free movie downloads online….

To learn more about free movie downloads online, and my top personal recommendation sites, visit the links below.

ree movies can be downloaded using free P2P software that many bodies in the music and movie industry are trying to be declared illegal, although in spite of Australia deeming Kazaa to be illegal software, Europe does not concur and neither does the Los Angeles federal judiciary.

A Los Angeles court and the Dutch Supreme Court have ruled that the software is not illegal: it is those that use it illegally that are fault. Nevertheless, the movie and music moguls are putting increasing pressure on people to clamp down on the use of P2P software to help download full free movies and other common downloads.

It has got so bitter that many advertising sites are refusing to publish adverts for P2P networking software, and Clickbank has thrown several products off its Marketplace, and out of its listings, that they believe are promoting illegal downloads. What nonsense! If the software is not illegal, how can those that use it be using it illegally unless that usage has been proved?

However, some websites are still offering P2P file sharing services. However, many have also gone to the wall, and Movie City, Game City, Lightspeed Movies, Moviedownloads and many other famous movie and music download sites have stopped trading and their domains are for sale. All because a bunch of brainless idiots cannot get their act together and compete against P2P file sharing sites by offering a viable alternative.

There is no point in complaining about it, but rather we should fight it. I have no problem in agreeing with artistes that their work should be protected, but they should not assume that all users of this software are equally at fault. Anybody that downloads copyrighted material is breaking the law – those that are not are not breaking the law. ‘Simples’ as the meercat says!

That’s my complaint finished for another week. Full free movies can be legally downloaded from many online sites, including free P2P download sites. They are also available on DVD download sites, where each title is licensed for downloading, and you can also hire them online from online video hire firms.

Note that I have not yet mentioned a legal downloading site run by a movie company. I know that there are some, but they are very inconspicuous. Nevertheless, it is not reason to break the law, although they make it very easy for us to do so by offering no alternative, and also appear to be completely bereft of 21st century technical knowhow!

Google has suddenly become bereft of P2P sites peddling their services, which is an indication of how successful the music and movie companies have been in conning people that file sharing networks are illegal. Well they haven’t conned me yet, although I was contacted by an American authority directing me to remove the software from my website. Needless to say I told them where to go with their directive! I have heard no more from them.

There has been one disturbing development: the Sony Bono Law has been interpreted so that practically no music is any more in the public domain, and no movies are liable to be for some years to come unless they were released before 1923. This appears to me to be a manipulation of copyright law that seems to have been carried out to suit the artistes and the complainers.

Full free movies are available using free P2P downloads as long as the downloads are not protected by copyright. That is the law – pure and simple, and no amount of bleating by others will change that.

 

Have you ever wondered why one movie musical receives critical acclaim and maybe even an Academy Award and another movie based on an equally good Broadway musical ends up on a studio shelf, rarely seen after its initial release? There are several key factors that lead to a quality movie musical. These factors include a strong story line and well-written screenplay, quality music, great casting, and effective direction. Great choreography is often a plus but a movie musical, unlike a Broadway musical, can be a quality movie without elaborate dances. In this article, I compare two movie musicals based on successful Lerner and Loewe Broadway musicals — “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot” — and I discuss why “My Fair Lady” was an acclaimed, award-winning movie that is still viewed and loved by millions of people and why “Camelot” has become a mostly forgotten film. 

Both plays were successes on Broadway, although “My Fair Lady” did receive more praises than “Camelot” and it ran for a significantly longer time. Nevertheless, “Camelot” had a healthy initial Broadway run and both plays have had three short-run revivals on Broadway. Also, both plays earned Tony awards for their male leads and Tony nominations for Julie Andrews, the leading female star in both plays. Yet, the movies based on the plays had vastly different outcomes, with “My Fair Lady” garnering eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and Camelot earning only three minor awards. So, where did “Camelot,” the movie, go wrong?

 

Plot and Screenplay

Both plays and movies were based on good works of literature — “My Fair Lady” on the play “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw, and “Camelot” on the book “The Once and Future King” by T. H. White. The screenplays were both authored by an experienced and award-winning author, Alan Jay Lerner, who also wrote the lyrics for the songs in both works. Therefore, the story lines and screenplays do not seem to be where the differences lie. In fact, the plot of “Camelot,” with its historic setting, romantic entanglements and scenes of chivalry and war, made it a better vehicle for film than “My Fair Lady” with its dialog-filled, actionless scenes. 

 

Quality Music

The scores from “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot,” both written by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, are wonderful, with a good blend of beautiful melodies and sometimes poignant and other times humorous lyrics. Both shows had one major hit romantic ballad — “On the Street Where You Live” for “My Fair Lady” and “If Ever I Would Leave You” for “Camelot” — and both songs were dubbed in the movies by professional singers. The songs for the male lead are more melodious in “Camelot” and, at least in the movie version, the male lead, Richard Harris, had a better singing voice than Rex Harrison had in “My Fair Lady.” With basically equivalent scores, it seems that it is not the music that distinguishes the two works. 

 

Casting

Although Richard Harris was the perfect King Arthur, casting is one major area where the movie version of “Camelot” fell short of its potential. Both plays starred Julie Andrews and her beautiful voice added much to the already great scores, but, unfortunately, she was not cast as the female lead in either film. However, the producers of the movie version of “My Fair Lady” had the good sense to hire Audrey Hepburn who was perfectly cast as Eliza Doolittle. She had the innocence and fragility needed for the role with just enough fire in her to finally rebel against Henry Higgins, while still leaving the audience sympathetic to her. On the other hand, the female lead in “Camelot,” Vanessa Redgrave, although an extremely gifted actress, was miscast as Guenevere. She presents the character as a cold, selfish woman who is indifferent to the tragedy she brings to her husband and his empire. Unfortunately, she was permitted to do her own singing with the result of a lessening of the impact of some of the songs in “Camelot.” On the other hand, Audrey Hepburn’s singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, a singer with a beautiful, trained voice. 

The casting of the third lead character in each film also differed in quality. In “My Fair Lady,” Colonel Pickering was played by a distinguished English actor, Wilfrid Hyde-White, whose acting was excellent. Unfortunately, the key role of Lancelot in “Camelot” was played by a novice Italian actor, Franco Nero, with limited command of English. Although he certainly fit the role physically, with his exceptional good looks, his acting was stiff and his delivery of lines was almost robotic. 

The male leads in both films were perfect. In fact, the casting of Richard Harris probably saved “Camelot” from being a disaster. He was so well-cast as King Arthur that after the film, he became associated with the role and played it in several major productions, including one on Broadway and one in London. 

 

Direction

Both movies had well-known and well-respected directors, but their approaches to directing the films were vastly different. George Cukor, the director of “My Fair Lady,” let the story and music give the movie its strength and character. There were no special effects used and no unique filming techniques, but, rather, just good direction of excellent actors and actresses performing on studio lots. Cukor used the strong screenplay and beautiful music of “My Fair Lady” to guide his direction. 

On the other hand, Joshua Logan, the director of “Camelot,” used far too many close-ups that had the audience focused on the leads’ make-up rather than on the strong plot and music. In some scenes, instead of presenting a natural context for appreciating the songs or dialog, Logan chose to fill the large screen with the actors’ faces, resulting in a distracting rather than enhancing effect. 

 

Conclusion

Although both “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot” had the potential to be great films, “Camelot” lacked two of the four factors necessary for a quality movie musical. These factors, strong story line and well-written screenplay, quality music, great casting, and effective direction, could be used to compare other movie musicals, for example, “Gigi” and “Brigadoon” or “Oklahoma” and “South Pacific,” and the results would be similar. A movie musical that is deficient in even one of the four factors could make the difference between a film that lives on for generations or one that gets lost on a shelf. 

 

Copyright 2008 Claire J Rottenberg, All rights reserved

 

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