MOVIES

The 90 featured films from the Mafia genre with: "Goodfellas " (1990), a realistic treatment of violence; " Casino " " The Godfather ";" Analyze This ".
Wild West movies were also once when director Clint Eastwood has proved that this genre still had much to give to the film "Unforgiven ".
More Wild West: " Dances with Wolves " (1990); " Quick and the Dead " (1995); " Young Guns " .

In the mid-called movies "woman" became a bestseller. Good examples are the films: " Four Weddings and a Funeral " (1994) the film's most successful British film and "Pretty Woman " (1990), one of highest-grossing of the decade.
More Movies little woman " Before Sunrise " (1995); " Thelma and Louise " (1991) ; " Notting Hill " (1999); "My Best Friend's Wedding  " (1997 ).

SPECIAL EFFECTS


The films of the era relied on rapid progress on the part of special effects. Who fell in love with the special effects in "Total Recall" 1990 could not imagine what would come next year with the continuation of the movie. The computer graphics took over. The great scenes is when a liquid metal takes the form of anything. A new leap forward came with more " Jurassic Park " (1993). This time the proposal dinosaurs were created entirely by computers with realism (breathing, walking, sounds .. everything!). i began the reign of computer graphics in film. Big hits came in the following years: "Casper" (1995)," Babe " (1995) and "Mask" (1994).
More great revolution happen next with "Toy Story " the first computer-generated animation. A marriage of Pixar Animation Studios to Disney. The film opened doors for several animations following: "continuing" "Toy Story 2 "and " A Bug's Life ".
In 1997 it was the turn of the incredible recreation of the tragic accident in 1912 with the ship "Titanic " fiction " Men in Black " and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park ".
The last years of the decade had over a revolution, " Matrix ". The film opened a sensational type of special effect: the camera that rotates around the actor while he moves in a very low speed or is frozen.

SEX
Sex was a marked presence in the films of the season. Plots with forbidden passions, fight for social classes and stunning peppered further.
One of the directors that stood out was Pedro Almodovar who created enrredos with family drama, humor, obsessions, romances, sex and taboos. After their directors Poles, Danes, Australians and so on also made films say "heavy".
Films with Strong Sex Scenes " Basic Instinct " (which launched the actress Sharon Stone); " Showgirl" (a real failure); " Ata-me" (Pedro Almodovar).

DRAMA, ROMANCE AND MANY TEARS


Sex, violence and special effects may have dominated the cinema of the decade, but the good old film that has shed rivers of tears and consumes many boxes of tissues was not left behind.

"TITANIC" (1997): Before anything pierced the millennium as the highest grossing film in history no less than 1835 million. Based on the history of the ocean liner which sank in northern waters in 1912 with a romantic story intertwining with the ship was not to anyone else. The chemistry of Kate Winslet with Leonardo DiCaprio living scenes of adventure and romance to the film won 11 Oscars.

"GHOST" (1990): The idea of Jerry Zucker to mix romance, action, comedy and spiritualism in a single movie it worked.
The "good guy" is dead at the behest of his co-worker, but is roaming the land. When he realizes that his beloved is in danger addresses to communicate with her through a psychic.

"Life Is Beautiful" (1997): The film depicts the horrors of Nazism with a touch of comedy that drops many tears at the end.
Guido (BEGn) is sent to a concentration camp with his family including his son. He tries to keep everyone alive and still hide the child what is really happening, saying that it is a game and a prize pool of real war.


Picardy Some Teens: " Clueless " (1995), the name says it all, right? A funny picture of bourgeois life of a teenager in Beverly Hills; " American Pie " (1999) four promising youngsters lose their virginity before college, which makes sense at the time is that the jokes were heavier and the scenes well and the girls lose the stereotype of poor things to show and to also lose their virginity. Remember that there is no explicit sex, only hints of it good; " Cruel Intentions " (1999): Sebastian (Ryan Philippe) and Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) become brother when their parents marry and start to confide amoral. Like to make bets with each other, sexual games.

The cinema of the 90s also saw gay films, films of psychopathic murders and gothic films.

Credits: Livro Almanque Anos 90, de Silvio Essinger, p. 122 até 167.