FSU Student Life Cinema

Need cool facts to entertain your friends with when you go to the movies?  Well, look no further!  In order to celebrate almost a month into college here at Florida State University, I’m here to give you THOSE MOVIE FACTS YOU DIDN’T KNOW about some of the movies that have played at the Student Life Cinema!  Let’s start off with:

1) Citizen Kane

During the filming of “Citizen Kane”, make-up artist Maurice Seiderman had to make an already overweight Orson Welles look both handsome and dashing as a young man and then later on transform him into an wrinkled, old man.  In order to achieve this Seiderman applied so much makeup to Welles that as both a young and old man, Welles could barely move.  It actually took 6-7 hours to transform Welles into “Old Kane”, meaning that he had to get up at 2AM everyday to be prepared to shoot at 9AM.

Orson Welles taking off his makeup during the filming of “Citizen Kane”

2) Scream

During the filming of the movie that essentially revitalized the slasher genre, Wes Craven decided to add an element of fear to enhance the actor’s performance.  Roger L. Jackson, who was selected to provided the voice of the killer “Ghostface” was never allowed to meet with the actors.  This was done to “prevent the actors from associating a menacing voice with a face.  During filming, Jackson actually was talking over the phone to the actors in order to increase that anonymity.

Though Roger L. Jackson has voiced “Ghostface” throughout the series, he has actually never worn the costume.

3) Thor

Though numerous directors have taken up the mantle of directing a superhero movie, it came a surprise when Kenneth Branagh was announced to be the director by Marvel Studio.  This is due to the fact that Branagh, is critically acclaimed for acting and directing in film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s works.  This includes “Henry V”, “Much Ado About Nothing”, “Othello”, “Hamlet”, “Love Labors Lost” and “As You Like It”.  Though most of these movies came out in the 1990s, our generation will recognize Branagh in his role of Gilderoy Lockhart in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”.

This guy directed “Thor”?

Well, that’s all for this edition.  I hope to be doing these each month and recapping some of the movies that have played at the SLC and I might even start giving clues as to movies that might be brought to the theater.  Oh, what’s this?  Here’s one now:

“Rock him.”

“You’re trying to get me to be his mother.”

“Aren’t you his mother?”

That’s a direct quote from one of our incoming features.  I wonder what it’ll be…

Till the next time kids,

-Raymond Calderon