Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa examine one middle brow entertainment that earned an inflation-adjusted box office gross of over $1,000,000,000 in North America.
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Referenced media:
- “The Bridges of Madison County” (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
- “Indecent Proposal” (Adrian Lyne, 1995)
- “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
- “In the Heat of the Night” (Norman Jewison, 1967)
- “On the Waterfront” (Elia Kazan, 1954)
- “Fitzcarraldo” (Werner Herzog, 1982)
- “My Best Fiend” (Werner Herzog, 1999)
- “The Sound of Music” (Robert Wise, 1965)
- “How the West Was Won” (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall, 1962)
- “The Andy Griffith Show” (Sheldon Leonard, 1960-1968)
- “For a Few Dollars More” (Sergio Leone, 1965)
- “A Patch of Blue” (Guy Green, 1965)
- “The Flight of the Phoenix” (Robert Aldrich, 1965)
- “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold” (Martin Ritt, 1965)
- “Thunderball” (Terence Young, 1965)
- “Bad Girls Go to Hell” (Doris Wishman, 1965),
- “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” (Terence Fisher, 1966)
- “Horror of Dracula” “Terence Fisher, 1958)
- “The Chase” (Arthur Penn, 1966)
- “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
- “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)
- “War and Peace: Part I” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
- “War and Peace: Part II” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
- “War and Peace: Part III” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)
- “War and Peace: Part IV” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)
- “I Love Lucy” (Jess Oppenheimer, 1951-1957)
- “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (Carl Reiner, 1961-1966)
- “Lawrence of Arabia” (David Lean, 1962)
- “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957)
Audio quotation:
- “Main Title”, “Lara’s Theme”, “Lara Reads Her Poem”, “Intermission”, and Lara and Komarovsky Dancing Up a Storm” from “Doctor Zhivago” (David Lean, 1965), written by Maurice Jarre
- “Colonel Bogey March” from “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957), written by Kenneth J. Alford