User:Robert Happelberg

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I am Jewish. My interests include poetry, music, literature, law and movies, and I'm participating in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Movies. I also run my own poetry magazine, Bob's Poetry Magazine.

[edit] RFNs

I mentioned applying the concept of Roman numerals that are Friedman numbers to Erich Friedman. He has discovered a few of them (noted by "EF" in square brackets in the list below). If you find one of them, please let me know in the Talk page. User:PrimeFan found one and let me know about it (noted by "PF" below).

VIII = (V - I) * II

XXVII = IX * ((X/V) + I) [EF]

XXXVI = VI^(XX/X) [EF] or IX * (XX/V)

XLIX = L - I^XX or L^I - (X/X)

LXXV = (L * XV)/X [EF] or XV * (L/X)

LXXVIII = ( XV - II ) * ( L / X + I ) [PF]

CXXXV = XV * (XC/X)

CLXXIX = X * (XX - (C / L)) - I [EF]

CCXLIII = III^(CC/XL)

CCLVI = IV^(CC/L)

CCLXXIV = ((CX / X) * (V^(C / L))) - I [EF]

CCCXLIII = ((CC/C) + (L/X))^III

DCCXXXV = (XX - V) * ((D/X) - (C/C))

MMCLXXXVII = ((CXX/LX) + (M/M))^VII

[edit] List of Movies about Music

I did a little search and it appears to me there isn't already an article listing movies about music. But I hesitate to create one outright, as I don't feel like arguing with a deletionist about it. So I'll just work on this list here in my user page until if I hear from someone else that it's worthwhile making into an article. For now I can write in a slightly POV manner. Thanks to User:JackofOz for many of these.

[edit] List of Movies about Real-Life Musicians

• Amadeus - Slanders Antonio Salieri, but isn't that much more flattering to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Beethoven Lives Upstairs - Young boy is at first put off by new tenant Ludwig van Beethoven but grows to like him
• Farinelli Il Castrato - Georg Frideric Handel tries to get Farinelli to sing his music.
• The Great Waltz (1938 and 1972 versions; Johann Strauss II)
• Hillary and Jackie - Jacqueline du Pré envies her sister Hillary's simpler life.
• Immortal Beloved - The executor of Ludwig van Beethoven's estate searches for a mystery woman.
• Impromptu (1991 movie) - Funny movie about Chopin and his relationship with Georges Sand.
• The Magic Bow (Paganini)
• The Magnificent Rebel (Beethoven)
• Mahler - Lame movie about Gustav Mahler.
• The Music Lovers (1971) (Tchaikovsky)
• None But the Lonely Heart (not the 1944 Cary Grant film, also about Tchaikovsky)
• Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
• Shine (David Helfgott) - Tries too hard to be uplifting.
• Song of Love (1947), about Brahms' infatuation with Clara Schumann while he was staying with Clara and Robert; Katharine Hepburn as Clara Schumann and Robert Walker as Brahms
• A Song to Remember (Chopin)
• Song Without End (Liszt)

[edit] List of Movies about Fictitious Musicians

• Bleu - Julie Vignon de Courcy survives an accident that kills her famous husband, the composer Olivier Benoit. But some believe she wrote the music and he took the credit.
• Mr. Holland's Opus - "Of all the lives he touched, the one that changed the most was his own"

[edit] Fictitious Composers Mentioned In Movies

• Van den Budenmayer, whose music in real life is written by Zbigniew Preisner for Bleu, Rouge, Dekalog, The Double Life of Véronique, etc.
• Delvok, a Vulcan composer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine whom Jadzia Dax considers too emotional to be Vulcan.

[edit] List of Movies About Religion

I did a little search and it appears to me there isn't already an article listing movies about religion. But I hesitate to create one outright, as I don't feel like arguing with a deletionist about it. So I'll just work on this list here in my user page until if I hear from someone else that it's worthwhile making into an article. For now I can write in a slightly POV manner.

• Bruce Almighty - Jim Carrey as a temporary god. Very hillarious, but also very thoughtful.
• Dogma - Funny movie about the Catholic religion.
• The Passion of the Christ - I have seen this movie and I did not find it anti-Semitic. From what I've read of the New Testament (I have not studied it as thoroughly as the Old Testament) this movie appears to me to be an accurate portrayal.

[edit] List of Movies About Teachers Turning Around Bad Students

I did a little search and it appears to me there isn't already an article listing movies about teachers turning around a class full of unruly or incompetent students. But I hesitate to create one outright, as I don't feel like arguing with a deletionist about it. So I'll just work on this list here in my user page until if I hear from someone else that it's worthwhile making into an article. For now I can write in a slightly POV manner.

• 187
• Dangerous Minds
• Stand and Deliver
• To Sir With Love

[edit] List of Movies in which one Actor has more than one Rôle as a plot device

• The Double Life of Véronique Irène Jacob as the French Véronique and the Polish Weronika.
• The Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin as a Jewish barber who looks a lot like the Tomainian dictator Adenoid Hynkel.
• Love Stories Jerzy Stuhr tries playing four different characters, but fails. If it weren't for the costuming, I wouldn't be able to tell the characters apart.
• The Parent Trap (1998) Lindsay Lohan as twin sisters separated at birth, one British, one American.

[edit] List of Foreign Movies with Original Title in English

• Joint Security Area, dir. Park Chan-wook. Well, technically the original title is 《공동경비구역 JSA》.
• Pickpocket, dir. Robert Bresson
• Shall We Dance? (1996), dir. Masayuki Suo, the original title technically being 『Shall we ダンス?』