[Ohio-Talk] September events

[Steve Cook]

Hi All, 

If you are reading this, then you are invited to the below events! Feel free
to share with everyone! 

In October, I show spooky movies! If you have any suggestions for movies to
show in October, send them to movies at NFBofSC.org. 

Friday, September 6, 2024
Friday Night Lights Audio describe movie starting at 8:00 PM Eastern

Friday, September 13, 2024
The Road To El Dorado (2000)Audio describe movie starting at 8:00 PM Eastern

Friday, September 20, 2024
Amadeus - Director's cut Audio describe movie starting at 8:00 PM Eastern

Friday, September 27, 2024 
Trivia Night 8:00 PM Eastern

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM Eastern, join us for SC Tech Talk on the below
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Friday Night Lighst

Rating: PG 13
Run time: 1 hour and 50 minutes

Team, and a Dream (1990) by H. G. Bissinger. The movie stars Billy Bob
Thornton as Coach Gary Gaines.

The Road To El Dorado

Running Time: 1 hour & 29 minutes
Rating: PG

In 1519 Spain, con-artists Miguel and Tulio win a map to the legendary City
of Gold, El Dorado, in a rigged dice gamble (though they win the map fairly
after Tulio was given normal dice from one of the opponents). After their
con is exposed, the two evade the guards and accidentally stow away on one
of the ships to be led by conquistador Hernán Cortés for the New World. At
sea, they are caught and imprisoned and are condemned to slavery in Cuba,
but they break free and steal a rowboat with the help of Cortés' mistreated
horse, Altivo.

Their boat reaches land (somewhere in Central or South America), where
Miguel begins to recognize landmarks from the map, leading them to a totem
marker near a waterfall that Tulio believes is a dead end. As they prepare
to leave, they encounter a native woman, Chel, being chased by guards. When
the guards see Tulio and Miguel riding Altivo as depicted on the totem, they
escort them and Chel to a secret entrance behind the falls into El Dorado.
They are brought to the city's elders, kindhearted Chief Tannabok, and
wicked high priest Tzekel-Kan. The pair are mistaken for gods when a volcano
coincidentally erupts but simultaneously stops during an argument between
them and they are given luxurious quarters, along with the charge of Chel.
She discovers that the two are conning her people but promises to remain
quiet if they take her with them when they leave the city. The two are
showered with gifts of gold from Tannabok but disapprove of Tzekel-Kan
attempting to sacrifice a civilian at the gods' ritual. Meanwhile, Cortés
and his men reach land.

Tulio and Miguel instruct Tannabok to build them a boat so that they can
leave the city with all the gifts they have been given, under the ruse that
they are needed back in the 'other world.' Chel gets romantically close to
Tulio while Miguel explores the city, coming to appreciate the peaceful life
embraced by the citizens; when Tzekel-Kan sees Miguel playing a ball game
with children, he insists the "gods" demonstrate their powers against the
city's best players. Tulio and Miguel are outmatched, but Chel replaces the
ball with an armadillo, allowing them to win. Miguel spares the ritual of
sacrificing the losing team, berates Tzekel-Kan to the crowd's approval, and
earns Tannabok's respect. Tzekel-Kan notices Miguel received a cut during
the game and realizes the pair are not gods since gods do not bleed, hence
the reason for the sacrifices. Afterward, Miguel, who has reconsidered
leaving the city, overhears Tulio telling Chel that he would like her to
come with them to Spain before adding he would like her to come with
specifically him and to forget Miguel – straining the relationship between
the two. At a party being thrown for them, Miguel and Tulio begin to argue
about Tulio and Chel's conversation and Miguel's desire to stay when
Tzekel-Kan animates a giant stone jaguar to chase them throughout the city.
Tulio and Miguel manage to outwit the jaguar, causing it and Tzekel-Kan to
fall into a giant whirlpool, thought by the natives to be the entrance to
Xibalba, the spirit world. Tzekel-Kan then surfaces in the jungle, where he
encounters Cortés and his men. Believing Cortés to be the real god,
Tzekel-Kan offers to lead him to El Dorado.

Miguel decides to stay in the city while Tulio and Chel board the completed
boat, before they see smoke on the horizon and realize Cortés is
approaching. Suspecting the city will be destroyed if Cortés discovers it,
Tulio suggests using the boat to ram the rock pillars under the waterfall
and block the main entrance to the city, despite knowing they will lose the
gold in the process and the warriors will not last against them. The plan
succeeds with the citizens pulling over a statue in the boat's wake to give
it enough speed. As the statue starts to fall too quickly, Tulio has
difficulty preparing the boat's sail. Forfeiting his chance to stay in the
city, Miguel and Altivo jump onto the boat to unfurl the sails, assuring the
boat clears the statue in time. The group successfully crashes against the
pillars, causing a cave-in, while losing all their gifts in the process.
They hide near the totem just as Cortés' men and Tzekel-Kan arrive. When
they find the entrance blocked, Cortés brands Tzekel-Kan a liar and leaves,
taking him as a slave. Tulio and Miguel, though disappointed they lost the
gold (unaware that Altivo still wears the golden horseshoes with which he
was outfitted in El Dorado), know that El Dorado is forever safe. They
appreciate the thrill of their adventure and head in a different direction
for a new adventure with Chel.

Voice cast
Kevin Kline as Tulio, a con artist and Miguel's friend. He is the strategic
planner, often becoming anxious and overthinking things.
Kenneth Branagh as Miguel, a con artist and Tulio's friend. Miguel is more
relaxed and laid-back in contrast to Tulio's more frantic nature. Miguel
becomes accustomed to the peaceful life in El Dorado and values the city's
people as opposed to the gold.
Rosie Perez as Chel, a beautiful woman from El Dorado who discovers Tulio
and Miguel's con and decides to play along in hopes of escaping El Dorado
with them for a life of adventure.
Armand Assante as Tzekel-Kan, the fanatically vicious high priest who has a
religious fixation for human sacrifices. He initially believes Tulio and
Miguel are gods until he discovers the truth.
Edward James Olmos as Chief Tannabok, the chief of El Dorado who was very
skeptical of Tulio and Miguel being gods, but treats them with kindness and
hospitality because of the good they show to his people.
Jim Cummings as Hernán Cortés, the merciless and ambitious conquistador
leader of the expedition to find gold from the empires of the New World.
Cummings also voices the cook on Cortés's ship, a warrior who gets stepped
on by Tzekel-Kan's stone jaguar, and the native who warns Chief Tannabok
about Cortés.
Frank Welker as Altivo, Cortés' horse who befriends Tulio and Miguel.
Welker also voices the Bull that chases Miguel and Tulio at the beginning of
the movie.
Tobin Bell as Zaragoza, a sailor on the voyage to the New World of El Dorado
and the original owner of the map, which he loses to Tulio and Miguel after
a game of dice.
Elton John as The Singing Narrator
Anne Lockhart as Girl in Barcelona (uncredited)
Bob Bergen as Jaguar (uncredited)
Duncan Marjoribanks as Acolyte

Amadeus - Director's cut

Running Time: 2 hours and 40 minutes
Rating: R

In the winter of 1823, aged composer Antonio Salieri is committed to a
psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide, during which his servants
overhear him confess to murdering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A young priest,
Father Vogler, approaches Salieri and tells him to confess his sins and find
God's peace. Salieri plays two of his own melodies for Vogler, who is
unfamiliar with them, and then one of Mozart's, which the priest recognizes
at once. Salieri begins his confession by saying that he idolized Mozart
from childhood. Salieri recounts that he prayed to God that if He allowed
Salieri to become a famous composer, he would—in return—promise his
faithfulness, chastity and diligence. Soon after, his father, who had not
been supportive of his musical desires, chokes on his food and dies and
Salieri takes it as a sign that God has accepted his vow. By 1774, Salieri
had become court composer to Emperor Joseph II in Vienna.

Seven years later, at a reception in honor of Mozart's patron, the
Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Salieri anxiously awaits meeting his idol.
Guessing his identity, he is shocked to discover that the transcendentally
talented Mozart is obscene, silly, and immature. Salieri, a devout Catholic,
cannot fathom why God would endow such a great gift onto Mozart instead of
him and concludes that God is using Mozart's talent to make Salieri a
mediocrity. Salieri renounces God and vows to take revenge on Him by
destroying Mozart.

Meanwhile, Mozart's alcoholism ruins his health, marriage, finances, and
reputation at court, even as he continues to produce brilliant work. Salieri
hires a young girl to work as Mozart's maid and thereby discovers that
Mozart is working on an opera based on the play The Marriage of Figaro,
which the Emperor has forbidden, owing to its subversive theme. When Mozart
is summoned to court to explain, he manages to convince the Emperor to allow
his opera to premiere, despite Salieri's attempts at sabotage. When Mozart
is informed that his father has died, he writes Don Giovanni in his grief.

Salieri recognizes the dead commander in the opera as symbolic of Mozart's
father and concocts a scheme: he leads Mozart to believe that his father has
risen to commission a Requiem. He then plans to kill Mozart once the piece
is finished and premiere it at Mozart's funeral, claiming the work as his
own, forcing God to listen as Salieri is acclaimed. Meanwhile, Mozart's
friend Emanuel Schikaneder invites him to write an opera for his theatre.
Mozart obliges, despite his wife Constanze's insistence that he finish the
Requiem, as the opera is a riskier venture. After arguing with Mozart,
Constanze leaves with their young son, Karl.

The opera in question, The Magic Flute, is a great success, but the
overworked Mozart collapses during one performance. Salieri takes him home
and persuades him to continue writing the Requiem, offering to take the
bedridden Mozart's dictation; the two lay down the opening of the Confutatis
together. The next morning, Mozart thanks Salieri for his friendship and
Salieri admits that Mozart is the greatest composer he knows. Constanze
returns and, appalled at Mozart working with Salieri, demands that Salieri
leave immediately. After putting away the Requiem into a cabinet, she finds
that Mozart has passed away; he is unceremoniously buried in a mass grave.

Back in 1823, Vogler is too shaken to absolve Salieri; Salieri then surmises
that God preferred to destroy His beloved Mozart rather than allow Salieri
to share in the smallest part of his glory. He calls himself the "patron
saint" of mediocrities; he promises, with bitter irony, to speak for Vogler
and the other mediocrities of the world before God. As Salieri is wheeled
down a hallway, absolving the hospital's other patients of their
inadequacies, Mozart's laughter rings in the air.

Cast
F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri
Martin Cavani as young Salieri
Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Miroslav Sekera as young Mozart
Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze Mozart
Roy Dotrice as Leopold Mozart
Simon Callow as Emanuel Schikaneder
Christine Ebersole as Caterina Cavalieri
Jeffrey Jones as Emperor Joseph II
Charles Kay as Count Orsini-Rosenberg
Kenneth McMillan as Michael Schlumberger (Director's Cut)
Kenny Baker as Parody Commendatore
Lisabeth Bartlett as Papagena
Barbara Bryne as Frau Weber – Mozart's scandalous landlady and later
mother-in-law.
Roderick Cook as Count von Strack
Milan Demjanenko as Karl Mozart
Peter DiGesu as Francesco Salieri
Michele Esposito as Salieri's student (Director's Cut)
Richard Frank as Father Vogler
Patrick Hines as Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno
Nicholas Kepros as Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Prince-Archbishop of
Salzburg
Philip Lenkowsky as Salieri's Servant
Herman Meckler as Priest
Jonathan Moore as Baron van Swieten
Cynthia Nixon as Lorl, Mozart's maid
Brian Pettifer as Hospital Attendant
Vincent Schiavelli as Salieri's Valet
Douglas Seale as Count Arco – Joseph II's counselor
Cassie Stuart as Gertrude Schlumberger (Director's Cut)
John Strauss as Conductor
Karl-Heinz Teuber as Wig Salesman
Rita Zohar as Frau Schlumberger (Director's Cut)