Chicken is a 2001 Irish short film directed by Barry Dignam about the way adolescent males sometimes redirect their feelings of affection for each other into often violent or competitive activities such as games of chicken.
Plot
Mick (Darren Healy) and Kev (Niall O'Shea) spend a late afternoon near railroad tracks by the seaside where Mick teaches Kev how to "shotgun" beer for reasons then unknown to the viewer. He observes that Kev is "a bit of a wuss" after he fails to replicate the proper shotgunning technique and calls for Kev to come sit close to him for a test of courage, the knife game, which involves stabbing a knife between outstretched fingers at an ever-faster rate. The game is usually played with one person's hand at a time and as a gesture of what may be seen as self-sacrifice, Mick puts his hand over Kev's in order to shield Kev's hand from the brunt of an injury should it occur.
When a train speeds by them, Mick accidentally cuts Kev and himself very slightly with the knife. They clasp each other's hands tightly and Mick, who suddenly seems very insecure and in need of affection is lovingly embraced by Kev, who perhaps has known all along why Mick brought him here.
Chicken is L.A. rock band Ednaswap's first and only EP. It was recorded after the band left Eastwest Records and was signed to Island Records, and came out a year before their full-length Island debut, Wacko Magneto.
Track listing
"Glow" (Anderson, Carla Azar, Paul Bushnell, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven) – 4:02
"Nothing is Broken" (Anderson, Azar, Bushnell, Cutler, Preven) – 3:02
"Torn" (Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, Phil Thornalley) – 4:01
Chicken can be used, usually by gay men referring to other gay men, to mean a young gay man or young-appearing gay man—stereotypically describing an adolescent or pre-adolescent youth.
Author Bruce Rodgers defines the term as "1.any boy under the age of consent, heterosexual, fair of face, and unfamiliar with homosexuality ("So many chickens were flapping around that I thought we were touring Colonel Sanders' plantation”) 2.juvenile, youthful, young-looking." Others have defined it as a young man who engages in sex for money or favors.
In the subculture of the gay community which uses handkerchiefs or bandannas as a code, people who identify as "Chicken" wear a Kewpie doll in their left back pocket. Those who are interested in young men - referred to as chickenhawks—are denoted in the hanky code as wearing one on the right.
The term has existed in the gay vernacular for many decades, and is still used today. David Henry Sterry, a former prostitute turned actor and director, titled his 2002 memoir, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent. Author Philip Herbst traces its origin to the 19th century, where it was used to describe the youngest sailors on a ship, who were often used for sexual purposes.
Film is a 1965 film written by Samuel Beckett, his only screenplay. It was commissioned by Barney Rosset of Grove Press. Writing began on 5 April 1963 with a first draft completed within four days. A second draft was produced by 22 May and a forty-leaf shooting script followed thereafter. It was filmed in New York in July 1964.
Beckett’s original choice for the lead – referred to only as “O” – was Charlie Chaplin, but his script never reached him. Both Beckett and the director Alan Schneider were interested in Zero Mostel and Jack MacGowran. However, the former was unavailable and the latter, who accepted at first, became unavailable due to his role in a "Hollywood epic." Beckett then suggested Buster Keaton. Schneider promptly flew to Los Angeles and persuaded Keaton to accept the role along with "a handsome fee for less than three weeks' work."James Karen, who was to have a small part in the film, also encouraged Schneider to contact Keaton.
The filmed version differs from Beckett's original script but with his approval since he was on set all the time, this being his only visit to the United States. The script printed in Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett (Faber and Faber, 1984) states:
In fluid dynamics, lubrication theory describes the flow of fluids (liquids or gases) in a geometry in which one dimension is significantly smaller than the others. An example is the flow above air hockey tables, where the thickness of the air layer beneath the puck is much smaller than the dimensions of the puck itself.
Internal flows are those where the fluid is fully bounded. Internal flow lubrication theory has many industrial applications because of its role in the design of fluid bearings. Here a key goal of lubrication theory is to determine the pressure distribution in the fluid volume, and hence the forces on the bearing components. The working fluid in this case is often termed a lubricant.
Free film lubrication theory is concerned with the case in which one of the surfaces containing the fluid is a free surface. In that case the position of the free surface is itself unknown, and one goal of lubrication theory is then to determine this. Surface tension may then be significant, or even dominant. Issues of wetting and dewetting then arise. For very thin films (thickness less than one micrometre), additional intermolecular forces, such as Van der Waals forces or disjoining forces, may become significant.
A television film (also known as a TV film; television movie; TV movie; telefilm; telemovie; made-for-television film; direct-to-TV film; movie of the week (MOTW or MOW); feature-length drama; single drama and original movie) is a feature-lengthmotion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.
Origins and history
Though not exactly labelled as such, there were early precedents for "television movies", such as Talk Faster, Mister, which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, or the 1957 The Pied Piper of Hamelin, based on the poem by Robert Browning, and starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. That film was made in Technicolor, a first for television, which ordinarily used color processes originated by specific networks (most "family musicals" of the time, such as Peter Pan, were not filmed but broadcast live and preserved on kinescope, a recording of a television program made by filming the picture from a video monitor – and the only method of recording a television program until the invention of videotape).
Varun Dhawan and Keerthy Suresh bonded on marriage while filming their first film together, Kalees' action thriller Baby John... Varun Dhawan's turn as action star makes this headless chicken of a film entertaining).
If you think about it, all action films pretty much follow the same template ... The art, then, lies in making your film stand out despite the predictability ... Varun Dhawan's turn as action star makes this headless chicken of a film entertaining.
American gothic horror film remake of the 1922 German film of the same name about an obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her ...Sequel to the stop-motion animated film, “Chicken Run” of 2000.
What starts out as an honest review of Dave’sHotChicken, turns out to have an unexpected ending that leaves viewers cracking up. Content creators love filming a food review ... How did she feel about Dave’s Hot Chicken?.
Beyond flagging the villainous return of Feathers McGraw (a silently intimidating penguin in a low-rent chicken disguise), the film largely plays as an upscaled remix of 1993 fan-favourite The Wrong Trousers.
Both before and after its feature-film debut, Chicken Run (2000), the studio’s stop-motion approach was refined across an extensive range of animated projects and commissions ... within the film industry.
At his Aardman Animations studio -- makers of other hits including "Chicken Run" and "Shaun the Sheep" -- films are shot frame-by-frame, with clay models slowly moved and altered in a technique known ...
They say Smith intended on filming pranks for social media, but instead picked up a can of bug spray from the shelf without paying for it, and then sprayed it on the produce and rotisserie chickens.
His enthusiasm for the film transcended the usual chicken-based YouTube promos, and his nationwide tour, alongside late-night appearances, went on to prove his commitment to the film and his work.
QuickSkilletChicken With Lemon, Tahini and Warm Spices ... A simple marinade of pantry staples -- lemon, tahini, olive oil and a little honey -- keeps the chicken moist and becomes the sauce for finishing the dish ... 5 to 6 cups chicken stock.
New Disney CGI-animated film in “The Lion King” franchise, “Mufasa-The Lion King” is told in flashbacks ... This is the first film of a two-part series ... Sequel to the stop-motion animated film, “Chicken Run” of 2000.
A brightly colorblocked children’s film that has more in common with the exhilarating action movie Athena than any of the other animated films from this year, Chicken For Linda! is a bittersweet French ode to the small details of family.
QuickSkilletChicken with Lemon, Tahini and Warm Spices will come together quickly and can be served on a bed of greens or pasta ... Quick Skillet Chicken with Lemon, Tahini and Warm Spices ... 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, about 6 oz ... chicken stock.
Tsuburaya had studied King Kong extensively; he even had his own 35mm print of the film ...Gojira’s budget, while high by Japanese standards — it was the third-most-expensive Japanese film of all time in 1954 — could not match up.
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