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The Cullens and Martin Scorsese

Goncharov is one of the first films Scorsese made. It predated Goodfellas, his Cape Fear remake, Casino, Taxi Driver, The Color of Money, and most of his most influential and famous works.

It also comes only a year after Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather starring none other than Goncharov's lead Al Pacino in the role of Michael.

Why all of this is important is that the Cullens don't yet know that what Scorsese does best is make truly brutal films about the scum of the earth getting high on cocaine and murdering everybody.

So, while Casino, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and pretty much any Scorsese film would make them deeply uncomfortable if not irrationally upset (looking at you, Edward), they don't know that yet.

What they and the rest of the world expects is a second Godfather film.

They're not getting that film.

How Did the Cullens Walk Out of That Theater?

After having watched a disturbingly realistic scene in which a man's eye is gauged out, after the train scene, the bridge scene, and the ending in which there are no good people in Mother Russia or Naples and everyone dies except, of course, the most morally bankrupt character none of the Cullens say a word.

Edward is flashing back to his years on the road, murdering the guilty, and despises that this movie is GLORIFYING VIOLENCE (nevermind that wasn't the point).

An important figure in not only Namco history but also an innovator in the genre of electronic music is one Haruomi Hosono, formerly of Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Here on display is his 1984 album simply titled “Video Game Music”.  Made up of re-purposed Namco video game sound effects, it is a very early example of a successful chiptune album. He produced this shortly after YMO disbanded, and closely before he worked on music for Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Video Game Music was not Hosono’s first foray in to the chiptune genre, as years prior in 1978, YMO’s debut album featured sampling of sounds from games of the era.

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, an armistice was signed, ending World War I. New York put on a military parade to mark the event.