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Master Classes

Tilda Swinton

Few actors have as varied a body of work as Tilda Swinton. She&#39;s as comfortable (and believable) as a crass, off-brand Anna Wintour in her handful of scenes in Trainwreck as she is as the regret-filled and haunted mother at the center of We Need to Talk About Kevin&nbsp;- and those are just two of her more than 80 credited <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842770/?ref_=tt_cl_t2" target="_blank">roles</a>.&nbsp;

That amount of range and that steady of a career for any actor is, of course, rare, and it&#39;s frankly rarer still for a woman in her 50s, given the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/19/these-charts-reveal-how-bad-the-film-industrys-sexism-is/" target="_blank">more common</a> steady drop-off in Hollywood offers for many women at a certain point in their career. However, Swinton belongs to that rare class who not only books, but books often, and her <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/costars-describe-tilda-swinton/anncasano" target="_blank">sheer gameness</a> surely helps explain&nbsp;why. There&#39;s no one quite like her, and filmmakers as disparate as Judd Apatow and Joanna Hogg obviously see the appeal. Here&#39;s a brief rundown of 16 of her roles - all of which, it&#39;s worth noting, could easily be substituted for a different 16 to make an equally strong&nbsp;case for her being one of the most versatile actors working. She&#39;s even made a habit of playing <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-double-role-movies/mike-mcgranaghan" target="_blank">dual roles</a> in the same movie.

Vote up your favorite roles from Tilda Swinton&#39;s&nbsp;strange and incredible career.

16 Movies That Prove Tilda Swinton Never Does The Same Thing Twice

Film

Skyler Hanrath

Daniel Day-Lewis

Today, the <a href="https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-method-acting/" target="_blank">Stanislavski Method</a> is probably best known as the thin basis a certain type of actor uses to justify extreme behavior in service of a role. Whether it yields <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/suicide-squad-jared-leto-had-dead-pig-sent-cast-because-he-joker-a6887276.html" target="_blank">abusive mail</a> or just straight-up <a href="https://www.theringer.com/movies/2017/11/18/16671300/jim-carrey-documentary-man-on-the-moon" target="_blank">abuse</a>, the occasionally extreme, full-immersion, &quot;don&#39;t address me by anything other than my character&#39;s name&quot;&nbsp;approach to nurturing a performance has all but fallen out of favor with the public, but it still certainly has its adherents among performers. One of the most prominent is, of course, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/wild-daniel-day-lewis-stories/donn-saylor" target="_blank">Daniel Day-Lewis</a>.

Whether the man&#39;s spending pre-production learning Czech or forcibly pitching his voice a few octaves higher than normal to give a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ask-an-expert-what-did-abraham-lincolns-voice-sound-like-13446201/" target="_blank">historically accurate</a> version of the US&#39;s favorite president, his three <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-actors-to-win-best-actor-oscar/ranker-film" target="_blank">Best Actor Oscars</a> (not to mention his six total nominations) certainly suggest Stanislavski was onto something. Here&#39;s a brief rundown of how Day-Lewis devoted himself wholly and completely to a number of his roles.

Remember to vote up your favorite Daniel Day-Lewis performances.

13 Daniel Day-Lewis Performances That Prove The Mad Genius Of His Notorious Method

Daniel Day-Lewis Roles That Prove The Mad Genius Of His Method

Snowpiercer (2013)

While South Korean director Bong Joon-ho&#39;s biggest stateside breakout&nbsp;is certainly the 2019&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-academy-award-winners-for-best-picture" target="_blank">Best Picture-winner</a> Parasite, that wasn&#39;t the first time he memorably put capitalism under a microscope.&nbsp;In fact, if there&rsquo;s one thread that winds through his eclectic body of work, it&#39;s a fascination with the entanglements between the haves and the have-nots. Fortunately, the guy&#39;s a master at managing tone, and he never fails to balance what could easily be exhausting critique with great comedy, brilliantly realized characters, and a rarely paralleled visual maximalism.

While&nbsp;Parasite&nbsp;and 2017&#39;s Okja both served to expand his purchase stateside, it was his 2013 film,&nbsp;Snowpiercer,&nbsp;that first signaled Bong&#39;s crossover ambitions. It was his first film primarily in English, its cast was rounded out with an Avenger and a number of Oscar winners, and it was an easy-sell adaptation of a popular series of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/comic-book-movies-shows-not-dc-or-marvel/terrance-w-pryor" target="_blank">graphic novels</a>. However, it remains something of a curiosity, all things considered. It&#39;s few <a href="https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2490298/bong-joon-ho-movies-ranked-including-parasite" target="_blank">people&#39;s</a> <a href="https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/bong-joon-ho-movies-ranked" target="_blank">favorite</a> Bong film, and, while it performed fairly well, it wasn&#39;t the $200 million grosser a proper advertising campaign and release could&#39;ve made it. So what happened? And how did its reputation grow to the point that it spawned a big-budget TV adaptation in 2020?

Post-Apocalyptic Classic ‘Snowpiercer’ May Be The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Of The Century

General

Gattaca

Gattaca, director Andrew Niccol&#39;s 1997 debut feature, is a regrettably underseen gem. Not only is it a thoughtfully plotted and forward-looking examination of the dystopian horrors gene editing could very well usher in, it&#39;s also a taut, stylish genre hybrid that boasts a terrific ensemble, stunning use of locations, and just the right amount of character actors in gray fedora/trench coat combinations.

If that isn&#39;t enough to sell you on checking Gattaca out, maybe its status among the scientific community as one of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-accurate-sci-fi-movies/anncasano" target="_blank">most plausible works</a> of sci-fi out there will do the trick. Either way,&nbsp;if you&#39;re a long-time Gattaca fan or a total newcomer,&nbsp;here&#39;s an extensive look at what&rsquo;s so great about it.

'Gattaca' Is An Underrated '90s Classic That NASA Called The Most Plausible Sci-Fi Film Of All Time

NASA Called 'Gattaca' The Most Plausible Sci-Fi Of All Time

Entertainment

In film, locations rarely play themselves. Utah&rsquo;s Monument Valley has doubled for just about anywhere vaguely considered &quot;Western,&quot;&nbsp;including <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/monument-valley-in-the-movies/19/" target="_blank">at least one</a>&nbsp;location outside Earth&rsquo;s terrestrial bounds. Ditto the entire city of Atlanta for cityscapes of all kinds and California&rsquo;s Vasquez Rocks for a close-to-Hollywood Monument Valley alternative.&nbsp;

Where the rubber of screenwriting meets the actual road of production, with its filming tax incentives and location permits, you get geography picked over pretty fast. A stretch of Delaware woods plays as Connecticut in a pinch, due largely to the fact that nobody&rsquo;s been everywhere and most films can count on audiences to grant them some base level of suspension of disbelief. But it&#39;s not often that the actual spots in which a film was made get the credit they deserve for providing atmosphere and a tactile sense of place.

Here is the most famous movie filmed - if not entirely, at least to a significant degree - in <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-famous-movie-from-each-state/mason-weigel" target="_blank">most of the 50 states</a>.

What Is The Most Famous Movie Shot In Your State?

Total Nerd

What&nbsp;better way to&nbsp;use your spare time than with a movie? And what&#39;s better to kill a lot of spare time with than a very long movie you&#39;ve put off watching due to said length?

Of course, it&#39;s not just any director that can land a narrative that pushes past the 150-minute mark. Even the ones that do frequently have to shirk traditional three-act structures and tight pacing in favor of something that can end up being pretty messy. But those that can manage it often do so to exceptional effect.

Obviously, very long movies that are flat-out excellent <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/long-movies/anncasano" target="_blank">do exist</a>. And obviously, you&#39;ve been meaning to get to them. When you actually do, here are some of the titles you should keep in mind.

Those of you who&nbsp;have&nbsp;seen these movies, confirm for the uninitiated which of these are worth watching, and which ones can stay on the bottom of the pile for now.

Really Long (But Really Great!) Movies Worth Watching When You Have A Lot Of Time On Your Hands

Really Long (But Really Great) Movies You Now Have Time To Watch

Lists that rank the best and worst film series, sequels, prequels, threequels, and other ways movie studios chew up and regurgitate good ideas to squeeze out every last dignity-free penny.

Super-Franchise Me

Looking at standout roles, unforgettable performances, and behind-the-scenes drama of famous and forgotten actors.

Casting Calls

Entertainment Franchises

When a particular performance transcends the film it’s in and enters pop culture, even the whisper of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-about-actors-getting-recast-in-famous-roles/tracey-graham">reimagining it with a different actor</a> in a new iteration can be greeted as an affront. On occasion, productions opt to go semi-anonymous with their replacement - see the RoboCop reboot, which swapped the singular gawky vulnerability Peter Weller brought to the title character in Paul Verhoeven’s original with the at-the-time "that guy"&nbsp;Joel Kinnaman. Other&nbsp;times, filmmakers&nbsp;opt to fill the role with the star of the moment, trading on the likelihood that their committed fans will follow them wherever they go, sacred cow role or no - see the ultimately abandoned attempt to land Shia LaBeouf as the scrappy up-and-comer ready to replace Indiana Jones in the eponymous&nbsp;franchise’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.And yet, there are times when&nbsp;the reinvention just plain works. The original lives alongside the reboot, a&nbsp;mutually legitimate take on a particular property. From <a href="/list/mads-mikkelsen-best-hannibal-lecter/bailey-brown">Hannibal Lecter</a> to James Bond, here are a few examples.

Actors Who Proved Rebooting Iconic Roles Can Be A Good Thing

Person

Comedy

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/comedies-misfortunes-are-no-laughing-matter-for-hollywood-1529919001" target="_blank">By most measures</a>, the decade just past was not a great one for comedies. Due to the sorts of complex dynamics better cataloged by Deadline or&nbsp;Variety as well as major studios&#39;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/24/business/media/summer-sequels.html" target="_blank">shift</a> toward massive-return-oriented franchise filmmaking, the sting from <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90444013/the-7-most-consequential-movie-flops-of-the-2010s" target="_blank">risky gambles</a> that didn&#39;t quite pay off, and even once-sure-bet filmmakers either <a href="https://screenrant.com/comedy-movies-bombs-decade-box-office-mojo/" target="_blank">faltering</a> or <a href="https://www.the-numbers.com/person/96300401-Adam-McKay#tab=technical" target="_blank">moving</a> to new genres, the 2010s gave us considerably less big-screen comedy than even the 2000s, and a veritable trickle relative to the &#39;90s.

That said, it was far from a total loss. In fact, while the big-screen comedy lost its footing, its smaller, more offbeat counterpart <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/the-evolution-of-comedy-in-2010s" target="_blank">stepped up</a>. Sure, many of the best comedies of the decade only made their way into the culture via word-of-mouth, but&nbsp;in some ways, that helped secure them the sort of cachet that multi-million-dollar ad blitzes never could. The best comedy of the 2010s was the underrated one - the one pushed onto one friend by another,&nbsp;stumped for on a podcast,&nbsp;memed into minds online. These are some of the most underrated comedies of the decade.

The Most Underrated Comedies Of The 2010s

The Most Underrated Comedies Of The 2010s, Ranked By Fans

Lists that rank the best, most hilarious films that will make you laugh so hard, you'll wake up the whole neighborhood.

Very Funny Movies

On first glance, they&rsquo;re fully as dumb as movies get. If someone isn&rsquo;t stacking beds together to open up more room for activities, they&rsquo;re trying their damnedest to rip their underwear off intact. If they aren&rsquo;t knocking over their shelves of marbles, they&rsquo;re singing about dealing with a flesh-and-blood manifestation of their stress.

They are, by their nature, very stupid. It&#39;s in the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/top-stupid-action-movies/zach-seemayer" target="_blank">surprise routes</a> they take to their comedy, the suggestive flips they make to well-worn tropes, and&nbsp;the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-performances-in-stupid-comedy-movies/ashley-reign" target="_blank">level of craft</a> on display that these secretly clever movies punch above&nbsp;their peers. Occasionally, they even hint at something more subversive going on beneath the&nbsp;surface. These are <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/smart-movies-about-dumb-people/ranker-film" target="_blank">stupid comedies</a> with something smart to say.

Stupid Comedies That Are Secretly Brilliant

Top Stupid Comedy Movies That Are Secretly Brilliant

Lists about the people behind the cameras of your favorite (and least favorite) movies.

And... Action!

Ranking the best of everything of the last 10 years.

2010s: A Decade in Review

Lists that rank the best, worst, and most underrated movies, actors, and filmmakers of the 2010s. Get votin' to make your opinion heard.

2010s:  A Decade at the Movies

The 2010s have been nothing if not an interesting decade at the movies. From the dominance of franchise IP to the merging of major studios and the ascent of streaming services, the landscape has gone through a fitful evolution. And yet, it remains the case that filmmakers, through their successes and their failures, sit at privileged central positions amid all the industry machinations. It&rsquo;s their work that continues to drive conversation, permeate the culture, and shape what comes next.

Some work in comedy, others specialize in horror, while still others do what they can to pitch down the middle only to have their work touch off maelstroms both productive and not. Fortunately, driving us forward are filmmakers from ever-diversifying backgrounds, serving ever-diversifying films. These are some of the most influential filmmakers of the decade.

The Most Influential Filmmakers Of The 2010s

The Most Influential Filmmakers Of The 2010s, Ranked

Fun facts and wild true stories from behind the scenes of some of history's most beloved and infamous movies.

Movies in the Making

Taxi Driver

Among the&nbsp;1970s accounts of abrasive&nbsp;men eking out lives on the fringes of society, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader&#39;s Taxi Driver&nbsp;towers above the rest. Their vision of an alienated veteran wandering through the&nbsp;streets of a&nbsp;New York on the brink continues to stand today as an exacting - if disturbing -&nbsp;encapsulation of a social type. The fact this&nbsp;famously spoke to similarly disaffected&nbsp;men&nbsp;is almost no surprise. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/robert-de-niro-movies-and-films-and-filmography/reference" target="_blank">Robert De Niro</a>&#39;s Travis Bickle is a character who, distressingly, is all around us, even today.

But bringing this archetype to the screen was no easy feat. Behind the camera, the production dealt with everything from psych evaluations to warnings from wiseguys. Here are&nbsp;a few of the nightmares that went into pulling off <a href="http://target.georiot.com/Proxy.ashx?TSID=5036&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTaxi-Driver-Two-Disc-Collectors-Robert%2Fdp%2FB000R8YC18%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fkeywords%3Dtaxi%2Bdriver%2Bdvd%26qid%3D1553796138%26s%3Dgateway%26sr%3D8-1&amp;amazon-ids-by-cc=US%3Drankercom2773301-20" target="_blank">Taxi Driver</a>, now widely considered one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movies-of-all-time" target="_blank">best films ever made</a>.

12 Behind-The-Scenes Stories From 'Taxi Driver' That Are As Wild As The Film Itself

Taxi Driver Behind The Scenes Stories Are Crazier Than The Film Itself

The Deer Hunter

While&nbsp;Apocalypse Now&nbsp;is better known today for its&nbsp;agonizing production process, Michael Cimino&#39;s 1978 Vietnam War epic&nbsp;The Deer Hunter&nbsp;was no picnic either.&nbsp;What starts&nbsp;as a deliberately small <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-war-movies" target="_blank">film</a> focused on a group of working-class steel laborers expands into a sprawling,&nbsp;yet&nbsp;granular examination of the&nbsp;America-Vietnam conflict. Cimino&#39;s film is&nbsp;marked by a commitment to both <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/accurate-war-movies/justin-andress" target="_blank">realism</a> and character that some believe Francis Ford Coppola&#39;s&nbsp;Apocalypse Now&nbsp;- often considered The Deer Hunter&#39;s counterpart - shrugs&nbsp;off.

The fact The Deer Hunter&#39;s budget ballooned - or that Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and the rest of the cast and crew endured hellish conditions while filming - comes as no surprise. Those factors were part&nbsp;of the &quot;<a href="http://cinapse.co/two-cents-the-deer-hunter-and-the-enigma-of-michael-cimino-aee45f329fc1" target="_blank">New Hollywood</a>&quot;&nbsp;approach - a method of which the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/accurate-war-movies/justin-andress" target="_blank">film</a> was very much a product. By examining the details behind Cimino&#39;s vision, The Deer Hunter&#39;s audacity may finally be understood.

Unbelievable Stories From Behind The Scenes Of 'The Deer Hunter'

'The Deer Hunter' Behind The Scenes: The Most Unbelievable Stories

Lists for fans who can't get enough of that sweet, sweet T.C.

True Crime on Screen

Unspeakable Times

As anyone who&rsquo;s listened to&nbsp;Serial,&nbsp;watched OJ: Made in America, or encountered another long-form&nbsp;true crime story&nbsp;can tell you, there&rsquo;s nothing quite like a well-reported account of a heinous act. Even when they meander, the stakes are rarely less than life and death, and audiences flock to see the (hopefully cathartic)&nbsp;conclusion.

Since&nbsp;movies, TV shows, and podcasts are all the rage, one may forget about the woefully undervalued&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/true-crime-lover-holiday-gift-ideas/bailey-benningfield" target="_blank">true crime book</a>. From Janet Malcolm&rsquo;s foundational work exploring&nbsp;the inescapably voyeuristic nature of&nbsp;journalism&nbsp;to the case-breaking writing of&nbsp;Michelle McNamara, the medium is heavy with&nbsp;undeniable giants.

Every S Town lover and Making a Murderer fan should make sure to check out at least a few seminal true crime writings, as they set the standard for enthralling true crime reportage.&nbsp;

Books Every True Crime Fan Should Have On Their Shelf

Book

The Best Books For True Crime Fans

Guillermo del Toro

The winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best Director (The Shape of Water), Guillermo del Toro has made&nbsp;a habit of getting attached to high-profile projects. The Mexican director is best known for blending fantastical concepts, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-sketches-from-guillermo-del-toro/alex-welch" target="_blank">extravagant design</a>, and high genre with fable-like care, churning out singular works such as Pan&#39;s Labyrinth and Blade II. Naturally enough, his name seems to always be in the mix when&nbsp;news of an offbeat adaptation&nbsp;breaks.

Despite having written and directed numerous projects that made it to the screen, del Toro&#39;s also gone public with many original scripts that have yet to make their way into production. It&#39;s easy to get excited for a del Toro Pinocchio adaptation, or a Beauty and the Beast remake, but some of the lesser-known properties on his list are just as appealing.

All The Scripts Guillermo Del Toro Has Written, Ranked By How Much You Want To See Him Make Them

All The Unproduced Scripts Guillermo Del Toro Has Written

Lists about the auteur and animator and his many dark, gothic, fantastically eccentric black-and-white striped works.

The Twisted Mind of Tim Burton

Tim Burton

Best known for his instantly&nbsp;recognizable dark visuals and&nbsp;maudlin sense of humor, it&rsquo;s tempting to read Tim Burton&rsquo;s odd childhood&nbsp;as a sort of key to his particularly off-kilter work. Growing up in the shadows of film studios and cemeteries in Burbank, CA, could his mother&rsquo;s cat-themed gift shop have inspired his take on the Cheshire Cat? Or was it his earliest<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/stop-motion-movies-and-films/reference" target="_blank"> stop-motion animation</a> films that set him on his path to Frankenweenie?

While Burton&#39;s formative years surely played some role in the artist he became,&nbsp;it was probably his insatiable appetite to create that helped him make it big. With a deep-dive into his backstory,&nbsp;the&nbsp;brilliantly&nbsp;nuanced dimensions&nbsp;of&nbsp;his work become clear.

True Stories From Tim Burton's Childhood

Tim Burton's Childhood: Stories From When He Was A Kid

Shhh... The less you know, the safer you are.

Government Secrets

Weird History

Few things fuel conspiracy theories like learning that governments are actually hiding something. Though a tremendous amount of civic documentation in the United States&nbsp;is accessible to the public through various agencies&#39; websites or via the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-information-the-government-declassified-recently/chris-lindvall" target="_blank">Freedom Of Information Act</a> (FOIA), when materials get locked away with years-long temporary seals speculation about their nature runs wild. While there are often&nbsp;legitimate reasons for withholding information from the public for a period of time - not wanting to interrupt ongoing investigations, keeping operational practices quiet, concealing vulnerable identities, etc. - withholding information from the public for long periods of time creates conjecture.

The FBI has a &quot;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/fbi-vault-case-files/laura-allan" target="_blank">vault</a>&quot; of sealed files, as do governments&nbsp;across the world.&nbsp;While it&nbsp;likely contains information on major cases ranging from the mundane to the highly controversial, a good deal of it will simply remain unknown for decades.

Along With The Sealed JFK Files, Here Are 10 Historical Documents Being Held From The Public–For Now

Sealed Records And Classified Files That Will Be Released One Day

Lists for fans addicted to horror films (and shows) and all the jump-scarin', blood-splatterin', "b*tch, get out the house!" adrenaline that goes with them.

Do You Like Scary Movies?

Ranking the plot twists that got us good.

Didn't See That Coming

Plot Twists

Popular classic cheap tricks used in&nbsp;horror films include the <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatScare?from=Main.LewtonBus" target="_blank">Lewton&nbsp;Bus</a>, when tension builds just before a completely harmless noise occurs, the attack of the vengeful spirit, or&nbsp;the perspective switch. The best of&nbsp;classic horror can employ these tropes, twists, and tricks&nbsp;in unique or paradoxical ways. Some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-movies-with-twist-endings/anncasano?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best plot twists</a> in horror history occur in films like&nbsp;The Mist&nbsp;or&nbsp;April Fools Day,&nbsp;when the ending&nbsp;is so obvious that no one saw it coming.

If these &quot;cheap&quot; tricks and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/shocking-horror-movie-endings/lyra-radford" target="_blank">twists</a> are executed&nbsp;well enough, the reversal of expectations can turn a mediocre horror film into a classic horror must-watch.&nbsp;From Friday the 13th to Cabin in the Woods,&nbsp;these dramatic horror film twists might be the only reason some of these films have their own franchises.&nbsp;

'Cheap' Horror Movie Twists That Still Took You By Surprise

12 Cheap Horror Movie Twist Endings That Surprised You

Lists ranking the best songs and albums by the band known for operatic rock, stadium anthems, and Freddie Mercury.

Dynamite with a Laser Beam

Queen

Few people wear&nbsp;the &quot;Renaissance&quot;&nbsp;title as well as Queen guitarist Brian May. He may be best known for his decades-long role with the indelible British rock band, but he&rsquo;s also a bonafide astrophysicist, an accomplished photographer, and the craftsman behind a line of&nbsp;carefully constructed instruments. 
 
Now in his 70s, he&nbsp;shows&nbsp;no sign of slowing down. In 2018, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy and played a series of tour dates with American Idol breakout Adam Lambert. And while fans got the chance to catch up with&nbsp;Queen history in the Freddie Mercury biopic <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/everything-bohemian-rhapsody-gets-wrong-about-queen/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Bohemian Rhapsody</a> (<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/bohemian-rhapsody-actors-vs-real-life/samantha-dillinger" target="_blank">fellow Brit Gwilym Lee</a>&nbsp;played May), a deep dive into his&nbsp;background is always worthwhile.

Inside The Fascinating Life Of Queen Guitarist Brian May

Band/Musician

Fascinating Facts About Queens Brian May

Lists about some of the most shocking and upsetting documentary films & series that you should totally watch anyway. If you're looking for an extremely disturbing documentary film, you'll find it on these lists!

Disturbing Documentaries

Errol Morris

Of all the heavyweights of contemporary documentary film, few are as subversive or impactful as Errol Morris. His first major work was released in 1978, and he’s been churning out deadpan indictments of everything from the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Vietnam War</a> to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896866/?ref_=tt_rec_tti" target="_blank">Abu Ghraib</a> ever since.Famed for Morris's pioneering use of the&nbsp;“<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/1663105/errol-morriss-secret-weapon-for-unsettling-interviews-the-interrotron" target="_blank">Interrotron</a>” interview&nbsp;technique, in which he employs reflective lenses to allow&nbsp;subjects to address the audience directly, The Thin Blue Line&nbsp;continues to resonate in today’s true-crime obsessed moment.The Thin Blue Line has&nbsp;everything - unreliable narrators, questionable police work, and a wrongfully imprisoned man - and it had it all way back in 1988. The fact that The Thin Blue Line continues to hold up in 2018 is certainly due to just how heavily The Jinx, Making a Murderer, and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/true-crime-documentaries/lisa-waugh" target="_blank">innumerable others</a> plundered from the bag of tricks it pioneered. Of course, it must also be said that the film's success is in no small part due to Morris's talent.

Here's Why 'The Thin Blue Line' Is The Best True Crime Documentary You'll Ever See

Why 'The Thin Blue Line' Documentary Is The Greatest True Crime Film You'll Ever See

These are the most dramatic, petty, savage, and entertaining rivalries since Cain & Abel.

Where's the Beef?

Jack White

There are&nbsp;a lot of reverential descriptors that get tossed around when discussing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/review/jack-white/10165330?ref=tags" target="_blank">Jack White</a>: virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, critical darling, award-winning musician&nbsp;- we could go on. One phrase that’s rarely used, however, is “easy to get along with.”That’s largely due to the fact that the charismatic frontman&nbsp;has engaged in countless petty feuds and even physical fights with everyone from fellow musicians to cellphone-using fans. Given the sheer number and variety of Jack White's&nbsp;beefs, keeping track of them is something of a chore.Here’s a comprehensive list of all of Jack White’s many disagreements, from major beefs to minor squabbles. By no means do we begrudge the White Striper his beefs - but we do think it's fun to tally them.&nbsp;

A Timeline Of All Of Jack White's Fights And Feuds

Jack White's Feuds and Fights: A Complete Timeline

Graveyard Shift

While whipping around&nbsp;fiberglass slides in the heat of summer is the pinnacle&nbsp;of childhood fun,&nbsp;the&nbsp;water park&nbsp;loses its&nbsp;shine as&nbsp;you drift further away from the blissful&nbsp;ignorance that kept you afloat in your youth. These damp playgrounds all share the same&nbsp;inescapably disquieting qualities,&nbsp;including diseases you can get at a water park. Eventually, you&nbsp;start to see the bandages scattered about footpaths as real health risks. When you witness children devouring snow&nbsp;cones and rushing back into the water, you wonder what they might unintentionally bring&nbsp;with them.Unfortunately, there are more <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/ways-to-die-at-a-water-park/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">ways to die at a water park</a> than flying off a poorly designed slide. The most disturbing thing about dirty public pools and inner-tube-laden lazy rivers is their genuine&nbsp;threat&nbsp;to your health. From staph infections to E. Coli outbreaks, diseases contracted at water parks take the fun out of the sun - and may land you in&nbsp;the ER.&nbsp;

Here Are All The Infections You Could Get At A Water Park

13 Potential Infections You Could Get At A Water Park

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” - Andy Warhol 

The Art of Art

Pablo Picasso

Considered by many art historians to be the <a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/04/30/picassos-weapon-against-fascism-why-guernica-is-the-greatest-of-all-war-paintings/" target="_blank">single greatest work of protest art</a>, Pablo Picasso&rsquo;s Guernica is full of complex imagery and hidden symbols. From harlequins to Christian imagery to scenes of bullfighting, the massive canvas can be overwhelming to dissect. Here, you&#39;ll find a breakdown of Guernica symbolism to help you better understand the work.&nbsp;

What does Guernica mean? The truth is, there&#39;s no simple answer. The span of its references and symbols, many of which hail from completely different centuries of art history, served to place the work in dialogue with an entire tradition of Western art. Primarily, the painting seeks to depict the 1937&nbsp;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/nazi-war-crime-guernica-80-anniversary-bombing-spain-picasso-hitler-franco-a7704916.html" target="_blank">air raid on Guernica</a> during the Spanish Civil War. Spain&#39;s fascist general, Francisco Franco, worked with German troops to carry out a massive campaign which essentially wiped out the city and took the lives of hundreds of civilians. For Picasso, this was a tragedy that required his particular form of documentation. Symbols of loss and the afterlife dominate&nbsp;Guernica,&nbsp;and there are also&nbsp;nods to various myths and aspects of history.&nbsp;The meaning of Guernica is complex and difficult to pin down, but one clear theme it its strong anti-fascist tone.&nbsp;

It is only by examining each of his visual choices for their unique symbolic nature that one can begin to appreciate&nbsp;the work. Guernica is a macabre record from a master and a memorial to a tragic event in world history.&nbsp;

Every Hidden Symbol In Picasso's Guernica

Every Hidden Symbol In Picasso's Guernica (With Photos)

Lists that dissect and analyze (and possibly ruin) some of the movies and TV you watched over and over and over and over when you were a kid.

Revisiting Childhood Favorites

As a medium, film appeals to every generation, often allowing&nbsp;children and adults to engage&nbsp;on different levels. For instance, there are plenty of scary movies from your childhood you could revisit as an adult and wonder&nbsp;why your parents ever let you watch them in the first place. If you ever look back on <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/messed-up-90s-kids-movies/chase-mcneill" target="_blank">bizarre &#39;90s cartoons</a>&nbsp;or <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/is-coraline-too-scary-for-kids/eric-vega" target="_blank">frightening stop-motion flicks</a>, you&#39;ll see that the adult creators have exposed kids to years of nightmares.

Plenty of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/obscure-and-terrifying-kids-movies/suzanne-jennett" target="_blank">obscure kids&#39; movies scare </a><a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/obscure-and-terrifying-kids-movies/suzanne-jennett" target="_blank">adults</a>, but well-known films can do the same.&nbsp;Whether a character design proves unintentionally&nbsp;nightmarish or an inane romp masks an existentially distressing thrill ride, one thing is clear when&nbsp;revisiting certain beloved films&nbsp;from your childhood: horror is&nbsp;far from the only genre that can keep you up at night.

Scary Movies You Saw As A Kid That Still Terrify You As An Adult

From tales of masked, knife-wielding men to gory accounts of water-averse monsters with dietary restrictions, horror is one of film's&nbsp;most versatile genres. While scares come in all shapes and sizes, horror fans seem reluctant to engage with sequels that retread&nbsp;nightmares from years past.&nbsp;Die-hard fans will always show up for a new Michael Myers outing or the return of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/kevin-mccallister-is-jigsaw/mariel-loveland" target="_blank">Jigsaw</a>, but&nbsp;horror sequels rarely draw the same crowds enjoyed by never-before-seen monstrosities.&nbsp;Despite what you may have&nbsp;heard, not every horror followup misses the mark established by its predecessor. Many diverge from established narrative arcs to dig&nbsp;deeply into the grotesque possibilities of their universes. Some of the best horror movies are also sequels, and a few prove to be scarier&nbsp;than the originals.&nbsp;

Underrated Horror Sequels That Are Way Better Than You've Heard

13 Underrated Horror Sequels That Are Way Better Than You've Heard

Lists of toys, action figures, and stuffed animals that have entertained and enraged you since childhood.

Playing with Toys

Toys

Ah, childhood: those sweet early days where the only things on your to-do list were acquiring object permanence and putting it to use during playtime. A time when acquiring the sweetest toys on the market was your way of escaping the drudgery of elementary school. While each decade had its own best toys –&nbsp;toys from the '70s and '80s were different than '90s toys – the real cr&eacute;me de la cr&eacute;me&nbsp;toys had a little thing called staying power. After all, Crayola Crayons hit the market in 1903, and they still beat RoseArt every day of the week.Just which toy you best identify with,&nbsp;be it the hovering flight of a Frisbee, the Boardwalk frustrations of Monopoly, or the creaky electrified blinking of a Furby, says something about you. That’s because particular toys, much like particular fashion trends, had cultural moments that are inextricably bound up with the era in which they stormed childhood. And, sorry 1940s, but you really thought it was fun for kids to recreate WWII battlefields? Honestly, that's&nbsp;kind of a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-talking-toys/lyra-radford" target="_blank">creepy toy</a> idea.

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