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Ted Post
Life of a legend
60 years in Film Industry
How does a guy from Brooklyn become honored by the Cowboy
Hall of Fame and receive the coveted Golden Boot Award?
Concentration and dedication to the courage and challenge to
celebrate the strength of the
American Spirit were always the tools that Ted Post realized that
he could pass on to his actors who portrayed characters of the
Old West. Feeling verbs would depict the characters that would
make the critics describe Post as a conscientious craftsman
producing quality films in brief periods of time.
Action films, episodic films, science fiction films, comedy
films, dramatic films and fantasy films which would always
make the viewer examine his self worth. Dialogue has always
been ever so important to Post in helping to establish valid
characterizations. Critics would compliment him constantly on
his efforts to elevate the human condition.
The New York Times’ toughest critic, Jack Gould claimed, “The
direction of Post’s production of the poem by Lawrence
Ferlinghetti’s
Coney Island of the Mind as a poetic happening”. His work
with college students from the University of Southern
California took the soul of the poem and blended the idea with
camera effects, sharp close-ups and color combinations in
which each shot popped out with dramatic excitement to
establish Ted Post as the best friend to avant-garde poets.
Gould realized that Post had made a cinematic difference.
Go Tell the Spartans, Hang ‘Em High, Magnum Force, Beneath the Planet
of The Apes, Good Guys Wear Black, The Harrad Experiment
are a few of his more popular full length features.
Besides his love for directing, Post loves to teach directing
and acting. His students and his actors have dubbed him a star
maker. Post respects creativity and he inspires the actor to
develop it.
Who knows if the Loew’s Pitkin in Brooklyn theatre is still
selling tickets. Post’s career started as an usher there and
he has never looked back. He was a teenager, who loved
watching the screen. He knew the screen was where “life” is;
and he made it happen
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Reviewed By David
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