When released, it was criticised mainly for the quality of its animation and the similarity of its plotline to the original film's.

The film's controversial plotline was considered unsuitable for 1957 viewers.

Uncovering his enemy's identity forms much of the film's subsequent plotline.

Her charm was evident to Fox heads and she was promoted well before the film's release.

All of the film's sexual interplay is banal instead of erotic, and one client, an American wearing a shirt with his country's flag, demands the women he has hired wear airline shopping bags over their heads.

The film's postscript details that as a legacy almost a decade after the end of the Cold War, fifty one nuclear war heads and seven nuclear reactors from nuclear submarines litter the North Atlantic ocean floor.

" Her view of life is so joyful that, true to the film's motif, it crosses a blurred, shifting line into a carefree attitude toward death as well.

In his discussion of the film's relation to modernism, Thomas Schatz finds the film an unresolved " examination of the process of human interaction and interpersonal communication " and “ immediately establishes self-referential stance ” that invites the spectator “ to read the narrative as something other than a sequential development toward some transcendent truth ”.

The film's financial problems and United Artists ' subsequent demise led to a move away from director-driven film production in the American film industry and a shift toward greater studio control of films.

Paul Verhoeven himself and many other people have stated that the reason why the film failed at the box office was because audiences were alienated by the film's misanthropic attitude not only toward its characters and subject matter, but of the general human existence.

The film's lack of ' actors ' and ' sets ' makes for a unique view of the everyday world ; one " directed toward the creation of a genuine, international, purely cinematic language, entirely distinct from the language of theatre and literature.

There is even an element of Barry's jazz roots in the big-band track " Into Miami ", which follows the title credits and accompanies the film's iconic image of the camera lens zooming toward the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

* " The Fall " ( ELO ) on the film's music track, as Sonny rollerskates toward ( and through ) the Muse wall painting.

The Hong Kong cut of the film's theatrical release omits a " bone breaking " sequence toward the end, where George's arm is snapped and Ting in turn snaps the leg of a bad guy.

Peralta played commander of a fictional space vehicle delivering a deadly laser toward an unsuspecting criminal during the film's opening scene.

Cooling the film sets the film's characteristics until it is reheated: this causes it to shrink back toward its initial dimensions.

The film's amoral characters and cynical attitude toward violence ( including a scene where Lancaster's character threatens to murder child hostages ) were considered shocking at the time and influenced future Westerns such as The Magnificent Seven, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, and the films of Sergio Leone.

Though set during the American Civil War, the film's strong antiwar and humanitarian themes resonated with audiences in later years as attitudes began to change toward the Vietnam War.

The film's general drift is to start these people off at fever pitch and then let them gradually unveil life's inner meaning as the tale trudges toward resolution.

In the famous five-minute two-shot of Stewart and Widmark bantering on a river bank about money, women, and the Comanche problem, the film's downbeat comedy, misogyny, and careless attitude toward human life are summed up perfectly.

Stone, a longtime 49ers fan, based his film's finale on Super Bowl XIX.

He pointed out the film's train crash scene as a major influence, and this influence was later reflected in the 2011 science fiction film Super 8, which he produced.

Although Koopas didn't appear in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film, early artwork had the film's version of Goombas labelled as " Koopa's Troopas ".

In the Super Mario Bros. film, his character was split into 2, the main villain played by the late Dennis Hopper called " King Koopa " who usurped the throne of the parallel-universe city of Dinohattan ( the film's version of the Mushroom Kingdom ) from the rightful " King Bowser " ( played by Lance Henriksen ) who he devolved into fungus for most of the film.

The year after the film's release, ' life imitated art ' when the Rams made the Super Bowl and played the Pittsburgh Steelers, their fictional opponents in this film.

Hollywood studios were led to attempt to replicate the film's success by producing black-oriented films such as Shaft and Super Fly.

However, instead of the " classic " Lieutenant Marvels, the trio appear as criminal counterparts of Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., and Uncle Marvel ( listed in the film's credits as, respectively, " Captain Super ", " Captain Super Jr .", and " Uncle Super ").

A teacher's desire to have a talented student, the obligations between a student and a master, and tensions in these relationships are central to the characters ' motives, conflicts between the characters, and the unfolding of the film's plot.

Another example occurs in the 1998 film Waking Ned, when two of the film's characters, Jackie and Michael, are walking through a storm towards Ned's house.

" In addition to long and short stories, as well as poetry, many media fanzines included illustrated stories, as well as stand alone art, often featuring portraits of the show or film's principal characters.

After the film's success, a soundtrack album was produced which was supposed to be made up of music one of the characters had on her walkman when she " disappeared ", although the film itself has little music in it.

The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate " production numbers ".

Various members of the film's crew portrayed minor characters.

Most of the film's characters are either real or based on real characters to varying degrees.

A particularly telling fact of the film's inaccuracies is the reaction of those who knew Lawrence and the other characters.

Take an ounce of narcissism, a pound of exhibitionism, a pint of sadism, a gallon of blood-lust and a sprinkle of other aberrations and stir well .” Lowell Thomas was also critical of the portrayal of Lawrence and most of the film's characters, believing that the train attack scenes were the only reasonably accurate aspect of the film.

Moreover, unlike the Hawks film, The Thing was part of what Carpenter later called his " Apocalypse Trilogy ," a trio of films ( The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness ) with bleak endings for the film's characters, and being a graphic, sinister horror film, it did not appeal to audiences in the summer of 1982, especially when E. T.

Hidetora has a back-story: a violent and ruthless rise to power, and the film portrays contrasting victims: the virtuous characters Sue and Tsurumaru who are able to forgive, and the vengeful Kaede ( Mieko Harada ), Hidetora's daughter-in-law and the film's Lady Macbeth-like villain.

The film's German director Roland Emmerich said " these were characters I could relate to, and they were engaged in a conflict that had a significant outcome – the creation of the first modern democratic government.

The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".

One of the film's major characters, " C. W.

Additional actors included Seán G. Griffin as the Sultan ; Don Darryl Rivera as Iago ; and, playing Omar, Babkak, and Kassim – a trio of characters originally conceived by the film's creators but not used – Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Brian Gonzales, and Brandon O ' Neill.

The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua.

In the film's final half-hour, most of the characters come together at the outdoor concert at the Parthenon in Nashville.

D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) used whites in blackface to represent all of its major black characters, but reaction against the film's racism largely put an end to this practice in dramatic film roles.

Consistent with the book, the film's script also referred to poor whites as " white trash ," and it ascribed these words to black and white characters.

The Cinemascope format was highlighted in the film's final aerial shot when it pulls back to frame a sprawling horizon showing both a freight train and a Continental Trailways bus separately bearing the two leading characters.

* Lawrence of Arabia ( with Michael Wilson ) ( 1962 )-despite disputes between Wilson and Bolt over who contributed what to the script, Bolt provided most of the film's dialogue and the interpretation of the characters while Wilson provided the story and outline.