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In the opening crawl of the film, replicants are said to be the result of " advanced robot evolution.
The flowers are pollinated by very small wasps that crawl through the opening in search of a suitable place to lay eggs.
* Star Wars opening crawl, the scrolling text at the beginning of the Star Wars films
A very fast scrolling text at the beginning of the third series ( a parody of the Star Wars opening crawl ) explains that Kryten smashed the space-bike into an asteroid.
The Outrider can also be seen very very briefly in the GameCube and PS2 game Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, in the sequence after the opening crawl and after The Dooku / Palpatine conversation.
* Johnny Mnemonic, mentioned in the opening crawl.
The opening crawl of Revenge of the Sith explains that Grievous and Count Dooku have captured the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the galactic capital Coruscant and are holding him hostage aboard Grievous's flagship, the Invisible Hand.
" Meyer's intention was for the film to " simultaneously be a satire, a serious melodrama, a rock musical, a comedy, a violent exploitation picture, a skin flick and a moralistic expose ( so soon after the Sharon Tate murders ) of what the opening crawl called ' the oft-times nightmarish world of Show Business.
The team surveyed Sand, and discovered an opening in the tunnel collapses through which a small caver could crawl, showing that it would have been possible to feed and heat Collins after February 4, 1925.
The Star Wars DVDs with their opening crawl are a prime example.
* Franklin Gothic Condensed was the typeface used for subtitles in the Star Wars films, but contrary to some reports, News Gothic and Univers are used for the opening crawl.
The original 1979 The Art of Star Wars was also retitled to reflect the new opening crawl ( which would finally be shown in theaters in the 1981 re-release ).
The movie begins with a short opening crawl, detailing that droids belonging to the " evil Separatists " have amassed above the Wookiee planet of Kashyyyk, and that Jedi Knights have been sent to stop the invasion and restore peace.
It is as characteristic a mark of the franchise as the opening crawl is for Star Wars.

opening and film
Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).
This trade has become renowned as one of the most lopsided in baseball history, including a mention by Susan Sarandon in her opening soliloquy in the 1988 film Bull Durham: " Bad trades are a part of baseball.
When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.
One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".
In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.
The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.
Initially, the opening sequence included all five characters from the original film, but, in an effort to save time and money, all but Ash and Linda were cut from the final draft.
The US television version and early video versions have a different opening to the film.
Opening on August 23, 1985, in 235 North American theaters, the film grossed $ 509, 502 USD ($ 2, 168 per screen ) in its opening weekend, on its way to a lackluster $ 4, 116, 395 total gross.
Spacey appeared in the 1995 thriller film Seven, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, making a sudden entrance late in the film as the serial killer John Doe, after going unmentioned in the film's advertisements and opening credits.
The opening of the canal was filmed by British director Birt Acres and surviving footage of this early film is preserved in the Science Museum in London.
Initially, letterboxing was limited to several key sequences of a film ( e. g., opening and closing credits ), but later it was used for the entire film.
Occasionally, an image is deliberately windowboxed for stylistic effect ; for example, the documentary-style sequence of the film Rent suggest an older-format camera representing the 4: 3 aspect ratio, and the opening sequence of the Oliver Stone film JFK features pillar boxing to represent the 1960s era 4: 3 television footage.
Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.
He is regularly captured by Superman and sent to prison, only to escape — in a manner similar to the comics — at the opening of the next film.
The film opened fifth at the North American box office making $ 13, 853, 686 USD in its opening weekend, it had a 5 % increase in earnings the week after, enough to make the film soar to # 3.
Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
The first is the lushly orchestrated track featured during the opening and closing credits of the film.
The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.
In the film The Godfather ( Coppola 1972 ), POV is used extensively, especially during the opening scene when Don Corleone is listening to requests from wedding guests.

opening and they
The sharpest break with tradition, the past and present of `` White Ring Around a Black Core '', may come with the opening of nearby Montgomery County suburbs to Negro residents and, presumably, the consequent conclusion of some whites that they cannot escape the Negro by fleeing to the suburbs.
( 2 ) Realtors realize, of course, that they are involved in an increasingly complex legal and political system that is opening up opportunities for leverage on their relation to clients as well as opportunities for evasion of their responsibility for racial discrimination in housing.
In the case of the tapering worm tubes Selkirkia, trilobites are always found with their heads directed towards the opening of the tube, suggesting that they reversed in ; the absence of any moulted carapaces suggests that moulting was not their primary reason for seeking shelter.
Russell and Whitehead thought they could derive all mathematical truth using axioms and inference rules of formal logic, in principle opening up the process to automatisation.
By opening the stop wider, similar deviations arise for lateral points as have been already discussed for axial points ; but in this case they are much more complicated.
Ultimately, the Saville Inquiry was inconclusive on Martin McGuinness's role due to a lack of certainty over his movements, concluding that while he was " engaged in paramilitary activity " during Bloody Sunday, and had probably been armed with a Thompson submachine gun, there was insufficient evidence to make any finding other than they were " sure that he did not engage in any activity that provided any of the soldiers with any justification for opening fire ".
These doors have an operating range of slightly over 90 degrees, so their use is limited to where they come into contact with a side wall when fully open ( or where they can be prevented from opening too far by a doorstop ).
After a disastrous opening gig at the London Roundhouse, they reverted to a configuration presenting Bowie as a solo artist.
They hear the most simple of criminal cases ( or sit when the Senior Magistrate is not in the Islands ) and they also act as the Licensing Justices who deal with alcohol-related applications, such as extended opening hours, special occasion licences, etc.
The light points to a small opening in the cave, where they come upon the giant egg.
He scored the only goal of England's opening game against Romania as England progressed to the quarter finals, where once again they faced West Germany.
While rules are light to moderate, they allow depth of play, usually requiring thought, planning, and a shift of tactics through the game and often with a chess-or backgammon-like opening game, middle game, and end game.
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag ( they are also called opening tags and closing tags ).
The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
Since then, they have made slow but steady progress, notably the construction and opening of the Friendship Bridge between the two countries.
On the opening ceremony, in Taylor ’ s presence, the SCSL revealed their charge against Taylor which they had kept secret since March, and also issued an international arrest warrant for Taylor.
Although English bowlers did aim at the batsmen's body in the opening tour matches, they did not follow through by packing the leg-side field until Bill Woodfull led an Australian XI against the tourists in Melbourne on 18 – 22 November, in what was effectively a Test rehearsal.
Means of opening a lock may include a security token or two-factor authentication for greater security, such as requiring both something a person knows ( a combination ) and something they have ( a key or keycard ).
Unlike more traditional views of the Last Supper, he depicts Heaven opening up into the room, and the angels looking on in awe, per the old Catholic maxim that " If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy the Eucharist.
* The JM cloches are the same as the GFM cloches except that they have one opening equipped with a pair of machine-guns.
With the support of Prince Louis the French Heir and of King Alexander II of the Scots, they entered London in force on 10 June 1215, with the city showing its sympathy with their cause by opening its gates to them.
For example, if an opponent raises and a player suspects he is holding a weak, but playable hand, they may reraise to pressure other opponents to fold, with the aim of getting heads up with the opening raiser.

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