Mendes said that Ricky's staring into Lester's dead eyes is " the culmination of the theme " of the film: that beauty is found where it is least expected.

" Mendes cut much of Barbara's dialogue, including conversations between her and Col. Fitts, as he felt that what needed to be said about the pair — their humanity and vulnerability — was conveyed successfully through their shared moments of silence.

Mendes said the camera provided the scene with a " kinetic ... off balance energy ".

Mendes said, " That happened three or four times, and they are all in the movie.

Jackson said Mendes ' theatrical roots rarely showed, and that the " most remarkable " aspect was that Spacey's performance did not overshadow the film.

He said that Mendes worked the script's intricacies smoothly, to the ensemble's strengths, and staged the tonal shifts skillfully.

He said Mendes ' " sure hand " was " as precise and controlled " as his theater work.

Mendes was born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, and was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale by her mother after her parents ' divorce ; Mendes has said that her mother ( who was a stay-at-home mom until she became an accountant when Eva went to school ) " suffered so much to make my life OK " during her early years.

But it goes beyond that: " The work of Drummond reaches – as Fernando Pessoa and Jorge de Lima and Murilo Mendes Herberto Helder – a coefficient of loneliness that detached from the soil of history, leading the reader to an attitude free of references, trademarks or ideological or prospective, " said Alfredo Bosi ( 1994 ).

This links to the anecdote written by Manetho, who said that under king Kêchoós ( the Greek version of the name Kakau ) the deities Apies, the goat of Mendes and Menevus were " introduced and worshipped as gods ".

" Aware that he was a novice, Mendes drew on the experience of Hall: " I made a very conscious decision early on, if I didn't understand something technically, to say, without embarrassment, ' I don't understand what you're talking about, please explain it.

In 2005, Premiere named American Beauty as one of 20 " most overrated movies of all time "; Mendes accepted the inevitability of the critical reappraisal, saying, " I thought some of it was entirely justified — it was a little overpraised at the time.

* King Amyrtaeus of Egypt is defeated in battle by his successor, Nepherites I of Mendes, and executed at Memphis.

One of the first examples, occurred when Count Gonçalo I Mendes of Portucale ( in northwest Portugal and considered as the country ’ s original nucleus ) took, in 987, the personal title of Magnus Dux Portucalensium ( Grand-Duke of Portucale ) and rebelled against King Bermudo II of León.

Though the kings of Bailundu and Wambu ( particularly Ekuikui II and Katiavala I ) opposed the penetration of the railway by ambushing workers and settlers, they were eventually subdued by the Portuguese Army and Huambo was officially founded on 8 August 1912 by Portuguese General José Mendes Norton de Matos.

* I Believe ( Sérgio Mendes album ), or the title cover version of a Stevie Wonder song ( see below )

Balbillus was the son of astrologer Tiberius Claudius Thrasyllus, also known as Thrasyllus of Mendes and Princess Aka II of Commagene, who was either a granddaughter or great granddaughter of King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene.

Don Joseph Nasi ( or Nassi ; also known as João Miques / Micas and Don João Migas Mendes in a Portuguese variant, Giuseppe Nasi in Italian, and as Yasef Nassi in Ottoman Turkish ; 1524, Portugal – 1579, Constantinople ) was a Jewish diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes / Benveniste, and a nephew of Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, and influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II.

# António ( I ) Mendes Belo ( 1907 – 1929 )

** Gonçalo I Mendes, son of Mumadona Dias and Mendo I Gonçalves, becomes Count of Portugal.

* 962-Count Gonçalo I Mendes of Portugal rebels against Sancho I of León.

** Count Gonçalo I Mendes takes the personal title Magnus Dux Portucalensium ( Grand-Duke of Portucale ) and rebels against King Bermudo II of León, being defeated.

) of Gonçalo I Mendes and Tuta, becomes Count of Portugal.

** Mendo III Nunes, son of Nuno I Alvites and Ilduara Mendes, becomes Count of Portugal.

* I ' talo Fioravanti Sabo Mendes, judge of the Regional Federal Court of the 1st Region,

* I ' talo Fioravanti Sabo Mendes, judge of the Regional Federal Court of the 1st Region, professor of Law.

Amyrtaeus was defeated in open battle by his successor, Nepherites I of Mendes, and executed at Memphis, an event which the Aramaic papyrus Brooklyn 13 implies occurred in October 399 BC.

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.

Before filming, Mendes and Spacey analyzed Jack Lemmon's performance in The Apartment ( 1960 ), because Mendes wanted Spacey to emulate " the way moved, the way he looked, the way he was in that office and the way he was an ordinary man and yet a special man ".

It took Mendes a long time to get the quality of Ricky's footage to the level he wanted.

Important Portuguese actors are Ruy de Carvalho, Eunice Muñoz, Rui Mendes, Irene Cruz, Luís Miguel Cintra, just to name a few.

They were able to escape because on June 20, 1940, they were issued visas by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, France.

Mendes ' background also reassured him, because of the prominent role the playwright usually has in a theater production.

During the film, Lester's physique improves from flabby to toned ; Spacey worked out during filming to improve his body, but because Mendes shot the scenes out of chronological order, Spacey varied postures to portray the stages.

For example, when Mendes used a slow push in to the Burnhams ' dinner table, he held the shot because his training as a theater director taught him the importance of putting distance between the characters.

He trialled several versions of the opening ; the first edit included bookend scenes in which Jane and Ricky are convicted of Lester's murder, but Mendes excised these in the last week of editing because he felt they made the film lose its mystery, and because they did not fit with the theme of redemption that had emerged during production.

Instead, Mendes asked Fred Elmes, who turned the job down because he did not like the script.

Hall was recommended to Mendes by Tom Cruise, because of Hall's work on Without Limits ( 1998 ), which Cruise had executive produced.

Smith alleged that actress Eva Mendes, a Latina, was offered the female lead because the producers were worried about the public's reaction if the part was played by a White actress ( creating a potential interracial taboo ) or a Black actress ( creating a studio fear that two black leads would alienate the white audiences ).

This act was in defiance of a prediction by Tiberius's soothsayer Thrasyllus of Mendes that Caligula had " no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae ".

Osiris ' soul, or rather his Ba, was occasionally worshipped in its own right, almost as if it were a distinct god, especially in the Delta city of Mendes.

A living, sacred ram, was kept at Mendes and worshipped as the incarnation of the god, and upon death, the rams were mummified and buried in a ram-specific necropolis.

At the temple of Mendes, figures of Osiris were made from wheat and paste placed in a trough on the day of the murder, then water was added for several days, until finally the mixture was kneaded into a mold of Osiris and taken to the temple to be buried ( the sacred grain for these cakes were grown only in the temple fields ).

The new cabinet appointed after the election was balanced ethnically between Temnes and Mendes.

Though a Broadway production starring Nathan Lane and Victor Garber and directed by Sam Mendes was announced for Spring 2000, the New York debut of the musical was delayed.

and Cabaret, Mendes was nevertheless only given the job after twenty others were considered and several " A-list " directors turned down the opportunity.

Spacey was Mendes ' first choice for the role of Lester, even though DreamWorks had urged the director to consider better-known actors ; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes offered the part to Bening without DreamWorks ' knowledge.

Mendes ' dominant style was deliberate and composed ; he made extensive use of static shots and slow pans and zooms to generate tension.

Mendes is indecisive, saying the script seemed to be about something different each time he read it: " a mystery story, a kaleidoscopic journey through American suburbia, a series of love stories ... it was about imprisonment ... loneliness beauty.

Mendes considers the voice to be Ball's, but even while the writer was " strongly influential " on set, he often had to accept deviations from his vision, particularly ones that transformed the cynical tone of his script into something more optimistic.

Beth Swofford of the Creative Artists Agency arranged meetings for Mendes with studio figures in Los Angeles to see if film direction was a possibility.

Ball was also keen ; having seen Cabaret, he was impressed with Mendes ' " keen visual sense " and thought he did not make obvious choices.

Ball and Mendes revised the script twice before it was sent to the actors, and twice more before the first read-through.

Mendes did not want a big star " weighing the film down "; he felt Spacey was the right choice based on his performances in the 1995 films The Usual Suspects and Seven, and 1992's Glengarry Glen Ross.