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film's and characters
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.
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.
* 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.
As the film's plotline heads toward the Super Bowl, the characters all face a crisis.

film's and cynical
The movie greatly softens the cynical edge of the original book, and the story is once more given a happy ending — the woman's husband is talked out of shooting Miss Lonelyhearts, who finds happiness with his true love, and Shrike is considerably nicer at film's end.
" In 2005, J. Hoberman of the Village Voice stated that the film "... has long been a cult item -- in part because its talented 25-year-old director, Michael Reeves, died of a drug overdose before the film's release, but mainly because it is an extraordinarily bleak story of political evil ... Reeves shot on location and the movie has a robust autumnal quality perfectly matched by Price's overripe performance ... it remains contemporary, and even frightening, in its evocation of cynical Puritanism and mass deception.
More seriously, the Czechoslovakian Communist party and the censors took exception to the film's cynical tone, and may also have feared that it represented a political allegory attacking the Communist system.

film's and attitude
" 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.
Although these scenes are frequently proffered as classic examples of corpsing, it is worth noting that Schell has maintained in interviews that she considered it in character for Lady Lytton to be amused at Clouseau, whom she does not see as a serious threat ( an attitude made explicit during her banter with her husband at the film's climax in her hotel room ).
The film's postmodern elements include its parodic but affectionate attitude towards American pop culture, its deliberate mixing of high and low art, its frequent dissection of popular movie conventions, and its use of a decentered, collage-like ( or paratactic ) narrative structure.
He further stated that the plot of the film does not matter so much as " the gorgeous Pop Art sets, the bizarre musical sequences, the confusing but ballistic action scenes and the film's gunbutt attitude.
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.

film's and toward
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.
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.
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.

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