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.

Marvin, who had selected Boorman himself for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot line, and staging.

Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.

When posed the film's central question, can men and women just be friends, Ryan replied, " Yes, men and women can just be friends.

This is an apparent allusion to Janus, the god of beginnings, endings and transitions, keeping with the film's central themes of progress and change.

He was granted unprecedented permission to film in the Forbidden City of Beijing, and the film's central character Puyi undergoes a decade-long communist re-education under Mao which takes him from the peacock colors of the palace to the grey suit worn by his contemporaries to live out his life as a gardener.

The film's central characters are:

Rockingham Park Race Track, located in Salem, as mentioned in the film The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, was central to that film's plot.

" Allmusic noted, “ The film's central motif blends pulsing Moog and spectral voices conjured from Florian Fricke's Mellotron-related " choir organ " to achieve something sublime, in the truest sense of the word: it's hard not to find the music's awe-inspiring, overwhelming beauty simultaneously unsettling.

He requested a warning to be printed in Soviet central Communist newspaper, Pravda, which spoke directly of the film's experimental, controversial nature.

* Despite the film's central DIY theme, the original calendar enjoyed sponsorship from British Parliamentarian Glenda Jackson.

The film's final scene, set many years before the others, shows that the death of Francis ' daughter and the discovery of her body is central to the lives of the main characters.

The film's central scene concerning this theme is when, after being accosted by Yano for getting involved in a streetfight, Sugata leaps into the cold waters near Yano's temple and stays there in order to show his master his dedication, and the fact that he is neither afraid to live nor to die.

According to the film's co-producer Richard Lederer, Exorcist II was conceived as a relatively low-budget affair: " What we essentially wanted to do with the sequel was to redo the first movie ... Have the central figure, an investigative priest, interview everyone involved with the exorcism, then fade out to unused footage, unused angles from the first movie.

" Nessun dorma " has been used in many films, often appearing at a central moment in the film — sometimes with the aria's moment of musical resolution aligned with the film's narrative climax, giving symbolic meaning to the aria's rich emotional impact.

In the film's initial draft, she was intended to have a more central role in the then-short film, which only featured herself, Cloud, and several children, with the story revolving around a note being delivered to him.

Instead, Viktor experiments with a new computer program he inherits from late acquaintance Hank Aleno ( Elias Koteas ) which allows creation of a computer-generated woman which he can easily animate to play the film's central character.

The film's central story concerns a father, Lalit Verma ( Naseeruddin Shah ), who is trying to organize an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding for his daughter, for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man she has known for only a few weeks ( Parvin Dabas as Hemant Rai ).

In Carry On At Your Convenience ( 1971 ) he played Vic Spanner, the obnoxious shop steward central to the film's trade union and industrial problems storyline and rival in the film's romantic sub-plot.

The film's central character, Eddie Ginley, has a flat there, and several scenes take place in what purports to be the interior.

Along with the film's title and its central characters, there are other characters seen briefly who are parodies of real-life prominent figures in hip-hop:

Writing about the metaphorical aspects of the film's setting — somewhere in the Mediterranean — film critic Elena Past says that the underwater scenes, because they are central to the storyline, make The Life Aquatic similar in some ways to Respiro.

The central event in the film's narrative is a three-week period of preparation by a theater group for a production of Racine's version of Andromaque.

Most releases that contain the label " director's cut " or " extended edition " include minor changes and / or scene additions not seen in a film's theatrical release, but that do not tend to greatly affect or change the plot, story or overall product.

: The Director is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film, including controlling the content and flow of the film's plot, directing the performances of Actors, organizing and selecting the locations in which the film will be shot, and managing technical details such as the positioning of cameras, the use of lighting, and the timing and content of the film's soundtrack.

8, which states in the film's plot synopsis, A spectacular duel is arranged on the summit of Mt.

The film's plot, involving Western villains from the future attempting to subjugate Japan, was also debated.

He acts as a sort of narrator but gives no narration relevant to the plot ; that job is reserved for the film's primary narrator, Timothy Farrell.

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 ".

The film's plot, setting, and style echoes that of the Hammer Horror films, which had their own instantly recognizable style ( just as Universal Studios ' horror films did ), and is reminiscent of the Hammer production of The Revenge of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing.

In the film's plot, the crew of the USS Enterprise-E travel from the 24th to 21st century to save their future after the cybernetic Borg conquered Earth by changing the timeline.

In response to a letter from Paul Truswell, MP for the Pudsey constituency ( which includes Horsforth, a town proud of its connection with HMS Aubretia ), U. S. president Bill Clinton wrote assuring that the film's plot was only a work of fiction.

Eastwood has indicated that he lays out a film's plot to provide the audience with necessary details, but not " so much that it insults their intelligence.

The film's plot structure also bears similarity to Orson Welles's Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), particularly the opening scenes with Lawrence's death and the reporter inquiring notables at Lawrence's funeral.

The film's plot also resembles that of " The Man Who Sold the Moon ", which Heinlein wrote in 1949 but did not publish until 1951.

The film's plot originated from a novel written by Harbou for the sole purpose of being made into a film.

He was dismissive of the popular 1988 Bruce Willis action film Die Hard (" inappropriate and wrongheaded interruptions reveal the fragile nature of the plot "), while his positive review of 1997's Speed 2: Cruise Control (" Movies like this embrace goofiness with an almost sensual pleasure ") is the only one accounting for that film's 2 % approval rating on the Rotten Tomatoes critical website.

Eight songs from the original score were discarded as they were not considered to advance the film's plot.

The film's plot device of a stealth fighter linking to a civilian airliner had its roots in a F-117 field test, conducted by the famous Skunk Works.

This sentiment has been echoed by writer Todd McEwen, who called it " gorgeous ," and wrote a short story " Cary Grant's Suit " which recounts the film's plot from the viewpoint of the suit.

The film's plot involves a " MacGuffin ", a term popularized by Hitchcock: a physical object that everyone in the film is chasing but which has no deep relationship to the plot.

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

After filming the film's opening sequences of the arrival in America, he reshot parts of the restaurant scene to be consistent with the new plot ( bringing Bergman back in a new role as an artist who resolves the subplot of Charlie being unable to pay for dinner ), and added the epilogue in which the Tramp and Purviance are married.