Film theory is an academic discipline that aims to explore the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large.

Because large amounts of money are involved, and most of a film's budget is spent during production, the post-production period can often be difficult and challenging.

" A large group of artists, including Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin, and scholars signed a legal brief arguing the film's artistic merit ; the Court dismissed the case because the police violated the owners ' Fourth Amendment rights, without reaching the question of whether the film was obscene.

Only 53 % of the film's rentals were from large outlets in the first week, compared with the usual 65 %.

The blues played a large role in the film's music.

The film required large and ambitious sets to be constructed, from the Shaft of Hands to the rambling, distorted Goblin City where the film's climatic battle takes place.

An article that appeared in The New York Times shortly after filming wrapped in September 1985 focused heavily on the film's large scale, emphasizing the size of the production and selling Labyrinth as a more " accessible " film than The Dark Crystal due to the casting of live actors in its key roles.

The film's model photography was conducted with large mechanical rigs that enabled precise and repeatable camera and model motion.

This point was validated further after the film's release as the Netscape source code eventually became the Firefox web browser, reclaiming a large percentage of market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

When the film's budget was not large enough for the $ 1 million needed to complete the sequence, lead actor Sylvester Stallone agreed to cut his salary by the same amount.

" Some cultural and film historians have read significance into the film's plot, linking it to critiques of large corporations and American consumerism.

Frey played the frugal general manager of the Arizona Cardinals football team who, in the film's climax, finally agrees to pay Cuba Gooding, Jr .' s character, wide receiver Rod Tidwell, a large professional contract.

The film's large cast followed Leigh's lead and agreed to work for much lower than their usual salaries.

Grant at the film's beginning, a waitress tells Neal that she had never seen the man before but he had won a large amount of bets by consuming large quantities of alcohol in a brief time without throwing up or urinating.

There are currently no announced plans to release the film in other countries, despite the film's large success in Asia.

While some would see this as necessary, and good, others think the opposite, hence the film's opinions on large scale American marketing campaigns, such as Coca Cola's, are embodied in Joe's ambiguity as a character ... is he an all American hero, or just a shameless shill and coward?

The film's success saw Suriya emerge as the most profitable leading actor in Tamil films, following a hat trick of large commercial hits, with film journals suggesting that his success was due to " experiments within the commercial format " and he was successful in " avoiding being typecast ".

MGM had bolstered the film's success potential by giving a large role to Connie Francis, the top American female recording star and a member of the MGM Records roster.

Despite the film's lack of success, the film now has a large cult following as it is considered difficult to replicate realistic racing scenes with the use of CGI and without an over-dependency on stunt doubles.

Phillips took almost no up-front salary in exchange for a large share of the film's profits, and has said that the movie's enormous success, combined with his deal, makes it " my Star Wars ".

Along with his sinister qualities, Pretorius is responsible for a large share of the film's dark humor.

In audio commentary that accompanies the DVD, director John Waters states that the photo the film's titular character ( played by Edward Furlong ) takes of the monument is " the oldest dirty joke in Baltimore " due to the resemblance of Washington's extended arm to a large penis when viewed from the angle at which the photo is taken.

The film's title is derived from the large quantities of dust that are stirred up by the storms.

Bruce Campbell also joined the cast in Raimi's Darkman and The Quick and the Dead, though having no actual screen time in the latter film's theatrical cut.

Coppola cast Gary Oldman in the film's title role, with Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins in supporting roles.

The film's supporting cast features Robin Sachs as the warlord, Patrick Breen as a friendly alien, and Justin Long in his feature-film debut as a fan of the television show.

She eventually falls in love with Fred and joins him in the film's epilogue as a cast member on the revived television series.

Anne Brebner, the film's casting director, was almost cast as Harold's mother when Vivian Pickles was briefly unable to do the role.

In the film's trailer, Bogart is repeatedly mentioned first but Robinson's name is listed above Bogart's in a cast list at the trailer's very end.

Scott cast Tom Cruise as the film's hero, Jack, Mia Sara as Princess Lili, and Tim Curry as the Satan-horned Lord of Darkness.

Just as today, a film's success depended upon the setting, the mood, the script, the skills of the director, and the overall talent of the cast.

The primary cast for First Contact is from the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, to which the film's producers added Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard.

Filmed on location in the Mexican state of Durango, the film starred James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, with a huge supporting cast including Bob Dylan ( who composed the film's music ), Jason Robards, R. G. Armstrong, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, L. Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Harry Dean Stanton.

During a cast reunion in honor of the film's 25th anniversary, Ally Sheedy revealed that it was Hughes ' director's cut, but Hughes ' widow did not disclose any details concerning its whereabouts.

Star Heath Ledger's death in January 2008 cast doubt on the film's future, but the production was salvaged with the addition of new actors playing his character in scenes he did not complete.

Brooks, who is also executive producer of The Simpsons, had cast Smith in his 1994 film I'll Do Anything ( in one of the film's musical numbers ) but her part was cut.

Among the cooks serving the film's cast and crew between shots were some of the Chinese laborers who actually worked on the Central Pacific section of the railroad.

Żuławski went back to France to find that the reels of unfinished film were preserved, along with costumes and props, by the Polish film studio and archives and by members of the film's cast and crew.

The soundtrack album spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton-John: the platinum " You're The One That I Want " ( No. 1 Pop, No. 23 AC ) with John Travolta, the gold " Hopelessly Devoted to You " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 20 Country, No. 7 AC ) and the gold " Summer Nights " ( No. 5 Pop, No. 21 AC ) with John Travolta and the film's cast.

The film's directors, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, chose Nielsen for the role based on his ability to play " a fish in water ", stating that " You could have cast funny people and done it with everybody winking, goofing off, and silly ... we wanted people to be oblivious to the comedy.

The film's supporting cast includes ZaSu Pitts, Leila Hyams, and Roland Young, and the screenplay was written by Walter DeLeon, Humphrey Pearson and Harlan Thompson.

Joseph Pilato was cast as Rhodes, the film's antagonist.

The film's cast was made up of cameos and supporting roles by Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Peter Greene, Kurtwood Smith and Katherine Heigl.

The film's cast and crew resolved to make an uplifting, patriotic film.

A studio cast recording of the film's songs was released by Decca soon after the film, with Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman, and a backup chorus singing the songs from the film, also including two Sylvia Fine originals made specifically for the album, " Uncle Pockets " and " There's a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea ", and Danny Kaye's narration of two Tubby the Tuba stories by Paul Tripp.

Some of the film's cast and crew, including Spielberg, retrospectively view the film in an unfavorable light.

After directing The Search for Spock, cast member Leonard Nimoy was asked to direct the next feature, and given greater freedom regarding the film's content.