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.

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.

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

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.

The film's central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization.

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.

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.

The technique, originated by Needham, showed a smaller screen of outtakes from the film to one side while the film's credits scroll slowly up the other side.

In the retrospective interviews included on the 2007 DVD release of Coming to America, John Landis and screenwriters Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield make no mention of Art Buchwald's lawsuit, and maintain that the film's story originated with Eddie Murphy, with Blaustein and Sheffield writing the screenplay from Murphy's 25-page treatment.

The film's concept originated with Lester Cowan, an independent producer, in September 1943, when he approached the War Department for cooperation in making a movie about the infantry with the same high degree of prestige as Air Force.

Gibson toned down the film's battle scenes to avoid an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, with the final version being rated R for " brutal medieval warfare.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

The film's title refers to the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.

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.

In the years after World War II, the French film critic and theorist André Bazin reacted against this approach to the cinema, arguing that film's essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality, not in its difference from reality.

Crew are also separate from producers, those who own a portion of either the film company or the film's intellectual property rights.

As part of the film's promotional campaign, some ads were placed in music magazines from fake music collectors claiming to be looking for albums from the band.

They also obtained stock footage from the film The Mysterians from RKO ( the film's US copyright holder at the time ) which was used to not only represent the ICS, but which was also utilized during the film's climax.

Upon the film's completion, Lubitsch approached Paramount general manager B. P. Schulberg and threatened to leave the studio if Cukor's name wasn't removed from the credits.

The film's sequel, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties ( 2006 ), did not perform any better in terms of critical reception, gathering an 11 % rating from Rotten Tomatoes and a C-grade from Yahoo!

Studio interference, possibly spurred by political pressure from Nazi Germany, led to the film's being altered from Whale's vision and The Road Back was a critical and commercial failure.

The first half of the book, hyperlinked to the relevant portions of the film's audio, is available online from Z Magazine.

He adapted it from his manga series of the same title, which he began writing and illustrating two years earlier, but which remained incomplete until after the film's release.

The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.

Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the film from the film's financer The Quaker Oats Company in 1977 ( around the same time they bought out Wolper itself ), after Paramount no longer had any interest to own the distribution rights to the film due to the initial box office failure of Willy Wonka.

Eric Harrison of the Houston Chronicle noted that Cruz " goes all out " with her appearance and Patrick Peters of Empire magazine commented that the film's director, who also appears in the film, was able to draw a " sensitive performance " from Cruz.

He inferred the film's subject was weighty from the ponderous momentum he observed in the movements of its arms and legs, in the sagging of the knee as weight came onto it, and in the flatness of the foot.

With US entry to World War 2 approaching, USDA officials ( and the film's editor Helen van Dongen ) attempted to reconcile Flaherty's footage with rapidly changing official messages ( including a reversal of concern from pre-war rural unemployment to wartime labor shortages ).