Test audience reaction to Spock's death and the film's ending ( the tone of which was dark and final ) was poor, so Bennett made it more uplifting by adding a final scene revealing Spock's casket on the Genesis planet.

The film was strongly influenced by the French New Wave directors, both in its rapid shifts of tone, and in its choppy editing, which is particularly noticeable in the film's closing sequence.

" Spielberg and Lucas attributed the film's tone, which was darker than Raiders of the Lost Ark, to their personal moods following the breakups of their relationships ( Spielberg with Amy Irving, Lucas with Marcia ).

" About the psychological thriller nature of Black Swan, actress Natalie Portman compared the film's tone to Polanski's 1968 film Rosemary's Baby, while Aronofsky said Polanski's Repulsion ( 1965 ) and The Tenant ( 1976 ) were " big influences " on the final film.

1916 passes and the film's tone darkens again.

The director, Neil Jordan, later stated that he changed the scene because showing policemen do the shooting would have made it " too terrifying " for the film's tone.

Harryhausen was always heavily involved in the pre-production conceptualizing of each film's story, script development, art-direction, design, storyboards, and general tone of the his films, as much as any auteur director would have on any other film, which any " director " of Harryhausen's films had to understand and agree to work under.

A second print known as the " Tricked Out Edition ", released on June 3, 2003, featured Turbo-Charged Prelude, a short film that set the tone to the film's sequel.

Warren Skaaren's rewrite drastically shifted the film's tone, indicating the graphic nature of the Maitlands ' deaths while depicting the afterlife as a complex bureaucracy.

Kauffmann and Simon both noted that the film's ending, in which newsreel footage shows the men going off to fight in World War II, was grotesquely at odds with the frothy tone of the movie it concluded.

According to The New York Times, Brooks " was constantly experimenting, constantly reshooting, constantly re-editing " the film, changing its ending five times and allowing the actors to improvise the film's tone.

Writing for L ' Espresso, Italian novelist Alberto Moravia highlighted the film's variations in tone: " Highly expressive throughout, Fellini seems to change the tone according to the subject matter of each episode, ranging from expressionist caricature to pure neo-realism.

Stomp Tokyo said " the monster scenes are generally well done " but criticized the film's " incoherence ," saying: " It's a shame that Kitamaura couldn't choose a tone for the film, instead shifting the movie's mood wildly from scene to scene.

According to an interview in the notes of the film's DVD release, Allen said that there is absolutely no blood in the film ( even during executions ) because he wanted to keep the light comedic tone of the film intact.

Another example cited by Biskind was Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American, whose release Weinstein delayed following the September 11 attacks, due to audience reaction in test screenings to the film's critical tone towards America's past foreign policy.

Sometimes the film's tone wobbles into farce, which is inappropriate, and often the story treads water, as though mimicking, in tone, every somber family film since Ordinary People.

Besides changing the name of the film, the film was heavily edited to tone down the film's graphic murder sequences with a new musical score.

In view of the decidedly anti-war tone of this film, and that of the character of Charlie Anderson, it is worth noting that James Stewart was a brigadier general in the US Air Force Reserve at the time of its filming, and had been a decorated bomber pilot and squadron commander in World War II ; he would fly as an observer and additional pilot on one B-52 mission in Vietnam as part of his reserve duty a year after the film's release.

The Mike + The Mechanics song " Silent Running " was chosen to appear in Choke Canyon because its atmosphere suited the film's tone.

" He identified the film's issues: " too many screens of blinding lights ," " too many transitions for their own sake ," and " abrupt changes of tone.

The film's tone varies through these scenes such as " Nazareth Personal Diary ", which has a light and domestic tone, and " Jerusalem Political Diary ", which has a more ideological tone.

Andy Garcia has since claimed the film's script was nearly produced.

There has been a refocus onto celluloid film's ability to capture an " indexical " image of a moment in time by theorists like Mary Ann Doane, Philip Rosen and Laura Mulvey who was informed by psychoanalysis.

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.

Since the film's success abroad, most Ghost in the Shell media has been translated and released in English-speaking territories, including the anime series, which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, and the United Kingdom's AnimeCentral.

Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.

" The film's reputation has grown over the years as many critics consider Junior Bonner to be one of Peckinpah's most sympathetic works, while also noting McQueen's earnest performance.

One of the few critics to praise the film was Roger Ebert, and in fact, the film's reputation has grown in recent years, with many noting its uncompromising vision as well as its anticipation of the violent black comedy which became famous in the works of such directors as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

Much has been said about various " tactical errors " made by both the German and American forces in the film's climactic battle.

The film's use of desaturated colors, hand-held cameras, and tight angles has profoundly influenced subsequent films and video games.

An expanded version of Black Sunday ( the highight film's title ) has appeared on NFL's Greatest Games and contains an additional hour of game footage plus audio play-by-play from Bill King and Rich Marotta while retaining Facenda's narration.

Roger Ebert has written of the film's ending:

The film's title has entered the English language as an idiomatic expression.

The film's dystopian depiction of " genoism " has been cited by many bioethicists and laymen in support of their hesitancy about, or opposition to, liberal eugenics and the societal acceptance of the genetic-determinist ideology that may frame it.

Eastwood blamed Universal Studios for the film's poor promotion and turned his back on them to make an agreement with Warner Brothers, through Frank Wells, that has lasted to the present day.

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.

Authorized biographer Jeremy Wilson noted that the film has " undoubtedly influenced the perceptions of some subsequent biographers " such as the depiction of the film's Ali as the real Sherif Ali, rather than a composite character, and also the highlighting of the Deraa incident.

The film has been described by academics as a satire of American middle class notions of beauty and personal satisfaction ; analysis has focused on the film's explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, beauty, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption.

It can also be someone with other special interests in the project, such as the author of the book that the film is based on, or one of the film's key actors who has been instrumental in persuading the studio to do the film.

The three-night, July 1973 stint at Madison square garden that fuelled the film's original soundtrack has been plundered afresh ...

The film's popularity has endured through the years.

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.

Jeffrey " Mad Dog " Beck, a star investment banker at the time with Drexel Burnham Lambert, was one of the film's technical advisers and has a cameo appearance in the film as the man speaking at the meeting discussing the breakup of Bluestar.

Over the years, the film's screenwriter Stanley Weiser has been approached by numerous people who told him, " The movie changed my life.