From the film industry, Chaplin drew upon the work of French comedian Max Linder, whose films he greatly admired.

Like its dada and surrealist predecessors, French New Wave editing often drew attention to itself by its lack of continuity, its demystifying self-reflexive nature ( reminding the audience that they were watching a film ), and by the overt use of jump cuts or the insertion of material not often related to any narrative.

In the United States the response was from the famous strip cartoon artist Winsor McCay, who drew much more realistic animated figures going through smoother, more naturalistic motion in a series of films starting with the film Little Nemo, made for Vitagraph in 1911.

The 2008 rural comedy Bienvenue chez les Ch ' tis drew an audience of more than 20 million, the first French film to do so.

Some of the early gothic rock and deathrock artists adopted traditional horror film images and drew on horror film soundtracks for inspiration.

He ensured that film studios such as UFA at Babelsberg near Berlin continued to produce a stream of comedies and light romances, which drew mass audiences to the cinema where they would also watch propaganda newsreels and Nazi epics.

By winning the award of " The Best New Coming Director " with his first feature film, Balcony, at Ankara Film Festival in 1992, Altioklar drew the attention of Turkish film industry to his work.

Fox re-released it around college campuses on a double-bill with another rock music film parody, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, but again it drew small audiences.

" Four years later, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed and in Reagan's memoirs he drew a direct line from the film to the signing.

After various appearances in film and television, Ryder continued her career with the cult film Heathers ( 1988 ), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life, which drew Ryder further critical and commercial attention.

Much of the film drew heavy visual inspiration from Rockwell's art.

For his film The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan drew inspiration in his portrayal of Gotham City from the film Heat in order " to tell a very large, city story or the story of a city ".

Mendes believed the trial drew focus away from the characters and turned the film " into an episode of NYPD Blue ".

In 1939, the world premiere of the film Union Pacific was held in Omaha, Nebraska and the accompanying three-day celebration drew 250, 000 people.

Early on the film drew poorly, but after winning critical acclaim and awards, it proved a success.

The film drew heavily on Biblical sources for several of its key set-pieces.

") The film intentionally drew parallels between Saladin, a hero in the Arab world, with Nasser and his pan-Arabist policies.

The film drew heavily on the ideas of Jan Kott, in particular his observation that King Lear was the precursor of absurdist theatre: in particular, the film has parallels with Beckett's Endgame.

Arguably his most personal film, Best Years drew on Wyler's own experience returning home to his family after three years on the front.

Lucas also drew inspiration from the robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Douglas Trumbull's 1972 film Silent Running.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

A sequence in the middle of the film takes place in San Francisco, and heavily references Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

The anime draws heavily on Western sources, such as pulp detective stories, film noir, and American Westerns.

With Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North in 1922, documentary film embraced romanticism ; Flaherty filmed a number of heavily staged romantic films during this time period, often showing how his subjects would have lived 100 years earlier and not how they lived right then.

Potemkin was a heavily fictionalized film telling the story of a mutiny on a battleship which came about as a result of the sailors ' mistreatment ; the film was an obvious but skillful propaganda piece glorifying the proletariat.

" By the later segments of Kino-Pravda, Vertov was experimenting heavily, looking to abandon what he considered film clichés ( and receiving criticism for it ); his experimentation was even more pronounced and dramatic by the time of Man with a Movie Camera, which was filmed in Ukraine.

The film Equilibrium was heavily influenced by Fahrenheit 451 and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The film is heavily inspired by the birthplace of Kjell Aukrust's father, Lom.

In particular, the special effects of the film have been heavily criticized.

" It was heavily touted in the publicity department at the time, even though it was not used in the film as extensively as promoted.

He is heavily influenced by the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer and the film The Night Porter.

A heavily weaponized powered exoskeleton that envelops the operator is featured in the 2009 film District 9, and aptly named the Exo-suit.

The film is heavily based around the main character ( Paul ) and the theme surrounding him is loosely based around the myth of Narcissus, as all who look at Paul are transfixed by his beauty-just as all those who gazed upon Narcissus were transifixed with his beauty.

Dick's former wife Tessa claims that the published screenplay " has been heavily edited, and others have added material to the screenplay that Phil wrote ", though she suggests that " film producers really ought to take a look at the author ’ s own screenplay before embarking upon their journey of interpretation ".

* The 2007 film The Last Legion, and the novel on which it is based, includes a heavily fictionalized account of the reign and subsequent life of Romulus Augustus ; escaping captivity with the aid of a small band of loyal Romans, he escapes to Britain, where he takes a place in what will become Arthurian legend as Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, and a previous wielder of Excalibur ( Here the sword of Julius Caesar ).

That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols ' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to No. 1 as an album.

Filming began without a completed screenplay, and Peckinpah chose several remote locations in Mexico, causing the film to go heavily over budget.

Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized at its release owing to explicit content, but eventually garnered critical acclaim and has been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed " culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

In the film the world of Gaea has a more Asian design than the heavily European influenced television series.

While there are no specifics given, it is strongly suggested in the film that America's cities, military, and industrial base are heavily damaged or destroyed.

The mumblecore film genre, which began in the mid-2000s, and uses video cameras and relies heavily on improvisation and non-professional actors, has been described as influenced in part by what one critic called " the spring-break psychodrama of MTV's The Real World ".

Production delays prevented any real work from being done on the film, leaving Beiderbecke and his pals plenty of time to drink heavily.

The film was based on a novel of the same title by Charles R. Jackson about a writer who drinks heavily.

It would have been more fantastical in subject matter than the original film, and relied more heavily on special effects.