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films and plot
By 1917 Chaplin was also introducing more dramatic plot into his films, and mixing the comedy with sentiment.
Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).
In terms of content, enforcement of the Production Code ensured that no film character could literally get away with murder or be seen sharing a bed with anyone but a spouse ; within those bounds, however, many films now identified as noir feature plot elements and dialogue that were very risqué for the time.
Many silent filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used improvisation in the making of their films, developing their gags while filming and altering the plot to fit.
His films often eschew traditional narrative structure, lacking clear plot progression and focusing more on mood and character development.
The language appeared intermittently in later films featuring the original cast-for example, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), where translation difficulties served as a plot device.
Because of the Hays Code, lesbianism after 1930 was absent from most films, even those adapted with overt lesbian characters or plot devices.
As with other action films, martial arts films are dominated by action to varying degrees ; many martial arts films have only a minimal plot and amount of character development and focus almost exclusively on the action, while other martial arts films have more creative and complex plots and characters along with action scenes.
Recent films such as Clash of the Titans, Immortals or Thor continue the trend of mining traditional mythology in order to directly create a plot for modern consumption.
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.
Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows.
The plot of Corrupting Dr. Nice, a science fiction novel by John Kessel involving time travel, is modeled on films such as The Lady Eve and Bringing up Baby.
Both films have been criticised for deviating from the plot.
In the wake of Snuff, numerous films explored the idea of snuff films, or used them as a plot device.
He credited the graphic coverage of violence by San Antonio news outlets as one inspiration for the film and based elements of the plot on serial killer Ed Gein in 1950s Wisconsin ; Gein inspired other horror films such as Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).
According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.
Other plot devices such as the reluctant hero, romance between a local woman and the youngest hero, and the nervousness of the common citizenry had appeared in other films before this but were combined in this film.
Voyeurism is a common plot device in both serious ( e. g. Rear Window, Klute, Blue Velvet, Disturbia ) and humorous ( e. g. Porky's, Animal House, Semi-Pro, Gregory's Girl, American Pie ) films.
In modern times, the term " zombie " has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, largely drawn from George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, video games and in television shows.

films and stars
* Danny Kaye has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in music, radio, and films.
The artistically ambitious and socially critical films of the New German Cinema strove to delineate themselves from what had gone before and the works of auteur film-makers such as Kluge and Fassbinder are examples of this, although Fassbinder in his use of stars from German cinema history also sought a reconciliation between the new cinema and the old.
It was around 1910 that the actors in American films, who up to this point had been anonymous, began to receive screen credit, and the way to the creation of film stars was opened.
Most notable international actors acted in this genre of films such Alain Delon, Henry Silva, Fred Williamson, Charles Bronson, Tomas Milian and others international stars.
These stars often made several films a year, and their productions remained important for morale purposes during the second world war.
Capra, however, blames his early retirement from films on the rising power of stars, which forced him to continually compromise his artistic vision.
Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era ; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as Top Hat ( 1935 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ) and Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).
Outing has been featured in comedy films as well, such as the French comedy Le Placard ( The Closet ), where a heterosexual man is falsely outed, or in the 1997 comedy In & Out where Kevin Kline stars as a small-town teacher who gets outed on national television, and is then forced to come to terms with his own unrecognized homosexuality.
As always, Paramount films continued to emphasize stars ; in the 1920s there were Swanson, Valentino, and Clara Bow.
Some Italian Western films were made as vehicles for musical stars, like Ferdinando Baldi's Rita of the West featuring Rita Pavone and Terence Hill.
In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, Roger Ebert, who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a 3 1 / 2 out of four stars, calling it " an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects.
Despite opposition by film aficionados, stars, and directors, the movie won over a section of the public, and Turner colorized a majority of films that he had owned.
* A 2006 survey of leading rock and film stars by Uncut magazine ranking films, books, music or TV shows that changed the world, placed The Prisoner at # 10, the highest for a TV show.
The film stars of the time that starred in these films, playing both heroes and villains alike include Greer Garson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone, Walter Slezak, Dana Andrews, Don Ameche, Richard Loo, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the most popular film star of the era, John Wayne.
The latter films had American producers, stars and financing but were filmed in England or on location with British film crews, supporting actors, and expertise.
Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it " an amazingly entertaining thriller " and " one of the best films so far this year ", with a " wonderful " ending.
Additionally, several guest stars from the show had cameos in one of the first three Muppet theatrical films.
In the 1980s he made a series of successful films adapting opera to the screen, with such stars as Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons, and Katia Ricciarelli.
Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled " box office poison ".
He awards four stars to films of the highest quality, and generally a half star to those of the lowest unless he considers the film to be " artistically inept " and / or " morally repugnant ", in which case it will receive no stars.
* I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie ( ISBN 0-7407-0672-1 ) – a collection of reviews of films that received two stars or fewer.
Festivals with international stars and noteworthy films gave way to others filled with bombastic socialist rhetoric, which nearly caused the complete loss of the festival audience.
) The choice of cover subjects reflected Morrissey's interest in cult film stars ( Stamp, Alain Delon, Jean Marais, Warhol protégé Joe Dallesandro, James Dean ); figures from sixties British popular culture ( Viv Nicholson, Pat Phoenix, Yootha Joyce, Shelagh Delaney ); and anonymous images from old films and magazines.
He had supporting roles in several major films: Rose-Marie ( 1936 ), Dodsworth ( 1936 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ); and leading roles in The Dawn Patrol ( 1938 ), Three Blind Mice ( 1938 ), and Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), playing opposite such stars as Errol Flynn, Loretta Young and Laurence Olivier.

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