Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.

In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.

Physically, a movie is possible because a series of images is projected one at a time at such a speed that the eye `` remembers '' the one that has gone before even as it registers the one now appearing.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

The title of the 2003 movie 21 Grams is a reference to MacDougall's findings.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

* In the science fiction movie series The Matrix, the last human city, known as Zion, is a hyperstructure.

In this movie a young female music student hired by Beethoven to copy out his Ninth Symphony is staying at a monastery.

The movie is also credited as one of the events that inspired the formation of the " second era " Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia in the same year.

Also, in recent interviews, Judge claims that he is interested in producing a live-action movie.

" However, he also added, " Another movie ... the problem is it takes a year and half, two years, two and a half years — maybe — to do that right.

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days.

* Sebastian was stated as being dead in the movie, yet he is alive in The Edge of Human.

The film's depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge is often considered one of the best movie battles in cinema history.

* The symbol for " movie theater " is composed of the symbols for " house " and " film "; " film " in turn is composed of " camera " and the arrow.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

In a storyline that begins prior to the timeline of the movie, Jade Fox is denied entry to the Wudang monastery because she is a woman.

This factor is a natural outcome of Hollywood script development which wishes to highlight one or two major characters which can be played by major stars, and thus a good way of marketing the movie is established but that rings false upon examination.

Shadow of the Vampire ( 2000 ) is a highly fictionalized depiction of the filming of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's classic silent vampire movie Nosferatu ( 1922 ).

* A heavily fictionalized version of Saladin is played by Ghassan Massoud in the 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven.

Tap Roots, a 1948 movie based on a novel, presents a highly fictionalized and inaccurate version of Winston County's Civil War history.

follows a fictionalized version of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman as he struggles to adapt a book into a script, while the movie features scenes about the making of Being John Malkovich, previously written by Kaufman and directed by Jonze.

The event was heavily fictionalized in the 1948 movie Tap Roots.

The movie also weaves into its plot a fictionalized account of real-life events — the 1978 death of Pope John Paul I and the Papal banking scandal of 1981 – 1982 — and links them with each other and with the affairs of Michael Corleone.

The book and movie Rabbit, Run and the other three novels of the Rabbit series by John Updike were set in fictionalized versions of Reading and nearby Shillington, called Brewer and Olinger respectively.

A fictionalized version of Baldwin is played by Edward Norton in the 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven.

A heavily fictionalized account of the invasion from a U. S. military perspective is shown in the 1986 Clint Eastwood motion picture Heartbreak Ridge, in which marines replaced the actual roles of army units due to the movie's portrayal of several incompetent officers and NCOs for which the army opted out its military support of the movie.

Regarding the " fictionalized " aspects of the film, Ebert discussed why that is often the case in films: " Several people have told me dubiously that they heard the movie was ' fictionalized '.

A 1980 made-for-television movie, somewhat fictionalized, told the story of Tibbets and crew.

On January 2, 2005, ABC aired a fictionalized television movie entitled Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, chronicling the creation and backstage details of Dynasty.

Kevin Costner played a fictionalized version of Garrison in the movie.

The movie was highly fictionalized: It assumed DeSalvo was guilty, and it portrayed him as suffering from multiple personality disorder and committing the murders while in a psychotic state.

Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the watershed of the Owens Valley, an effort fictionalized in the Roman Polanski movie Chinatown, which is also covered in California Water Wars.

A heavily fictionalized version of Sibylla is played by Eva Green in the 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven.

Tyrone Power played de Lesseps in the movie Suez ( 1938 ), a film over which de Lesseps ' family sued for libel, claiming it was too highly fictionalized.

The Tin Cap refers to a fictionalized depiction of John Chapman wearing one in the 1948 Walt Disney movie " Johnny Appleseed " and is not supported by any historical facts. Chapman lived in Fort Wayne in his final years and is buried in the city.

A fictionalized Amakusa appears as the antagonist in Kinji Fukasaku's movie Samurai Reincarnation.

In 2005 actor Bartholomew John portrayed Forsythe in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalized television movie based on the creation and behind the scenes production of Dynasty.

Many of the characters in the movie are fictionalized versions of historical figures:

A 1975 television movie titled The Hatfields and the McCoys told a fictionalized version of the story.

The 1987 television movie A Special Friendship tells a fictionalized story of the friendship and pro-Union collaboration of Van Lew ( who is presented as a young, rather than middle-aged, woman in the film ) and her former slave Mary Bowser.