Nonetheless, Capra's vision about the film's significance was clear:

When asked the significance of the film's politics, Groucho only shrugged and said: " What significance?

" Some cultural and film historians have read significance into the film's plot, linking it to critiques of large corporations and American consumerism.

Similarly, Arthur Knight credited Kramer for the film's significance: " from first to last, the director is in command of his material.

The film's significance as a cultural artifact of German post-WWII introspection is enhanced by the fact that its haunting medieval-sounding score is written by Hans Werner Henze, the noted German modernist composer.

Furthermore, Canby noted the film's historical significance: " The result is a film of tremendous visual impact, a kind of cinematic Guernica, a picture of America in the process of exploding into fragmented bits of hostility, suspicion, fear and violence.

The popularity and profitability of DVD sales has added further opportunities for films to recoup losses and eventually become profitable, leading to doubts over the significance of US domestic grosses as a predictor of a film's overall success.

The film's significance has been linked to its portrayal of a same-sex relationship without any reference to the history of the gay civil rights movement.

The " AFI 100 Years ... series " were created by juries consisting of over 1, 500 artists, scholars, critics, and historians, with movies selected based on the film's popularity over time, historical significance, and cultural impact.

A film's rating can have significance to a film's commercial success.

The protagonists theorize what the significance of the alien message could have been.

McLuhan's famous dictum " the medium is the message " highlights the significance of the medium itself.

Orson Scott Card, an author of both science fiction and non-SF fiction, has postulated that in science fiction the message and intellectual significance of the work is contained within the story itself and, therefore, there need not be stylistic gimmicks or literary games ; but that many writers and critics confuse clarity of language with lack of artistic merit.

Apart from its symbolic message to the international community, settling Hebron had a theological significance of cosmic dimensions in some quarters, in that :-

Although the review in the New York Times called the film " the most brilliant picture yet this year " and praised Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, the Hollywood Reporter said that it lacked the " down to earth quality and sincerity which made other three pictures a joy to behold " and that " Sturges ... fails to heed the message that writer Sturges proves in his script.

At first he did not attribute particular significance to this message, as the Butchers had left no one alive before ; but on discovering the nature of the assault and the use of a knife, he came up with an idea that was to permanently change the course of his inquiries.

" However, the formality of the scene and the importance of the event require him to deliver this message in heightened language, with the formal significance of Henry's marriage to Margaret mirrored in the formal language used by Suffolk to announce that marriage.

In 2005, Alan Moore's son-in-law John Reppion ( who is married to Alan Moore's daughter Leah Moore ), stated on an Internet message board that the number 616 was arbitrarily chosen by Moore and had no significant meaning, saying it " was just a random number of no significance chosen because people always seemed to be talking about ' earth 2 ' or ' earth 4 ' but never any higher numbers.

The Marquis de la Mole takes Julien to a secret meeting, then despatches him on a dangerous mission to communicate a political letter ( that he has memorised ) to the Duc d ' Angouleme, who is exiled in England ; however, the callow Julien is mentally distracted, by an unsatisfying love affair, thus he only learns the message by rote, but not its political significance as a legitimist plot.

The animals and plants shown often had moral or perhaps political significance that is not always obvious today ; the Chinese-style ink wash scroll by Kanō Eitoku of Chao Fu and his Ox, illustrated in the gallery below, illustrates a Chinese legend and contains a " Confucian moral points to the dangers inherent in political position ", a very topical message for Japan in the period following the disruptive civil wars caused by naked political ambition.

Instead, the message was generally of scientific, historical, or cultural significance ( for example, the mythology of another culture, new astronomical theories of that time, the biology of a giant squid, or the fact that Native Americans were first believed to be Indians by European explorers ).

Essabar may not have known the significance of the date, but he did relay the message.

CBS has its roots in Chronological Bible Teaching ( CBT ), which involves telling Biblical stories intermixed with teaching about the themes, significance, and message of the story.

By appealing to Heidegger's existential philosophy, Bultmann was able to lay an emphasis upon response to Jesus message, whilst downplaying the significance of Jesus as a historical figure.

However, before the dinner, Frasier begins handing gifts of significance to the attendees, having to leave briefly to retrieve his gift for Roz, when an ominous message, evidently from a doctor, reveals potentially bad news regarding Frasier's future outlook.

Kurukshetra is a place of great spiritual significance, where Lord Krishna delivered the divine message of " Shrimad Bhagwad Gita ".

After the sounding, schools will read out a Civil Defence message in which students were reminded of the significance of the PWS signals and appropriate measure

In a few months the Duke was to be the center of a controversy of some significance on the touchy question of the Protestant Succession.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Space was provided for short-time guest medical exhibits, and the Museum collected new accessions of microscopes, medical, surgical, and diagnostic instruments, uniform, and similar items of historical medico-military significance.

Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.

Although the monarch had frequently asserted that the elections were to be without party significance, his action was an implicit admission that party identifications were a factor.

Then the fact that the lower channel line was pierced had further forecasting significance.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

The significance of the Bohr model was that it related the lines in emission and absorption spectra to the energy differences between the orbits that electrons could take around an atom.

Abacá fiber was once used primarily for rope, but this application is now of minor significance.

The significance of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti from an accounting perspective lies in the fact that it illustrates that the executive authority had access to detailed financial information, covering a period of some forty years, which was still retrievable after the event.

These cycles would have been of astrological and ritual significance as Venus was associated with Quetzalcoatl or Xolotl.

Olanzapine was again the only medication to stand out in the outcome measures, although the results did not always reach statistical significance ( which means they were not reliable findings ) due in part to the decrease of power.

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

Vases filled with water used to start fires were known in the ancient world, and metaphorical significance was drawn ( by the early Church Fathers, for instance ) from the fact that the water remained cool even though the light passing through it would set materials on fire.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

In 1993 Bakelite was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society in recognition of its significance as the world's first synthetic plastic.

The scene carries deep significance: King James, on the throne when Macbeth was written, was believed to be separated from Banquo by nine generations.

The psychological significance was that this was the first open field battle won by the royal forces, so it increased the morale of the Polish forces and lowered the morale of the Teutonic Knights.