In the film serials Superman ( 1948 ) and Atom Man vs. Superman ( 1950 ), Kirk Alyn portrays Clark as a mild-mannered reporter who comes to Metropolis and secures a job at the Daily Planet, following the death of his foster parents.

The exact origin of Dory's impairment is not mentioned in the film, but her memory loss accurately portrays the difficulties facing amnesiacs.

The film portrays a married couple by juxtaposing them in the Garden of Eden and in modern New York City.

The film portrays four girls in a trend-setting clique at a fictional Ohio high school.

They all believe that, as a consequence, the film portrays 1st century Judea more accurately than actual Biblical epics, with its focus centred more on the average person of the era.

Gene Hackman portrays Lex Luthor in the 1978 Superman film, along with two of its sequels, Superman II ( 1980 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

Three of the antagonists in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski are explicitly described as " nihilists ;" and the 1999 film The Matrix portrays the character Thomas A. Anderson with a hollowed out copy of Baudrillard's treatise, Simulacra and Simulation, in which he stores contraband data files under the chapter " On Nihilism.

The film posits in cinematic terms how Edward de Vere's writings came to be attributed to William Shakespeare and portrays the Prince Tudor theory.

The latter type of works include Akira Kurosawa's film Kagemusha, which portrays Nobunaga as energetic, athletic and respectful towards his enemies.

The film Goemon portrays him as a saintly mentor of Ishikawa Goemon.

The 1976 British-American film Robin and Marian, starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, portrays the figures in later years after Robin has returned from service with Richard the Lionheart in a foreign crusade and Marian has gone into seclusion in a nunnery.

In a play within a play in Neil Simon's 1977 film The Goodbye Girl, Richard Dreyfuss reluctantly portrays Richard as overtly homosexual at the insistence of an avant-garde director.

The 1999 film Galaxy Quest portrays the lives of a once-popular television space-drama crew who are kidnapped by real aliens who have mistaken the fictional series as reality.

Nicolas Cage portrays Charlie and Donald Kaufman through split screen photography in Adaptation ( film ) | Adaptation.

Actress Joan Chen portrays Madame Chiang in the HBO film Hemingway and Gellhorn ( 2012 ), which starred Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway and Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn.

The film portrays a period in the life of a 19-year-old woman, Malli ( Ayesha Dharkar ), sent to assassinate a leader in South Asia through a suicide bombing.

The most significant difference between the plot and the historical events is the scene that replaces an incident where the captain threw almost all the submarine's small arms overboard out of concern about the possibility of a mutiny ; the film instead portrays an actual attempt at mutiny.

The film portrays General Allenby as cynical and manipulative, with a superior attitude to Lawrence, but there is much evidence that Allenby and Lawrence respected and liked each other.

Although the film portrays the way Lester returns to that role positively, he does not become " the hypermasculine figure implicitly celebrated in films like Fight Club ".

Elliott Baker's 1964 novel and 1966 film version, A Fine Madness, portrays the dehumanizing lobotomy of a womanizing, quarrelsome poet who in the end is just as aggressive as ever.

His popularity increased with L ' altra domenica ( 1976 / 9 ), another TV show by Arbore in which Benigni portrays a lazy film critic who never watches the films he's asked to review.

In the film Binoche portrays an artist who lives rough on the famous Parisian bridge where she meets another young vagrant ( Denis Lavant ).

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.

Yuan's film, a tragicomedy, portrays the lives of the underclass in Shanghai, including two lovers, a returning soldier and his fiance, a singing girl played by then-little-known Zhou Xuan.

He was nominated again, this time for Best Actor, for the gritty The Pawnbroker ( 1965 ), a Sidney Lumet film in which Steiger portrays an emotionally withdrawn Holocaust survivor living in New York City.

More than even film truth, Man with a Movie Camera, was supposed to be a way to make those in the Soviet Union more efficient in their actions.

For example, Tristan Pope combined creative character and camera positioning with video editing to suggest sexual actions in his controversial film Not Just Another Love Story.

A quagga appears in a sequence in the Soviet Union's animated film The Cat Who Walked by Herself, in which a dog tracks the hoofprints of one, and a cat tells a boy of the Red Book of endangered species, and how Quagga had " her track severed " ( that is, made extinct ) due to Man's selfish actions.

Sometimes the technique is used to show actions occurring simultaneously ; Timecode ( 2000 ), by Mike Figgis, is a recent example where the combination is of four real time digital video cameras shown continuously for the duration of the film.

Cut scenes from the beginning of the film had Cassiel humorously mimicking the humans ' actions.

Another film, Patton ( 1970 ), showed the actions of real life General George S. Patton, but intermixed action with commentary about how he waged war, in North Africa and the Sicilian campaign, showing good and bad sides to a command.

While the film's poster depicts a fierce character abducting a maiden, no such scene was actually in the film ; Robby only carried one person, crewman Dr. Ostro when he was mortally wounded by his own actions with the Krell's " plastic educator ".

A hip hop montage is a subset of fast cutting used in film to portray a complex action through a rapid series of simple actions in fast motion, accompanied by sound effects.

Other footage of real humpbacks either did not exist on 35mm film or would have been difficult to match to specific actions required by the script.

Bolt later regretted his actions, and did not speak to Spiegel again after the film was completed.

A cinema verité account of the 1966 Civil Rights actions by local NAACP leaders in Natchez was depicted by the filmmaker Ed Pincus in his film Black Natchez.

The film had its budget reduced and went through extensive rewrites including one by star James Franciscus to help clarify the actions of and give depth to the character of Brent.

A MacGuffin is a term popularized by film director Alfred Hitchcock, referring to a physical object ( or character ) which drives the actions of the characters as they search for it or try to obtain it, but whose actual nature is not important to the story.

He set out to make a crime film about truly " criminal " criminals – a revisionist modern-day Western populated with multi-layered characters whose actions are not motivated by backstories contrived to make them endearing and sympathetic.

The archive's Second World War holdings include unedited film shot by British military cameramen, which document combat actions such as the British landings on D-Day in June 1944, and the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.

In the 1970 film Cromwell starring Richard Harris and Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston plays Ireton as a subtle but well-meaning manipulator who hates Charles I and pushes Cromwell into taking actions which the latter at first considers neither desirable nor possible but then pursues all the way.

The upper class is depicted in this film as capricious and self-indulgent, with little regard for the consequences of their actions.

Mother India's actions at the end of the film in shooting her own son Birju have been said to " rupture the traditional mother-son relationship in order to balance the moral universe ".

True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.

Although less as a " collective " after 1990, DIVA TV continued documenting ( over 700 camera hours ) the direct actions of ACT UP, activists, and the community responses to HIV / AIDS, producing over 160 video programs for public access television channels ( as the weekly series " AIDS Community Television " from 1991 – 1996 http :// www. actupny. org / divatv ; and from 1994-96 the weekly call-in public access series " ACT UP Live "; film festival screenings ; and continuing on-line documentation and streaming internet webcasts.

Dozens of journalists covering the actions were also clubbed by police or had cameras smashed and film confiscated.

After the war, Pfefferberg had tried on a number of occasions to interest the screen-writers and film-makers he met through his business in a film based on the story of Schindler and his actions in saving Polish Jews from the Nazis, arranging several interviews with Schindler for American television.

" To keep Hanks ' character from justifying his violent actions in the film, Mendes left out scenes in the final cut that had Sullivan explaining to his son about his background.

Connor is jealous of his father's relationship with Sullivan, which fuels his actions, ultimately causing a domino effect that drives the film.

The events around the defection of Benedict Arnold and the actions of André were the subject of the film The Scarlet Coat ( 1955 ), directed by John Sturges, with Michael Wilding playing Major André.