Unlike the musical films of Hollywood and Bollywood, popularly identified with escapism, the Soviet musical was first and foremost a form of propaganda.

Unlike Aleksandrov, the focus of Pyryev ’ s films was life on the collective farms.

Unlike The Movies, some dedicated machinima software programs, such as Reallusion's iClone, have licenses that avoid claiming ownership of users ' films featuring bundled assets.

Unlike most of Fleming's work, this storyline does not appear in any of the James Bond films.

Unlike most Western directors, Peckinpah tended to concentrate on the early 20th century rather than the 19th, and his films portray characters who still believe in the values of the Old West being swept away by the new, industrial America.

Unlike his prior films ( or any that would follow ), The Straight Story was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures after a successful debut at Cannes, was given a G rating by the MPAA and is the only Lynch film for which Lynch himself did not have a hand in the screenplay ( although it was co-written by his recurring associate, Mary Sweeney ).

Unlike M-G-M's imposing feature films, which always boasted strong story values, The Hollywood Revue of 1929 was a plotless parade of variety acts.

Unlike the Bond films, The IPCRESS File was designed to have a different, more down-beat style, although Saltzman employed many Bond movie staff, including production designer Ken Adam, editor Peter Hunt, and composer John Barry.

Unlike other Academy Awards, the Foreign Language Film Award does not require films to be released in the United States in order to be eligible for competition.

Unlike many American male actors, Keitel has appeared nude in several films, including full frontal nudity in Bad Lieutenant and The Piano.

Unlike previous Star Trek films, The Voyage Home was shot extensively on location ; many real settings and buildings were used as stand-ins for scenes set around and in the city of San Francisco.

Unlike his previous films, Cries and Whispers uses saturated colour, especially crimson.

" Unlike previous cinematic depictions of Jesus ' life, Pasolini's film does not embellish the biblical account with any literary or dramatic inventions, nor does it present an amalgam of the four Gospels ( subsequent films which would adhere as closely as possible to one Gospel account are 1979's Jesus, based on the Gospel of Luke, and 2003's The Gospel of John ).

Unlike the soundtracks to other blaxploitation films ( most notably Isaac Hayes ' score for Shaft ), which glorified the ghetto excesses of the characters, Mayfield's lyrics consisted of hard-hitting commentary on the state of affairs in black, urban ghettos at the time, as well as direct criticisms of several characters in the film.

Unlike substantive transparency and negative color films, Kodachrome films did not incorporate dye couplers into the emulsion layers.

Unlike feature films, which were routinely censored in the script, the animated shorts were passed upon only when completed, which made the producers exceptionally cautious as to restrictions.

Unlike many gay filmmakers, Van Sant — who had long been openly gay — declined to use same-sex relationships as fodder for overtly political statements, although such relationships would frequently appear in his films.

Unlike previous films, Blood Vengeance is set within the official Tekken storyline and is set between the events of Tekken 5 and Tekken 6.

Unlike his later films, it has many scenes with dialogue, and offers a droll, affectionate view of life in rural France.

Unlike crime thrillers, crime films usually offer a more serious, grim and realistic portrayal of the criminal environment, emphasizing character development and complex narratives over suspense sequences, chase scenes and violence.

" Unlike other critics, Milne thought the new plot was refreshing: " With the possibilities of the characters the previous Halloween films well and truly exhausted, Season of the Witch turns more profitably to a marvellously ingenious Nigel Kneale tale of a toymaker and his fiendish plan to restore Halloween to its witch cult origins.

Unlike Frankenstein and Dracula, and other, later Universal horror films, this film had no sequels, but rather was semi-remade in the 1940's b-film The Mummy's Hand ( 1940 ), and its sequels, The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ), The Mummy's Ghost ( 1944 ), The Mummy's Curse ( 1944 ), which were later spoofed in 1950's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.

Unlike the later James Bond films, Danger Man strove for realism, dramatising credible Cold War tensions.

Unlike many decorative patterns that present a static flat convention, this artist's pictures are full of atmosphere and climate.

Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

Unlike the Oriental Natural, the Akoya pearl, and the South Sea and Tahitian cultured pearls, abalone pearls are not primarily judged by their roundness.

Unlike gingerbread (), which is sweetened with honey, Printen are sweetened with sugar.

Unlike his translation of the Pastoral Care, Alfred here deals very freely with his original and though the late Dr. G. Schepss showed that many of the additions to the text are to be traced not to Alfred himself, but to the glosses and commentaries which he used, still there is much in the work which is solely Alfred's and highly characteristic of his style.

Unlike McCaffrey's black crystal transceivers, Le Guin's ansibles are not mated pairs: it is possible for an ansible's coordinates to be set to any known location of a receiving ansible.

Unlike the typical idea of an arcology-clean, healthy, and safe for the environment, " hives " are portrayed as dirty, diseased, overcrowded and the area around them as highly polluted.

Unlike the Israelite worship assembly, which was only able to look on during Temple worship as the Levitical Priest sang, played, and offered animal sacrifices, in the New Testament, all Christians are commanded to sing praises to God.

Unlike France or Germany, there are no special administrative courts of first instance in the Netherlands, but regular courts have an administrative " chamber " which specializes in administrative appeals.

Unlike modern websites and online services that are typically hosted by third-party companies in commercial data centers, BBS computers ( especially for smaller boards ) were typically operated from the SysOp's home.

Unlike many former Soviet bloc militaries, discipline and morale problems are not common.

Unlike their counterparts in the United Methodist Church, ELCA and ELCIC synod bishops do not appoint pastors to local congregations ( pastors, like their counterparts in the Episcopal Church, are called by local congregations ).

Unlike lawn bowls, bocce balls are spherical and have no inbuilt bias.

Unlike bioweapons, these midspectrum agents do not reproduce in their host and are typically characterized by shorter incubation periods.

Unlike the closely related pea, beans are a summer crop that needs warm temperatures to grow.

Unlike ecozones, biomes are not defined by genetic, taxonomic, or historical similarities.

Unlike traditional HTML with its large range of character entity references, in XML there are only five predefined character entity references.

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

Unlike cosmogenic isotopes that are produced in the atmosphere, < sup > 41 </ sup > Ca is produced by neutron activation of < sup > 40 </ sup > Ca.

" Unlike utilitarianism, which views pleasure as a moral good, " the basic goods in Mohist consequentialist thinking are ... order, material wealth, and increase in population ".

Unlike structs, arrays are not first-class objects ; they cannot be assigned or compared using single built-in operators.

Unlike the other proposition bets which are handled by the dealers or stickman, the field bet is placed directly by the player.

Unlike the gradient and divergence, curl does not generalize as simply to other dimensions ; some generalizations are possible, but only in three dimensions is the geometrically defined curl of a vector field again a vector field.

Unlike the primary wall, the microfibrils are aligned mostly in the same direction, and with each additional layer the orientation changes slightly.

Unlike most sports, men and women compete and are ranked together.