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as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

gifted comedian of the era in her own right. Silent screen actors had to convey emotion, as well as personality, by establishing ...

in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...

wealth, status, and material possessions (clothes and cars), because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them...

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...

72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...

large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...

women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

of play. The summer is very representative of a simplistic and conservative community, giving us an ideal setting in a simpler tim...

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

poetry, philosophy and other topics. The club...would be completely unacceptable to the conservative school, which discourages stu...

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...

legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...

style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...