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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know for a fact, but I feel fairly certain that the first person who described a movie as 'character driven' had to have been a producer or studio executive.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord's youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father's empire.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.
- Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.
- Dating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.
- Film And TV
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- Nov 07, 2020
Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
- Eludes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
- Monster
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
- Apocalypse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020