Word: overlaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twisting plot, already enough to leave you feeling as if you've been accosted by a sewer, becomes even more visceral when viewed through Welles' innovative techniques. In fact, the most noticeable (and necessary) change made in the restored version is the elimination of the credits and the overlaid soundtrack from the famous opening shot. The brilliant oscillation between the simple continuity of a single shot and the complexity of the choreography creates a sense of tension now unburdened by surface distractions. Without the studio veneer, the probing camera and the cacophonic textures of street noise achieve a phenomenal depth...
...make the inevitable stylistic comparison, the atmosphere feels like a slightly closer-to-home version of "South Park." Overlaid on bad Shakespeare, the result turns out to be surprisingly funny. In one of the most hilariously effective touches, the celebration that sets the scene for Pericles' and Thaisa's romance metamorphoses into a terrifyingly believable middle-school dance--complete with strobe lights, the electric slide and the immediate clearing of the dance floor when the slow songs begin. (Who doesn't remember those magical, sweaty nights in the school cafeteria...
...than it does today, channeling winter rain and snow all the way up into the Great Lakes and Great Plains. Afterward, however, its sphere of influence retreated to northern Mexico and the American Southwest. Why the shift? It may be, Cole suggests, that El Nino is overlaid on a different climate cycle that is even more important...
...popular culture of the last decade or so: action movies, popular music, noir films, video games, Dungeons & Dragons, Japanese robot cartoons. The resonances evoke the increasingly trendy ideas of a sort of "geek chic," based on the artifacts of mainstream male teenage culture of the 1980s and early 90s, overlaid with a technophilic edge: it's a world born out of John Woo movies, computer hacking and the fandom of comic books themselves. It's a universe in which attitude is everything...
...opening band. Their static stage manners coupled with the relatively sober crowd give no hint to their brilliance. Upon closer inspection, the crowd was awaiting the evening's top bill not with indifference, but bona fide reverence--creening to absorb the group's trademark sound of hypnotic rhythmic tracks overlaid with melodic, mesmerizing vocals...