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...that many people may not notice. But Cameron's films are usually fairly good with having a diverse cast of characters in "minor" roles--i.e. making up the pastiche that forms that background and backbone of the picture. You know, the other spies, the fighter pilots, the hotel executives, etc, All too often, these roles are relegated automatically to white male actors, when they do not have...
...majority of the spies are male. It's Cameron, though. He could have thrown in a few female and non-white spies, etc. It may sound stupid, but it's a disappointment...
...than right here in Boston. WBZ touts its "news" with a commercial featuring "anchor" Jack Williams pounding the mean streets, digging up leads, performing traditionally reporterly duties. The commercial is, of course, completely staged. Williams rarely leaves the studio (and never without a full entourage of producers, assistants, writers, etc.); his main talent is the ability to read large electronic type fluently and the cluck his tongue, shake his head or giggle at the appropriate times. Williams, like his fellow "news" people, should take a cue from the old Tylenol ad, and open the broadcast with a little...
...Luman Reed at the then immense price of $5,000. It was meant, he said, to show "the natural changes of Landscape and those effected by Man in his progress from Barbarism to Civilization -- to the state of Luxury -- to the vicious state or state of Destruction etc." He stirred in all manner of different cultures in this pastiche. The Pastoral or Arcadian State, for instance, has references to early Hesiodic Greece coexisting with a temple based on Stonehenge; and the climactic paintings of The Consummation of Empire and Destruction are the kind of eclectic cast-of- thousands fantasies that...
...measure of the attention to details of this movie--the acting, the dialogue, the scenery, etc.--that the plotline doesn't sink with the audience. A scheme to take over the world using an explosive device is hardly fresh or entertaining, but it doesn't really hinder "The Shadow" that much...