Word: flashback
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...movie have too much good stuff? Not when it's stuffed like this one. A bayoneted German soldier dies, and we literally see his last breath. A flashback to the childhood of Mathilde and Manech shows that he already loved her back then: if the crippled girl wants to see the sea from the top of the local lighthouse, he'll carry...
Even when Nwokocha intercepted an errant Fitzpatrick pass late in the second quarter, there was no thrill of fear or flashback to last year’s debacle. Because at that point, the half was winding to a close, odds were good that the steadfast Crimson defense would stall the Lions in their tracks and, oh yeah, Harvard was up by three touchdowns...
...hard to follow. "If you have three CSIs and three Law & Orders on the air, people will start to say, 'What else is there?'" he says. Still, Abrams says Lost is designed to be more friendly to occasional viewers. Each funny and delightfully scary episode includes a flashback to the pre-island life of one of the castaways, so there's a story resolved in each episode along with the running saga...
...different flavors of chips (think of them as Original, Spicy Fiesta and Cool Ranch). And the special effects, which make the camera seem to zoom through blood vessels or the fiery barrel of a gun--render the forensic science more real than any dry technical explanation. The overexposed flashback images look like music videos, the lurid anatomical closeups like art film, the lab scenes like a lush photo shoot: cerulean blue trays, crystal glass, ruby chunks of human tissue laid out like a $300 sushi course...
...FILM ANALOGOUS TO THE CURRENT WAR ON TERRORISM? After 9/11, the President asked for a chart of al-Qaeda managers so that as we captured them, he could cross out their names. I had a flashback to the movie where the French colonel, Mathieu, crosses out the names of terrorists, thinking he is winning. I thought, Oh, my God, the President wants to do the same thing--probably with the same degree of success...