Word: interpreters
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This is not to say that all great biographical filmmaking must center around the verisimilitude of a performance or novel interpretations of events. Indeed, a film like Raging Bull does not achieve its greatness through either of these, but instead more for its enthralling and ultimately tragic story and the artistic greatness of director Martin Scorsese. Based on the true story of mid-20th century boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull seeks to do more than simply recount events and re-interpret them; instead, it is rich with artistic adornments such as beautiful cinematography (especially in its stunningly real...
...nothing like the weird-looking geeks in the movie. But put them all together on Soldiers Field, and you have the ultimate band camp—tons of people who are supposed to be entertaining the audience but instead seem to be performing what the average fan can only interpret as one huge inside joke...
...photographs are all taken in the documentary tradition; that is to say, their main objective is to record rather than to interpret the history that they treat. But this is not to call into question the artistic merits of the photographs, or indeed the photographers. It was still the charge of the photographer to anticipate what would be historically important-what features of his or her current generation would come eventually to be defining, and to depict those features with poignancy and beauty. At the very least, this choice to include or exclude--this visual diction, as it were--defines...
...suffered invasions for over 2,000 years. Now as Pakistan braces for the expected U.S. attacks on Afghan territory, the people of Peshawar are torn: on the one hand, they don't want to be isolated in the eyes of the international coalition against terrorism. On the other, many interpret U.S. actions as a hostile "crusade" against Islam in general. And so the secular-religious split at the heart of Pakistan manifests itself in the conversation of people on the streets and in the bazaars, who express horror at the deaths of thousands in World Trade Center...
...bombs, no dynamite, nothing explosive on the eight-acre compound - not even in the written or spoken word. There was just the routine and the defensive humor and goodwill of hard-working, devout people who believe in the Word of God; people who study His revelations and try to interpret correctly the utterances of His prophet Mohammed...