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...person burst into song in front of me today. That's supposed to be the problem with movie musicals as far as contemporary audiences go. According to conventional Hollywood wisdom, today's moviegoers, especially the ones born P.G. (post-Grease, or after 1978) are turned off by the implausibility of spontaneous song and dance numbers. But I don't buy it. Not one person got a spider bite and turned into a superhero in front of me today, either, and yet record numbers of folks of all ages happily suspended disbelief for Spider...
...CAMERAS ARE PRETTY FANCY TOOLS. USE 'EM The 2005 movie version of The Producers looked almost exactly like the hugely successful Broadway show. Which was exactly the problem. Timid Matthew Broderick and loutish Nathan Lane are funny from $100 theater seats, but from $9 movie seats, they're assaultive. Audiences want more subtlety and more cinematic images, like the press conference scene in Chicago, when Renée Zellweger is a marionette on strings pulled by Richard Gere. "We're not interested in recreating a show for film, we're interested in reinventing a show for film," says Meron...
...Michael Moore: This film does cut across party lines. Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they?re supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care. On the surface, it does seem that the only people who are going to be upset are the executives of insurance and pharmaceutical companies...
...photos of Scarlett Johansson, Terrence Howard and Jack Nicholson lighting up in recent films [April 30]. You did not mention that all three were playing criminals. We don't see a lot of heroes smoking in films anymore. We do, however, still see lots of movie heroes solving their problems with fists and guns. That's a bigger problem than cigarettes. William Flanagan, New York City...
...says. "I think it is part of a larger shift driven by powerful forces"-print giving way to television as our dominant medium for examining ideas, television acting on our brains in ways that scientists are just beginning to unlock. As such, it's not the sort of problem that legislation is going to fix. Gore hopes that the Internet, which is so good at inviting people back into the conversation, will be the key to restoring American democracy. "It's going to take time," he says. "After all, we've been veering off course for a while...