Word: realism
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...Realism was very important to me," says Tom Cruise of his latest acting assignment. To prepare for the role of a trainee Navy jet fighter pilot in Top Gun, now filming on location at Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, the star of Risky Business has been tagging along with actual flyers, on the ground and in the air, in a TA-4 single-engine fighter. "The maneuvers look graceful from the ground," says the actor, "but it's amazing how violent it is inside the cockpit. You are just holding on with five Gs pulling...
...like to be him. “Everything Is Illuminated,” for instance, takes the form of a correspondence between two writers—one is a Ukrainian translator, and the other is Foer’s namesake, who communicates only through historical tracts of magical realism about the Jewish village of Trachimbrod. Never do we get an “I” in Foer’s books, and when we do, it’s always in reference to someone else...
...agenda, for now, seems to involve some deceptively risky experiments with form, as well as a complete rejection of realism in favor of that empathy and emotion he wants so badly to convey. Foer doesn’t care what it takes to get to the reader, he says, and he doesn’t care how unrealistic his scenarios and characters...
...perhaps, above all, praise is due to Brittany Bara’s Mrs. Mullin, the lovelorn and salt-of-the-earth owner of the title namesake carousel. Not only does Bara have tremendous stage presence, her emotional intensity gave her character a realism and charisma head and shoulders above everyone else?...
...that there was very little to its allure in the first place. Today Doom 3 is on the cutting edge of technical achievement, but it too will fade from our memories and leave nothing behind. If the value of video games continues to reside solely in their increasing graphical realism and not in their increasing conceptual sophistication, then we all may be wandering around in binary dungeons for the rest of our lives...