Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is over? You can bet your week's wampum it isn't. That Oregon trail was 2,000 miles long, and Realist Disney seems determined to make the moviegoer jolt, bolt or Colt his way over every dad-burned mile...
Somehow, Dashiell Hammett picked up the reputation of an ultra-realist. He's far from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance...
ANDREW WYETH: SUBJECTIVE REALIST...
...paintings, man is the hero, not line or form. Even when his subjects are alienated or alone against architectural backrounds as in the work of Hopper, or in open spaces there is concentration on the human significance. Although Shahn's work is representational he can hardly be called a Realist. His pictures mean very much more than the objects or people they represent. Symbolic realism might better catch his selection and refinement of images, and aesthetic elaboration...
...grip on the emotions is as firm as ever-because the book is so uncomfortably a reminder of that streak of injustice that lives in every man. Until the last page Boulle keeps alive the hope that the streak will subside and that conscience will triumph. As a realist-and a Frenchman-can he let anything like that happen...