Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Film Archive is in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, on Quincy Street. The Carpenter Center is a semi-spiral lump of concrete, and is one of the few North American examples of work by the renowned architect Le Corbusier. It's ugly, but people will still think you're uncultured if you criticize it, simply because it's famous...
...through mattes, combining live action with painted backdrops, which would lend a "magical" air and keep the budget at a bearable $30 million. The final decision was radical: to shoot the picture in seven primary and secondary colors that would define the characters and story while adding a unique visual humor. "Love it or hate it," Disney movie boss Jeffrey Katzenberg kept saying, "Dick Tracy will look unlike any movie you've ever seen...
...better than Batman. Warren Beatty, Hollywood's most distinctive producer- star, scores after a long dry spell with a gangland drama of wit and grace, narrative sweep and unique visual style. All this and Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman (strutting their roguish stuff while devil-dolled up in grotesque makeup) and a knockout Madonna too. It may not be a great movie -- after all, it's only comic-book art -- but it's great moviemaking...
Walt Disney Co. ((is)) soliciting paid product placements in a new film, "Mr. Destiny." Companies such as Campbell Soup Co., Nabisco Brands and Kraft General Foods Group are believed to have been contacted . . . The cost structure, as outlined in letters to marketers, is $20,000 for a visual, $40,000 for a brand name mention with the visual and $60,000 for an actor to use the product...
...dagger. For $20,000, he could say, "Is that a dagger that I see before me? Methinks I recognize it from the Hammacher-Schlemmer catalog." (For $40,000, he will seize the implement and use it to slice some cheese.) The King also has trouble sleeping. A Sominex visual would be $20,000; for $40,000, he would actually swallow a pill; for $60,000, his insomnia can be cured, though this will take some rewriting...