Word: visualize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...John Landis means to subvert the twin genres of musical comedy and action melodrama. He fails there, since periodically the film stops dead in its headlong rush toward satire and puts on an ingratiating face, mugging and mewling to win over its audience. Landis seems no surer of his visual style than he does of his movie's tone, so he tries everything: shots angled from a dog's-or a god's-eye view, eerily lighted special effects, more dancers, more extras, more noise, more cars and car crashes. Alas, more is less, and The Blues...
...north side of Moscow by 10 a.m. and begins reading Western publications. One of his two assistants monitors the major news services ("TASS is rather late sometimes, so I have to rely more on Western agencies," Dunayev says), while the other assistant lines up film, still photographs and other visual material. Dunayev begins by outlining his lead stories, keeping "one or two lively items in reserve, just to cheer people up after telling them what new actions the White House is going to take...
...Woman and Child, Segal obeys all the rules of screenwriting. He writes in short, never-more-than-five-minute scenes in which visual images carry more weight than language. Typically, we hardly know what the characters look like so we won't be disappointed by the movie version...
...also not self-evident that the authors of the Constitution had in mind, when they talked of 'free speech,' a $4 billion industry which maintains degrading perceptions of a majority of the American population through visual as well as written means. Certainly they could not have imagined the qualitative difference in impact of the mass media as compared to the pamphlets they distributed as revolutionaries. Regardless of one's feelings on this particular interpretation, however, it remains clear that the general right to distribute obscene materials is not threatened...
...Bill immature and masochistic for quitting before lining up another job. "Never throw out the dirty water until you have clean water," she says. Grant is just as tough on Donna, 26, who complains that her husband goes to topless bars. Grant explains that men derive natural pleasure from visual excitement; a sensible wife should not interfere. After Donna hangs up, Grant tells the audience that the caller's attitudes are insecure and childlike...