Critics have not always agreed with the way in which Luhrmann works, saying his films are completely false, however this has not stopped him becoming one of the most famous and most accredited directors of the modern day. ... This was quickly followed by Dance Hall a large-scale musical event staged at Sydney Opera house. ... The Red Curtain styles aim is to promote audience participation within the story, and has certain specifics in mind to actively achieve this. 1) The audience knows how the story will end right from the start. 2) The Story line is thin and simple. 3) The world c...

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Lagaan is considered to be a modern classic of Indian cinema, Lagaan tells the story of a central Indian farming village. This isn't the usual boy-meets-girl, boy falls in love with girl, then song and dance sequences, parents objecting to their marriage, boy fighting for girl and finally a union and boy and girl live happily ever after. ...

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The character in a western is usually always a male and their physical and mental toughness separated them from modern citizens, there is a narrative the follows some vision of a quest into the natural world, and the film has a stylistic emphasis on open, natural spaces and setting. ... Musicals are classifies with characters who act out and express their emotions and thoughts through song and dance, plots that are interrupted or moved forward by musical members and spectacular sets and settings. ...

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As Landry describes about flapper films, they are more about modern femininity, "female independence within the traditional confines of romance and marriage"(Landry 3). ... For Gold Diggers of 1933 to be classified as a flapper film is true with regards to the dance numbers and choreography, the independent women successfully breaking the mold of the male dominant society is not. ...

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The early films of Edison and Dickson were simple, short glimpses of "well-known sports figures, excerpts from noted vaudeville acts, or performances by dancers or acrobats" (Thompson & Bordwell 7). ...

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