Many of these conventions were used in the Star Wars films, which was first released in 1977, which were seen by many writers as the traditional western narrative relocated to outer space with state of the art special effects added. In the 1980s, dystopias, the opposite of the utopian perfect' or idealized societies, were common, with Bladerunner, Brazil, which was released in 1985, and in various Robocop and Terminator type films. ...

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French film theorist Louis Delluc would call these filmmaking techniques and methods cinematic formal elements, or those elements unique to film as an art form, such as editing and camera movement (Jaramillo). ...

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(pg. 536) " This untold story of their disappearance exemplifies the impermanence and fragility of personal relationships while providing a perfect formula for a trilogy whose theme is about the hopelessness of love in contemporary life. As the use of color became prevalent, these filmmakers began to typify a new European art cinema, expressing a distinctly contemporary ennui. ...

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Atlantida studios were established in Rio in 1943 by Moacyr Fenelon, it was here that chanchada was perfected on the premise that Brazilian films did not have the technical ability of Hollywood films and it was at these studios that the careers of Oscarito and Grande Otello were natured and developed (Rist 1). ...

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