1 In this paper, I will be talking about the film Dancer in the Dark. ... Robert Ebert gave it 3 ½ stars out of 4 and said, "Dancer in the Dark is a brave throwback to the fundamentals of the cinema--to heroines and villains, noble sacrifices and dastardly betrayals. ... Another spectator, Jonathan Rosenbaum gave it 2 stars and a "worth seeing- saying, "To put it in the singsongy fashion of its own tacky musical numbers, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark enrages as well as engages, but I must confess that it also fascinates with its capacity to elicit extreme reactions."" ... The ...

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Kiss of Death In August 27, 1947, Twentieth Century-Fox released the critically acclaimed, Kiss of Death. ... In general, according to all reviews of the time, the most impressive aspect about Kiss of Death was its realism. ... But Kiss of Death was a very different movie in that respect. ... It is his impressive performance that really gave this movie the dark and sadistic twist. ... He is a man with a relatively dark past trying to get back on course, to correct his mistakes. ...

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They both had complete control over Judy, and that was what leads to her death. ... All the death in the film gives the movie a very dark and disturbing tone. ... This film portrays love in a dark tone and gives the audience a sense of melancholy. The soundtrack of the film also helps portray the dark feeling of the movie. ... Modleski brings attention to the darkness of the film and how the repetition adds to the dark tone. ...

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Fincher also has a post modernistic style for example his work often features rejection of society, dark worlds with dark people, dark issues and dark humor. ... Se7en gives the classic Fincher dark mood and feeling. ... Faces are often hidden and this just emphasizes the dark feel to his films. ... All of these endings show the grimness and darkness to Fincher's movies. The endings all end in loss or death and most of them leave a question for the audience. ...

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The story follows its main character, Lucí, on her quest to the truth behind the tragic death of her boyfriend, the novelist Lorenzo. ... The symbolic balance is a very strong theme in this film concerning light/dark imagery. Not only is light and dark visually struggling in this film, the character's symbolic representations grapple for balance as well. ... It is as dark, translucent and elusive as sex, desire, childhood, motherhood and fatherhood. ...

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The main mention to costume in the books was the man in black, who ironically proved to be the opposite of what his dark clothes and mask suggested. ... Lighting and colours help create the mood, with warm rural browns indicating the farm village in comparison with the cold darkness of the Zoo. Where the warm oranges of sunset bathe the silhouettes of Buttercup and Westley as they declare their love, darkness shrouds her face as she says "I will never love again," emphasizing her sadness. ... However, the audio element of the film allows the use of tone to further accentuate the irony of s...

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"Unlike in Verhoeven's version, Murphy's family isn't informed of his 'death;' he is therefore given the opportunity to reconnect with his wife and son after his conversion. ... Remember all those great gunfights and tarantino-esque death scenes from the original Robocop, all that intense graphic violence, in the dark noir apocalyptia setting of a future Detroit that landed it an R rating when it hit theaters in 1987? ... Jackson who doesn't say his infamous catchphrase (You know the one) until after the credits when everyone has left the theater, fight scene...

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A five year-old and his parents could be watching the same show where a man is brutally beat to death and neither the parents nor the child would have any sort of reaction. ... Shows like LA Undercover and Dark Angle contain tons of great entertainment, but, with shooting, fighting, drugs, and killing. And yet, we watch Friends at seven and flip the channel to watch Dark Angle at eight without even twitching a muscle beyond moving our thumb to push the remote buttons. ...

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They have distinct visual qualities; usually set in large, crowded cities in the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs, bootleg liquor factories, bars in back streets lit by lurid neon signs, and flashy, expensive clothes and cars. ... Although they are doomed to failure and inevitable death, gangsters are portrayed as the victims of circumstance - all other "normal- avenues to the top are unavailable to them. ... Romanticised scenes of the domestic home life of members of the family - a family wedding, shopping, a baptism, cooking in the kitchen, etc. - are intertwined with scenes o...

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Hitchcock led a long and prosperous life in the movie industry, starting as a teenager and making movies up until his death in 1980, while working on the 54th of his career (Sterrit 3). ... It has influenced my life and my career." (18) explains Hitchcock, he also had a fear of being alone and of darkness which once again appeared in many of his movies...

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