This was quickly followed by Dance Hall a large-scale musical event staged at Sydney Opera house. ... This is where he first devised, staged and directed a thirty minute play entitled "Strictly Ballroom" later to become the basis for his first hit film. ... In Strictly Ballroom the lovers kiss in front of the large sign, in Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo Dicaprio walks past the sign and in Moulin Rouge it appears as L"amour Fou, as in the French for "mad love". ... This immediately draws in the audience, as they are shocked to hear that the story has a tragic ending (grabbing their attention and...

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1 In this paper, I will be talking about the film Dancer in the Dark. This film stars BjÖrk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare and Cara Seymour. It was directed and written by Lars von Trier. This film was distributed by Fine Line Features and it was released in the US in cinemas ...

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In The Barkleys of Broadway, Astaire and Rogers' characters are a married couple, together performing in musicals on stage. Rogers leaves the comedic musical stage for that of theatre, only to return to musical after disastrous results in theatre lead her to desiring "nothing but fun set to music". ... 'Musical numbers can be shot from the point of view of a front-row theatrical spectator and then move into filmic space - combining the immediate contact of the theatre with the mobility of perspective of the camera (Feuer ibid.). ...

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Within the context of film industry, the film Titanic by James Cameron belongs to epic romance/ disaster genre. The film, released in 1997, was a global box office hit because the director provided equal importance to history, fiction and romance. To be specific, one can see that the film's plot is ...

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Because the concept of stardom is synonymous with film, it is convenient to believe that the American film industry has been creating stars for as long as that industry has been in existence. This is not the case. For many years, pre 1910, actors were not even given a name. Producers feared right...

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