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? ... We see this in the little fake newscast and commercial segments, in Robocop's clunky stiff design and movement, in the exaggerated amount of blood when someone gets shot and the exaggerated wound that comes with them. ... His design is sleek and smooth looking like he would actually move in the ways we see him. It's a brilliant design but i...

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Soderbergh uses a monochromatic colour design to introduce his film the blurred flesh coloured faces which resemble bright lights slowly fades into a focus of a medium shot of Wilson's face. ... All of the edits are at equilibrium in terms of the graphic relations, this allows the audience to enjoy the progression of the storyline. ...

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Writer Carl Mayer, designer/painter Hermann Warm, Walter Roehrig, and Walter Reimann played significant roles in the movement, as did Directors Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, 1919), Fritz Lang (Dr.Mabuse, 1922; Metropolis, 1927), Murnau (Nosferatu, 1922; The Last Laugh, 1924), and Paul Leni (Waxworks, 1924, and in Hollywood The Cat and The Canary, 1927) The dada movement (a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design) was sweeping across the artistic world in the early 1920s, and the various European...

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