Apart from this, the opening scene is quite calm, as it just shows somebody getting ready in a morning. ... In my opinion, David Fincher - the director, is trying to show the audience that the two detectives are complete opposites, and this suggests that they are not going to get along. ... This quote shows that he is worried about how the murder could have affected people, not just about who did it. ... It is full of subliminal images; it shows a deformed print of a hand, somebody cutting their fingerprints off, and flashes of meticulous words, such as "God" and "die". ... It lasts quite a wh...

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The phonograph was an invention that did not last long in the world of film. ... Even after theaters were built to show the moving pictures a space was created at the front where the musicians were to sit. ...

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Yet no work of Jane Austen reached the big screen before 1940's Pride and Prejudice – which, though highly popular, was the last Austen film for a long period. ... According to the calculations by Lynne Pembroke and Jim Kalergis (2005): "Figuring one page of a screenplay equals one minute of film, a 120-page screenplay translates into a two-hour motion picture." ... The one of the most essential differences between film and novel is that films show and novels tell. ... The last but not the least element of transformational grammar is the language. Dialog, or spoken language is...

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The "big thing" presented at the show was a computer-modeled version of simple objects, such as a virtual teapot and a modeled VW Beetle. ... In fact, he invited the team to create a sequence that showed 5 X-Wing fighters flying in formation. ... The sequence only lasted 30 seconds, but it has shaped the computer animation industry. 1986 Pixar created Luxo Jr. ... One last method of making computer animations is to use transitions and other special effects like morphing to modify existing images and video. ... The mesh is usually depicted in wireframe mode, as this shows the faces ...

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The development of motion picture complexity has been driven by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human initiative and inventiveness, which has afforded filmmakers the opportunity to practice a more complex craft to tell more complex stories. ... While it is true that primitive technology did limit these small-scale productions, which, according to Thompson and Bordwell, "lasted only twenty seconds or so – the longest run of film that the Kinetoscope could hold," advanced technology would not necessarily have improved them, for their simplistic natur...

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone have become household names in the last couple of years with the explosion of South Park's popularity. ... Big Gay Al is an entertainer at the USO show for the troops in which he sings a song "I"m Super" in which homosexuality is the basis for the song. ...

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When we watch the soldier standing outside the door of what I assume to be the royal chambers in October and the shots within the scene show his hands fidgeting, we assume he is nervous and even become nervous ourselves. ... during the last half of the film during Madeleine's rebirth might rest in Vertigo's careful manipulation of cognitive dissonance as we compare Madeleine with all her variations: Judy from Kansas; Midge; Midge in her self portrait of Carlotta; Carlotta in her painting and Carlotta in Scottie's dream. ...

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