A song that plays over a movie’s closing credits is given pride of place in the audience’s immediate response.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Form Content
If the subject is the content of a biodoc, then aspects of their identity can inform the documentary’s form.
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But Why Not
Ask everyone who sees Queer for a basic plot summary, and you won’t hear many mentions of Judaism, the Holocaust, nor 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Cameo Joe
One of Joe Pesci’s two scenes in Day of the Fight utilizes the audience’s familiarity with his oeuvre to make us feel the protagonist’s plight.
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It Ends with Them
It Ends with Us is back in the headlines, for reasons having almost nothing to do with what’s in the movie.
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A Sequel Kind of Documentary
A New Kind of Wilderness is basically a documentary sequel to Captain Fantastic.
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Cuckoo
Bird challenges societal dogma.
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Small for Small
Cillian Murphy, humanist actor.
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Guess Who
When a movie/play is about a sizable family gathering, you can count on early conversations being rife with exposition clearly mapping out their family tree.
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Heretical
Casting recognizable actors in undersized roles can meaningfully dupe audience expectations.
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