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...deflection of questions. Last night Palin focused on her experience as a former-mayor and governor of Alaska to answer questions posed to her, particularly with regards to energy policy, which she called her “area of expertise.” Palin also hailed her family background and “outsider” status in Washington. “Oh man, it’s so obvious that I’m a Washington outsider and someone who’s so unused to the way you guys operate,” she said. Palin also criticized...
...portrays a very ordinary man, director Marc Abraham places him in a very dreary world—1950s Detroit. The color quality of the film is bleak and sometimes so washed-out as to seem almost black and white. The muted music of the soundtrack is often overshadowed by background noises, such as people murmuring in a restaurant or traffic on a puddle-filled street. The only breaks from the film’s monotony are certain melodramatic sequences, such as one in which Kearns, driving around at night, spots cars on the street that sport his new invention. Ominous...
...ending, the main action is of little value. Roth’s dry style lends itself well to the book’s first few pages, running breezily through Marcus’s perfect life as the perfect son. But as Marcus’s father moves into the background and his anxiety comes to the foreground, each new face is rendered with less and less detail. Characters of significance to the novel exist only insofar as Marcus can remember them (read: barely); Roth instead relies on the intensity of Marcus’s reactions and the brevity...
...rather than explained outright through clunky dialogue. This decision, however, did not complicate the acting process. “I explained everything that happened to the characters before page one of the script,” Hammer said. Still, he sometimes gave the actors slightly different versions of their background stories because, according to Hammer, “that’s the way the truth is.” He would then put the actors together and have them rehearse a scene, each person believing something slightly different about the way the fictional events had transpired in their characters?...
...Shaun of the Dead. If anything, that film was a parody of romantic comedies. The zombie element in that film is entirely serious. With Hot Fuzz, we didn't say, "Let's spoof action movies." We just wanted to make an action film. Because we're from a comedy background, it's a comedy...