Word: climaxes
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...heftier credentials, like two-time Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple. Others may have hotter properties, like Mary Harron with American Psycho. But only one made her film debut in the most famous scene of Hollywood's most famous gangster movie. Sofia Coppola was the baby baptized during the killer climax to The Godfather, directed by her father Francis. Now 28, and having rummaged through the other arts, she has made her first feature. Like Michael Corleone, Sofia is joining the family business...
JAMES GANDOLFINI Sopranos buzz reaches climax with movie-style premiere. Can Prozac paisan live up to hype...
...this convincing work is cast into the air at the climax, which finally delivers on the earlier promise of incredibility. That the unlikelihood of the film's one giant event operates in tension with the utterly natural progression of its stories isn't a misstep, though. It's a masterstroke. As established by the preface, it isn't unheard of for bizarre coincidences to occur in reality; there are situations in life that feel staged, and those that don't. The exhilarated note Stanley makes to himself cuts to the point: "This is something that happens." That's true...
...felt compelled to acknowledge the immensity of the man they had opposed. Senator Robert Taft, known as Mr. Republican, considered Roosevelt's death one of the worst tragedies that had ever happened to the country. "The President's death removes the greatest figure of our time at the very climax of his career, and shocks the world to which his words and actions were more important than those of any other man. He dies a hero of the war, for he literally worked himself to death in the service of the American people...
...spring approaches, the film seems to grow longer and longer. Lee allows an artificial sense of dramatic climax to unfold with the 1863 Bushwacker assault on Lawrence, Kansas. The viewer expects Holt and Roedel to perish in a tragic death in battle so Lee can make some sort of universal claim that war is pointless. However, Roedel and Holt merely receive injuries and miraculously, find themselves at the Shelley farm. Images of Jewel breast-feeding her child again distract the viewer and destroy whatever dramatic tension remains. In a contrived plot twist, Shelley maneuvers herself into matrimonial bliss with Roedel...