Word: closeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Robert Benton recalls her work that day on the set with amazement: "We must have shot that scene from seven in the morning until six at night, over and over again. First in closeup, then a medium shot, finally a long one. Later in the day, we shot only Dustin reacting to her on the stand. During this last take, all 30 people in the room were facing Dustin. I happened to be watching Meryl, as well. She had the same intensity as she had when she first did the scene...
...Adolf Hitler wall poster, the image explodes to reveal a full-dress wedding in the midst of a bombing attack. From this incongruous tableau, the director moves on to ever higher lunacy. Audiences never know when he will cut away from a tense dramatic exchange to a closeup of a pack of Camels...
...temperature at Titan's cloud tops was a frigid -200° C (-328° F). That seemed to rule out surface temperatures warm enough to allow the formation of amino acids, the building blocks of life. But scientists were withholding final judgment until the Voyagers get their closeup look at Titan...
...story. Each time The Champ hits a melodramatic climax, which is roughly once every five minutes, the director brings up soppy music and goes for the jugular. When the champ, in despair, discards a Teddy bear he had planned to give his son, Zeffirelli actually cuts to a closeup of the abandoned...
Voyager 1 is not the first unmanned vehicle to make the 400-million-mile journey to Jupiter, but it is easily the most ambitious. Equipped with eleven different instruments, as well as both wide-angle and closeup cameras, it should not only complete a stunning reconnaissance of Jupiter but, by taking advantage of a favorable alignment of the outer planets, will also be able to survey another little-known world. Boosted by Jupiter's strong gravity, Voyager 1 will be catapulted out to Saturn...