Word: darkeness
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...ruggedly handsome man emerges from under the hood of a car, rubbing his grimy hands on white cloth. Leaning against the dark sedan, another man, young and athletic looking, gifts the mechanic a neat new watch. His reward? The man leans in and the two share a kiss. Some kind of underground gay romantic comedy? No, it's a recent TV commercial for Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana, and [an error occurred while processing this directive] it's part of a growing trend in European advertising toward ad campaigns that better represent consumers' diversity. And if those consumers...
...melodrama, coiling its tension smartly, filling the screen with vivid tough guys (Howard Da Silva and Charles McGraw as a rancher and his enforcer) and gals (Lynn Whitney as McGraw's surly wife). The movie also has style to spare, especially in the pearly flashes of white amid the dark skies and darker hills. Somebody had seen Que Viva Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein's 1932 paean to peons. We'll tell you who that somebody was in a minute...
...Cinematographers are also known as lighting cameramen. Well, Alton was a darkening cameraman. "Where there is no light, one cannot see," he wrote in his book. "And when one cannot see, his imagination runs wild. He begins to suspect that something is about to happen.In the dark there is mystery." Alton put this theory into practice, spectacularly; he become the master of visual mystery...
...their earrings. Later, to show that time is running out, Alton's reflects Trevor's face in the dial of a black clock. He might allow a figure to swallow the frame, as bulky Raymond Burr does in Raw Deal. Alton also delighted in visual puns: On a dark street, a trash can lid rattles to the ground, and a gunman collapses on it - his head on a platter...
...wanted to spare her," Edwards writes in The Memory Keeper's Daughter, "to protect her from loss and pain; he had not understood that loss would follow her regardless, as persistent and life-shaping as a stream of water. Nor had he anticipated his own grief, woven with the dark threads of his past...