Word: depict
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...said Hirsch. “The getting of itchy feet, the need for adventure, the wanderlust, having new experiences: that is what I responded to.” Hirsch’s commitment to the film went further than adventure travel, however: in order to accurately depict McCandless’s emaciated state by the end of the film, he adhered to an extremely strict diet, losing 40 pounds. “There was something about Chris’ story that really moved me, that made me take the gravity of the situation: a family lost...
Corresponding balloon-shaped icons depict the positions of the shuttles and move along the lines to show viewers where vehicles are headed at any given moment...
...Desert conditions must have helped preserve the colors of the frescoes adorning the synagogue's walls from ceiling to floor. They depict scenes from the Old Testament in vivid imagery, which is all the more incredible considering that such portrayal of the human figure is expressly forbidden in the Talmud. You can even see the hand of God pulling people up to Heaven by the hair (painful, but probably better than going to Hell). The same, slightly ominous hand, can be seen parting the Red Sea as Moses leads the Israelites through...
...Dominik and Mangold, and the Coens and Miike, believe the form still has life in it. Their movies show it does. Working in a genre many think obsolete makes the filmmakers as alert and precise as the outlaws they depict. The pictures can't coast on the clichs audiences love, so they need a rigor and daring a buddy comedy or action movie doesn't. The demand on the director is different too: not to make a blockbuster, just a strong, true film. Maybe these movies will grant the genre a stay of execution and ensure that the western...
...Civil War first aired in wartime too, just after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Today the most powerful statement of The War is its simple, brutal willingness to show what war looks like. Without wallowing in gore, Burns and Novick combed through archive and newsreel footage to depict the war as GIs saw it: battlefield corpses, bomb-blasted civilians and waves lapping against bodies on beaches. Compare this with the Iraq conflict, during which the U.S. government has suppressed images of coffins, let alone casualties, often with the cooperation of the media...