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...black-and-white to color. He and other Hollywood luminaries, including James Cameron (who's currently making Avatar, a live-action 3-D movie), believe that 3-D, when done properly, isn't a zany retro gimmick but a narrative tool to pull movie watchers even deeper into the film - just like sound and color...
...hall. Among other tools, moviemakers there jury-rigged a video camera that allows the director to peer through it while moving and navigate through a virtual scene in real time. That helps him block scenes and understand how to use the Z-axis that adds the third dimension to film...
There is a scene in the film classic Casablanca when Captain Renault, the head of the local police, finds out that there is gambling going on in the cafe owned by Humphrey Bogart's character. Renault's reaction was to say that "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" Of course, Renault knew about the activity and was taking a few dollars on the side...
Attorney GERARD SPONG, after a Dutch court indicted right-wing politician Geert Wilders for inciting violence and discrimination with his film that likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf...
...experiment, some people were asked to watch the last few mawkish minutes of the 1979 film The Champ, which involves a dying boxer and his wailing boy. Others watched a dry nature clip. Subjects induced to feel sad were willing to spend significantly more money on a sporty insulated water bottle offered for purchase postviewing. "This void of loss people feel makes them want to fill it up with something," says Keltner--and often that means spending a little more for a luxury item. This doesn't mean you should take on a second mortgage, 2006-style, but it wouldn...