Word: films
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...been 25 years since five teenage archetypes sat down together for Saturday detention, and their experience - as related in John Hughes' teen classic The Breakfast Club - is still having an impact. The film, which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes...
Many fans of the popular “Twilight” saga and its film franchise would like to maintain the illusion that the Cullens’ sparkling diamond-like skin is merely an unfortunate sun-induced vampire affliction, or that Taylor Lautner’s transformation into a werewolf in the film version of “New Moon” is a manifestation of a Quilete tribe member’s coming-of-age in a troubled, vampire-ridden world...
However, the mystical, supernatural feats depicted in the grossly popular “Twilight” movies, based on Stephanie Meyer’s novels, can be attributed to one equation that is applied each time a digital effect is added to a film...
...other words, the over-composite image—the final cohesive shot one sees—is equal to a combination of two or more constituent images—digital and film stills—layered together...
Some backstory: in 2008 the conservative nonprofit Citizens United produced the anti-Clinton film Hillary: The Movie and arranged to distribute it using money from the group's corporate treasury rather than from its political-action committee--a crucial distinction under the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reforms of 2002. In a 5-4 ruling, the court found that distinction unconstitutional. If freedom of speech protects the right of individuals to air their political views, it decided, then that right extends to incorporated groups--like businesses, labor unions, Planned Parenthood and Citizens United...