Word: flashback
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After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, who should show up on the scene but studly policeman Nino Paventi (Peter Miller), a childhood friend of Angelo’s who ditched him in high school after Angelo became unpopular—an inappropriately lighthearted flashback scene shows Angelo as a freshman being taped to a locker against his will, his body forming the central “A” in a homophobic slur. So Nino is back in Angelo’s life, and after things become hot and heavy on a camping trip, they decide...
...Kenta?author of both films' screenplays but lacking in directorial experience?took over his father's job. Kenta's humble, self-effacing approach charmed some and annoyed others. Actor Takeshi Kitano, who played the original group's teacher in the first movie and reprises the role in flashback sequence, reportedly commented that the younger Fukasaku was "more polite than a Kyoto tea lady." Kenta insists that the finished product is a Kinji Fukasaku film, even though he directed almost all of it himself. "I thought of my task as completing my father's last movie, rather than making my first...
...some readers, the cover close-up of General Tommy Franks triggered a flashback to an earlier war. "Your cover reminded me of a picture of President Lyndon Johnson planning the Vietnam War," remarked a Minnesotan. "I pray that the likeness is only a coincidence." "History repeating itself?" asked a Wisconsin woman uneasily. "I hope not." A man in North Carolina felt certain in his assessment: "The resemblance is a reminder that invading Iraq and getting involved in nation building may result in another quagmire...
...about where the first one left off. No brief synopsis of the dozens of major characters introduced a year ago in The Fellowship of the Ring, or of the great quest they are bound to serve or thwart. Instead, director and co-writer Jackson begins Part II with a flashback to a literal cliff-hanger: the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) clinging to a precipice and falling, perhaps to his doom. Then, on with the story! That's how sure of himself Jackson is. His grand notion was always to film the entire trilogy in one gigantic 15-month shoot...
...this scene was an eerie flashback to just minutes earlier. Harvey had done it only five minutes before to force a second overtime...