Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Likewise, the film itself comments on the very process of filmmaking. The aesthetic of Coppola's Dracula reaches into the past for vintage camera tricks like motion reversal and in-camera multiple exposures, smoke and mirrors from a bygone era of cinema. Roman Coppola, cinema scion and visual effects director, explained, "There were a lot of Victorian parlor amusements that were optical tricks that developed into film. A lot of stage magicians were the first to buy projectors and cameras. Our inspiration was the fact that it would be unique to use techniques that are inexpensive and fresh and that...
...from his first plunge into electoral politics. He demonstrated that Americans are hungry for leadership rooted in common sense and plain speaking. He was on the mark when he said, "If anyone wants to know who's to blame for the $4 trillion debt, just go look in the mirror." Voters did not recoil from such lines. On the contrary, Perot's experience suggests that Clinton and Bush missed an opportunity to use similar outspokenness in order to develop a mandate for bullet-biting reform...
...torments. Gone are the days when enormous worms slipped into my bedroom, or many headed extra-terrestrials invited me--and not too politely--to breakfast. After a heavy night's imbibation, as I wheeze nauseously in bed, and fall onto the welcoming floor, a gigantic terror presents itself. The mirror is just over me. Inching towards it--steady as she goes - the possibilities for what I could look like flower. It's not just the issue of bruised eyes and a grassy verge of a mouth. A black, suppurating tumour may cascade from my forehead; my eyes could have multiplied...
...hope, could not live with the memory of inflicting physical pain on anybody. But at the end of the long descent from nebulous fairytale fears, we arrive at the point of fear of oneself, of terror about what, just possibly and terribly, one could become. And so the mirror lies in wait for all of us. To end in a whirl of pretence, Omar Khayyam foresaw it: "I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell...
...movies, Candyman, Clive Barker's latest, has an interesting plot. It suspends disbelief and provides plenty of freaky things to ponder. But that doesn't mean it isn't scary. It's scary. After seeing it, you may need someone to hold your hand whenever you look in the mirror...