Word: mythical
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...anime. By ambitiously employing all of these disparate styles, constituting several departures from the standard of color live-action, the film risks appearing choppy and uneven. However, in reality this is one of the film’s most valuable assets, imbuing it with a strong sense of the mythic and legendary place occupied by film in our society. As Tarantino explains in the film’s press release, “There are two different worlds that my movies take place in. One of them is the ‘Quentin Universe’ of Pulp Fiction...
...Holy Grail--the human receptacle for Jesus' blood line--popped up in a 1986 best seller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which inspired Brown's Da Vinci Code. When Brown said recently, "Mary Magdalene is a historical figure whose time has come," he meant a figure with a lot of mythic filagree...
...recent BBC special has questioned the almost mythic quality of the Lynch story line. But in trying to show that the U.S. stage-managed the rescue, the British network may be guilty of exaggeration itself, with its claim that the Pentagon manipulated information to produce "one of the most stunning pieces of news management ever conceived." The key controversies...
...learned was not about heroism, but self-respect. "Heroism never changed anything," he says. "People in Jenin resisted, and it enabled them to overcome the celebration of victimhood that's common on both sides." Egteyah isn't the first documentary about Jenin - in the Middle East, a battle so mythic was bound to produce its own sub-genre. But it's the first to examine both sides of the fight without propaganda. Hassan found something else in the camp: "Victims feel hate because they are passive," he says. "But by resisting, the people of Jenin camp acted. They weren...
...Florida Senator Bob Graham's first appearance with the rest of the gang. Graham brings two strong qualities to the race. He is a former Governor--and therefore, of necessity, a decision maker and plain-speaker--and he stands an excellent chance of winning his home state, which is mythic among Democrats after the 2000 debacle. But Graham didn't offend anyone; I can't remember a thing he said. (Oh, yes: he reminded the audience that he voted against the war; this drew applause...