Word: overtness
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Without Madea’s brazen comic relief, the film’s darker themes and overt religiosity would be intolerable. Perry strives not for emotional consistency but for a harmonious blend of disparate emotions. Diary’s tone is a compromise between the tragic and the ridiculous...
While The Birth of a Nation is truly a groundbreaking movie for its cinematographic technique (especially in its revolutionary use of parallel editing and dramatic pacing), the film is better known for its overt glorification of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and its degrading portrayal of blacks. Its re-interpretive historical plot paints the fall of antebellum Southern culture as a disgraceful tragedy perpetuated by lazy blacks’ conniving and power-hungry “mulattos” and their misguided or equally opportunistic Northern sympathizers...
...does Constantine do it? After all, in the past few years, outrage abounded over the substantially less impressive magical doings of Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins, even as their “playing God” and messianic message lacked both the showy violence and overt Christian references of Constantine...
...Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx are celebrating their victory over drug overdoses, STDs and near fatal car accidents with a three month national tour promoting their compilation album. This act and the CD itself are simply further self-aggrandizements of a band built entirely on overt personal satisfaction without any musical foundation. The group makes it very clear as to why they got into rock and roll in the pedophilia-proud lyrics of their anthem “All in the name of”: “She's only fifteen/ She's the reason...
...tley Crüe’s can’t even muster a power love ballad without overt attempts at controversy. “You’re All I Need,” a plodding rock song about the emotions we all go through when being sent to jail for killing an unrequited love, sounds like a mediocre Meat Loaf tune except instead of taking the words right out of her mouth, they take her life. Truly a universal story, one to which anyone can relate?...