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...example of the kind of films Hollywood rarely makes anymore: well-crafted stories for a mass audience. Filmgoers, it seems, have to choose between smart but dark, strange, independent or quasi-independent films, like last year's Best Picture, No Country for Old Men, or mind-numbing popcorn flicks, like the latest superhero offering from Will Smith, Hancock. WALL-E, however, seems to be stimulating both hearts and minds...
...timing is right, as movies from M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening to Pixar's Wall-E rap viewers' wasteful ways while selling huge tubs of popcorn. But Planet Green's ecotainment is also a study in what kind of Hollywood activism works and what's just noise pollution...
...genre, including gritty graphic novels like Wanted and Alan Moore's watershed deconstructivist superhero tome Watchmen are getting the big-screen makeover. Stories and characters first written for an audience of a few hundred thousand geeks at most are reaching, at the box office and on DVD and cable, popcorn-chomping crowds that number in the tens of millions. "The dalliance between Hollywood and comics is becoming a marriage," says Frank Miller, creator of the graphic novels Sin City and 300. "The downside is in the heads of people who make comic books. Everybody wants money and fame...
...select few whose names peppered dining hall conversation and lit up the pages of the Crimson. With all this gossip and openness, it would be pretty easy to make a name for myself… right?Luckily, I had my trusty Salada teabags to help me out. After a popcorn chicken-filled lunch, I came across this line: “Before a man can find himself famous, he must first find himself.” Eureka! I thought. If I wanted to become famous at Harvard, I had to first construct a killer Harvard identity. Perhaps I could...
...security guard escorted me into the theater after hours. But it wasn’t empty. Men in black t-shirts slouched in the rows, and women with intense metal stud accessories stood among the rice and popcorn covering the floor...