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Here's another tough question: whether V for Vendetta is the movie that will start that conversation. The kind of delicate ambiguity that Portman talks about is hard to achieve within the narrow constraints of a popcorn movie--morally speaking, they tend to be shot in black and white--and V may come off as a bit too noble for the movie's good. As both the product of violence and its perpetrator, he should be doubly twisted. "What was done to me was monstrous!" V snarls. "And they created a monster," Evey replies. But if V plays...
...action hero.” Strange words, coming from Harrison Ford. Sure, he’s aging, but weren’t his performances as Han Solo and Indiana Jones iconic examples of popcorn blockbuster action roles? He begs to differ. “I’ve never actually done ‘action’ films,” he said in a recent interview with The Crimson. “I do thrillers that have action in them. I do films like ‘Indiana Jones,’ which I think of as kind...
...should governments or companies fund open-ended scientific research? Because the history of innovation is filled with accidental discoveries that changed the world. Think about that next time you eat some microwave popcorn...
MICROWAVE OVEN In 1946 Percy Spencer, a Raytheon Corp. self-taught engineer studying radars, tested a vacuum tube called a magnetron, and something unusual happened: a candy bar in his pocket melted. The intrigued scientist placed popcorn kernels near the tube and then an egg, watching in amazement as the kernels popped and the yolk splattered. Spencer realized that exposure to low-density microwave energy could cook food quickly, and he created the first commercial microwave a year later. Smaller models followed, revolutionizing a certain kind of cooking...
...light myself,' Spielberg says, holding the lantern so that the slaves' tortured faces are perfectly illuminated. He even shoots a second-unit 'insert' scene of a crumpled letter tossed onto a table. 'I like to sweat the details ... The second-unit stuff is what makes the audience eat the popcorn faster...