Word: realisms
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...soar over the forests and villages, or is viewed as a reflection in the river water (where it looks like a giant white blowfish), the movie attains an astonishing spiritual buoyancy. ?I?m high!? Dorrington exclaims. ?High on helium!? So was I: high on this documentary?s magical realism...
...make-believe exposed by the “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter” franchises. But in raising the stakes, those films also raised the bar. In a box-office landscape where audiences demand epic grandeur, adolescent drama, and, above all, realism from their fantasies, how is Lewis’ simple bedtime myth to compete?At an elaborately-choreographed interview session in New York City last month, the film’s director, producer, and six principal actors make their pitch. Whirling through talking points with flashes of genuine charm, the creative...
...uber-bitch version), Caleb, Trey, and Jeri Ryan’s beastly Charlotte. And that’s only some of them! We need some evil again, folks!Time itself was treated as evil in this episode, as the writers blatantly defied it through their complete lack of realism. So, here’s a similarly super-speedy summary of what happened with Ryan/Marissa: Marissa’s all like “Oh no…I can’t go to college…I shot someone,” Ryan and Johnny tell her that...
...Joseph S. Nye of the Kennedy School of Government, Gardner made the case for a return to President Carter’s foreign policy approach, which focused on human rights and international cooperation. “I guess I am old-fashioned enough to believe that idealism can be realism, and that soft power can help validate hard power and build support for U.S. leadership and the world,” said Gardner. “Soft power,” a term originally coined by Professor Nye, focuses on the idea of “reaching out to other...
...those who read Clowes' Ice Haven and found the constantly shifting visual styles a distraction, Tricked will be much easier to enjoy. Drawn with pen and ink in an unpretentious style, the artwork mediates nicely, if unspectacularly, between realism and caricature. What it lacks in experimentation it makes up for in clarity. Robinson keeps the layouts interestingly varied but always readable, and even occasionally does some stretching with scenes like the swirling panels of characters and events that culminate the climactic chapter. In another nice graphical touch, the lettering accompanying Steve's story becomes increasingly unsteady as he descends into...