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...full-force. Taking a page from the James Cameron playbook, Scott meticulously recreates the world of ancient Rome, capturing the most minute details from the bustling streets to the massive Coliseum. And the numerous gladiator battles are quite spectacular, capturing the split-second barbarity through a combination of the realist "skip-frame" technique from Saving Private Ryan and the furious, in-your-face editing style Oliver Stone employed in Any Given Sunday...
...nickname. If that hasn't won you over completely, he moves on to someone else, and you go down on his Suspicious Characters List. In Washington, Republicans cling to the notion that "W" is tougher, and tougher-minded, than the sentimental dad, that he is steelier, a realist who isn't afraid of Democrats, reporters, anyone. It is said so often and by so many people that it's easy to forget the old man could be tough too. The difference is that he thought twice about letting you know. "W" never tires...
...anxious, wondering how they would hold up as they were all together. When I got to the Rose all the pieces were out on the floor, and I thought "These look good!" and that they were engaging and relational. I decided right away I wouldn't put the realist or minimalist or gestural pictures together. I thought that would not reflect accurately the eclectic or pluralist nature out of which those objects came. So we began to mix and match and on an intuitive level to think, these are nice in relation to one another. Or one piece would...
...shows, again and again, how very well he does so. A Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, Shahn came to the United States in 1906. His leftist politics and interest in social reform are reflected in these paintings and photographs of New York during the Great Depression. He employs a social-realist vision and style, advocating reform by showing the frustrations of ordinary people and addressing unemployment, poverty, immigration, class and race...
...Morris believes that films are so inevitably arbitrary that they do not necessarily produce truth, but this does not preclude a real belief in truth itself. He describes himself as a "at heart a realist," professing to believe in a real world and in right and wrong. "There is truth, and it's not subjective, not up for grabs," he says. "It's just hard to arrive at. But if there's anything noble about the human enterprise, it's trying to find out about the world...