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...intense, thunderstorm palette. Creatures and landscapes and entire armies were created from scratch. With the kind of computing power directors have at their disposal, editing becomes more like painting than moviemaking. Time speeds up for dramatic effect, then slows down to capture a balletic spear thrust. Computer-generated elephants rear up and plummet off computer-generated cliffs. The Persian King Xerxes becomes 9 ft. tall. In one scene a nubile oracle dances in a trance, her hair and her flowy, filmy wrap swirling surreally around her otherwise nude body (300 earns every inch of its R rating). There's something...
...that an honest driver can make just as much money as his cheating cousin and encouraged rickshaw drivers - about 50 took the bait - to go completely straight and see what happened. "We want to build a new relationship of trust," went one slogan. Another, which was stuck onto the rear of compliant auto rickshaws, read: "I am proud to be an honest driver and please pardon me for my past mistakes...
...bends like a cattail in the wind. And here's the most implacably futuristic model of the bunch, a proposal for a prefabricated house that would rise out of the ground on a long neck, continue for a distance underground and send up a kind of tail at its rear. If it calls to mind all kinds of things, and it does, one of them is a brontosaurus from outer space. But how often do you see a house that reminds you in a single gesture of The Flintstones and The Jetsons...
...village to village, Kwame discovered a curious thing: people in the Volta region were underwhelmed by the idea of independence. Fearing that Ghana's bigger tribes would discriminate against them, many Voltans wanted independence to come in stages, or even the chance to secede altogether. Tribalism, which would later rear its ugly head in places such as Nigeria and Rwanda, was already shaping postcolonial Africa...
...great depth of field, which brings even the debris at the rear of the alley into focus, accentuates these details, which seem all too appropriate to describe the “melting pot” aesthetic of these social settlements of the early 1900s...