Word: scene
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Just as the camera reveals that Kirk is sitting on a cheap lawn-chair and not a log or a bench, a plane roars overhead, bringing home the point that this movie is not afraid of trading in subtlety for loud, obvious humor. In fact, the opening scene couldn’t fit the film itself more perfectly. Like Kirk’s billboard, the film sets audiences up for a promising scene, then pulls back to reveal the seams...
...evident in the first scene, the film works well with its setting, using location to spark ironically amusing dialogue. The airport, where Kirk works as a TSA agent along with his friends, provides a humorous backdrop for their conversations about Kirk’s relationship with Molly; instead of moving the lines through his security check, as a TSA agent, Kirk spends much of his time at work chatting—offering an explanation as to why airport security lines are so long. In another scene, Kirk and his friends go around on an empty baggage carousel as they discuss...
...video for “Telephone,” which succeeds in surpassing even the imagery- and blood-strewn performance from the MTV Video Music Awards as the pinnacle of her avant-garde weirdness. There are sunglasses covered in cigarettes, poisoned honey, Quentin Tarantino references galore, and a scene where Gaga wears nothing but caution tape. This last feature seems a little unnecessary since, when someone is only wearing tape, most people will already have realized that she should probably be handled with caution...
...need to play contiguously, videos don’t have to relate in any way to their song’s subject matter, and product placement can be as deliberately unsubtle as Gaga’s numerous outfits. At times it all gets a little too ridiculous (twinkie-sharing scene in the pussy wagon = awkward), and it’s still hard to tell why featured artist Beyoncé feels like she lives “in Grand Central Station,” but Ms. Knowles’s acting chops and director Jonas Akerlund’s superb attention...
...Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz’s latest thriller, the residents of Skarrild, a small, despondent Danish village in southern Jutland, have discovered a foolproof way to eliminate their problems: plunge them into the mysterious town bog. As a voiceover in the film’s opening scene recounts, the bog first achieved fame when a cow, after being buried in the bog for months, reemerged and gave birth to a calf with two heads, one of a calf and the other human. The beast subsequently incited a plague of mad cow disease and took the lives...