Word: screen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initial flash came in 1994, when the critically acclaimed Shawshank Redemption launched Darabont's big-screen directorial career. The adaptation of the Stephen King prison drama received seven Academy Award nominations, leaving fans and critics alike wondering: "How is he going to top this...
...ability to sense evil in others. He sees the violent thoughts within the deranged Wild Bill, and is repulsed by the realization that there is more to his murderous past than he is letting on. In Percy (perhaps the most despicably obnoxious character ever to grace the silver screen), he recognizes the arrogance and sheer malice that is most intensely manifested in his cruelty towards the inmate Eduard Delacroix. First, he breaks his fingers with his billy club; then, he crushes Mr. Jingles beneath his boot, necessitating John's magic to bring him back; and, most horribly...
...black screen masks a platform upstage and creates an amorphous and cloaked space essential to Machinal's murky insinuations. The lighting, especially because it seems to be lit from the back, creates a silhouette of figures. This space becomes the sordid space of sexual conquest, first with the boss, later as a murky bar and finally in the second act as holding pen for Helen before her execution...
Harvard tried to screen to get Clemente open, but on the inbounds pass from Prasse-Freeman, Avebe again deflected the ball out of bounds, this time with 0.8 seconds remaining...
...This morning I woke up and tried to boot up my computer," said Thomas J. Mucha '03, who said he encountered a blank screen. "I thought it was my computer's fault...