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...celebrities or regular people, like the distraught elderly man in an NRA ad warning, "Al Gore definitely will try to take our rights away - just like they did in Australia!" When all else fails, ads blamed the medium itself. Two Bush campaign attack ads showed Gore on a TV screen within the ad, making TV itself a symbol for mendacity...
...difference between drama and classic tragedy is that in a drama people seem to have a kind of active role in what is occurring on the screen. So in something like On the Waterfront, with Marlon Brando, you know, "There's a right thing to do Malloy and a wrong thing to do!" And all this becomes a sort of moral parable. He can either act doing the right thing or act doing the wrong thing, and that's pretty much the way the world is established in that film...
...This is excellent," as he chews his food. But he's really a sad guy. But that's something that I like. I knew people like that growing up, and they're either dead or in jail, you know. So I wanted to put something like that on the screen. In fact, that's how Wahlberg got onto the movie. He said, "That's my life, Jim. I came home and my mother threw a party for me and it was the most depressing thing ever. That's my life...
...Robert Redford returns to his chair behind the camera and upholds his hard-earned reputation for translating strong, character-driven stories to the silver screen. His directing style is both simplistic and grand, utilizing an arsenal of sweeping camera angles to capture truly majestic shots. Redford also plays around with color schemes to create different moods throughout the film-the warm colors of the golf course convey a sense of oblivious joy, the blackness of nightfall reflects Junuh's inner turmoil and Bagger's emergence from the dark woods creates a sense of mystery. Through it all, Redford instills...
...Note the lack of a candidate's name. From Teddy Roosevelt to Ross Perot to Jesse Ventura to Ralph Nader, American third parties have appeared on the national radar screen and then faded from it, with equal alacrity, for one main reason: They are cults of personality...