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...fantasy with flashes of reality - the occasional shakiness of a handheld camera and a palette that, except for Clementine's orange or blue hair, is muted, melancholy and truer to life than Hollywood's Technicolor hues. But the denouement almost veered into classic Hollywood schmaltz. As he prepared to shoot the ending, Gondry was still debating with Kaufman about whether to add a twist in which Joel would wake up as if it had all been a dream. In the end, Gondry says, they agreed it was "too gimmicky." Despite his focus on making an accessible film, Gondry "was surprised...
...schools with J-terms, the month does provide students with non-credit and for-credit activities that could not be offered in any other environment. With wide participation from faculty and student clubs, MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) allows students to do lab work, learn topology, shoot a bow-and-arrow, weld aluminum and watch imported anime—literally everyday. Middlebury’s J-term includes extensive travel and service opportunities. At Harvard, an ideal J-term could open up the possibility of international travel, research and volunteer work. Student groups could also take advantage...
...interest in defending the big-budget summer shoot-em-ups? Are these dynamite-filled popcorn commercials worth the time that we spend watching them? Are they sufficiently transporting to give our imaginations a productive workout? Or would we be better off Netflixing our way through the season’s multiplex doldrums...
When it came time to shoot, Sandvoss was joined by fellow rookie Ramsey as well as a troupe of more established names like Mary Kay Place, Jacqueline Bisset and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He says the director’s style allowed actors enough space to make their own decisions...
Boys today are force-fed these categorical imperatives of manhood in the schoolyard, the backyard and from the greatest teacher of all: the mass media. Boys playing Halo, a popular game for the X-Box game console, for instance—where the objective is to shoot everything in sight—learn that manhood is about power and domination. Television reinforces the lesson, often advertising a violent brand of masculinity. TV shows celebrate hyper-violent male icons like wrestlers, football players and action-heroes, a.k.a. professional killers. Meanwhile, men who don’t put on what anti-violence...