Word: singings
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...sing the body electric," Walt Whitman wrote more than 150 years ago, around the time the nation started to be united, from Atlantic to Pacific, by the railroad and the telegraph. By the end of the 19th century, one of Thomas Edison's lesser inventions--the movies--had given the world the first machine art. In a way, every film ever since has been a testament to the technical ingenuity of America (or of a few geniuses who happened to live there...
...Speed Racer brings the virtual movie to full maturity--the, for now, ultimate blending of man and machine. If you watch the film, are overwhelmed by the assault of seductive visual information and wonder what you're seeing, here's the happy answer: the future of movies. We sing the movie electric...
...video or an Internet celebrity—that gets picked up and sent around to tons of viewers, has become a new cultural genre in itself, making its way into popular culture. No longer are the insular, nerdy tech communities complete worlds apart from those who go blond and sing Miley Cyrus songs with the top down. Now, they both can share in the LOLcatz.The intersection of the Web and popular culture has birthed a new “roflculture,” fostering new genres, new celebrities, and a new type of audience. While the meme remains based...
...jittering, melodic, gothic theme that drives what is surely one of the best opening scenes of any musical.One of these variations, in particular, sticks in my mind. Three tenors, in spot-on close harmony, stretch the theme’s muscular second half into a single, eerie legato line, singing, “See your razor gleam, Sweeney / See how well it fits / As it floats across the throats of hypocrites.” What a line! How perfectly matched are all those sliding consonants to Sondheim’s music. Many have said that “Sweeney Todd?...
...right to reach for a new manner whenever the spirit moves him. But the LA demi-monde he's exploring (often with his shrewd observational skills fully intact) seems to cry out for the intensity of expression that made plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and movies like The Verdict sing with a sort of atonal harshness, helping them transcend the rather confined situations he prefers. Redbelt (the title refers to the highest honor available to jiu-jitsu fighters), despite its novel milieu somehow remains trapped in genre conventions. It's still basically a boxing picture, not essentially different from dozens...