Word: subtext
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Although Joe Sr.'s millions paved the road to Camelot, money is the least interesting thing about him. His craving for power and status seems to have been whetted by resentment. It is the subtext of many American success stories: the smoldering desire to get even for class injuries in an officially classless society...
...occasionally fall below classic Disney standards, but the characterizations, both visual and vocal, are entirely endearing. Since Director Bluth (The Secret of NIMH) is a Disney graduate who has been bluntly critical of his former studio's current standards and practices in this field, his mouse may have a subtext to match its soul...
...universe. But the situation was the immemorial one: a monster, in this case an alien life-form requiring human hosts for gestation, is stalking the spaceship's endless, ill-lighted corridors, picking off victims one by one. But there was only one creature, six frightened earthlings and little more subtext (or, for that matter, dialogue) to the film than there was to Friday the 13th or Halloween. Alien lived as a demonstration of the power of style and sheer moviemaking technique to transform tosh into terror that continues to haunt the memory...
...show's directors are encouraged to look for creative ways to use music. "What I wanted to do was not to use music as just background but as psychological subtext, if you will," says Thomas Carter, who directed the pilot episode. "What I felt was happening to Crockett at one point was he had lost touch with reality. His marriage had fallen apart, and he had discovered that his ex-partner was leaking information to the bad guys. So I said, 'I want to do a sequence with Crockett and Tubbs in a car, lay some music over...
Although this specific dread is unacknowledged by the autobiographer, it seems to be the subtext of the hearing and all that follows: "I had been led on into a strange country, a country that knew no boundaries and was called Pain." Terrified of strangers, besieged by reporters, taunted in schools, Gloria blinks through a chaos of flashbulbs and interrogations; in a nation wasted by the Depression, she becomes America's real-life Little Orphan Annie...