Word: tableau
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...Corps has been a cocktease and a cheap date; it dehumanized and psychologically damaged its men. Although Mendes references ideas from other war movies, he donates new ones to the genre. When the soldiers march through a night lit only by oil well fires, he gives us a harrowing tableau just as apocalyptic as anything Coppola imagined. However, Mendes is hamstrung by a weak script. Few of the characters get the development they deserve. Gyllenhaal does a serviceable job of slowly going insane, and Sarsgaard is searing; he’s far from the fey foil he usually plays...
...video retains none of the song’s charm. It begins with stock footage of a sunset reminiscent of the visual noise run behind lyrics on karaoke machines, then cuts to a tableau of the movie’s cast belting “Seasons” to an empty auditorium...
...film's 30 animators at Aardman Studios in Bristol, England, could produce. Stop motion, as used in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Park's 2000 hit Chicken Run, is essentially a series of still photographs (running through the movie projector at 24 frames a second), and each tableau, which may contain dozens of Plasticine characters, must be posed and shot before the next one is begun. The animator's job is to get the humor and humanity in each shot. "Sometimes it's just the way Gromit moves his head," says Park. "There's a million ways...
...lunch time, and helen Clark is on to her second silly hat of the day. Here she is, at a suburban park in Auckland, turning the first sod of a motorway extension project in a fluoro-orange hard hat. This tableau of rent-a-crowd suits, marquee, hybrid cars, uptight minders, waiters, photographers and TV cameras can mean only one thing: New Zealand is midway through an election campaign. That's why, a few hours earlier, Clark put on a hair net and white coat for a tour of a biscuit factory on the city's southern fringe...
...stories involve Glenn Ganges, a blank-looking suburbanite in the 18 to 35 year-old range with two dots for eyes and a preference for three-quarter length baseball T-shirts, sans logo. Page one of the first issue introduces him to us in a wordless six-panel tableau of Glenn doing household chores. Less imaginative comix would use the sequence to set up Ganges as a straw man for obvious jabs at the middle class lifestyle, but Huizenga invests something more into his character, whose name, after all, evokes mystical rivers of the East. The sequence ends, not insignificantly...