Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OPENING scene of My Other Husband, French actress Miou-Miou, yupped-out in a sleek business suit, pushes her way through a bustling Paris street crowd. This scene pretty much sets the tone for the film that follows--or more accurately, falters--thereafter: This is a movie about a woman who is cramped, hassled and always in a hurry...
...cultural bias. Thus, the emerging genre of movies that are cinematic representations of the ultra-conservative Id. This new genre usually features an actor such as Schwarzenegger, Stallone or some other symbol of the American y-chromosome bounding about blasting anyone with an accent or a darker skin tone. Commando is such a byproduct of political isolationism and flat-out hate...
Perhaps the answer might have been for Mao to have thrown convention completely to the wind and to have played the whole thing for outrageous laughs. This would have been both innovative and also set a more stable tone for the production...
AFTER DUTIFULLY SHARING with us the triumphs and glory of the hitherto unnoticed South African reformer (i.e. the corporation), Mobil's story adopts a darker tone. It seems that the forces of darkness--whose goals are "unproductive and unfairly punitive"--may thwart our hero's crusade...
...took eager delight in asking your teacher to define "adultery" or "orgasm." This movie is slightly less mature in its earnestness over only marginally dirty words. Or perhaps move up to high school, when even elementary literary explications might have still sounded somewhat profound. Now imagine that elementary, lecturing tone describing what's obvious to you about Mr. Joyce, and you have James Joyce's Women...