Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life. At one point, we see a painting that Polly believes is the most beautiful she's ever seen. Instead of trying to find a suitable painting, an attempt that would inevitably have failed, Rozema fashions the painting as a brilliantly glowing rectangle. The pull of this personal vision, combined with Rozema's quirky humor, makes Mermaids irresistable...
Mermaids has additional strengths in Douglas Koch's unusual photography. He lends Polly's vision a beauty and a complexity which belie her naive exterior. The movie is lushly beautiful. Jeff Wolpert's Laurie Anderson-type music is as entrancing and quirky as Rozema's heroine. The sights and sounds transform the movie into a peculiar world that belongs only to Polly. As she says, "Isn't life the strangest thing you ever...
TAKE ONE man with a vision. Surround him with a core group of talented musicians and songwriters. And have them work together in a Midwestern city to create a sound. Apply the sound to various young occasionally talented unknowns whose images and every move can be manipulated...
...1960s, a short enigmatic man named Berry Gordy was the man with the vision; the team of Holland-Dozier-Holland provided the songs; Detroit provided the locale and dozens of local teenagers became the Supremes, Marvellettes, Temptations, Miracles and more. Gordy controlled the sound and groomed the future stars from their clothes to their choreography. The result, of course, was Motown--and a new era in party music...
...your vision, the Crimson has a nice little tune-up against Brown. Your team scores a lot of points, their team doesn't score any. All your players get to play. None of them get injured...