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...body. In Pascarelli’s video, Edward has black “tracking” dots applied all over his exposed skin, which the visual effects team later translated into a virtual mesh model of his body. The crew then used the mesh model to make a virtual wax model with a full-body cyber scan of Robert Pattinson as a guide. With a software program, they applied virtual miniature mirrors over the model, and introduced virtual suns—sources of light—into the frame. They recorded the reflections produced from the mirrors and super-imposed...
...start with John Travolta, who plays Charlie Wax, a special operations agent for an unnamed but extremely bloodthirsty undercover American agency. To inhabit this role, he seems to have stolen Bruce Willis's bald head, along with the goatee Willis sports when he needs to look super tough and mature. This gleaming-headed Wax man has been sent to Paris to bust a drug ring and a terrorist cell. As a bonus, he will give machismo lessons to James (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a wonky polyglot who works as an aide to the U.S. Ambassador but longs to be Jason Bourne...
...says something, you can take that to the bank.” Furthermore, because Conan’s name was always in the news, his strikes at NBC were always topical. This type of humor stood in contrast to his usually irreverent and irrelevant style, such as firing wax replicas of movie stars out of cannons and knocking over a domino stack of Domino’s pizza employees...
...down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates. Wouldn’t I also sneak up on a girl pretending to be asleep?” Cal is able to wax lyrical about the grand scheme of things, but still retains the intimacy that first-person perspective guarantees. This innovative approach also reflects Cal’s unique circumstances: belonging to the story being told yet isolated by his disorder; identifying with both sexes yet foreign to either one; socially aware...
...Depression and other emotional problems can wax and wane over time,” said Recklitis. “So for eight percent of respondents to report suicidal thoughts in the past seven days is pretty significant...