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This is a romantic comedy with the emphasis on comedy for a change.
Unlike most romantic comedies, this little indie is mostly tongue-in-cheek situational comedy featuring Rogers and Sheedy with little emphasis on romance.
It's not a perfect film, in that, at two hours and twenty four minutes it's about a half hour too long, and there's a bit too much emphasis on the drunkenness of the lead character Myrtle Gordon, played by Gena Rowlands, the wife of Cassavetes, long after we've gotten the point.
Henry Fonda made three consecutive films in this era with Ford and all three are about a certain time and place with emphasis on the setting and the cultural surroundings.
The emphasis is on how big the place is and how many people are there and how they're herded around outside in little yellow jackets.
The film is shot on an epic scale but is decidedly not a 'big' film, with the emphasis placed on the simple story: in supplication to the gods, King Agamemnon (Kostas Kazakos)is compelled to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia (Tatiana Papamoschou), much to the consternation of Queen Clytemnastrae (Irene Papas).
I blame others for the over emphasis on the student revolt sequences at the start but have to say that from there on in this is one of the directors most beautiful looking pictures and he certainly got the very best out of the man made and natural landscapes.
Versus was all about action and cool, here a LOT more emphasis is put on characters and situation and messing with your mind.
It was quite slow moving, with a lot of emphasis on Doyle's frustration at Sherlock Holmes which was very accurate and excellently portrayed.
This film, directed by Eric Styles, has the distinction that it has reversed the emphasis from a woman, to a man, for being the object of sexual desire.
The way the characters put emphasis on their way of speaking made me just cringe, like i had to cover my ears it was so loud.
The insistent preaching of the series is thankfully toned down, with the emphasis on a slightly more exciting adventure that recycles the perils of the previous films, like falling rocks and sheer drops.
Its poorness is so extreme that of itself it is the film's strongest selling emphasis.
Before long, our young heroine finds herself on a STRANGE (consider the emphasis on the word "strange" very closely) fever-induced adventure which defies explanation.
Homosexuals will obviously view the film in a different light as they will put the emphasis on the love the mother has for the child, and suggest that the sexual relationship of the "parents" is secondary if not irrelevant.
The emphasis here is on "wild" - a wild, scatter-shot, liberal-biased attempt to swipe at every tired, pathetic Southern stereotype.
The emphasis is on the characters, their unpredictable encounter and the situations that make possible for them to become friends and maybe even companions.
Any filmed story that depends heavily on plot with an emphasis on finding all the clues along the way to a revealing conclusion must by its very nature owe much to established convention.
To me, that quality makes for the best Columbo opposition, because it places the emphasis is on the cat and mouse game, rather than just the simplistic good vs. bad.
The emphasis here is on sex, vulgarity, tons of swearing, explicit violence, buckets of blood and plenty on racial issues (in one segment, New Jersey is sold to black people!).
Still, it drags a little in places and the lack of any real supporting characters puts too much emphasis on Duvall.
It is resolved quite ineffectively and the vague emphasis on the source of the plague seemed forced and dull... Pretty mediocre installment in the show.
After all, how much emphasis should a palm tree receive - shot and reshot via redundant closeups and pull backs?
He merely puts the emphasis on the comedy factors, and although not always equally successful, at least he manages to keep "Tequila Body Shots" endurable.
Considering the depth and power given her character by author Burnett in the first half of the story of "The Secret Garden," it's ironic that with the introduction of Colin Craven, her cousin, Mary seems to be elbowed out of the way in favor of a bigger emphasis on Colin's story line.
I was very impressed at the rate at which you identify with the kids and the parents, and the ability of the director to edit in such a way to provide just the right amount of emphasis.
The Ronaldo dialogue is annoying, the chapter has a lot of emphasis on a boring online game.
Then we have the typical opinions of the writers about various subjects like Christopher Colombus discovery being insignificant or football making whole continents insane, those are also quite annoying, specially because of the emphasis they are given.
It is a deftly-constructed study of a group of old friends, with the emphasis on the character Elliot (Joe Pantoliano).
In his earlier days, going way back to "Candid Microphone" before TV, the emphasis was always on human interaction.
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