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I won't illustrate it - you can see a remarkably long list of quotes on this thread - but any film that can make subjects like the defense of using expensive copper piping rather than brass for plumbing purposes into memorable dialog is amazing to me.
It is another solid based-on-a-true store, which still means much of it could be made up for dramatic purposes.
George Clooney is also terrific and the Coens move through their crossed purposes with speed and elegance.
The stage play and Bergman film were set in Sweden; for tax purposes the movie was filmed in Vienna, thus losing Sweden's "perpetual sunset" which served as the story's sexual metaphor.
One would like to have some time alone with her in her dressing room (just for research purposes, of course).
Though the original idea for The Hire movie series was inspired by commercial purposes (of course, they must sell cars), all movies are oriented to a real artistical approach more than to a market strategy.
The American people did not love their enemy; they would have used the enemy's sacred writings for wholly sanitary purposes and bragged of the experience.
it is quite raw and blunt about its subject matter, however, so it should not be viewed for "entertainment" purposes, thought he story is inherently intriguing.
He doesn't talk very much, only when it serves his own purposes.
John Payne is driving his nice Chevy van filled with flowers and minding his own business when some peeping Tom decides to use him for less than legal purposes.
Dustin Hoffman plays Lenny Bruce, the controversial stand-up comic who views comedy as a form of debate...I am going to take a stab at why this film is in black & white...The vast majority of this film takes place in the late fifties and early sixties..The black and white presentation exudes the era in which Lenny Bruce's popularity prevailed!! Black and White captures the three packs of cigarettes an evening per deviate nightclub era of the Lenny Bruce days so so so cogently!!... Interesting concept.. How many men get their blank blanked.. How many men have blanked a blank.. None?..They aren't telling the truth...especially those in lower middle management!! How about the fact that your wife is not a lesbian, but for purposes of a voyeuristic thrill...Why not?..Kind of degrading!! but for Lenny Bruce, that's the best part... SORT OF!!!...KIND OF!!... How can you curb obscenity when obscenity is the truth?...How does an overzealous, intellectual, New York Jewish comic ignore his upbringing?
Now don't go thinking this film is devoid of personality, why the opening credits star a very talented Tarantula who is for all practical purposes acting very natural.
These must have been used extensively for propaganda purposes and must have had people up in arms.
In 1938 China, a pretty but prim missionary needs to find a hidden stash of smuggled opium (for medicinal purposes!) and attempts to recruit the help of a ratty-looking con-man; his latest get-rich-quick scheme is glow-in-the-dark ties!
The only reason to watch this film is for comparative purposes - if it's anywhere near The Killing Edge, it isn't worth the time you'll take to watch it.
In the middle of the movie,some totally new characters show up and it's pretty obvious they're only there to get killed by the demons.But then again,what other purposes can characters in a horror movie have anyway?This second movie in the "Evil Dead"-series is kinda different actually,it gets more surreal here,mainly because Ash has really lost it here in the first half,and the demons appear to be even more over-the-top and more evil.However,they both grab themselves together near the end for their final showdown.Ash is accompanied by a bunch of idiots but as they're idiots,they don't help much and get killed in some rather original ways.I'm not sure when this movie is situated,but I'm guessing this movie acts like the first one never existed.Not that it completely retells the story,it merely summarises it.And as I took this walk on gross-out lane,I found myself very entertained,somehow shocked but I don't have a clue by what exactly and I did laugh along with Ash and the deer head I must say.That scene really puts a spell on you.Almost as great as the first one
What the real Truth is, has yet been fully exposed or agreed on; but it is now very clear that what America and the World was told about the events of September 11th 2001 are not only not True at all, but has a sinister twist to it that involves secret involvement of Israel and the United States Government in a preplanned plot to stage this event for nefarious purposes and for political manipulation of the American People, and the World.
The overall history of the French resistance is an extremely complicated tale to be retold for purposes of explaining just how this story resonates.
I was in a state of deep depression that for all intents and purposes was inescapable.
As people begin to expire, he gains more and more power, but there is another woman who is, for all practical purposes, his equal.
The starkness of the set is for symbolic purposes and not for form nor for function.
I do not recommend that you see this movie, however, I do recommend that you call fat people King Ralph for comedic purposes.
To all intents and purposes this is an inferior WHEN HARRY MET SALLY for a younger generation .
I believe it is a region in South Carolina, but I understand this was just done for dramatic purposes.
They completely change Egyptian mythology, and even who Tut was and where he LIVED for the purposes of this movie.
It is a scandalous-story that would never have been possible were it not for antiquated religious-notions that it was unholy to disinter the dead--even if approved by the deceased and their survivors--for the purposes of medical-inquiry.
This movie, like most others, was made for entertainment purposes.
"Happy Gilmore" is one of my all-time favourite "guilty pleasures" and he's done a lot of entertaining films that aren't by any means thought-provoking or life-altering but, for all practical purposes, are fun to watch.
Also every character has a part in this movie, whether it be for example purposes (the wedding of deception) or to tie in some further plot to the story.
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