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The extensive use of black and white and grey tones makes this almost a sci fi "film noir" in the tradition of many classic thrillers.
It never finds a focus, (ultimately, I cared very little about any of the characters), it has the always fateful flaw of dialog that gets lost in whispered tones or buried beneath the score or SFX, and finally ... WHY, in heaven's name is Anthony Hopkins using his not-so-convincing American accent to play a character that could have been played better by half-a-dozen American actors?
No sequel should work where one needs to see the first to understand the second; the work of the director is to allow first time viewers to understand their goals, missions, and tones of the film without forcing more money out of their hard earned pockets.
The moods and tones of the film are equally melodic in their own discordant tangential way; seamlessly walking the line between comedy, horror and the deadpan aloof.
you know those family-type movies they show you in elementary school that are all about the sepia tones and the people on farms who do senseless things?
I can't escape, humming in the shower, and learning calculus to the goose-bump inducing tones.
And yet again we have the brilliant Shimura playing off of Mifune, speaking in carefully modulated tones as he dispenses advice to the hotheaded young detective.
She isn't afraid to paint life in realist tones, often shocking the audience with the intrusion of adult behavior upon the young protagonist's life.
Add lots of crappy costumes, cheapo sets and even more cheapo actors, typical 80s soundtrack drenched with crappy casio tones and James Earl Jones impatiently waiting for his check and City Limits will have you wishing for Soonya Corp. to take over!! Guest starring (oh, I don't think so) Robbie Benson as the epitome of corporate lifestyle refusing to die in the apocalypse.
Honorable mentions go to Pierre Arditi's sensitive performance, and, with lighter tones, to André Dussollier's.
The title: Cast in Gray...the gray zone, the in-between time, life between the parentheses??? Certainly the weather, season, tones, etc in the film are gray, but the title is deeper than that, I think.
It seems they avoided filming at midday and always used early morning or early evening sunlight with long, sharp and distinct shadows with yellowish tones.
The film starts with muted, almost sepia tones, and grayness, then exhibits flashes of color, here and there, while mostly staying in dark greens, blues, and browns.
It was spoken of in the same awed tones as The Adventures of Captain Marvel, Zorro's Fighting Legion, Fighting Devil Dogs, and Drums of Fu Manchu.
"Swimming Pool" is a thriller in the style of "The Deep End," and more than once I was struck by similarities between the two in their respective tones and reliance on water as a recurring visual motif.
Dropping to low sad tones when death is about to occur, and jumping to a pulsing drum run when escape is occurring.
Visually, the film resembles an ecstasy-induced advert with bright tones and little else.
During a 2008 campaign stop, for instance, then-candidate Barack Obama spoke in alarmed tones about the threat that such academic competition poses to US competitiveness.
In all likelihood, they will become more vociferous and vituperative before they mellow, because public opinion seems to be rewarding stances and tones such as theirs.
But pain resists explanation as a simple sensation, just as music resists explanation as simple tones.
What began as a popular uprising inspired by the demands of the Arab Spring has taken on increasingly sectarian and radical tones.
The Founding Fathers’ Fiscal CrisisPRINCETON – Americans are fond of speaking in reverential tones about “the wisdom of the Founding Fathers” – that is, the men who wrote the United States Constitution.
Men often can’t hear women’s lower tones, and their brains, unlike women’s, have a “rest” state (he actually is sometimes thinking about “nothing”!).
It should be made clear to Russian leaders - again, gently, avoiding triumphalist tones and ultimatums - that in return for generous financial aid, Moscow most rescind its implicit veto on American attempts to help the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or impose painful costs on Iraq, including the measured threat of the use of force.
The summit’s discordant tones, echoed in the stormy sections of Beethoven’s symphony, emanated entirely from the United States.
And, as part of a concerted media campaign to reach all citizens, state-owned telecoms monopoly Ethio Telecom uses cell-phone ring tones to remind people of the importance of hygiene measures such as hand washing, social distancing, and wearing facemasks.
'Bless us, Lord!' slowly succeeding one another, and vibratingly resonant, came the solemn tones.
During the marriage ceremony, in the brilliantly illuminated building, among the crowd of elegantly dressed women and girls and men in evening dress with white ties, or in uniform, conversation in the low tones required by propriety never flagged.
At the round table beneath a lamp sat the Countess and Karenin, conversing in low tones.
Before the flames which grew low, the old man went on in lower tones, chewing over again his old recollections.
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