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Boring
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pveugelaers
DVD movie commentary Bored in New York? Nah. Irish lass Eilis is far from New York. She is yawning during a church service, in her home town of Ireland. Her mother prays earnestly next to her, in Brooklyn (2015). I have seen that sort of thing before, somewhere. There is also the one about a…
Power and place in the world
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pveugelaers
Another view of X-Men Apocalypse… Oscar Isaac played the original mutant/god En Sabah Nur in X-Men Apocalypse (2016, USA). In 2015, Isaac played a couple of characters with less than god-like powers, though coming close to that. He played a top-level pilot for the resistance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Poe Dameron is flawed…
Anger
By
pveugelaers
Another view on Angry Birds… Though Angry Birds (2016, USA) is about birds, there is a very human element to proceedings. Anger. No wonder Red, Chuck and Bomb, and Terrence, are angry, in this animation. These lovable talking birds, that have human-like attributes, naturally resist going to anger management classes. Who really wants…
Negatives turn positive
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pveugelaers
Movie article Stories can start negatively, but here are some decent examples of turning story negatives to positives, because of character. That follows. Screenwriters always ask: how should a story end? To find their ending, they ask: from the choices the main character could possibly make, how would the story end? Or, how would a…
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