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Showing mercy
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pveugelaers
DVD movie commentary/review The existential worldview is a certainty in Far From Men (2015, France, and subtitled), but there is more. The film is adapted from the short story The Guest by French existential writer Albert Camus. His short story was published in 1957. The film adaptation, Far From Men, takes its cue from 1954…
A celebration of food
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pveugelaers
Star Wars has moments of pure food joy, perhaps meaning something extra. In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), eating at the swamp planet of Dagobah offers the most obvious food joy because in swamp planets you may find some exotic food pleasure and the food there is a specialty. Swamp planets are bound to come…
Shared experience
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pveugelaers
The story of Mary Poppins author Pamela Travers, or P.L. Travers, as told in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), is not only about her reluctance to part with her children’s book Mary Poppins, but about why she wrote it in the first place. In that vein, Saving Mr. Banks shares a lesson about experience. For two…
The challenge
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pveugelaers
A challenge for an author is to sign away film rights to a published work. This tendency is because a writer’s characters are precious and the writer has invested a significant amount of personal pride in a work as a whole. The finished product shouldn’t be tampered with. However, a few authors seem to have…
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