care what's showing, as long as she's transported to another dimension, free her of everyday troubles, especially if romance contributes to the illusion. When the realization finally came to light--that people in this time period would accept any movie available, I understood why numerous films of the thirties, forties and fifties appear dreadful. Studios apparently took random scripts laying about and forced stars (through their contracts) to act in movies that had the capacity to produce a profit
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At the snap of a finger, the film industry would forever change. The introduction of sync sound technology changed the film industry in a way that nothing had ever affected it before. From the first few movies after the explosion of sound including Blood of a Poet (1930) and Horse Feathers (1932), to the classic thriller Psycho (1960), the way people made films was constantly changing and evolving to not only meet audience demand, but creative demand as well. Directors were now able to use sound
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Much of this need to sell these movies so desperately to audiences has also caused a major influx of movie oversaturation throughout each year. Though studios have been releasing less movies per year as opposed to decades past, more and more studios are collectively releasing fleets of high budgeted blockbusters, all crowdly trying to win audience attention. Sadly, this cry for attention is becoming far more difficult for studios as we enter a new age of technology. Video streaming services, video
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Crisp, C. (1993). The classic French cinema: 1930-1960. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. Purchase and consumption of many products such as furniture all go up by large percentages but one thing that the consumer society negatively affected was consumption and use of cinema. “Of all categories of consumer expenditure, cinema and other spectacles is the only category to decrease in volume” (Crisp, 1993). Cinema was used as a means of escape from reality but when consumer society began and took off
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place to talk movies with cinephiles and catch up on some of your favorite classics from Italy, France and Japan, or watch more contemporary American films set in exotic foreign locales. Foreign Cinema is a place to connect with the passion of movie-going and movie-watching in a way that's both old-school as well as
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his world. Nothing could go wrong now. The ritual had been perfect, all he had to do now was sit tight and wait for the curtains to draw and the movie to begin. Harry usually preferred no one sitting beside him in the theatres; that was why he had chosen the back seat. However, this time everything went the other way around. Not long after the movie started, the door of the theatre opened and came in a young lady around the same age as him. She carried a large soda and two medium-sized bags of
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attend a movie. Going to the movies is still a fun thing to do today but technology, cleanliness, and the thought of violence happening in a theater tends to keep people at home to watch movies. Technology today has allowed us to pretty much be in contact with anyone at any time. It is not uncommon to be sitting in movie and a phone ring or get a notification. While most people have their phone on silent were no one can hear others, feel it is appropriate to take a call while the movie is in progress
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It refers to the filming of subjects through a microscope so that the subject of the film is microscopic. In doing so, the director is able to show on the movie screen that which the average citizen is unlikely to have ever seen before. Though not very popular or widely used, microcinematography demonstrates a very significant step forward in terms of the technological capabilities of filmmakers of the early
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“Hey Jim what are you doing here?” John replied. “I am playing call of duty with Billy.” Jim answered. “Well, be home soon” John told his brother. “Ok.” Jim replied. “Hey Mark what’s up?” John asked. “Nothing” Mark replied. “Lets go for the movie.” John replied “Can we go” ask Jim. “No!” replied Mark. It took them a long time to walk to the movies. Finally, they made it. They’re walking up the stairs. They waited on the line. It was their turn. John told the clerk “2 tickets to see Monsters
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that keeps your hand dipping into the doughnut box. Not necessarily so. Surprisingly, some bad eating habits persist even when food tastes bad. Bad Eating Habits Persist Even When Food Tastes Bad Researchers gave groups of people attending a movie a bucket of freshly popped popcorn or a container of stale popcorn to munch on during the show. Moviegoers who didn't regularly go to the movies ate very little of the stale popcorn because they didn't like the taste. On the other hand, those who
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