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To Die For 1995
Suzanne pitching a story on going to the local movie theater and asking people why they like going to the movies is the origin story of the AMC ad.
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The Substitute 1961
For about the first minute I was convinced this is where the Simpsons got their Soviet Itchy and Scratchy parody from, and then almost immediately afterward it started going in such daring, hilarious, ingenious directions I figured that if this had been the inspiration, they would have treated it with far more respect and reverence. The use of linework in this in ways that play into and completely upend the flatness of background and object is like seeing the modernist…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
The great tragedy of Kevin Feige is that, beyond raking in a mountain of cash as the head of Marvel Studios, he truly wants to be seen as an impresario of artists. The recent dust-up caused by Martin Scorsese staring holes through Disney's stunt-casting of noteworthy emerging filmmakers to lend clout to a method of filmmaking dictated by studio notes and franchise bible supervisors punctured this self-delusion and prompted a wave of pathetic self-defensiveness in which the CEO was called…
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