The last clip from the film, five seconds of the showdown at the Plaza, suggest everything that Luhrmann's dully blatant staging of the moment doesn't the implicit near-violence of pseudo-polite near-immobility.
He does nothing so blatant as stage the opera as a dream, yet events unfold almost as if experienced in the depths of Katerina's psyche.
The multilevel beehive is a blatant over-the-top stage, adored by the showy cinema crowd as well as high-profile execs seeking a refreshing paradiso.
(Both her dress and her stage set had a blatant, peculiar motif: fruit).
Off stage, these ladies face blatant sexism, racism, and ageism at every turn and yet they participate in all the above through their reenactments.
As for the hit musical "Avenue Q," which is kind of "Sesame Street" meets "Rent," it has a blatant anti-Bush gag, homosexuality and on-stage sex.
My brain blender takes these ingredients of earthly fact and blatant fiction and attempts to serve up a stage of tragedy, farce, and raw, ominous beauty.
"The participation of the obvious transvestite and hermaphrodite Conchita Wurst on the same stage as Russian singers on live television is blatant propaganda of homosexuality and spiritual decay," Milonov said.
Sexism in tech can be as subtle as a false assumption about engineering competence or as blatant as a couple of hackathon apps that made it onto our stage last week.
The track features the blatant use of an acoustic guitar throughout the whole thing, but on stage in front of me was a DJ (didn't know there was a DJ in Prozzak), a bass guitar and an electric one.
