But the implausible lack of casting couch scenes in these films note particularly how producers are depicted, myopically business-minded and unconcerned with their own sexual proclivities suggests that the concept of the predatory financier is purely a myth.
The challenge of casting "Street Scene" is finding singers who can put words across like Broadway veterans yet have voices with operatic richness.
The two filmmakers wanted to avoid casting the scene as homogenous, which the media coverage of its more unsavory aspects Vikernes' church arson and murder of Mayhem co-founder, Euronymous had already accomplished.
What's canny about Vann's version is his decision to cast the scene from Irene's point of view, to see it with her eyes and feel it with her heart and watch her try to make sense of it.
The Americans' night-vision goggles cast the scene in pixellated shades of emerald green.
I had begun to re-cast a scene or two in my head, to accommodate the latest eruption of the Baabu phenomenon in that part of the African continent.
Claire Jarvis, from Stanford, had offered a theoretical reading of the novel that cast this scene in a new light in her lecture, "Great Sexpectations," which, disappointingly to some, focussed on virginity.
It's all over the place, shifting in tone, making narrative leaps; it repeatedly switches between big cast scenes and solo songs, which provide an ongoing commentary.
The artwork in the anime was also a focus of attention, described as above average for a late-1990s TV series, and Sakura's magic-casting scenes were complimented for being nearly unique because of the regular costume changes.
The magazine's Winnie Chow felt the series' animation was "far above average for a TV series", and compliments Sakura's magic-casting scenes for being nearly unique due to the regular costume changes.
