In "Saboteur" and "North by Northwest" those iconic American monuments, the Statue of Liberty and the Mount Rushmore, are turned into backdrops for manic chase scenes.
On the walls of his Philadelphia office on Walnut Street are zoomy renderings from a half-dozen local architects hired to help make buildings into backdrops for lively street life.
Liu has made a career of hiding in plain sight, painting himself into backdrops until he all but vanishes.
But the poetry faded into the backdrop of my internal debate.
The time-portal boxes, or windows, feel like framed pictures hung on a wall, fitting harmoniously into the backdrop.
(The climax is set at the Temple of Venus in Rome, transformed for the occasion into a backdrop for a teabag commercial).
MILAN — As far as the eye could see, print enveloped walls, floor and the tailored suit of the model who melded into the backdrop.
You would never think that I have starved myself multiple times due to my desire to fade into the backdrop of the world.
In recent years hordes of drunken American junior-year-abroad students have helped transform Florence into the backdrop of a 24/7 movida, or pub crawl.
The Floating Pool Lady is no snowbird, off to Florida the moment the city turns into a backdrop that Currier and Ives would have loved.
The series signed a sponsor, Sony Pictures, and integrated the posters for three new Sony films into the backdrop of the episodes.
