From here, the plot follows a reassuringly familiar path: the lion hides in plain sight downtown, between two Patience-and-Fortitude-like stone cousins, a vantage point that allows him to keep an eye on Iris and on the town hall.
(It's period-lifestyle pornography.) Working from the unrevealing screenplay that he wrote with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, the director Saul Dibb laps it all up and dribbles it back without an ounce of reserve or postempire skepticism, his camera trailing after Georgiana like a dog, a vantage point that badly serves his inexpert star.
Lucas offered Coppola a role in the royal entourage, which she accepted because it "seemed like a good vantage point to watch without getting in the way".
"Yes," he says, "from a vantage point like this, the idea of society is just about tenable".
On either side of us the city night scene was hotting up, restaurants and bars buzzing, and here we were, on our moonlight urban kayak adventure, floating gently through the middle of it, trailing our fingers in the warm water, seeing it all, but unseen, from a vantage point like no other.
Their stupid inverse snobbery forced me to watch them like a geriophile pervert from a vantage point atop a rock, while my boyfriend slathered SPF 50 sunscreen on my reflective white buttocks.
Get a clear view of your target by getting to a vantage point like an overpass or bridge.
Writing from a vantage point that feels like the very cliff edge from which Nietzsche soared and fell, Freud faced the future and warned that our civilization, however imperfect, represented nothing less than "the struggle for life of the human species," and that this struggle might soon be lost.
At the time, studio divisions like Paramount Vantage were releasing titles like "There Will Be Blood," which along with independent films like Todd Haynes's fractured ode to Bob Dylan "I'm Not There," had been nominated for numerous Academy Awards.
Dance is for him a vantage point.
