Sentence examples for movie language from inspiring English sources

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That two-shot, movie language for an image of two people on screen, turned into a friendship and romance that lasted for four decades.

But there's no doubt that through sheer persistence, Maddin has moulded this pastiche into a movie language of his own: a neo-proto-cinema dreamspeak.

Here's Peter Bradshaw's view: After the glossy and faintly implausible Oscar-bait picture, The Descendants, director Alexander Payne has returned to a more natural and personal movie language for his new film in the Cannes competition.

To say that Dawn "appeared" sounds like movie language, and these characters do resemble actors, cast by Elmore Leonard to "play themselves," as the saying goes, in his new work of fiction.

It's very valuable to study this culture and try to create a magical world with its elements using the movie language of today," Ning said.

In fact, John Cusack's character, Rob Gordon, makes an off-the-cuff remark about "woman-schizo stuff" issues that some might find offensive, but others might describe as an authentic piece of movie language used by a character who repeatedly fails in his relationships with the opposite sex but is in denial about what's tripping him up.

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"After the call, our contacts went dead," he told Photoworks magazine, "We were told to stop what we were doing and threatened in suggestive, spy-movie language".

Unlike movie props, language can't be faked.

Mr. Vaughn said this kind of condemnation was hypocritical because it attacked the movie's language while essentially forgiving its violence.

The very subject of the movie is language and its relation to power — not necessarily political power but emotional power, the power to create images, imaginary images that may even have a deeper reality than material life.

In movie-pitch language it might be described as "Same Time, Next Year" meets "Up in the Air" but with a French twist.

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