Although Avatar is being marketed on the back of its technology, he is a curiously old-fashioned director: a figure in the mould of Howard Hawks who relishes making macho, boys' own adventures and yet still retains his status as an "auteur".
Whether it comes in the form of an alien attack, a giant lizard, or just a good old fashioned asteroid, directors jump at the chance to wreak havoc on the planet.
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Although his tyrannical on-set style could be likened to an old-fashioned Hollywood director such as Cecil B DeMille, Bay basically likes to blow stuff up.
"They're old fashioned and unsophisticated.
Old Fashioned glasses look particularly great.
"WORLD WAR I is thought of as this old-fashioned war," the director Garry Hynes said, "but to my point of view it has the force of an apocalypse".
Maybe Manhattans or Old Fashioneds.
We now know that the "old-fashioned" governance construct of directors appointing management, and shareholders electing directors, is out-the-window if a company accepts federal funds.
"Obtaining important and unreported financial results from company insiders and selling that information to hedge funds is not legitimate expert networking services — it's old-fashioned insider trading," Robert Khuzami, the director of the S.E.C.'s division of enforcement, said in a statement.
With the high-tech identification industry going into full gear with machines that recognize fingerprints and scan the iris, why is Darpa messing with something as old-fashioned as B.O.? Dr. Gary Beauchamp, director of the Monell Chemical Sense Center in Philadelphia, notes that odors can be detected through just a handful of molecules.
