It's worth going back to American Graffiti just to remind yourself that this man once appreciated humanly possible action, realistic settings, lifelike characters, talk and dramatic situations one might have seen at night in Modesto.
Yet the redemption is only momentary: the send-up of Hollywood's celebrity culture, youth worship, and narrow scope of mass-market productions ultimately shifts to a satire of even the realistic and the humanistic, sentimental, dramatic movies, which turn out to be fantasy worlds of downbeat hard knocks, where all problems are slightly but satisfyingly corrected.
(It assumes that children are up for animation a little darker in spirit than what they're usually fed.) The movie rewards them for their rapt, quiet attention, and its use of modeled latex figures instead of drawn animation makes "Chicken Run" more realistic and far more vigorously dramatic.
Internet comedian, Doug Walker, considers the episode to be the best of the entire series because he found it to be the most dramatic, funny, realistic, and relatable.
By the time of Alexander most of the important problems in the realistic or dramatic treatment of features, pose, and drapery had been solved, leaving to later generations an opportunity only to exaggerate anatomy or expression or to devise sculptural groups of yet greater complexity.
Linklater's film is about the education of a suburban boy in the ways of the world, and the dramatic core is a realistic and persuasive account of the making of the Mercury's Julius Caesar and of the outrageous Welles at work.
People often prefer realistic and down-to-earth people than a dramatic girl with attitude.
"Win It All," for all its realistic dramatic power — and the harrowing implications of Eddie's fate ratchet up to an almost unbearable tension — also plays like a real-time abstraction of itself, one that confronts not psychology, not character, but the very possibilities of cinematic storytelling.
"To be effective the Negro writer must be explicit; thus realistic; thus dramatic").
