In fact, what motivated the spectacle was exactly the knowledge that the victims were people, and capable of feeling pain and fear as people do.
His vision of rising directorial youth — a twenty-five-year-old director planning his own effects-heavy science-fiction spectacle — is exactly the sort of project that's no threat to Assayas.
But a spectacle is exactly what Mr. Bloomberg has unleashed, and one week after announcing his choice of Cathleen P. Black, a publishing executive, to succeed Joel I. Klein at the helm of the country's largest school system, the mayor's aides are trying to fend off mounting skepticism about her selection.
Picture it: "Paul Ryan, Republican nominee... BOOOOOOO!!!" That's a spectacle just made for the television cameras, and not exactly the best "party unity" message to send to the public.
European Spectacles are exactly the same as the ones that launched in September 2016 in the U.S.
With her blonde-streaked hair, husky voice and trademark spectacles, she was exactly what MSNBC thought an anchor should be in America's pre-attack environment: spunky, young and fashionable, comfortable talking about everything from the death penalty and presidential politics to her own manicure and designer shoes.
On the surface, it's a funny, spirited spectacle - in a way, exactly what stereotyping audiences would expect from 'black theatre'.
Each time I have seen it, this film has swirled residually in my subconscious for days, and each time I have witnessed exactly the same spectacle outside the cinema afterwards: knots of people excitably, grumpily arguing about it.
A question journalists, editors and bloggers might want to ask themselves before writing more about Pastor Jones' increasingly transparent attempts to provoke outrage is this: what public interest is served by giving such a prominent platform to the bigoted ramblings of a minor Pastor and used-furniture salesman; what exactly, beyond sensational spectacle, is this coverage designed to achieve?
What would astonish her more, the ways in which the palliative expertise of the medical trade has leaped ahead or the stubbornness with which the human talent for making a nuisance or a spectacle of ourselves has stayed exactly where it was?
