He and his patrons appear to have realized that his talent was suited better to themes involving tender emotion than to themes of violent action.
De Palma returned to explore themes of violent gangsterism in The Untouchables (1987), which includes a visual reference to Potemkin's famous Odesssa steps sequence (link to previous article), and Carlitto's Way (1993).
That novel's theme of monomaniacal, violent obsession and the Shakespearean cadences of its prose underline what is happening on screen in a way that is only occasionally heavy-handed.
Once he found his voice, Jeffers held to it: over the years, the same images kept surfacing (sun-bleached bones, the eyeball of the sea, etc)., and the same themes (acts of violent anger, incest, etc).
The Filipino director Brillante Mendoza is one of Cannes' established auteur film-makers, and his new movie here, entitled Ma'Rosa, returns us to the themes of his violent shocker Kinatay from 2009 — the cynicism and corruption of the police and the city authorities, the casual violence and the desperation of the ruled-over who must make what accommodation they can with those in power.
I solved this pangram by David Kwong from top to bottom, so after getting MILITARY ASSAULT and LABOR PROTEST, both with the same "Strike" clue, I thought we were in for some sort of violent theme.
From Leon Golub, a too little regarded master of violent themes, Marshall adopted the format of unstretched canvas fastened flat to a wall.
His avoidance of violent themes is as strong in his non-medical stories as in the Sector General series.
The tragic trilogy Bodas de sangre (1933; Blood Wedding), Yerma (1934; Eng. trans. Yerma), and La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936; The House of Bernarda Alba) depicted extremes of passion involving the traditional Spanish theme of honour and its violent effects on women.
She serves her themes most potently with an unflinching tumble of violent encounters that effectively transform Hal's liberation from a peacenik's wish-fulfillment fantasy into a haunting act of transcendence.
