Stone uses this scene to give Gekko, and by extension, the Wall Street raiders he personifies, the chance to justify their actions, which he memorably does, pointing out the slothfulness and waste that corporate America accumulated through the postwar years and from which he sees himself as a "liberator".
In a pioneering move for a Supermarionation production, forced perspective is used during this scene to present a live human hand and scale puppet characters within the same frame.
Gough and Millar use this opening scene to establish that the three lead characters of the series, Clark, Lana and Lex, share a common bond they are all without one or both parents: Clark is the only survivor of his home world; Lana's parents are killed in the meteor shower; and Lex is alienated from his father, Lionel Luthor John Gloverr), after being rendered bald by the meteor blast.
Allen himself uses the scene to illustrate his "typical way of directing".
"The United States, only secretly of course, only behind the scenes, could definitely use this to force him to move more forcefully and more quickly on the issue of settlements".
You can use this feature to make cuts, scene changes, and more.
Use this transformation to create a new scene \(S_{I}\), exactly like the old scene \(S\) except that it looks to have differently colored "inverted" fruits (etc).
Podcasters and radio folks could use this to add behind the scenes content to certain shows.
Use this tutorial to draw a park scene – perhaps add a tree behind it, or a person sitting on it feeding the pigeons!
'I like to use sex scenes to convey other ideas,' Pollack says.
