Marilyn Fabe dissects Federico Fellini’s 1963 film 8 ½ in her book Closely Watched Films, diving into the modernism displayed through his style. Fabe regards his camera movements as flamboyant, his edits as audacious, and his score as self-conscious…
A scene from the 1987 movie Wall Street.
“Institutionalization.”
— The Shawshank Redemption (1994), screenplay by Frank Darabont, short story by Stephen King
Art isn’t necessarily about accuracy. A writer has to exaggerate, to create extremes that more easily illustrate the point trying to be made. Native Americans never took an American soldier under their wing such as in Dances with Wolves, a scientist named Frankenstein never created a creature from dead bodies, there was never a youth who escaped his…