And then there are those soundtracks to cult films, whose badness is their entire appeal. Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024 To most of the general public, short films are just the spanner that’ll always mess up your Oscars pool. Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024 What were...
Top 14 Examples of Farce in Literature and Film Modern films and classic plays show many examples of farce. These 14 examples will help you understand this literary device well. In many literary works, writers use humor to make a point. Farce is a type of comedy that uses physical humor,...
The term "B movie"originated in the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when movie theaters typically presented films as double features. The "A" movie had bigger stars, a larger budget, and higher production values, while the "B" movie was a less expensive, lower-budget film. As the studio...
It's also not a new thing. We've been categorizing literature like this for thousands of years. Some of the oldest forms of writing, including religious texts, were tied directly into this idea of genre. For example, forty percent of the Old Testament in the Bible is actually poetry, one...
Hip brand perception:Walmart has been falling behind Target when it comes to having a youthful perception and has often become the subject of memes. Collaborating with Mean Girls is a good initiative to sway its current brand perception slowly ...
Netflix started by mailing cult classic films that you couldn’t get at Blockbuster, Vimeo focused on professional videographers unlike YouTube, and Tesla started making luxury vehicles instead of competing with electric low-end hybrids. This strategy of differentiation is key for disruptive start-...
and has by now become a cult classic. It contains an opening montage with stylized text and scenes from Max's school life, put together like a yearbook. This kind of exposition with background information on the main characters has become a signature trait for subsequent Wes Anderson films....
‘Whenever we saw Mrs. Lisbon we looked in vain for some sign of the beauty that must have once been hers. But the plump arms, the brutally cut steel-wool hair, and the librarian’s glasses foiled us every time.’ These lines are from the opening chapter of The Virgin Suicides by Jef...
If your dream job is to get paid to watch horror films you are in luck. This dream job pays $1,000 to Binge-watch 24 Hours of Horror Movies. According toTravel + Leisure: “The chosen candidate must be over 18 and agree to 24 straight hours of movie-watching (which roughly adds up...
“Like Syd Barrett, a common point of reference, Roky Erickson rose to cult-hero status as much for his music as for his tragic personal life; in light of his legendary bouts with madness and mythic drug abuse, the influence exerted by his garage-bred psychedelia was often lost in the sh...