The film flashes back briefly introducing the audience to his family's legacy as he's the heir to Getty Oil.
Opening with a violent rupture — police breaking down the door of a tastefully appointed Paris apartment, to find a solitary corpse neatly laid out on the bed —
the film flashes back to introduce its central couple, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) and Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant), experiencing smaller but more ominous cracks in their world.
Characters walk away from Brown, only to appear in the next scene, as
the film flashes back to a time before their departure.
Laing's calm tones are at odds with the squalor and anarchy around him, and serve to set the scene as
the film flashes back to three months earlier, and Laing's initial move into a sophisticated new tower block.
After that fake - doc opening,
the film flashes back to forty years earlier, to flesh out Harding's biography, to provide some incontrovertible data (all of which is intermittently commented on by the mock - vérité versions of the principal cast).
«Fantastic Beasts» wouldn't be the first time
the films flashed back to his (relative) youth; «Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince» also showed some of the character's earlier years, including the day he recruited a young Tom Riddle to Hogwarts.
Not exact matches
The
film explains this through
flash -
backs suggesting that at decisive points in his subsequent life he vividly recalled the acutely painful experiences endured in the camp.
Truth be told, it is mysterious that DC has managed to churn out three Batman movies, two Superman movies, a Green Lantern movie, a Green Arrow TV show and a planned
Flash TV show (and that's all ignoring the previous
film adaptations of these characters) without turning its attention to one of its heaviest hitters (aside from a famously disastrous attempt at a television show a few years
back).
While «Other People» begins with a big moment — daringly, THE big moment — then
flashes back to a year earlier, the
film is more interested in the mundane ways the characters relate to each other and in the minutiae of their lives.
Wisely, the
film doesn't
flash back to scenes of the torture, focusing instead on the power of memory and language to recreate pain.
Right when you think the
film is about to kick into gear and start moving faster, it
flashes back to a moment from the past where two character talk for extensive periods of time.
Flashing back to 1948, the
film finds toothpaste - heir Charley on the brink of marriage with Adele (Elisabeth Shue), the daughter of Hollywood big - wig Lew Horner (Robert Loggia).
It never
flashes back, as you might expect in a
film about memories, but instead lingers on the faces of actors as they process emotions or focuses on simple items that hold intense meaning, like keychains.
Flash - forward in the film to a flash - back of their af
Flash - forward in the
film to a
flash - back of their af
flash -
back of their affair.
Although about the humble roots of hip hop and b - boyism, the makers of the
film have a more grandiose spectacle for its subject matter in mind, featuring some manufactured melodramatic elements, culminating in a farfetched song - and - breakdance concert featuring Melle Mel and the Furious Five (recently broken up with Grandmaster
Flash) and future Rolling Stones
back - up vocalist Bernard Fowler's gospel chorus entertaining a packed hall of enthused aficionados.
Starting with Carlito's assassination and
flashing back to the events that lead up to it, Carlito's Way is structured like a classic
film noir and
filmed with such palpable claustrophobia, encroaching camera angles and skittish framing, it gives even classics like Detour and The Set - Up a run for its money in the visual entrapment department.
The antsy teen sits alongside several Bible Study peers — including high - schoolers Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Coley (Quinn Shephard), whose budding, secret romance the
film keeps
flashing back to — as a pastor bellows about the evils lurking within all children their age.
Violett Beane confirms she'll race
back into «The
Flash's» Season 3, and Sony may be developing a Spider - verse
film featuring Silver Sable.
In that case, if Bruce were to tell Barry all of this towards the beginning of the
film, that could then become the impetus for
Flash to travel
back in time, prevent his mother's murder, and kick off the Flashpoint timeline.
I didn't like the idea of
flashing back to the rest of the Olympics after that stage was perfectly set in the opening scenes of the
film, in fact they could have edited the
film to have the entire hostage - drama portion before the credits, the flip over to Avner and company and not keep coming
back to it.
Either a short theatrical trailer or a long TV spot, this look at the
film opens with Brown (Chadwick Boseman, 42) talking about his parents, and we
flash through some moments of success before coming
back around to a heated conversation between mama and her son.
Wasn't sure of the need for the
flash back story involving Jane (Paula Patton); nor the need for the tie to MI3 at the very end of this
film.
... It looks like Warner Bros.» search for a third director on The
Flash could be nearing an end, with a report this week stating that Robert Zemeckis (
Back to the Future) tops the studio's wishlist, and Warner Bros. is willing to wait until he's completed work on his next
film, which has him tied up until late 2018.
The
film opens to a scene where Brendan discovers Emily's apparently dead body, then
flashes back two days earlier, when Brendan receives an anguished phone call from Em asking him for help, talking about things he doesn't fully comprehend, using words like «Brick» and «The Pin».
Doubling as an effective romance, Zemeckis story of Hanks's FedEx worker Chuck Noland becoming stranded on a deserted Pacific Ocean island after a plane crash, driven to survive by the thought of returning to his girlfriend Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) is one of the director's most restrained (even the music cues by Alan Silvestri don't start till over an hour into the
film) and in - command pieces of work that sees the esteemed filmmaker largely hold
back on artistic
flashes and instead focusing on his leading man Hanks working his magic as the determined Chuck.
The
film then
flashes back in time to one of Milne's more traumatic memories of World War I.
The
film tells the story of the train journey, while also
flashing back to the young boys» upbringing in Sacramento, California, notably Stone and Sadler, both of whom have a deep connection as friends, but also share the fact they are both being raised by single mothers (played by Jenna Fischer and Judy Greer).
He showed a
flash from the dark side as the unpleasant stepdad in the fine 2013 indie
film The Way Way
Back.
Beginning at the macabre ending, the
film then
flashes back to «3 months earlier» as Laing first moves into the building.
Back in September, rumour broke out that Greg Berlanti, the man in charge of DC TV shows like Arrow, The
Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl, was working on a feature
film focusing on the DC crime fighting duo of Booster Gold and Blue Beetle.
Anyway I
flashed back to that moment while watching the just - dropped trailer for Miss Sloane, Chastain's upcoming
film about a gun lobbyists from director John Madden...
The
film then
flashes back three months, to when Laing first moved into the building.
Warner Bros. and DC's
film version of The
Flash seemed to be going full speed ahead
back in October of last year, when Dark Shadows script man Seth Grahame - Smith stepped aboard to make it his directorial debut.
Doig's gift is for making these memories seem not just his own, but the viewer's as well, as if we, too, could not forget these peculiar moments in
films, novels or scenes skimmed from life with a camera that keep
flashing back on the mind's eye.»
«I decided to do a video initially because there were all these elements that I wanted to bring together without having to drag materials into my studio,» he says of the
film shown on the
back of the work that
flashes symbols and sounds that call attention to American slavery and appear throughout the show.