Sentences with phrase «idea for this film when»

First time screenwriter Megan Holley got her bright idea for this film when she heard a story on the radio about a new growth industry: the crime scene clean - up business.

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Q: When did you first have the idea for a film festival in Inwood?

When I sat down to film this look (almost 2 months ago) I had no idea what I was going for and somehow I ended up with this orange - y, rusty, bronze makeup look... and I loved it instantly.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

When Beatty first proposed the idea for making this film some seven years ago, the concept of rap as an «artistic» forum for airing the grievances of the dispossessed had some currency, despite the genre's chronic misogyny and threats of violence.

So how can I buy into the idea that Vee and Leah would do whatever they could for their little brother (I'm assuming) when he's gone for, at least, 40 % of the film.

«Persepolis» pulls off something that's not easy for any film, even a live - action one, to do: It gives us a sense of how a kids» - eye view of the world — particularly the way kids are capable of grasping the idea of injustice, even when more delicate political arguments are beyond their reach — can emerge and grow into an adult sensibility.

There is just something about the idea and setting that intrigues me and I think seeing something made by a first time feature length filmmaker is a must for everyone when attending a film festival.

The latter remains a special film not just for a lot of viewers, but its maker too; speaking with Collider, Proyas gave his thoughts on the idea of remaking it for modern audiences when questioned on the current efforts.

Josh doesn't fully buy into Jamie's documentary idea — tracking down an old high school friend who submits a Facebook friend request for a filmed candid real life encounter — but he goes along for the ride and is surprised to see the project take a life of its own, when the subject turns out to be a decorated Army veteran traumatized by his experiences in Afghanistan.

Director Kevin Chu was like the head coach leading out his Most Valuable Players (MVPs) to court, and explained that the idea for Kung Fu Dunk was actually established some 13 years back when filming martial arts movies such as Shaolin Popey (Shao Lin Xiao Zhi, starring Jimmy Lin), when he thought about whether martial arts could be combined with a ball game like basketball.

He was in serious financial debt when John Krasinski and Matt Damon, producer of the film, went to him with the original idea for Manchester by the Sea, and asked him to write the screenplay.

When Chastain described her idea to Kinberg while they worked together on X-Men: Dark Phoenix, he said yes immediately, and the actresses followed suit and agreed to come to Cannes tomorrow (Cruz is already here for the opening night film Everybody Knows, which sold to Focus Features).

This exercise in buck - passing could have lent a good deal of character tension to the film; but if your best idea for a hard - hitting piece of accusatory dialogue (Architect to Builder) is «What do they call it when you kill people?»

And when I became a filmmaker, I had some great ideas for feature films, but the way the industry's set up, you have to have an agent before anybody will give you the time of day.

When a film begins with a teenage girl deliberately smearing her genitals all over an especially disgusting public toilet seat, you pretty much have an idea what you're in for.

I had no idea that he and Kutiman knew each other when he started filming me, or even when I heard the song for the first time.

Without exploring Lebanon's own sectarian violence, choosing sides, or justifying behavior — in fact, without naming the country where the film takes place — she presents a fairy - tale metaphor for the conflict, in which the men of the village are quick to arms and to finger - pointing when anything goes wrong, and the women are willing to make any compromise and to try any far - fetched, crack - brained idea to defuse or distract.

The film might take a while for these ideas to come near the forefront, but when they do, it results in strong, gutsy, inspiring filmmaking.

The amazing thing is that Fox didn't simply let Trank go when it became clear they had incompatible ideas for the film.

Although it might appear on paper that this it a movie that could be heavily populated with ideas, when you actually take a look for yourself, you'll come to find that it is as false and as vacant as the fictitious locales from which the film derives its title.

I don't mind directors trying to do something new with the story (Oldboy's prison for hire is a great idea and I wouldn't mind someone forgetting the original movie and making a film about that concept with a totally new character), but when Spike Lee sticks so closely to the plot, he is setting himself up for failure.

With the filmmaker Mark Cousins, she set up the 8 1/2 Foundation, a Scottish - based not - for - profit organisation dedicated to the idea that when kids turn eight - and - a-half they should have a film birthday — on which date they're introduced to the wider world of movies beyond what's on TV or in the multiplex.

Child's Play creator Don Mancini never fails to surprises fans when it comes to unique twists for possible future Chucky films, and his latest idea might...

The 21 - year - old actress starred as Casey Cooke in the thriller «Split» and she admitted she had no idea her movie was linked to Shyamalan's 2000 movie «Unbreakable», and couldn't believe it when he asked her to return for the third film because she loves her character.

In fact, Wong's idea to make a biopic for the legendary martial artist was conceived more than a decade ago, when he was working on his 1997 film, «Happy Together».

The idea for the film, which he also wrote, came when he did an improv show three years ago with the Upright Citizens Brigade.

The use of photographs - within - film to freeze characters in a milieu while defining it in modern terms was already a worn idea when George Roy Hill claimed it for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and here it's handled with even less integrity, by way of a photographer whose 19th - century camera and anachronistic darkroom give him in a few short hours prints of a quality no photographer achieved before about 1920.

One, as you point out, Genevieve, is food; the whole film unlocked itself for me when I noticed how Anderson uses food as a way to embody all kinds of ideas.

«The basis for the idea [of the film] came one morning when I woke up and was like «You know what?

It expects the high - concept idea to do the film's work for it, and when it doesn't, all that's left is a headache - inducing mess without direction or purpose.

He came up with a few ideas for movies when applying to film school that eventually evolved into his first three feature films.

The ideas and effects throughout this film opens the minds of general moviegoers and eases the concept of the eventual battle with Thanos when the time comes for Avengers: Infinity War.

The ideas and effects throughout this film opens the minds of general moviegoers and eases the concept of the eventual battle with Thanos when the time comes for

When he's the only one in the film trying to make something funny out of such a witless idea for a movie, his quips can't bounce back in the form of more quips from actors equally up to the task.

The idea of the inexplicable — and Anderson's courageously go - for - broke creative approach — comes to a head during the film's climax, when something indeed beyond reason takes place, serving as a unifying force between all the characters and plotlines.

«Object in the sense that, when viewed from different angles, in varying moods, it reveals more and more of itself, other emotions and, for a film overrun with aesthetic objects, deepened ideas.»

Even though the idea of sequels to classic films is a hot button topic for the vast majority of us, there's something inherently exciting when one of the best «new» directors decides to take a crack at a sequel no one thought we'd want.

When the idea for the film was first announced, no one exactly thought that Judge was going to be able to pull it off, but seeing as he's somewhat of an expert on Southern - fried hillbillies («King of the Hill») and the overall dumbing down of America («Beavis & Butt - head), many were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

«People read books when they are kids, then read the books to their kids but have given up on the idea that children's books are important for the average person,» said Steven Withrow, coproducer of the film.

Vague billboards left regular members of the public with no idea of what the film was about, and in order to find out they had to head online to discover the debut trailer, which managed to excite existing Judge Dredd fans but left almost everyone else feeling underwhelmed, many seeming to arrive at the conclusion that it might be worth picking up when the DVD / Blu - ray hits the bargain bins or on Ebay for a few quid.

The idea for Floor Kids began in 2007, when award - winning animator and former bboy JonJon teamed up with Kid Koala to create a series of short animated films that were shown online and at live Kid Koala concerts.

When a creator comes up with an idea for a new game, movie, film, etc., it can suddenly take hold of that person's...

While the final girl has provided rich fodder for film theorists, especially regarding her complex reprocessing of gender mores, what often lingers unrecognised is how the final girl improvises new technologies in the interests of survival: the only place in Western culture where there still persist very ancient ideas about technology as a weapon of the weak, and the means of prevailing when defeat appears inevitable — a tendency pushed to its speculative extreme in The Last Girl Scout.

This exhibition will focus on the decade when our artists, very much alongside our photographers, film stars, musicians and fashion designers, captured the world's imagination, creating the idea of «Swinging London», the city that was the symbol of all that was new and exciting for a generation finally throwing off the trauma of the Second World War and facing the future with an optimism born from prosperity and political freedom, despite the shadow of nuclear proliferation and the continuation of the Cold War.

Ewan McGregor wasn't quite so keen when asked about the idea last year, saying: «I was always a bit loathe to do it, because Trainspotting is so important for me... It was such an amazing film that still stands up today.