Sentences with phrase «life pop culture figures»

CEOs can become larger - than - life pop culture figures, as evidenced by the not one, but two Steve Jobs movies coming out this year.

Not exact matches

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

Scientology has been played largely as a figure of derision in pop culture but Gibney seeks to show the dark side here, how it controls people and ruins lives, despite essentially being started as a way of writing off tax.

With their hollow, zombie eyes, quizzical semi-squints and fingerlike ropes of flesh on their faces, the figures float between life and death, pop culture and high art.