“Opening Scenes of films must be gripping and should hook the audience’s attention right away”. This mantra has been advocated by successful screenwriters and film experts alike for quite a long time. And it’s entirely true. Try remembering the very first scene of your favourite films and you will notice how brilliantly most of them […]
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The 25 Best Movie Performances of All Time
Introductory Note: This list/article is the second in a series attempting to argue that for cinema to be and to be taken seriously as an art form, it must forgo and move beyond Hollywood-like visual-based ways of meaning-formation, understanding, etc. into actor-, face-, dialogue-, voice-, emotion-, body-, character-, feeling,-, psychology-, and tone-based ones. Readers are […]
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The 20 Best Singing Scenes in Non-Musical Movies
You either love musicals or you don’t. There’s something weird about characters breaking into song and dance in the middle of a conversation with little or no notice. Sure, there are exceptions for those of us who don’t enjoy musicals. Movies like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” or “Little Shop of Horrors” can be hard […]
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The 10 Deadliest Movie Characters of All Time
Choosing ten ‘deadliest movie characters of all time’ from over a century-old history has been quite a task. As a result, some deadly characters that deserve inclusion might be excluded. Even before starting out to collate the ‘deadliest movie characters of all time list’, there was little ambiguity about a few of them. Topping the […]
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8 Reasons Why “Avengers: Infinity War” Is The Best Superhero Movie of All Time
Avengers: Infinity War is the greatest superhero film of all time – there is no doubt about it. And if you think that it isn’t then adolescent Groot has something to say about that – “I am Groot!” Sorry for that foul language but Groot has a point. Take a superhero film that combines everything […]
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The 10 Best Crying Scenes in Movie History
The Ancient Greeks asserted that theatre exists partly to help us as audience members experience catharsis, to put it in contemporary language – everyone needs to watch a weepy from time to time. Certainly some of the greatest films in history boast memorable scenes of lachrymose intensity that never fail to elicit tears from the […]