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Makenzie 2022-10-10 21:01:16
[Film Review] Broadcast News (1987) 7.9/10
Four years after having homered in the Oscar race with TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983), James L. Brooks released BROADCAST NEWS, his much-anticipated sophomore feature film and again it became a big player and reaped 7 Oscar nominations, only to get the goose egg in the end of the game.
Set in the...
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Herminio 2022-10-10 21:39:12
Thinking about Type
When I first watched it, I felt that the film was a bit untyped in terms of narrative. But after careful consideration, this view seems somewhat untenable. Its non-typing is more derived from the confusion of types. At least in this film, we can see the mashup of three types. The first is...
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Aaron Altman: And in the middle of all this, I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense... and it's you.
Jane Craig: Oh, Bubba.
Aaron Altman: I'm going to stop right now. Except that I would give anything if you were two people, so that I could call up the one who's my friend and tell her about the one that I like *so much*!
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Aaron Altman: Let's never forget, we're the real story, not them.
