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		<title>Why Pity is Important in the Horror Audience</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2011/06/06/why-pity-is-important-in-the-horror-audience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order for a horror film to be affecting it must accomplish an array of feats that manipulate its audience in a way that steers it toward a desired end, which is usually one of disenfranchisement, disgust, dismay, or paranoia. But one key element to effective horror that goes largely unmentioned is the importance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piecing Together &#8216;Inception&#8217; (Cont.)</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2010/08/12/piecing-together-inception-cont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Psycho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Nolan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Page]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already, read Part 1 here to see our interpretation of the film&#8217;s ending. Part 2 &#8211; Taking a Leap of Faith Being able to visit dreams is no doubt a concept that is difficult to grasp, especially once you try to consider all of the philosophical possibilities attached to such an idea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piecing Together &#8216;Inception&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2010/07/25/piecing-together-inception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With over a week now passed since the opening of Chris Nolan&#8217;s Inception, which is perhaps the most cerebral mainstream movie released so far this year, we thought it would be rewarding to analyze it a little further. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a neuroscientist who visits other people&#8217;s dreams (along with his own) and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subversion of Traditional Western Elements in Joss Whedon&#8217;s &#8216;Serenity&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/12/16/subversion-of-traditional-western-elements-in-joss-whedon%e2%80%99s-serenity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Carpico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reavers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer/Director Joss Whedon’s 2005 film Serenity combines genre conventions of both Westerns and futuristic science fiction films.  Though the events of Serenity and the Fox television series that inspired it, Firefly, take place a little over 500 years in the future, everything from the character typology and dialogue to the stories and costuming are more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Look at &#8216;The Dark Knight&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/09/15/coming-soon-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.movie-thoughts.com/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The character of Batman as presented in director Christopher Nolanâ€™s 2008 film The Dark Knight represents many of the iconographic elements that comprise what is known as the Westerner. The caped crusader can more accurately be distinguished as being more medieval (that is, consisting of character traits more attuned to medieval literature) in most of his filmic representations, such as Tim Burtonâ€™s Batman (1989), and such a connection does not completely stop with Nolanâ€™s most recent feature as even the filmâ€™s title outright labels its hero a â€œknight.â€ But despite this, Nolan has introduced the character of Batman to the world of cinema in a new way that displays him more as a western idol reminiscent of the days of John Wayne. American audiences gorged themselves on this newest version of the classic superhero, amassing a domestic box office revenue of over $530 million (second only to Titanicâ€™s $600 million+), and the reason for this may be found in the social structure of its viewers.]]></description>
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		<title>A Look Back at &#8216;The Thing&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/08/23/a-look-back-at-%e2%80%93the-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/08/23/a-look-back-at-%e2%80%93the-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When released on June 25th, 1982, director John Carpenter&#8217;s The Thing made a little bit of noise with critics, but did little else to make a name for itself. That little bit of noise was not even positive however, as critical consensus was that the film gave away too much and yet harbored very little. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Images of Reality, and Vice Versa</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/08/23/of-images-of-reality-and-vice-versa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of images and our (the viewers) perception of them is one that presents itself as rich in analytical possibility and theoretical elucidation. Two different yet correlated approaches are those of post-colonial thought and hyper-reality theory (named here in their broadest titles), which identify and define images differently while also suggesting/arguing diverse receptions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Torture Porn&#8221;: A Fundamentally Inaccurate Label</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/08/23/%e2%80%9ctorture-porn%e2%80%9d-a-fundamentally-inaccurate-label/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding a Gruesome and Controversial Cinema In an essay by author Rick Altman titled A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre, he distinguishes the semantic and syntactic approaches to defining genres while stressing the importance of their cooperation. Otherwise known as the contextual and visual elements in a film, the analysis and interpretation of each and/or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scarface vs. Scarface</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/08/23/scarface-vs-scarface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gangster genre, arguably birthed by Howard Hawks&#8217; 1932 film Scarface, has long since been a favorite target for discussions about violence and controversiality in cinema. Brian De Palma&#8217;s remake of Scarface in 1983, though made 51 years later, did/does nothing to stem this allusion. This was of course deliberate, as De Palma attempted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Take on the Future State of the Medieval as Depicted in &#8216;Reign of Fire&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/08/23/a-take-on-the-future-state-of-the-medieval-as-depicted-in-the-film-%e2%80%9creign-of-fire%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Bugle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout various films and texts, multiple viewpoints and perspectives of medievalism can be found that call into question the ways in which their envisioned pasts are depicted. These ways usually pertain to historical accuracy, theological loyalty, and artistic representation, and usually take place during the Middle Ages. Interestingly enough, then, is when a work comes [...]]]></description>
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