manic is a 2001 american drama film directed by jordan melamed and written by michael bacall and blayne weaver .

it was shown at several film festivals in 2001 and 2002 , including the sundance film festival .

the region 1 dvd was released january 20 , 2004 .

this is also the first time gordon-levitt and deschanel have worked together as each other 's main interest in a film , the second being ( 500 ) days of summer .

manic ( film )

with the headline : reviews / film ; manic film noir thriller as midnight cult film .
a new trailer has appeared online for an upcoming documentary film about manic street preachers . see the teaser ‘escape from history’ below .
manic street preachers’ upcoming summer tour dates are below . tickets are available here .
this is the manic package , it’s the package for those who want to support the musings of the film , loneliness , and alone - ness .
a grim drama about emotionally damaged teens , manic ' s solid cast helps to elevate the material above cliche .
manic has quite a bit to recommend it as well , not the least of which is the lack of hollywood gloss mental patients .
an ivy - league bound , overachieving teen is derailed after a manic episode lands her in a school for kids with mental illness .
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this is exactly the kind of film the dogme 95 movement was meant to inspire .
as manic street preachers prepare to premiere their new documentary ‘escape from history’ this weekend , the band have spoken to nme about how the film sees them telling the story of classic album everything must go ‘definitively for the last time’ .
äntligen en film som slår hål på myten om att en runda spontanbasket kan lösa alla konflikter .
anyone stumbling into the cinema halfway through would think they were watching a documentary , as manic dispenses with all cinematic flourishes , instead aiming for and achieving absolute realism .
‘escape from history’ airs on sky arts at 9pm on saturday 15 april . manic street preachers also release the 10th edition of ‘send away the tigers’ on 12 may .
after completing her degree in film production in montreal at uqàm , filmmaker kalina bertin quickly realized that if she didn ' t set out to understand the mental illness in her family it would destroy her . this process gave birth to her compelling documentary film manic , which explores the legacy of bipolar disorder in her family . aiming to build empathy and awareness toward such a complex condition , she currently is directing a virtual reality experience which will enable the viewer to explore the world of manic - depression from within . kalina presented this project in development at the mit open documentary lab and at the mutek and sodec atelier grand nord vr . manic and manicvr are both produced by eyesteelfilm , a two - time emmy award winning production company based in montreal .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
' ' manic ' ' is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . it contains a lot of trash talk and a few moments of shocking violence . dave kehr
kira is a dedicated and generous woman , set to build big things in the future for all in film and photography .
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the other characters in the film , which opens today in manhattan , are largely stereotypes , well - intended stereotypes but stereotypes nonetheless .
greg brings with him a multitude of life experiences , his cool and relaxed manner are a comfortable fit for the film and cast .
kayla is a fun , and cheery young actor . we are excited to see her develop her niche in the area of film .
i couldn ' t get into the movie , even though the setting is very real . i ' ve worked on a child psych ward and there is so much more dysfunction to delve into than petty schoolyard brawls . i don ' t feel the film captures what it ' s like to have manic depression . i like the main actor but he ' s very one - dimensional in this film . . . truth is i never finished the movie so maybe it picks up .
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the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
in a way , the film mirrors the actual squad itself—a bunch of interesting parts that would often work better alone than together . for instance , the main character of the film is will smith’s deadshot ; he’s the first person we meet and the character who gets the most backstory . it’s a strong story too , but it’s also so prevalent compared to almost every other character , at times the film feels like it should be called “deadshot plus six” instead of “suicide squad . ”
there are moments of truth and close observation in
manic ,
and a scene where the cheadle character does what we ' re always waiting for a long - suffering group leader to do , and completely loses it . deschanel and gordon - levitt succeed in keeping their problems in the foreground of their romance , so those scenes don ' t simply descend into courtship . but at the end of
manic
i ' d seen nothing really new , and the camera style made me work hard to see it at all .
the man behind the camera and art director of the piece . he brings over 25 years experience to the film , in both artistic and creative development in design and cinematography .
bradfield added : “to be honest , to be brutal , i’ll never have to talk about it again . i’ll never have to make a film about it again . i wouldn’t want to do it any more . it is nice to actually put a cap on it and nice to know that you have a definitive film , it’s there , it’s done . ”
' ' manic , ' ' which has been sitting on a shelf somewhere since its debut at the 2001 sundance film festival , belongs to a school of video filmmaking that already seems badly dated . the director , jordan melamed , approaches his story - - about a group of emotionally disturbed california teenagers locked up in a private psychiatric hospital - - with digital camera grasped none too firmly in hand , shooting every sequence as a restless , jittery search for a point of view .
uliana brings her quiet demeanour to the film and the group . she is a smart , quick , friendly presence on and off set . she is such a welcome addition to the cast .
a grim , depressing film about the hopeless nature of living with mental illness , manic is a solemn , intense look into the mind of a violent teen played with sublime efficacy by joseph gordon - levitt . shot according to dogme principles but favoring invasive close - ups , the film offers no easy answers or solutions for the questions it poses . are these teens doomed to repeat the cycle of abuse ? can they be helped ? who knows , but i doubt it . it ' s a stark view of the lifetime of horrific effects that result from the abuse of children . don cheadle makes a terrific anchor as a troubled doctor giving his all to help , but even he too is powerless to make that much of an impact . he knows no matter how much he tries to right the wrongs committed on them , they are too angry at a world that destroyed them to ever be helped . a bleak film , but extremely effective and well worth your time .
hank is dynamic man , full of life . he has a terrific sense of humour and brings real character to the film and set . there was no one else who came to mind when casting this role .
i love everything about film . when you come out of a great film anything and everything is possible . it could be a catalyst . it could be that reflective mirror you needed so badly . it can alter your outlook on life . it could also simply fill you to the brink with awe . past the filters , the characters , the soundscapes , the cinematography , the writing , the special effects , and all that other fancy stuff – i love film because of how many people it can bring together . whether you’re behind or infront of the screen there is no greater joy than that flickering and those sounds melding into a masterpiece .
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this summer is a very exciting time as we eagerly prepare to shoot a short film that has been 2 years in the works . between now and august we wanted to share the excitement and open up the opportunity to have you become a part of it . right now we are hoping to raise funds for the piece . anyway , before you stop reading let me tell you a bit about my slice - of - life - film .
manic chronicles filmmaker kalina bertin ' s struggle to make sense of the mental illness wreaking havoc over her family ' s household . convinced he holds a piece to the puzzle , she sets out to find the truth about her father , a man known alternately as a cult leader , a scam artist , a prophet , and a father of 15 children around the world .
coel is the writer , screenwriter , director of this film . written in twelfth grade as a “fun’ project she has blossomed it into a vision . she is a tenacious and amazing woman , determined to bring this to life .
angela is an accomplished actor , and that’s when she isn’t on stage . she brings an amazing energy to any setting as well as set . we are so excited to see her bring the character to life in this film .
i ' ve been waiting on manic since it was in production , so i ' ve had a long wait . i must say it was worth it . i really have no complaints about the film ; the acting was great , especially from joseph gordon - levitt - who really proves what a good actor he is , don cheadle , and zooey deschanel . the story seems very accurate , haunting , and at times heartbreaking , as it paints a very realistic picture of teens with problems . there ' s no fluff here . direction was great . jordan melamed ' s debut proved to be a good one - and i look forward to more by this unknown director .
you can ' t escape yourself . great film ! the casting was excellent as each member of the ensemble portrayed their character with depth and individual motivation , and they all interacted believably . joseph gordon - levitt plays his part just . . he ' s perfect in it , so is zooey , she ' s absolutely beautiful in her character . so with those two , the movies already worth watching , then you add the ward doctor , don cheadie , he ' s just , amazing in this . this film describes mental illness for youths in a raw upfront manner that hollywood could never handle , yet it is to be seen . all in all , manic is a movie for those who truly care about the craft of film , care about collaborative , creative skill that can come from a work of the heart , care about humanity ' s relief from suffering , and care about compassionate answers for otherwise seemingly unsolvable problems . for all these reasons , i highly recommend this film . lyle jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts , and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the northwood mental institution . several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems . lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human , and sometimes not so human level . the psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what ' s right with them , and what ' s wrong with the society that affects them .
the lure ,
a polish musical about man - eating teenage mermaids , is genuinely weird . that ' s not just a comment on the film ' s unabashedly freaky subject matter , but also a half - hearted complaint about the filmmakers ' off - kilter execution . narratively ,
the lure
is fairly rote : two sisters use their siren - like powers to seduce humans as cabaret singers , but one of them wants to assimilate , while the other seems to exist solely to remind her sister how stereotypically voracious teen girls , i mean mermaids can be . it ' s a fairly predictable parable , though arguably because
the lure
is fundamentally a modern fairy tale . but when the music numbers kick in , you ' re reminded that this movie is , tonally , an emotional rollercoaster : characters wallow in their isolation , try to get ahead through sex , song and / or murder , then repeat that same cycle of manic effusiveness . watching
the lure
is a bit like having manic depression—the thrilling high points are just as relentless as the crushing low - tide ebbs .
manic is a great movie . it ' s very sad and unnerving in spots , but i would definitely recommend this movie to people who have a strong stomach . the performances by all the actors are really good . i might of changed the ending to be different for me , but the way it ends isn ' t bad . i highly recommend this movie , but it would be a hard one to watch very often .
i haven ' t seen
manic
before , but it feels like i have . the opening scenes place us in a familiar setting and more or less reveal what we can expect . in an institution for troubled teenagers , an encounter group is overseen by a therapist who tries his best to steer his clients toward healing . but the unruly young egos have wills of their own , and there will be crisis and tragedy before the eventual closure .
shelby is an exuberant addition to our cast . she has worked on stage and in film . her help anyway possible and do anything attitude is great . she is exploring her own playwriting and loving it . we are so happy to have her join us with this experience .
“they’re in the process of writing new songs and i’m in the process of finishing another film for them , so that’s a bit mental , ” evans told nme last year . “i’m finishing a documentary called ‘escape from history’ from sky arts which is all about how ‘everything must go’ came about . ”
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar , but is a monster ever just a monster ? in lights out , a family is terrorized by a fearsome metaphor—the willowy , whispering hag of clinical depression , coming and going with the flip of a light switch . it’s not such foul play , making your fiend a symbol of manic episodes . the babadook went somewhere similar two years ago , lending undigested grief the shape of a storybook bogeyman and sacrificing few scares by being really obvious about it . but lights out is even more obvious and much less careful about its own subtext , which is so close to the surface that it’s basically text with a few handfuls of graveyard dirt thrown on top . the film is blatantly , unmistakably about mental illness , and that makes it hard to ignore or forgive what it ends up saying ( hopefully by accident ) on the subject .
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when asked by nme if he was currently filming the band making their next album , evans replied : “no . i worked on ‘rewind the film’ , ‘futurology’ and two of their greatest records with ‘the holy bible’ and ‘everything must go’ . this [ film ] doesn’t feel like an end but a little doorstop in what we do next . they’ve got to move studios and have a lot of things to be getting on with . they also don’t like being filmed , so you have to coax new ways out of them ! i think i’ve strained every way of pushing the band to make ‘escape from history’ so let’s just let the mystery and magic of the songs come about . i’ve heard two new songs and they sound amazing . ”
“closure is just an american platitude , isn’t it ? ” laughed frontman james dean bradfield when we met him after the first screening of the film . while there’s no cathartic end in once again summarising the period between the disappearance of guitarist richey edwards and the overwhelming success that followed , the band have found respite in this project providing more of an ‘absolute’ full stop on the story .
saint laurent continued designing until 2002 – every show remorselessly measured against his past hits , and every final bow accompanied by the suspense of waiting to see whether he ' d manage the short walk to the end of the runway . lespert ' s film ends with yves stumbling on to the runway , mouth slumped askew , eyes lost behind his glasses , his movement unsteady and uncertain .
he never really finds one : the camera work is so self - conscious and so intrusive that it consistently overrides our interest in the characters and their individual dramas . the film finally seems to be about an invisible , camcorder - wielding presence that has come to haunt a mental institution , as if there were an extra character in every scene that none of the other performers can see .
ironically , the most ordinary part of the film , the murder plot , is the most compelling . the more inventive twist never quite works , because laura ( uma thurman ) is too vaguely drawn to carry the noirish story . sid ( paul dillon ) barely exists , though he takes up a lot of screen time searching for musicians . but paul richards makes william perfectly enigmatic and sinister .
the new documentary has been made by the band’s long - time collaborator , the bafta - winning director kieran evans – who made all the music videos from the band’s past two albums ‘ rewind the film ‘ and ‘ futurology ‘ , as well as ‘generation terrorists’ documentary ‘culture , alienation boredom and despair’ and the recent ‘ holy bible’ anniversary tour concert movie , ‘be pure , be vigilant behave ‘ .
the plot is a serviceable device to introduce characters who need have no relationship to one another , and to guarantee conflict and drama . we are all indoctrinated in the wisdom of psychobabble , and know that by the end of the film some of the characters will have learned to deal with the anger , others will have stopped playing old tapes , and with any luck at all there will even be a romance .
chad : i ' d rather feel like total shit sometimes , and god the rest of the time , than just like - ok all the time , you know ? fuck mediocrity .
you can ' t escape yourself
manic has been a movie a really wanted to check out for sometime now and i ' m happy i did . this is the type of movie that you don ' t see to often . it ' s pessimism will make you feel all the terrible things in your life . it ' s blunt , it ' s honest , and it ' s not all about the happy ending with this one . i respect the movie , but i must say it won ' t be for everyone . i didn ' t love it , and at times it ' s hard to watch . so much pessimism with no optimism will do that to the audience , but that ' s not to say that this wasn ' t made the right way . a story like this doesn ' t need happiness . lyle is committed to a juvenile mental ward after brutally beating another kid with a baseball bat . he ' s supposed to find the reason why he is there . he ' s supposed to hone his anger , and be able to do productive things with it instead of using it in violent outbursts . he befriends a few of his peers and becomes enemies with one . the film is shot in a handheld , quick shifting way that is effective with this type of movie . i liked the way it was shot . the score was also very good in a subtle type of way . but the main reason why i liked the movie was the performances . everyone is phenomenal . don cheadle as the counselor , joseph gordon - levitt as lyle , and zooey deschanel as tracy . the other actors whose names i don ' t know where great as well . manic is a film worth watching if you can accept the bluntness and are able to handle the pessimism . it ' s not a fun movie to watch , it ' s not
entertaining
, but what it is is a well - made , honest movie about a kid who may never get his anger under control . well worth a look in my opinion .
but as gold and silver ' s respective experiences start to drive them apart , the film ' s plot starts to become safe and predictable . i want to say that the energy of the first 30 - 40 minutes does not sustain itself over the course of the picture , but that ' s not quite right since the movie ' s first half has its fair share of tonal hills and troughs , too .
the lure
doesn ' t always want to win you over since it is ultimately about the wild moods and relatively normal capriciousness of its two female leads . we root for them because they are leading lives that are not strictly determined by puritanical norms . they get to choose , and that means making the wrong decisions and living with uncertainty . . . and then singing about it ( zlota ' s song about loneliness is one of the best in the film ) .
and then there’s the enchantress . played by cara delevingne , she’s also major presence in the film and one of the main villains . however , her storyline is criminally underwritten , which becomes a huge problem in act three , when it’s basically all about her . the movie completely ignores her most of the time ; so when it suddenly pivots to bring her to the forefront , it’s too late for there to be any meaningful stakes or drama .
' ' kiss daddy good night ' ' will be shown at midnight tonight and tomorrow at the variety theater . setting itself up as a midnight cult film seems like the right way for this work to find its audience , one that values ambition and a quirky vision over polish . the director and co - writer , peter ily huemer , creates a disorienting atmosphere that may have as much to do with a low budget as with style . the scenes are dark , often grainy , often with blue - tinged interiors . exteriors look so murky that even familiar new york streets appear alien , as if they belonged in someone else ' s fantasy . ( this is true even of a scene shot across the street from the new york times . ) all this fakery - the sudden , blindingly bright shifts to daylight - can be turned to lively effect . but while ' ' kiss daddy good night ' ' has the ambitious strength of good independent film making , it also has the diffuseness that makes such works threaten to evaporate .
from the outset , their roles were clear . yves was the vulnerable , suffering artist and pierre the fiercely controlling protector : a man who , in lespert ' s film , is painfully aware of his public image –
the pimp who ' s found his all - star hooker
. and in the frail niney , the director has found an actor perhaps more like saint laurent than saint laurent himself ever was : tortured , intense , and yet endearingly childlike as he stumbles out of couture ' s disciplined universe into the liberated decadence of the 60s .
lyle ( joseph gordon - levitt , the wisecracking teenager of ' ' third rock from the sun ' ' ) is the newest resident of the high - security wing , having landed there after beating a schoolmate nearly to death . for all of his uncontrollable inner violence , lyle is attracted to the painfully shy , withdrawn tracy ( the superb zooey deschanel ) . when the two begin a clandestine relationship , it proceeds more from movie star logic ( the two most attractive people in any film are destined to become a couple ) than it does from dramatic necessity .
if the two new films are likely to reveal anything it is this : the man himself remains an enigma . early in lespert ' s film , he confides in bergé :
you know , i ' m not that nice .
and you sense that not - niceness remains the largely untold part of the saint laurent story – the man who could cut friends and supporters out of his life without a backward glance , who averted his gaze from unpleasantness and who sheltered behind bergé ' s aggressive energy just as completely as he sheltered behind his thick - lensed glasses .
the same is true here . so before it can do anything else , suicide squad has to introduce about a dozen new characters and make you care about them . the first third of the film is nothing but set - up—there’s origin stories , table setting , villain introductions , and more . surprisingly , all this , while excessive , is actually quite promising . it’s disjointed for sure , and things get a bit monotonous because the story isn’t really advancing , but there’s a certain energy to much of it . with this much set - up , you definitely want to see what’s next .
if this were a film of the 1950 ' s - - like vincente minnelli ' s mental home melodrama , ' ' the cobweb ' ' - - the therapist would gently guide his patients to epiphanies ( ' ' my mother didn ' t really love me ' ' ) that would lead directly to cures and happy endings . mr . melamed knows that trope won ' t wash anymore , but he doesn ' t have anything to replace it ; what passes for a climax here is the kids ' realization that they might as well stop struggling , relax and take their medications . not exactly a revolutionary gesture that jack nicholson ' s randle mcmurphy would recognize .
still , just because director agnieszka smoczyńska and robert bolesto present their characters in a consistently thoughtful light doesn ' t mean that their characters ' problems are consistently compelling . bolesto ' s scenario may show uncommon sensitivity towards mietek , a character who is neither a one - note exploiteer nor a hapless pretty boy . but the fact that so much depends on him and silver ' s romance is dispiriting , as is the film ' s generally uninspired take on female sexuality . silver and gold are always compelling when they perform for a crowd because in these scenes , smoczyńska and bolesto make their heroines ' process of self - actualizing as fun as a story about killer mermaids should be .
in that sense , the music ends up being almost the perfect microcosm of the film—the pieces are good , but together they somehow end up making something less than the sum of their parts . some of the action is fun , some of the characters are great , and it does reach some nice emotional peaks . but it never feels like a true , cohesive movie . it feels a b - movie—an action - packed one , but a b - movie nonethelesses—that just happens to be set in the dc universe . it’s as if ayer had too many balls to juggle and when they all came tumbling down he said , “well that’s still kind of cool . ” cool ? maybe . that doesn’t make it any less disappointing .
unfortunately , once the assembled team begins their mission , that’s where suicide squad starts to go off the rails . the goal of the squad’s mission is incredibly ambiguous , gets even murkier as the narrative unfolds , and then falls apart once all is revealed at the end . plus , the at least partially cohesive tone of the first act of the film segues into a second act that’s radically different in tone , and more of a war movie than anything else . characters spend a good 20 - 30 minutes walking around just getting into gun fights . if suicide squad were merely an action movie , this would be exciting , but these characters are villains , some of whom have superpowers . merely seeing them shoot guns at things isn’t that exciting .
the second biggest role goes to harley quinn , played by margot robbie , who’s actually the exception that proves the rule . thanks in part to robbie’s memorable performance , she’s flighty , she’s unpredictable and when she’s having fun , so is the audience . she adds to every scene she’s in , and when she’s on screen , suicide squad is at its best . but she also brings the joker with her , and he brings his own problem . he’s such an iconic , important villain , and yet he’s an afterthought in the film . there’s no big , meaty , iconic joker scene for us to marvel at . his occasional appearances detract from the smaller characters the movie is actually about , to the point you almost wish he wasn’t in the movie at all .
it ' s not hard to understand the fascination with the ysl story , a saga that blends wild public success with private suffering . outwardly saint laurent led a charmed life . by the age of 18 , he had won an international design competition ( beating future rival karl lagerfeld ) and been hired by fashion ' s reigning sun king , christian dior . lespert ' s film begins shortly after , with yves enthroned as dior ' s crown prince . as played by pierre niney , he is at once violently demanding and intensely shy , pampered and secure – as he had been in algeria – in a world of adoring women . but that sheltered , happy existence was soon to be shattered , with dior ' s premature death in 1957 pushing his seemingly reluctant successor into the spotlight .
billed as ' ' a film noir in living color , ' ' ' ' kiss daddy good night ' ' offers the expected seamy , noirish life that inevitably leads to murder . but its unexpected heroine is a more threatening version of susan seidelman ' s harmlessly crooked downtown women . laura ' s life of petty crime owes something to ' ' smithereens ' ' and ' ' desperately seeking susan , ' ' though she has an unusually intriguing modus operandi . she assumes an elaborate new identity , goes to clubs or art galleries , and puts the moves on the richest - looking man in the room . back at his place , she slips something soothing into his drink , and while he ' s knocked out , she walks off with a few valuables - a 17th - century italian dagger , a painting cut out of its frame , the cat .
' ' kiss daddy good night ' ' is frustratingly uneven , but it might give relief to anyone sated with hollywood gloss . deadly masquerade kiss daddy good night , directed by peter ily huemer ; screenplay by mr . huemer and michael gabrieli ; director of photography , bobby bukowski ; edited by ila v . hasperg and ron goldfinger ; music by don king and arto lindsay ; production designer , randy benjamin ; produced by maureen o ' brien and william ripka ; released by a beast of eden productions . at variety theater , 110 third avenue , between 13th and 14th streets . running time : 87 minutes . this film has no rating . laura . . . uma thurman sid . . . paul dillon william b . tilden . . . paul richards johnny . . . steve buscemi lara tilden . . . jennifer lee mitchell sue . . . annabelle gurwitch
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disappearing when the lights are flipped on and lurching forward with a herky - jerky j - horror stagger when they’re off , “diana” is a reasonably spooky creation , even if her metaphoric function is baldly clear from the onset . the film goes overboard explaining her origins , unpacking boxes of pertinent backstory and at one point literally scrawling some expository information on the wall . but making mom the one with the “imaginary” friend is a clever reversal of a very hoary horror trope , and director david f . sandberg otherwise finds inventive ways to exploit his gimmick . the cold open , for example , makes cruelly nerve - wracking use of an overhead light on a motion - detection timer , while a later scene creates strategic blackouts from the rhythmic , blood - red pulse of the tattoo parlor’s neon sign . burning through every source of illumination imaginable , the movie almost plays like the horror - flick version of kanye’s “all of the lights” : streetlights ! headlights ! black lights ! wind - up flashlights !
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lyle jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts , and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the northwood mental institution . several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems . lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human , and sometimes not so human level . the psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what ' s right with them , and what ' s wrong with the society that affects them .
most of the extras in the movie were teenagers that had actually been in hospitals to treat depression .
: you know calabasas is full of fucking j . a . p . s and daddy ' s girls . i didn ' t exactly have the debutante thing goin ' on . one day i saw her at mcdonalds with the nose job crew . that was before i knew my place , so i sat down . my friend rolls her eyes and she says : ' what , you actually think you ' re good looking ? ' cause you walk around like you ' re all hot and you ' re really not . ' then the whole table started to laugh . and i cried for about three days and then i fuckin ' resurrect , you know ? i just . . .
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its modesty of aspiration and its naturalism of style are its two most salient values .
melamed ' s slavish devotion to frenetically moving hand - held camera shots is perplexing at first , looking like an obvious attempt at obtaining dogme 95 credibility .
the acting is solid and strong from early gorden - levitt and deschanel . along with the cinematography being in cheap digital font , the feel is gritty and realistic . the story isn ' t deep but it ' ll have you hooked for the hour and a half .
uh , i ' m not gonna give you some bullshit hokey speech and tell you that if you come to some epiphany about your dad you ' re gonna make a break through and everything ' s gonna be pizza and blowjobs .
i ' d rather feel like total shit sometimes , and god the rest of the time , than just like - ok all the time , you know ? fuck mediocrity .
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after aurora carter , an ivy league - bound , ap exam enthusiast finds that her over - achieving obsessiveness lands her in a boarding school for kids with mental illnesses . now she has a singular goal : prove she doesn’t belong with the rest of the freaks . determined to fight the system , aurora makes alliances with the other girls one by one and inspires them to take control of their lives . with : shanice williams , dot - marie jones , russell andrews , nicki micheaux , vyvy nguyen . drama , female director ( s ) , ny director ( s ) , female screenwriter ( s )
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the script , by michael bacall and blayne weaver , doesn ' t break new ground dramatically : this is essentially the ' ' one flew over the cuckoo ' s nest ' ' format applied to sensitive adolescents , à la ' ' girl , interrupted . ' '
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the kids are under the supervision of a therapist ( don cheadle ) , who gathers them daily into a circle and asks them questions meant to develop their self - esteem and reduce their reliance on violence as a means of problem solving . ( maybe he should turn off the television . )
mr . melamed ' s real talent emerges in his handling of actors . what could easily have been an excuse for the worst sort of method excess is played here with relative naturalism and restraint . ms . deschanel , in a role filmed before her glowing work in ' ' the good girl ' ' and ' ' all the real girls , ' ' is particularly spontaneous , unaffected and emotionally direct .
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after badly beating a classmate , lyle is committed to an institution where he learns there is a thin line between ' sane ' and ' insane . ' don cheadle stars as the mental hospital ' s teen counselor .
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very visceral movie about a group of problematic teenagers brought together . some scenes reminded me of one flew over the cuckoo ' s nest . filmed on a low quality camera , this was gordon levitt / deschanel collaboration , and it could not be further apart from ( 500 ) days of summer . there are parts that will make you want to look away or stop watching , and some others will make you feel like you were actually part of the group . worth a watch .
kind of not really a good movie although the characters could have made it so . instead not realistic using real issues with teenagers as entertainment .
i love this movie because it shows some people i could relate to having real issues and working on them . most of the characters are amazing , but i sort of watched it for don cheadle , joseph gordon - levitt , and zooey deschanel . watch this movie because it is very important . this movie is highly recommended .
5 - star sleeper . a lower budget movie can be excellent , if cast of actors perform with the passion of this movies cast did .
it was gritty and raw , you can almost feel yourself inside the group home with them .
an epic movie with young joseph gordon levitt doing what he does best which is acting to his full potential . everyone is amazing and the story is intriguing .
so amazing , so real . this was acting at its finest . . . . having been in similar situations , i felt a powerful connection to this movie .
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“well , it’s told definitively for the last time – that’s why we did it , ” bradfield told nme . “i’ve never gone into that thing of wanting to enjoy the success , because at the time it felt like it was the only escape route from all the questions and all the b - movie myths about what had happened with richey .
“by the time ‘everything must go’ had actually come out , we’d been asking ourselves a lot of questions , we’d been through a lot of other people asking us questions , we’d been through a lot of other people theorising about what had happened with richey , and by the time that success came along , i was willing to embrace it . sometimes you’ve got to allow a lot of space and time to actually have occurred between the memory and now . ”
not only is their classic ‘rise of the phoenix’ story now the stuff of rock legend , but it’s a tale the band have revisited countless times over the last 22 years ; every anniversary , retrospective tour or release , and magazine cover feature . this time however , ‘escape from history’ explores the true human impact of edwards’ disappearance and the landmark record that followed , by not only getting under the skin of the band from a much more personal angle , but by going in deep with those closest to the band at the time . from the extended family of their late and current manager , to those who helped them rise to fame and put the record together , this is a much more three - dimensional and beautifully human portrayal of a very conflicting period .
“we’ve told this story so many times , so it’s great to let it breathe with so many other voices , ” revealed bassist and lyricist nicky wire . “over that period we had quite the support network . we were pretty fucked up and odd , but a lot of people stood by us .
“it feels like there’s nothing else to say about ‘everything must go’ any more . so this is a relief and a pleasure . ”
but on 1 february 1995 when edwards disappeared , the band were still reeling from the loss of their manager and mentor , philip hall . now , a childhood friend and a cornerstone of their entire ethos and manifesto was gone too . they had , for want of a better phrase , to ‘keep it real’ . they shed their military uniforms , and returned with their spirit intact , but nothing to hide behind – just the music .
“richey was amazing at giving good copy in terms of soundbites , ” smiles james . “if somebody took a picture of him he knew what to do . he knew what to do when somebody put a dictaphone in front of him . suddenly i was being sent on those promotional tours around europe by sony and not nick and richey . i remember that being really scary , because there wasn’t so much of an image to talk about with ‘everything must go’ . there was a wholesale clearance of that tablet of truth that came with every album .
“with ‘everything must go’ , we were trying to breathe and fly and actually try and live through it and let it speak for us . so being sent to all those interviews on my own , i remember thinking ‘fuck me , this is tough’ . ”


ploy ( thai : พลอย ) is a 2007 thai film written and directed by pen-ek ratanaruang .

the film premiered during the directors ' fortnight at the 2007 cannes film festival .

the drama film stars thai actress lalita panyopas in a story of a middle-aged married couple who question their relationship after seven years .

ananda everingham is featured in a supporting role as a bartender .

the film contained sex scenes that were shown at cannes , but due to censorship concerns had to be re-edited by the director so the film could be shown in cinemas in thailand when it opened there on june 7 , 2007 .

the uncensored version of the film was shown in thailand at the 2007 bangkok international film festival .

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their marriage was probably a ploy to end the feud between their two families .
critics said his statement may have been a ploy to prepare an insanity defence .
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‘it was obviously a cunning ploy to secure column inches for a particular company . ’
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her story about being sick is only a ploy to get you to give her money .
as the messenger was too afraid to deliver the letter , this ploy came to nothing .
, this ploy fails spectacularly the first time the not - yet - heroes attempt it .
a ploy is a clever plan that helps you get what you want . a manipulative little girl might shed tears simply as a ploy to get her mother to buy her ice cream .
‘i condemn this government for its cynical ploy to try to buy the votes of students . ’
‘it ' s a clever ploy and takes advantage of the natural courtesy of the public . ’
a politician might add amendments to a bill as a ploy to delay voting , or a hooligan might yell ,
fire !
in a movie theater as a ploy to sneak his friends in . a sneaky move in a game is a ploy , and sensational news about a celebrity can be just a ploy to get him more media attention . the first recorded use of ploy was in 1722 , meaning
anything with which one amuses oneself
in scottish and northern english dialects .
conflating journalism with terrorism is a transparently cynical ploy by the turkish authorities to shut down the press .
the free t - shirt is really a ploy to get you inside to see their sales pitch .
likewise , that player ' s ploy to achieving the exemption is often unbeknownst to the other players .
a common ploy of investment scammers is to encourage a mark to use money concealed from tax authorities .
maybe this is all part of a trumpian ploy to revive the missing - persons milk - carton program .
asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party .
i do nt know if that was a ploy to get me amped up , but it certainly worked .
‘we reckon it ' s nothing more than a cunning ploy to get more stuff written about the band . ’
‘some seem to regard it as a kind of elitist ploy designed to make things difficult for the disadvantaged . ’
‘this is a clever ploy to hook the booklovers after giving them the taste of the best of fiction reads . ’
‘my opponent became increasingly frustrated by my beginner ' s luck and masterminded a cunning ploy to level the scores . ’
her final ploy was to pretend to be a full - time wheelchair user , leaving her as the last suspect .
starting about the mid - 1990s , however , some companies introduced a
horizontal
dot pitch as a marketing ploy .
there were more again who could never bear to be absent from any ploy : pepa frias , lola , and a few more .
among the theories : fox10 host kari lake said the teachers strike is actually just a cover ploy to legalize recreational marijuana in arizona .
but the meeting may also be a ploy by kim to buy time to perfect his weapons and wriggle out of punishing economic sanctions .
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1776 portrays the founding of the united states as one gigantic , out - of - control , earth - changing indy ploy . with singing and dancing .
if i was a stone or two lighter , and had one to look after the shop , it ' s off on this ploy i would be too .
rosen , craig
use of its advisory sticker as mktg . ploy worries riaa .
billboard magazine . vol . 101 , november 24 , 1990 : p . 6 .
subverted in pirates of the caribbean on stranger tides , jack drops a napkin minutes before using it as his exit strategy , making one wonder just how indy ploy he really is .
that is either an act of coyness , a ploy to get out of doing endless campaigning or the most perversely genius way to convince the voters to actually give you the award .
claim : coca - cola halted production of its flagship beverage in 1985 and introduced new coke in its place as a marketing ploy to combat declining market share and rekindle interest in the original drink .
a well wisher in the eyes of society but very bad in person , he does the ploy in the story . . smart and conscious in handling people . enjoys manipulating people and exploit helplessness .
these example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ' ploy . ' views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of merriam - webster or its editors . send us feedback .
kane ' s ultimate goal of the series . it turned out that all he was trying to do was find some way to get off of earth , and that every tiberium war he started was more or less an indy ploy .
this plot was revisited in the lupin iii red jacket series , where an armchair detective ( criminologist ) programmed a computer to do the same thing . this time , lupin ' s indy ploy was to rely on zenigata ' s whim .
like ocean’s 11 before it , which revealed that danny ocean’s big heist was really a ploy to punish the casino owner who was dating his ex - wife , tess ( julia roberts ) , ocean’s 8 is also something of a revenge story .
capitalizing on the olsen twins fame , the series opted to introduce the twins ( blake and dylan tuomy - wilhoit ) five seasons in . on michelle ' s birthday . if that wasn ' t an obvious ploy we don ' t know what is .
we traveled to calitzdorp , a beautiful little town in the klein karoo , western cape , south africa to document guy & ploy’s wedding celebrations with close family & friends . the intimate ceremony & reception all took place at guy’s parents’ home & art gallery .
in the vor game , miles and emperor gregor pull off the rarely - attempted synchronized tandem indy ploy , and somehow manage to completely out - maneuver a magnificent bastard of a chessmaster while unable to coordinate with each other on opposite sides of a star system .
, creator bruce geller imagined every episode ' s plan to go wrong at some point , leaving the imf team to work from scratch . in the actual series , only a few indy ploy moments come up , mostly in the
personal story
episodes .
craigslist ' s decision to put up the censored banner may also be more about defending its free speech rights than anything else . the difference between a calculated ploy and a principled stand for free speech may seem slight , but it ' s an important distinction .
parson from erfworld is a grand master of the indy ploy . he was summoned to be the perfect warlord and save an army outnumbered a zillion to one and losing badly . what he had accomplished up to that point had been impressive but he had not proven infallible . when his officers start to question him , he directly explains the concept of the indy ploy to his troops ◊ . as this speech happened two
volumes
ago in - comic , it isn ' t much of a spoiler that he finds a way .
the lieutenant of an emergency service unit , he and his swat team raided the warehouse where carla easton was believed to be held . however , this was a ploy by the voice who triggered a bomb blast and injured several members of the team , one critically .
craigslist ' s adult services shutdown might be a ploy to draw
attention to its fight with state attorneys general over sex ads and to issues of free speech on the internet ,
according to the new york times . if that ' s the case , connecticut state attorney general , richard blumenthal told the times he won ' t be taken in by it .
if this announcement is a stunt or a ploy . . . they would be in a sense be thumbing their nose at the public interest ,
blumenthal told the times .
the keys stand alone : the soft world has a bunch of these as well . for example , john uses a literally last - second ploy to get himself and ringo out of the clutches of a roomful of telepaths and empaths busily trying to bend them to their will .
craigslist may believe its adult services fight is about resisting government pressure to control speech online rather than a purely strategic business ploy . the site would certainly have an argument to make in regard to free speech since the law protects websites from responsibility for content generated by its users .
an indy ploy is also a surefire way to invoke an unspoken plan guarantee . since indy ' s course of action is unknown even to indy himself , and therefore unknown to the audience , indy is more likely to succeed than if he had spent time planning on - screen .
for most of the run , animorphs might as well just be called indy ploy : the series . to be fair they do frequently try to plan everything out , but when things inevitably go downhill they just start making crap up as they go , with a result of all of them becoming really proficient . another notable example is in # 29 , when everyone except cassie gets knocked out with alien flu , forcing her to indy ploy her way into the yeerk pool to rescue a yeerk who knows too much before escaping to perform on the fly brain surgery .
: john crichton lives for the indy ploy , which is fortunate , because the uncharted territories throw monkey wrenches into it every damn time . near the end of the series , d ' argo wonders why things never go smoothly , to which john replies ,
murphy ' s law .
guy & ploy made their marriage official & signed their register at the magistrate court in cape town & afterwards had a really small get together in their home . a few days later… guests travelled from all - over the world to calitzdorp to share in this part of the celebration . they wanted everything about their small wedding celebration day to be as less stressful and relaxed as possible , with no ‘wedding rules’ . for us , the most special part of the day was when guy helped ploy to get dressed & picked some olive branches from the garden for her to put in her hair .
having a strong preference for the indy ploy seems to be a requirement to be a member of fairy tail . even many of the more sane characters tend to throw themselves into fights with little forethought ( erza fits this description well ) , notable exceptions may be lucy , levy , and fried .
it is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection , given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self - conscious thought . the ploy of instinct ties this paradox to instinct’s deployment in conceptualizing governmentality .
the indy ploy is when someone improvises a plan in the middle of the action , or comes up with one immediately before the action starts . either way , the initial plan has failed , and now the character is forced to come up with a new plan on the fly with no time to prepare or think about the consequences . maybe the team has lost the smart guy . maybe the leader has the attention span of a distracted goldfish on caffeine . maybe the plan our heroes were relying on was trashed beyond all hope of being salvaged . no matter the reason , they are now executing an indy ploy .
, shuuya has an admirable tendency to jump into a conflict to help the underdog . the problem is that he never thinks about what he ' ll do after he becomes part of it . he usually reveals his indy ploy after the conflict is already resolved and the other person asks what he was thinking .
shooting a creative’s wedding is always a big honor for us . guy & ploy are the owners of hoi p’loy – the most beautiful lighting design company in south africa . it was such a joy when we first started chatting to them , as we have some of their lighting products in our little home in pretoria too !
unlike many practitioners of the indy ploy , skitter , protagonist of worm , prefers to go into battle with a solid plan . when that ' s not possible , or when unexpected circumstances derail the plan , she has a gift for inventing effective tactics on the fly using anything and everything she can get her hands ( or insects ) on .
jealousy erupts quickly but steamy sex and dull narrative move at a glacial pace in thai somnambulistic meller “ploy . ” pen - ek ratanaruang’s return to a sole scripting credit after “invisible waves” makes that maligned , slow pic look like a rapid approaching tsunami in comparison . yarn about a thai man whose casual friendship with a 19 - year old [ … ]
part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of webster’s dictionary , which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain . the imported definitions may be significantly out of date , and any more recent senses may be completely missing . ( see the entry for ploy in webster’s revised unabridged dictionary , g . & c . merriam , 1913 . )
layla’s final devious ploy likely ruined the good - will the character took on following jeff ' s death . since being upped to series regular in season four after heavily recurring since season two , layla was a classic example of an up - and - coming singer whose moral compass takes changes with the wind as the character would literally do nearly anything to get her shot at stardom .
selphie tilmitt in final fantasy viii pulls a mean indy ploy , as she proves when she leads the mission to the galbadian missile base . she has nothing but a stolen military vehicle and some spare uniforms she happened to find in it , and no plan at all beyond
go in , break everything we can , and blow the sucker sky - high
- and she does .
ploy guest house is one of the best hotels i have stayed in during my trips to thailand . it offers simple comfort , great service , clean rooms all for an extremely reasonable price . i stayed three days in an excellent
garden room
, which offered a comfortable double bed , large bathroom with seperate shower room , cable tv , and the usual complimentary two . . .
the ploy only got the studios so far . despite the fact that both
star trek beyond
and
ghostbusters
( 2016 ) are far from good movies , by positioning both titles on left - wing soap boxes , the lapdog critics swooned , and to their great shame awarded the disappointing former an 83 % fresh rating and the outright awful latter a 73 % fresh rating .
ryan groves is an actor , writer and producer from greenville , mississippi and is best known as an actor , writer and producer of the forthcoming web series ,
the ploy .
a graduate of rutgers university , groves began his acting career as an extra in the independent film ,
stuck ,
directed by stuart archer . shortly after his move to los angeles , . . .
wit ( pornwut sarasin ) and his wife dang ( lalita panyopas ) have returned to thailand for a funeral after a decade living in the united states . jet - lagged , wit goes down to the bangkok airport hotel bar while his wife sleeps . also in the bar is an sexy 19 - year - old waif ploy ( apinya sakuljaroensuk ) , who is waiting for her mother to arrive from stockholm .
two young boys in a remote village in nepal stumble upon a white hen roosting in an abandoned cowshed . they decide to make it their own and spin an elaborate plan to monetize their find during the civil war . however , they find it increasingly difficult to hold on to it , so , they color it black to increase their chances . that naive ploy at concealment unleashes a series of misfortune that takes over their lives .
pokémon special makes thorough use of the indy ploy - gold in particular worships at its altar . his are so blatant that mental objections fill the panel when he acts like he planned it all along . it ' s hard to judge , given the nature of her intellect , whether some of sapphire ' s more clever victories ( roxanne , brawly , ark @ mt . chimney ) qualify as this or something between this and xanatos speed chess .
) , john von neumann , famously said that a random strategy is the only strategy that cannot be guaranteed to be beaten by some other strategy . so , if you are going up against someone who is smarter , with more resources , and whose likelihood of understanding your strategy ( if you had one ) and replying with a better one is 100 % , your only option for a non - zero chance of success is an indy ploy .
the reception space was filled with hoi p’loy lights & details ! tables were decorated with natural elements… olive branches from the farm’s garden , pomegranates , lemons , pears & figs . handmade ceramic dinner plates & bowls by guy’s mom and ploy added the finishing touches . guests were treated with a traditional south - african bbq for dinner and homemade cake for dessert . the evening’s celebrations later moved outside where guests watched the moon & danced under the lights and stars…
without a definitive answer , craigslist ' s abrupt move has left others to fill in the blanks about the shutdown . some say it ' s a protest meant to draw attention to the site ' s first amendment rights . others wonder if it isn ' t a strategic ploy to appease advocacy groups and law enforcement . it is also possible craigslist simply doesn ' t have the wherewithal to face off against a potential 17 state attorneys general in court .
the titular phoenix wright is essentially the videogaming world ' s avatar of this trope . both he and his successor apollo justice rely almost exclusively upon plans built upon the indy ploy ; especially on the first day of court when they usually have no clue who the real culprit is . repeatedly , the decision to have new information added to a testimony involves the player character thinking something to the effect of ' if only i knew where i was going with this ' .
each of the three protagonists move in and out of their early morning snoozes , allowing ratanaruang to practice cinematic sleight of hand with his slim narrative . chief among these illusory happenings is an extended erotic encounter between hotel maid tum ( phorntip papanai ) and the barman nut ( ananda everingham ) , who served ploy and wit . compellingly erotic , these scenes are the principal reason for the deliberate pace employed by ratanaruang , and indicate that cinema’s gain has truly been pornography’s loss .
it should be remembered that rather is not only a news reader but also the managing editor of cbs evening news , and his attitude has the potential to influence the work of the reporters who work under him . both abc and nbc have dealt with the criticisms of the u . s . food aid program in afghanistan , airing the views of aid workers in the region who dismissed the food program as an ineffective pr ploy . cbs evening news did not address the issue .
lord vetinari of ankh - morpork combines indy ploys and the plan to devastating effect . it was once stated that , since you can ' t plan for every eventuality , vetinari doesn ' t . when in doubt he will order vimes not to get involved with it . say what you will about vetinari , he knows how vimes will follow this trope for him . vimes is too vimesy to use the plan , so one could call him vetinari ' s laser - guided indy ploy .
that ' s according to polygon ' s allegra frank , who rightly notes that the
diversity
included in today ' s call of duty : world war ii reveal was little more than lip service , a cynical marketing ploy to help make more palatable a testosterone - filled game about men , designed for boys and men , to critics largely uninterested in the franchise or genre save as a platform upon which a certain brand of critique can be built . here ' s more polygon :
jealousy erupts quickly but steamy sex and dull narrative move at a glacial pace in thai somnambulistic meller “ploy . ” pen - ek ratanaruang’s return to a sole scripting credit after “invisible waves” makes that maligned , slow pic look like a rapid approaching tsunami in comparison . yarn about a thai man whose casual friendship with a 19 - year old girl flames the paranoid imagination of his wife , is too flimsy and false to truly engage . helmer’s rep will insinuate this pic into fest slots , but commercial prospects are small .
frederickson engages fluidly with a wide range of literary forms , figures , and locales throughout the ploy of instinct . in so doing , her work provides a dynamic spectrum of thought around the implications of biological modelling for labour - , sex - , and ethnicity - oriented conceptualizations of liberal governance , both within and well beyond the victorian era . ( british society for literature and science reviews ) “a smart , rigorously researched and fascinating book that will be a rich contribution to victorian studies , sexuality and gender studies , and history of science scholarship . ” ( ―teresa mangum university of iowa ) the rational actor has long been considered the central figure of liberal subjectivity . in this intriguing book , which brings together queer theory and victorian science studies , kathleen frederickson shows how nineteenth - century thinkers adopted instinct , rather than reason , as a desirable quality for the arts of governance . counter - intuitive , surprising , and utterly convincing , the ploy of instinct is a refreshing addition to the intellectual history of liberalism . ( ―lisa moore the university of texas at austin )
the ploy ( la macchinazione ) by italian director david grieco , recounts the last days of director / poet / writer pier paolo pasolini , who was assassinated on the outskirts of rome on a november night in 1975 . his death is still shrouded in mystery , and the film ' s authors seems to believe in a conspiracy theory : pasolini was not savagely murdered by just one person during a sexual encounter , but rather was the victim of a well plotted conspiracy . veteran actor / singer massimo ranieri plays pasolini ; the music is by pink floyd .
in fact , it ' s a mark of his character development that he slowly shifts from the indy ploy to xanatos speed chess and starts preparing things ahead of time . the examples mostly take place over the first few books , while notable examples of his planning ahead include death masks , small favor , turn coat , and skin game . as he lampshades , wizards in general are much physically weaker than many of their enemies , and so the supernatural baddies will generally try to ambush him to get him out of the way . but once he has time to plan . . .
- the eccentric owner of the wonka chocolate factory . mr . wonka is the most renowned candy maker in the world and an endless combination of opposing parts . he is old but filled with a boundless energy . he is physically small , but his persona is larger than life . he is also both charming and insensitive . his decision to open his factory to five lucky children is actually a calculated ploy to find the perfect child to take over his factory . he is looking for a properly obsequious child to whom he can teach all the secrets of his factory . charlie bucket is that boy .
in one episode , this was discussed when tylor has a debate with yamamoto about what happens if all plans against the enemy fails . tylor ' s point was that sometimes all plans can fail and you must think fast at that point to win . yamamoto dismisses tylor as being an idiot , only to look in shock later in the episode , as tylor ' s attempt to escape the raalgon fleet pursing them - after all before plans failed - resulted in the whole raalgon fleet getting wiped out by their own actions . leaving the crew wondering , if tylor was just lucky , or used an indy ploy against the raalgon fleet .
after a lawsuit to stop the new meat - labeling regulations was unsuccessful , the meatpacking industry , arguing that the law ' s tracking and record - keeping requirements are too onerous , embarked on a 13th - hour campaign to weaken or undo them , using the federal farm bill that is being negotiated in congress as a vehicle . the country - of - origin rules also have been challenged by some nations through the world trade organization ; they contend that the law is a protectionist ploy . the department of agriculture won a recent round after a wto judge ruled that labeling the countries of origin was not inherently anti - trade . but other challenges remain .
a more heroic , for lack of a better term , indy ploy is the mo of moist von lipwig in the discworld novel going postal . near the end , he makes a bet with the magnificent bastard big bad reacher gilt , and he has no idea how he ' ll win at first . . . in his second appearance in making money , he outlines a grand if somewhat vague vision of the future of currency , and wonders if he should write it down so he can work out what he ' s talking about later . in both books the confidence with which he enters such things leads everyone else to conclude he had it all planned out .
the company’s rebound from this disaster was nothing short of a miracle ( hence the persistent belief that the whole thing must have been planned ) . yet it’s a very understandable miracle once you think about it . it took the loss of the beverage people had grown up with and fallen in love over to remind them how much it meant to them . no longer taken for granted , coca - cola had been reaffirmed in their affections . as for the debacle’s being a deliberate marketing ploy , donald keough said : “some critics will say coca - cola made a marketing mistake . some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing . the truth is we are not that dumb , and we are not that smart . ”
it is difficult to tell what the director ' s intentions were with this thai film called ploy . the three central characters are a husband ( wit ) and wife ( dang ) and a young woman ( ploy ) the husband meets in an airport bar . the film starts at a slow pace - - appropriate as the tired husband and wife travelers arrive in thailand in the early morning hours . but the pace remains sluggish until we realize that ' s the style of the film then we discover that some happenings may only be the stuff of dreams . eventually , it becomes apparent that this is not a simple narrative . side stories branch off , some action may be fantasy , and other plot developments seem to terminate without resolution . though it all , the
central action
that takes place in the couple ' s hotel room is filmed very deliberately . the camera lingers on vacated spaces . it traces the lines of architectural elements , rendering them cubist abstractions . it captures inactivity . the result is the film becomes a kind of meditation . the film did not lose my attention . although the storyline was ambiguous , i was still engaged . clearly the central theme has something to do with the shelf life of ( married ) relationships . wit says ,
everyone is lonely . most people don ' t know it because they ' re too busy .
the film is named after the young girl ' s character , presumably because she is the catalyst that sparks the couple ' s imaginations and fears .
today the censor is in the form of the pmrc and their warning stickers will obviously have the same effect . the president of giant records noted that one group , too much joy , has given consent their album to be labeled for marketing reasons ( flanagan 1991 ) . although the riaa disagrees with such usage , some artists have even used the label to their advantage . the comedian george carlin peers over an oversized parental advisory logo on his album cover and uses the warning as a title . a rap compilation album issued by priority records uses a blown - up version of the label as cover art and replaces the word
lyrics
with
rap
( rosen 1990 ) . representatives from the record companies readily admit the logo can be a useful marketing ploy .
my little pony is third ( boy , hasbro ' s actually really good at creating franchises with loads and loads of characters ) . my little pony has a huge cast of primary , secondary , tertiary , and background characters , spread across 4 generations of toys and shows . heck , generation 3 my little pony ' s television show had no plot , continuity , or canon —it was just a merchandising ploy that just introduced more and more and more characters per episode . thankfully , generation four my little pony ' s tv show doesn ' t fall into this snarl , but good celestia , there ' s a lot of characters—case in point , just look at its ensemble darkhorse page , which , so far , is the only other case of ensemble dark horse having its own page for a franchise—the other page , of course , being the one for transformers .
also inverted with the daleks and the movellans . they were both so good at the plan that when they came up against each other they found themselves locked in a stalemate of xanatos speed chess , neither able to ever gain an advantage over the other . the daleks realize that they need davros to find them a way past this block , and the movellans realize that the dalek task force sent to the desolate skaro must be there for some ancient , hidden thing of great importance to the current situation and set out to stop them . upon learning what the daleks ' plan is , the movellans want the doctor to give them the ability to carry out an indy ploy just like the daleks want davros to do for them . fortunately , the doctor and the humans the daleks brought as slave labor manage to not only destroy both of them , but capture davros for trial .
according to the ploy on the night of november 2 , 1975 pasolini meets with the criminals who have “abducted” his film . there he finds his violent demise . was pelosi really his lone killer ? the film gives one answer to a question still hotly debated in italy . “when the lifeless body of pasolini was found at the idroscalo , i was one of the first people at the crime scene together with the forensic experts , and that scene still horrifies me ,
recalls grieco , 65 , then a good friend of pasolini ' s .
la macchinazione narrates the last three months of pasolini’s life , and sheds new light on his relationship with pelosi . the two had been seeing one another for the past four months . and all of this makes pasolini’s assassination even more grotesque . different theories about his murder still abounds , and in this film we try to embrace them all and weave them into one simple credible plot , because there is some truth in each of these versions .
every relationship has an expiration date . every relationship needs its fantasies . . . some more real than others . . . a violent death of a relative brings wit and his wife , dang , back to bangkok from america , where they own a thai restaurant , for the first time in 7 years . as soon as they arrive in bangkok at 5 . 30 am . wit and dang check into a five - star hotel downtown . wit finds out that he is out of cigarettes once they are inside the room . he goes down to the lobby bar . after getting his pack of cigarette from the bartender wit decides to order a cup of coffee and smoke his cigarette there . the girl from the table in the dark corner comes to wit to ask if she could borrow his lighter . wit hands her his lighter . then she asks if she could borrow one cigarette too . the girl sits down and lights up one of his cigarettes and they somehow strike up a conversation . wit learns that her name is ploy . this is how our little tale of love and jealousy begins . a highly detailed psychological drama . . .
sylar finally cornered claire and obtained immortality . back from the dead , arthur petrelli soon recruited sylar to pinehearst by pretending to be his father . when h . r . g revealed the truth , sylar began to suffer a crisis of identity and family , and killed elle , destroying their fledgling relationship . hell - bent on discovering the truth about his parentage , he killed arthur , bringing down pinehearst and the threat to his power . but he was soon stopped by claire who stabbed him and left him for dead in primatech . in volume 4 , sylar finally found his real father , who was dying of cancer . after easily overpowering his father in an attack , he realised that he needed a bigger challenge . he started working with danko to catch other heroes , gaining himself a very handy shape - shifting ability . however , his aiding danko was all a ploy to get to the president . he killed nathan , but at his moment of triumph he was taken out by peter , who had copied his powers . the unconscious sylar had his mind manipulated by matt , forcing him to believe that he was nathan petrelli . he began his new life as nathan , but was his true identity really gone for good ?
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you know those dreams . we all have them . nothing scary has happened . if anything it’s mundane , you’re walking through the streets , your house , but still the nightmare feeling is ever present . the air is heavy , your body uneasy , almost sick . you so badly want to wake up , if only to feel something normal again . this is the world of gone girl . david fincher’s thriller tracks the waking nightmare of nick dunne ( ben affleck ) as he attempts to unravel the ever - growing mystery of his missing wife amy ( rosamund pike ) . the world watches via news broadcasts and talk shows and scrutinize his every move , his identity instantaneously shifting from grieving husband to murder suspect . but this disappearance is anything but cut and dry and nick’s journey will be anything but easy . fincher teamed up with long time collaborator director of photography jeff cronenweth once again to great visual success . the two have created the eerie worlds of fight club , the american take on girl with a dragon tattoo series , and social network . this time they’ve outdone themselves , creating a sinister air that bites at dunne . he appears alone , miniscule in a hazy world of gray . it is amy who has disappeared but nick that is shrinking away within the pressure of it all . this film used each filmic device so brilliantly to promote the uneasiness of this horrible dreamlike reality . there is an incredible disembodied quality about the sound of voices , especially that of amy . voices echo out of the mouths of the characters , never quite feeling entirely grounded . this punctuates an already ethereal performance of rosamund pike . she has a sinister charm , a coldness that intrigues , as though everything could shift in a moment . without . . .
captain philips movie review captain philips is an american thriller movie which was directed by paul greengrass and released in 2013 . tom hanks and birched abdi are the main two characters of this movie . the film was framed based on the real story of maersk alabama hijacking by somali pirates in the indian ocean in 2009 . when the pirates take of the captain richard phillips from mv maersk alabama ship then the event was triggered . tom hanks was the right choice of paul greengrass to excavate such an incredible true story . hanks played role as a philips with simplicity . on way to the port of oman he discuss with his wife about their children and today jobs market . the container ship starts voyage to mombasa , kenya from port of salalah , oman through the gulf of aden . when the first officer , shane murphy checks out the security condition of ship and finds two skiffs of somali pirates . philips calls knowing pirates are listening radio traffic and pretend to reply the call as well as ensure immediate air support . to listen the philips answer one skiff go back and another skiff attack the ship with four armed pirates led by abduwali muse . the pirates ride on the ship with ladder while philips advices the crew to hide in the engine room . philips offers $ 30 , 000 to the muse to be free from captive but muse’s demand was millions of dollars ransom from shipping company . the pirates search the ship during searching the engine room the pirates , bilal cut of his feet with the broken glass . when muse continues to search alone the crews ambushes muse and demand to release phillips . however , the pirates did not consent to release the captain and they . . .
a behind the scenes look at the new cincinnati - filmed james franco movie is just a few clicks away . the actor , producer and director has revealed some details about “the long home” production , which will film in hamilton , butler county and cincinnati this may . franco recently posted a selfie in rustic cabin on twitter and instagram . the location ? he just writes “back in the holler . ” he also posted an image of himself partially in period costume , and revealed some of the cast . “me , josh hutcherson , timothy hutton , keegan allen , ashley green , tim blake nelson , jim parrick , scott haze , and the whole gang getting dirty in the south ( sic ) , ” it reads . it’s a bit of a homecoming for hutcherson , best known for his role in “the hunger games” series . he is a union native . read more . . .
who says penguins can’t fly ? well , the quartet penguins from the movie madagascar has just ‘flew’ into cinemas , becoming a hit among cinemas goers after their debut in the spin - off of madagascar film . die - hard fans of dreamworks animation will be able to instantly recognized these penguins , the bold and self - proclaimed leader , skipper , the brains of the team , kowalski , the one who has the ability to swallow anything , rico and of course , the young sweet little brother private . these flightless birds were once primary characters in the madagascar film that their parts were merely as show stealers . besides , they were very shallow characters with the least development in madagascar . there was not much information about these penguins other than that they are a group of penguins with outrageous break out attempts and ambitious plans . although appearing just as minor characters , these penguins have amazed viewers for many years with their cool personalities . with a growing liking among viewers on the penguins , dreamworks have finally decided to have a spin - off of madagascar featuring only the penguins . some might have criticized dreamworks decision to . . .
no pilot season is perfect . [ warning ! this article contains spoilers for the first season of the strain . ] so the first season of the the strain ended with 13 episodes on october 5 last year . my personal opinion about the tv series are somewhat mixed but ultimately not so positive . but seeing as it’s my own personal opinion , you’re free to contradict me on the points that i’m about to make . the novel , also entitled the strain ( co - written by guillermo del toro and chuck hogan ) was a delight to read . but that was on paper , and the tv show had a lot of things that made it disappointing and painfully average , especially when it neared the end . when the strain started airing , it was ok , nothing so special , although on the first few episodes , it was pretty clear that there’s something to look forward to and that it will make the show special . sadly , the first season struggled to show everyone else that deserved more exposure and there’s a particularly long stint early on in the show where viewers are dragged . . .
with the big screen rights acquired by warner bros . six years ago , a death note movie appears to finally be on the way with the guest and you’re next director adam wingard at the helm ! the hollywood reporter has the news , bringing word that wingard will take on the manga adaptation after he finishes the upcoming lionsgate horror project the woods . kiss kiss bang bang and iron man 3 writer and director shane black was , at one point , attached to the project , which aims to bring to the big screen the 13 - volume series previously adapted as both an anime and as a live - action film franchise in japan . more . . .
surely , you’ve noticed ? recently , in japan , there’s a glut of movies based on manga and anime . there must be a reason for this . there most certainly is .
lupin the third is one of japan’s most iconic manga / anime characters , loved by millions . his…
it is a rather simple and somewhat obvious reason . but here , let beat takeshi tell it . beat takeshi , of course , is a famed comedian , actor , and filmmaker—among many other things . he’s a man of multiple talents ! his movies , such as sonatine , hana - bi , and beyond outrage , are fantastic .
as noted recently on yahoo ! news japan , during the tokyo film festival , takeshi was asked why there are now so many movies based on manga and anime .
“it’s because if you make a manga into a movie , people will go see it , ” takeshi explained bluntly . “that’s it . movie companies don’t have the courage to spend money on unknown scripts . ”
cleveland , ohio – what movies should you see this weekend ? there are six new offerings to choose from : the it’s - not - really - a - comedy “the d train” ; the it’s - more - of - a - comedy - but - still - has - darker elements “welcome to me” ; the big budget buddy - action - comedy “hot pursuit” ; the indie drama “5 flights up” ; the horror - thriller “maggie” ; and the documentary “winning : the racing life of paul newman . ” of the ones i’ve seen , i can’t say you need to race out and see any of them . but here is a look at what’s opening , with some reviews and trailers to help you make up your mind . “hot pursuit” stars reese witherspoon and sofia vergara . one is a buttoned - down cop . the other is an on - the - run witness fleeing drug cartel heavies and other bad guys . they are polar opposites but team up to flee across texas . it is a flimsy and forgettable film . check more of the . . .
1722 ,
anything with which one amuses oneself ,
scottish and northern england dialect , possibly a shortened form of employ or deploy . popularized in the sense
move or gambit made to gain advantage
by british humorist stephen potter ( 1900 - 1969 ) .
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. popularized in the sense
move or gambit made to gain advantage
by british humorist stephen potter ( 1900 - 1969 ) .
are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans . “operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets . that model is still prevalent today .
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a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one ' s own advantage .
‘others have disguised price hikes in ingenious marketing ploys that give the ticket holder so - called
front - of - the - line
privileges for almost double the regular price . ’