Here; remember the scene in the movie 'Forrest Gump,' when Forrest and his girlfriend Jenny Curran were walking home from school and a Jeep load of young white thugs came after Forrest. To communicate to the theater audience the danger Forrest was in, the film director had the camera focused on the Confederate flag license plate in the front of the Jeep. The Jeep was moving fast, but Forrest was moving faster and Jenny was screaming “Run, Forrest Run.”
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Blu-ray Review: ‘The Freshman’ (1925) – The Criterion Collection
Harold Lloyd inadvertently paves the path for college comedies and sports movies.
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Yes, it's hard to fathom there was a time in cinematic history wherein performers would risk their necks the way Harold Lloyd did in movies like Safety Last!.
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Criterion lends its magic touch on yet another Charlie Chaplin classic.
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A truly magnificent Voyage dans la Lune.
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