Because just because he’s dead doesn’t mean he deserves a movie. And just because he got a movie anyway doesn’t mean it’s good. As the steadily balding and steadfastly boring cinematic pope, Thomas Kretschmann treads water for a while until a tidal wave of the usual biopic suspects (temporal fragmentation, indifference to characterization or theme, dialogue bound for Barlett’s Familiar Quotations) drags him under.
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1. Rhet. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or thing, either present or absent; an exclamatory address.About 12apostrophes
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Posted on April 8 2010 by Anirban
This one’s from Mumbai… y’ know the city in the country famous for its snake charmers and…
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1. Rhet. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or thing, either present or absent; an exclamatory address.About 12apostrophes
12apostrophes has multiple authors and lives in Oak Park, IL, Minneapolis / St. Paul, Delhi, Finland, Brooklyn, Austin, New Jersey, Mumbai, and Lexington, KY.
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