" Opening shot: TED organizer asks Musk "Why are you boring?
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In the opening shot the camera pans across the creek.
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But perhaps "opening shot" might be a more appropriate term.
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The opening shot offers a taste of what's to follow.
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The opening shot of Liz Garbus' Lost Girls is haunting.
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Funnily enough, she did so with another multiminute opening shot.
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The opening shot reveals that Walder Frey is alive and well.
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An intro that mirrors that iconic Phantom Menace trailer opening shot!
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Did you recognize the opening shot of the "Black Widow" trailer?
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In the opening shot, Teigen is shown barefaced and with wet hair.
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Here goes... This is the opening shot to the whole terrible conversation.
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This is the opening shot of a new teaser for the Dec.
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"He can tell you the opening shot of the film," she said.
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The opening shot pans to a hotel named, in neon, 'The Confidante.
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There's one with a "Fisher Klingenstein Films" logo before the opening shot.
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The Welch's Manischewitz opening shot has been a series of steep discounts.
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This opening shot is a microcosm for the film as a whole.
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A lot of work went into ensuring the magic of the opening shot.
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This painting was seen at least twice in the film, including the opening shot.
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His opening shot is a message: He's not afraid to grapple with tough topics.
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Instead, it proved to be the opening shot in a ongoing struggle for Justin.
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Consider this Silicon Valley's opening shot in the war over the future of net neutrality.
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The opening shot sets the scene for what's to come, in more ways than one.
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Click here to view original GIFWhat's your favorite type of opening shot for a movie?
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If this was the opening shot for the Democratic Party at 2020, count me unimpressed.
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Tiger Woods smacks his opening shot 340 yards down the fairway, far outdriving his playing partners.
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"A single droplet contains the wonders of nature," the following video asserts in its opening shot.
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It's the opening shot of the movie, and Katherine Hepburn is giving Carey Grant the boot.
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Democrats are taking an opening shot at President Trump ahead of his first speech to Congress.
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His opening shot traveled 215 yards, veering far to the right and landing in the fescue.
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If this is not a typical opening shot, this is also not your typical sex scene.
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This movie comes for ur neck in the opening shot & it doesn’t let up once.
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It was an opening shot in what is likely to be a long and costly legal battle.
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Viewing Hasidim via the periphery of the frame becomes a recurring visual motif following this opening shot.
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The bank, which employs around 22.5,20123 people, said it regarded the DoJ demand as an opening shot.
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This was the opening shot in the sectarianization of their rivalry, which would encompass the whole region.
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Westworld signals its inversion of the humans being attacked by evil-machines trope from its opening shot.
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It's an exciting opening shot for a band whose recorded work has been difficult to pin down.
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The opening shot of "What Keeps You Alive" is a mouse's eye view of tall ominous trees.
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Its most telling moment is the opening shot of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz gesticulating wildly to crowds.
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The extraordinary opening shot, of a horseman galloping through a snowy, mountainous landscape, evokes westerns and samurai movies.
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Aside from a gratuitous (but totally welcome) opening shot of Ventimiglia's bare bottom, everything about it turned me off.
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Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will take an opening shot at Trump's speech on Monday.
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But his two-stroke advantage over Leishman and Rory McIlroy disappeared less than an hour after Hatton's opening shot.
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From an opening shot of dead silence followed by an off-camera "oh, we're live!" it's an odd show.
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London (CNN Business)China may have just fired the opening shot of a currency war with the United States.
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Both goalkeepers made early saves in the shootout, with an injured Danijel Subasic stopping the opening shot from Fedor Smolov.
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The overhead shots of the field, especially that opening shot, are one of the most impressive things in the film.
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The landscape itself is a pulsating, like a black-tar filled womb akin to the one in the opening shot.
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The first scene, where they're listening to hip-hop, the opening shot is pretty much exactly how I pictured it.
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The opening shot of the film is a closeup of his ear (his busiest organ) as he dons a headset.
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A much more engaging scene follows, where we see the Dolores back in the examination room from the opening shot.
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It's always nice to do something massive for your opening shot, and I went really massive on the first take.
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Dark-red brick, tall turrets, and, in the opening shot, two black dogs bounding in slow motion through fallen leaves.
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Not satisfied with broadening his trade war to Latin America, Trump has now fired an opening shot across Europe's bows.
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Missouri's broadside could be the opening shot in a potential volley of state lawsuits aimed at the giants of Silicon Valley.
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A laptop plays YouTube footage of riot police squabbling with student protesters in the opening shot of Umlilo's new music video.
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The recent statements from gambling regulators and legislators worldwide constitute an opening shot in the battle over loot boxes, not a climax.
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This line comes in stark contrast to the opening shot of the store, which appears not full but nearly empty of food.
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The opening shot of the night was her singing "Hello," and the final shot was of her hugging her producer Greg Kurstin.
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That technique brings a magical realism to those sequences, and it sets the tone for the entire movie from the opening shot.
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HE'S FIRED AN OPENING SHOT, BUT I THINK HE'S JUST AS AWARE OF HOW INTEGRATED NAFTA IS. NAFTA MAY NEED SOME TWEAKS.
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The manipulator designation could have been the opening shot in a prolonged trade war, but they didn't want a prolonged trade war.
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She emerges, in the opening shot, from darkness into light, then floods a montage with the attributes that Charlie finds most adorable.
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As for her highly-anticipated Saturday evening Politicon debate -- the ex 'Blaze' host has her opening shot locked and loaded for Chelsea.
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The opening shot of Atomic Blonde, for example, is of Lorraine emerging out of an ice bath, her naked body covered in bruises.
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This is the opening shot of the new music video for Lorn's song Anvil, set in an overpopulated world a century from now.
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Alfie and I were joking that it would be really funny if this season, the opening shot was, like, us broken and dead.
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The opening shot shows Bernadette in a kayak, drifting amid the icebergs of Antarctica, and the movie returns there for its final act.
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Richardson has shot five movies for Tarantino and he said the opening shot of "The Hateful Eight" is the one that stands out.
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That's the length of the opening shot — one single, uninterrupted take, made possible by the masterful cinematography of Cuarón's longtime collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki.
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There's a perfect scene setting opening shot, as the trailer opens with a ship crash landing through the top of a Blockbuster video.
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The opening shot smoothly cranes down from the pursuers to the pursued, conveying the physical distance between the elevated bridge and the ground.
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Yeah, that's addressed in the opening shot of the next episode and it's actually going to be something that's ongoing through this season.
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Andrew Cuomo called the state a "refuge" in a state party email shortly after Election Day — an opening shot at the president-elect.
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As creative as I hoped to be with the opening shot, the episode is also pretty much the same gimmick as 10 Cloverfield Lane.
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This is the opening shot of the pilot, and it's a nice way for the show to drop a gauntlet for where it's going.
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And it was the opening shot of a general election effort that is focused on winning states with large numbers of working-class white voters.
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But much like the slavering, ferocious-looking dog that enters barking in the opening shot, and which Marcello gently soothes into submission, Simone seems containable.
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In the opening shot of "Grass," the director's latest picture to reach the United States, a young woman with a backpack enters a coffee shop.
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Bryan: I don't think I realized just how much I missed Lauren Cohan as Maggie in this show until the opening shot of last night's episode.
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But I will say this that opening shot, the high angle over grass, was shot from a drone and augmented because the grass wasn't that perfect.
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The opening shot of My Cousin Rachel, based on Daphne du Maurier's 1951 novel, instantly connects it to the other movie adaptations of du Maurier's books.
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In 2012, an Israeli airstrike that killed Ahmed al-Jabari, the Hamas military commander at the time, became the opening shot of an eight-day war.
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That could potentially be the opening shot in a trade war between the US and China, where both countries strike at each other's economies with tariffs.
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Director Michael Lehmann wasn't subtle about its significance: In the opening shot, a red scrunchie is passed through the blond ringlets of queen bee Heather Chandler.
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American fans, and many wearing European colors, roared him to the first tee on a fresh morning and he delivered his opening shot straight down the fairway.
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The president's budget chief fired an opening shot over spending on domestic agencies that face sharp budget cuts without a new 21625 budget deal (The Associated Press).
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The executive order is an opening shot by Trump against the EPA, which was a frequent target of criticism from Republicans for alleged overreach under Obama's tenure.
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While the screen is still black, at the start, we hear a rape in progress, and the opening shot is of a cat, studiedly pondering the deed.
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Here's the rundown on how that eye-popping opening shot above was created, which involved spray paint, fishing wire, motorized rigs, and a little post-production magic.
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In the opening shot of the studio, before a single team was named, banners of various teams could be seen lining the set above the announcers' desk.
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Though the opening shot depicts Maggie in a graveyard, placing flowers in front of her mother's grave, "What's Inside" takes place on Maggie's first day back at work.
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After one gruesome opening shot that teases where the film is eventually going, Alvarez and Sayagues introduce their protagonists in the middle of robbing a well-appointed house.
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In the opening shot, Jef is laid out on a bed, at one side of the frame, like the dreaming St. Ursula in Carpaccio's famous painting from 1495.
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By the time he hit his opening shot Thursday, six players were under par (four players finished under 70) and several more had posted scores of over 79.
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From the opening shot of the game — a 24-foot 3-pointer by Smith off an assist from LeBron James — the stingy Warriors defense was on its heels.
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It's pretty funny, particularly the opening shot of a maid lowering the temperature by grabbing a flaming log from the fireplace and throwing it through a glass window.
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Graham fired the opening shot Wednesday when he said he thought Paul and Lee were "overreacting" with their criticism of the administration's stance on the war powers debate.
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The opening shot bathes Ray in the morning light as it's refracted by the blinds, emphasizing the near-heroic look of determination and purpose that animates his face.
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Director Jon Favreau revealed in July that the opening shot of "The Circle of Life" is the only moment of the film that wasn't created by the animators.
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The movie's opening shot of a devastated office building, unchecked fires, widespread damage, and a seemingly deserted downtown in 2024 Philadelphia gives the whole film a palpable pressure.
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From the opening shot of Ophelia adrift in a river, in mimicry of Millais's famous painting, the film seems to splash around in search of a suitable style.
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The attack could mark an opening shot in a wider conflict in which water, in scarce supply after two years of drought in India, could become a powerful weapon.
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In the opening shot of her and her family sitting down for a meal, the viewer sees a tattoo peeking out from under the sleeve on her right arm.
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The opening shot of "The Irishman," Scorsese's latest long-form crime story (now playing at the New York Film Festival), evokes that earlier scene and turns it inside out.
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Earlier: Graham fired the opening shot Wednesday when he said he thought Paul and Lee were "overreacting" with their criticism of the administration's stance on the war powers debate.
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In the opening shot, obviously made to look like it was filmed on an old family camcorder, we see our close-knit family playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey.
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The opening shot will do little to inspire investors to commit to new projects in Iran, which is trying to rebuild its oil and gas sector after years of sanctions.
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Then the showrunners attend a "final mix," where they view the whole episode from the opening shot to the final credits, to make sure everything is as it should be.
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From the surreal opening shot of a doll house recreation of the Preaker mansion, to the final image of Camille pulling into the real house's driveway, the uncanniness is claustrophobic.
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In the background of the opening shot are stacks of boxes decorated with scantily clad porn actors' bodies; another wall of the store is covered in floggers and bondage gear.
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Expanding on its opening shot, the movie often lingers in the middle of parks where lovers and friends meet, unhurriedly takes in car rides across borough-connecting bridges, and more.
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The sirens were the opening shot in a set of "Drumkit Quartets" by the percussionist-composer Glenn Kotche, who is best known for his work with the alt-rock band Wilco.
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In the opening shot of the episode you can see a Homer Simpson doll near Phyllis' desk, which was a nod to Greg Daniels' past job writing on The Simpsons. 10.
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"I have always thought the game was about the 19th Party Congress, and I would say that this is the opening shot in the lead-up to that meeting," he said.
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A year ago, David Shambaugh, an American political scientist, fired his opening shot as the new doomsayer, with a provocative opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal: "The Coming Chinese Crackup".
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Not long thereafter, we follow Jack through his abode, in an unbroken take that mirrors the movie's opening shot in the nightclub, and again checks in with the film's important characters.
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In that opening shot is the movie in miniature: the emptiness and desolation of dying Texas border towns, barren of life and opportunity, and the desperate acts of its remaining residents.
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In the opening shot of "Suburban Birds," the spectacular feature-directing debut of Qiu Sheng, there's a blurry-edged circle inside the square frame, a far-off cityscape in the distance.
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Because it was such a limited budget, there were moments in the opening shot where electricians would run into another room as soon as the camera passed them to light another corner.
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The film's opening shot, taken from 1981 archival footage, features Hambleton painting one of his famous shadowmen — dark, leaning figures applied to urban walls with a simple paint brush and black paint.
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Surrendering an early goal has been a persistent problem for Lundqvist this season — it was the sixth opening-shot goal he has allowed, and the eighth for the team in 50 games.
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While 1988's shutout of Pyongyang ended with North Korea's "humiliation and isolation," talks now could be the opening shot in a dialog that leads to, at the very least, more talks.
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It's clear from the opening shot, which tracks through a nursing home, that this isn't a guy who gets whacked, blown up by a car bomb, or even confined to witness protection.
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And there are images that you can see wafting up from Gerwig's pages, like that breathtaking opening shot of Jo standing in a publisher's door, preparing herself to make a convincing first impression.
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The revelation clarifies that the letterboxed opening shot of the season, in which Dolores appeared to be talking to Arnold, was actually her conducting a fidelity test on Bernard inside The Cradle's virtual world.
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IT COMES AT NIGHT Reviewing the domestic-discord drama "Krisha," the debut feature of Trey Edward Shults, last year, Manohla Dargis wrote that the film's opening shot made it feel like a horror movie.
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It only brings up Donald Trump once, in its opening shot, when Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski, reprising her character from The Good Wife) watches the new president's inauguration with a stunned look on her face.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In January, President Donald Trump fired the opening shot of his trade war, slapping tariffs on solar panel imports to boost U.S. manufacturing of a product long dominated by cheap foreign competition.
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The opening shot of the season premiere is quieter than True Detective's much-lauded tracking shot, but it manages to use sustained camera movement to follow not a physical space, but the passage of time.
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For some, it was seen as an opening shot in the decline of the 150-year-old sector in the battle to slow global warming and reduce carbon emissions, reminiscent of the demise of coal.
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Hence the opening shot, jolting and handheld, in which we share van Gogh's point of view as he approaches a shepherdess and her flock on a country track and asks if he can sketch her.
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In the opening shot, as Frances soberly assesses herself in the mirror — neck, chest, corners of the eyes — Ms. Parker conveys the sense of a woman who Marie Kondoed her rose-colored glasses years ago.
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"If someone gets mad at that, they need to call somebody who cares, because that is my job and I'm tired of them playing games," Kennedy said in an apparent opening shot at potential critics.
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"You can see this paper as the opening shot for many different things that can be applied, and it's an exhibition of the power of the tools that we've built so far," said de la Parra.
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While Woods was able to save par after his poor opening shot and he has not shown any signs of discomfort since, the concerns that he is playing through an injury remain top of mind for many.
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Hillary Clinton fired a blistering opening shot at Republican presidential rival Donald Trump on Thursday, using his own words to argue that the bombastic businessman is, at best, naive about foreign policy and, at worst, lethally ignorant.
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The film's opening shot is of an enormous deer sliding across the floor of a high school classroom in a pool of its own blood, followed by a local police officer's boot heel coming down on its skull.
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From the opening shot — a title screen that misspells the artist as "John Mayor" — to the clips of Mayer dancing on a mountain with a miniature version of himself, this video has the makings of a quality meme.
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This kids' version of Alexa is an opening shot in the war for your children's attention and affection by what's basically a friendly, ever-present, personal AI. All the big platforms, other than Facebook, have an intelligent assistant.
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In the opening shot of this newly restored 1965 Italian film, the camera moves snakelike across a deserted, litter-strewn beach, finally resting on a beautiful woman, sunbathing and asleep, a droning transistor radio next to her head.
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BP fired the opening shot last week by surprising the market with the resumption of share buybacks after diluting share value for three years through scrip dividends, where investors can opt to receive dividends in shares or cash.
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As the former CEO of Starbucks, he's a genius marketer and a genuine job creator — 19813,000 at last count — and the release of a new book in February will be the likely opening shot of his presidential campaign.
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As the former CEO of Starbucks, he's a genius marketer and a genuine job creator — 212,2000 at last count — and the release of a new book in February will be the likely opening shot of his presidential campaign.
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In doing so, Philippe fired the opening shot in a showdown with unions who fear that the railway service and its 13,000 employees, most of whom have jobs for life, will be targets for reform under President Emmanuel Macron.
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The opening shot of the next epic book-to-television fantasy tale could have been taken by a drone on a trip through a sweeping bright green landscape not unlike those we've seen before in Lord of the Rings.
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The opening shot, of Joe and Jerry playfully tossing around a football on the pristine lawn of their one-story home, feels like an outtake from Leave It To Beaver, the picture-perfect image of the all-American family.
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DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - German trade union IG Metall on Tuesday demanded a 13 percent wage increase for the 72,000 employees in the steel industry in the northwest of the country, firing the opening shot in next year's wage negotiations.
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That lamppost anchors the opening shot of the video for Eternity, in Your Arms' opener "Black Rain" – and better yet, behind it Gould first met lifelong musical partner and Creeper guitarist Ian Miles, at a DIY punk house show.
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Interestingly, instead of erasing that conflict, the new film takes the Atari logo and uses it as the story's literal background — it's the opening shot of this trailer — postulating a distorted future where Atari has become an omnipresent oligarchical figure.
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All photos: Robert BensonA row of dicks hanging from metal hooks could be the opening shot of a particularly gruesome horror movie, but its only one of the many eerie production stations in the RealDoll shop in San Marcos, California.
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Ari Aster's slice of domestic horror wastes no time wearing its "Shining" influence on its sleeve, with an opening shot that evokes the moment where a model of the hedge maze comes to life with Danny and Wendy exploring it.
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In it, she uses scenes ranging from Hitchcock's 1946 "Notorious" (1946) to Sofia Coppola's 2003 "Lost in Translation" (with its opening shot of Scarlett Johansson's barely clad backside) to demonstrate the nuances of objectification, the male gaze and how it's perpetuated.
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From its opening shot of Simon Pegg slowly and intensely marching toward the camera, Hot Fuzz bombards the audiences with so many jokes and sight-gags that even ten years later you're bound to find new things to laugh at.
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A year earlier, Vice President Spiro Agnew had fired the opening shot in a war against the press, challenging the practice of "instant analysis," where network anchors and commentators dissected press conferences and presidential announcements as soon as they concluded.
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"The Americans are not going to surrender global technological supremacy without a fight, and the indictment of Huawei is the opening shot in that struggle," said Michael Pillsbury, a China scholar at the Hudson Institute who advises the Trump administration.
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Little Fires Everywhere starts with the final act, ensuring that its opening shot is also its most striking and most histrionic: A McMansion, burning, looking like a cross between a Christmas ornament and an extremely bougie harbinger of the apocalypse.
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Before her opening shot in her first Solheim Cup, Kang implored the fans to get louder, a crowd-pleasing gesture that won't be an option for Mickelson or Woods — no spectators will be allowed on the course during their match.
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Since Trump fired the opening shot on trade threats with his steel and aluminum tariffs announcement on March 1, the S&P 500 has grown by 5.05 percent, the Dow Jones is up 3 percent and the Nasdaq up 7.5 percent.
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Mr Rivera fired the opening shot in the campaign by rejecting, from the outset, a coalition with the Socialist party of Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister since June, whom he accused of disregard for the constitution in his negotiations with Catalan separatists.
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More than anything else, the film is terrifying because it is so patient — something spelled out in the opening shot, which lingers on the vaporous apparition of a young woman, just out of focus, as the audience squirms to make sense of it.
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In a quietly virtuosic opening shot, Mr. Piñeiro's camera pirouettes on an apartment terrace, looking down at a park below, as a young woman speaks to her lover on a phone, picking him out in the park just as the camera does.
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"The Americans are not going to surrender global technological supremacy without a fight, and the indictment of Huawei is the opening shot in that struggle," Michael Pillsbury, a China scholar at the Hudson Institute who advises the Trump administration, told my colleagues.
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You can watch the film (which is NSFW from the opening shot) below, and scroll down to read my interview with Maria Roman—an activist in Los Angeles who stars as Prayleen, the silicone "pumper"—about trans rights and her personal connection to the film.
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It's also in the opening shot, in which the camera pans down along the windows of the vertical trailer park where Wade lives, showing us a row of people escaping from desperate poverty into the online world where the film also spends most of its time.
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Scientists are well aware of this, and — while these gag orders may yet prove to be temporary — some fear that this is an opening shot in a Trump administration war on how science is conducted and communicated through the course of at least the next four years.
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From the opening shot onward, the footage seemed like it could have been pulled from some fantastic and futuristic camcorder (or a television with motion smoothing cranked up), the change threatening to pull me out of the story even while the added detail was luring me in.
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Why it matters: Consider this the opening shot in the struggle between human rights advocates, who believe that a country currently operating concentration camps should not host the Olympics, and the Chinese Communist Party, which will defend its successful bid to host the 2022 games at all costs.
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In the stark opening shot of "A Separation" (2011), which also won the Oscar for best foreign-language film, a man and a woman, the woman wearing a head scarf (as all female citizens of Iran are required to do in public), look straight into the camera and explain their plight.
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There can be few scenes in 21st-century cinema as moving as the one from "A Separation" in which Nader (Peyman Moaadi), the man speaking to the camera in the opening shot, breaks down in tears while bathing his wheelchair-bound father — tears to which the old man remains oblivious.
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Mr. Mills has worked in graphic design and as a music-video director, and while setting up the story he folds in snapshot-like scenes from Jamie and Dorothea's origin stories, from a ravishing oceanic opening shot to her Depression roots, him as a grasping newborn infant and Gerald Ford stumbling.
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As in the sentence about coffee that I just cited, he can morph from a realist opening shot ("One finishes one's coffee) to a cartoon image at the end ("like an old-fashioned baby spoon") while passing through a moment of extreme, self-destructive violence ("one hacks it with one's spoon…).
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It's there from the opening shot of an impenetrable tree line that's soon reduced to flaming ruins; it's there when Sheen's Captain Willard is caught in a drunken tirade inside a humid, trashed hotel room; it leaps into American helicopters with thrown flares and rains down on Vietnamese villages like expensive napalm.
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Instead, McQueen trains the languorous opening shot on the protagonist Veronica (Viola Davis) and her husband, Harry (Liam Neeson), as they make out in bed with evident passion: At a time when sexual desire has been leached from most studio movies, the up-close intimacy between the two actors feels real and startling.
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And so I give you this highly idiosyncratic list of yesterday's tomorrows from the twenty-teens: 2010 2011 2012 2013 But this is on the list because we thought then that it was the opening shot in the defining political conflict of the future, that of the battle against authoritarian surveillance state and surveillance capitalism.
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In an opening shot of growing global trade tensions, the United States imposed global tariffs of 10 percent on aluminum imports and 25 percent on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum based on national security grounds, arguing that financially healthy U.S. producers of both metals were needed to keep America safe.
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As the journalist Patrick Z. McGavin (a friend of mine) noted last week in an interview with Scorsese's longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, the opening shot of "The Irishman" is lifted from Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor," the story of a reporter (Peter Breck) who goes undercover at a mental institution to investigate a murder and ultimately loses his grip.
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Personally, I'm not a fan of the endless callbacks — the planetary rings in the opening shot is a clever way for Edwards to respect the originals while doing his own thing, and it's nice that we have some X-Wing squad-leader continuity, since many of those pilots should be the same people who turn up in Star Wars: A New Hope.
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Sanders on Wednesday night took an opening shot at Perez, who steadfastly maintained his support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal during the presidential election, even after Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE backed away under pressure from the left.
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One could not ask for a more dutiful checklist of horror film clichés, from the opening shot of the happy family in their car, watching the trees go by as they're filled with expectation of their new house (seen also most recently in Jordan Peele's Us), to the first-night-in-the-new-house-parents-get-a-little-randy sequence, to some of the hokiest mist-covered soundstages this side of a Christopher Lee Hammer film.
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Alexander De Croo, one of the deputy prime ministers, will become finance minister, Pieter De Crem, a former defense minister, becomes interior minister, while foreign minister Didier Reynders will add defense to his portfolio The right-wing N-VA, which is the biggest party in parliament, pulled its ministers from the coalition after Michel refused its demand that he not sign the U.N. migration compact in Marrakesh on Monday, in a move critics see as an opening shot in the election campaign.
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