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“And They Knew Each Other”: Detection, Intent, and Realization in Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Inside Versus Out: How to Construct a Defining Moment in Film and in Character
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Bars on the Window: Deconstructing the Crown in Basquiat (1996)
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“Give Him a Mask and He’ll Tell You the Truth”: The Life and Death Of Ziggy in Velvet Goldmine (1998)
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“We Could Have Been Friends?”: The Legacy of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Feud (2017)
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“Shall I Be Her?” Finding Marilyn and Monroe in My Week With Marilyn (2011)
The world never recovered from Marilyn Monroe. She remains the quintessential blonde…
“Something Different, Something Real”: Finding Yourself Versus Finding the Artist in Walk the Line (2005)
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“This is the One I’ll Be Remembered For”: Resurrection and the Biopic in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (1994)
Ed Wood delivered some of the worst films of all time during…
How to Summarize a Life: The Art of the Biopic
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