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The Guys and Dolls trailer from London features beautiful cinematography, set design, and lighting. The large amounts of camera movement help to put the audience in the same world as the show, the division between stage and seats slowly fades away. The set design for this musical is very intricate, with a tunnel of neon lights and signs perfectly recreating the feeling of walking down the Vegas strip. The costuming of the actors is equally impressive, reinforcing the feelings created by the set design; they show the diversity and uniqueness of Las Vegas without shoving it down the audience's throat. Guys and Dolls is lit with very rich, deep colors, varying greatly based on the scene. The deep reds during the burlesque shows create the eroticism present in real burlesque shows, and while it is difficult to further comment on the lighting without having seen the musical, it is clear that it is just as meticulously planned as the set design. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's ...

Sapegin's animated short is a very powerful story condensed into only ten minutes. The large amounts of detail in the puppets allows the audience to connect with them, we start to see these puppets as humans. The audience feels the happiness of the Puppet as her Sailor returns to her, and the devastation of the discovery of the Sailor's wife and children. Through the final scene, we truly understand how heartbroken the Puppet is. She knows she is a puppet and cannot kill herself, but completely disassembles herself in order to be as lifeless as her fate allows her. She puts on no show, "killing" herself in a completely different world from the Sailor. The film's music drives the plot along perfectly, creating the feelings of emotion that could've been lost from the lack of dialogue. The massive tonal range and combination of highs and lows enhance everything the audience is already feeling from what is on-screen.

Marina Abramovic feels that expressing herself through her body gives her unlimited potential, as she explains when talking about painting clouds. A quick Google search of her name an article (https://bit.ly/2wHGvnb) discussing one of her other works. In this work, she stood motionless for six hours while allowing strangers to do anything they wanted, using a table of tools ranging from a rose to a loaded revolver. As she states in an interview, the actions of the strangers quickly turned violent, and by the end of it she had been stripped, photographed, tortured, and one person even cut her neck open and drank her blood. I was, naturally, shocked by reading this at first, but I realized that this proves her point that there truly are no limits on expression via the human body. When we view it as a work of art, it has many different contexts and feels somehow less real. Random strangers had no problem stabbing rose thorns into an innocent woman while she was in a performance, but as so...