Main Character Syndrome
Nephew of the dragon-quester
Frodo Baggins
"Rosebud"
Citizen Kane
The Stanislavsky system, or method, is also known as:
Method acting
Murder plots with blonde victims
Alfred Hitchcock
The holocaust, Native American genocide
The Shining
Peeping Tom
L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
The Shining
The hidden meaning in a movie
Implicit meaning
Popularized deep focus
Orson Welles
Fascism and rebellion
Pan's Labyrinth
Mommy issues, blood aversion
Ichabod Crane
She's too perfect, she's too talented, she's too beautiful, she's too sophisticated, she's too everything but what I want.
Rear Window
The word comes to us from three Greek roots—kinesis, mean- ing “movement”; photo, meaning “light”; and graphia, meaning “writing”
Cinematography
Monoliths, moon landings, minotaurs
Stanley Kubrick
Plato's allegory of the cave
Ex Machina
The minotaur in the labyrinth
Jack Torrance
I've had so many names. Old names that only the wind and the trees can pronounce. I am the mountain, the forest and the earth
Pan's Labyrinth
Speed and movement throughout the scene
Kinesis
Magical realism, chiaroscuro lighting
Guillermo del Toro
Shintoism and the goddess Inari
My Neighbor Totoro
A man with an anagram
Teddy Daniels/Andrew Laeddis
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
The Fellowship of the Ring
staging or putting on an action or scene
Mise-en-scene
Whimsy, rural, folkloresque
Hayao Miyazaki
Eucatastrophe