![]() ![]() Sometimes the Big "NO!" ends the episode with a Cliff Hanger. Used both seriously and for comic effect. This trope is very susceptible to becoming Narm, but does raise the question of exactly how a character should handle a crisis without coming off as a psychotic (by going catatonic), a monster (by cracking a grim joke), or a potty-mouth (by swearing one's head off). ![]() If the character is rushing to prevent the something-awful from happening, a slow-motion effect can be employed to draw out the tension of the moment, sometimes to the point of drawing out the "No" into a comical bass growl. Now, at the venerable age of 90, Venice is the oldest major film festival in the world.The moment when a character realizes that something awful has happened, or notices that something awful is about to happen, and screams "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" It can also be used when a character is angrily refusing to do something. Founded in 1932, the event is still held on the balmy, beach-filled island of the Lido and has a faded elegance that other events such as Cannes and Berlin simply can’t emulate. In the 1930s, the controversies tended to be political. The main award was called The Mussolini Cup. There were furious rows over movies like Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion, later banned in Italy for being too left wing, and German director Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, which many saw as Nazi propaganda. The 2022 edition has had plenty of talking points, too, but this time not to do with fascism. Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Look Now, which landed on the Lido midway through the festival like some dangerous UFO with Harry Styles inside, provoked a media feeding frenzy thanks to all the lurid advance reports of feuds and affairs during shooting. Wilde’s film wasn’t in competition and isn’t in the running for The Golden Lion, which was announced on Saturday. A pretentious dystopian thriller with a very tangled plot, it wouldn’t have won anyway. That honour went to Laura Poitras’s documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, while imprisoned Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Special Jury Prize for No Bears and the Silver Lion went to French director Alice Diop for her courtroom drama, Saint Omer.
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