Atlas is tried of holding up the heavens.
Beethoven was in fact not the first composers
Do you mean like a hero that happened 50 years ago or like a superhero (ex: batman, Harry Potter)?
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Both realist and formalist directors know that the viewer tends to identify with the camera's lens. The realist wishes to make the audience forget that there's a camera at all. The formalist is constantly calling attention to it.
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