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Actors: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Lightning Over Water |
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LIGHTNING OVER WATER is a movie written and directed by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray in 1980.
In the middle of the pre-production of "Hammett", German filmmaker Wim Wenders decides to go to New York to spend a few days with his friend Nicholas Ray, the reknown director of such movies as "Rebel without a Cause" and "55 Days at Peking".
Though Nicholas Ray is dying of cancer, both men agree to shoot a movie with Ray as the main character. So we follow the American director in his everyday life and in his battle against the pain. The most interesting scenes of the movie consist in the conversations between these two directors.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Lightning Over Water |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- filmmaker/producer
Brain/Body not working?
- physical disability
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Age:
- 60's-90's
Hair color?
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a deadline
Setting
Water?
Yes
Water:
- sail boat
- river
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude male butt
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
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