Example sentences for: boorman

How can you use “boorman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.

  • He might even have fancied himself a Robin Hood, although Boorman (who also wrote the screenplay) is careful to show that if Cahill stole from the rich he gave to no one but himself and his family, and that his thieving put a lot of poor people out of work.

  • Some have argued that Boorman, the director of Excalibur (1981) and Hope and Glory (1987), doesn't employ his extravagant visual gifts in The General , which is in black and white and isn't ostentatious in its mythic resonances.

  • Boorman pays a price for his neutrality: The General isn't an emotional grabber.

  • Based on Richard Stark's The Hunter , the same novel that provided narrative fodder for John Boorman's avant-garde noir Point Blank (1967), Payback has a syntax much more old-fashioned than its predecessor.


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