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script film structure editing acting other elements

Is there a website or aren't there any websites that shows the script, the film structure (meaning camera angles, camera position, camera lens, camera movement,), production designs (such as costumes, sets, matte paintings, miniatures, film stock,), acting (typage), editing, sound design, visual effects, modes of screen reality, and narrative for the following films:

• The man with movie camera (russian film, 1929)
• The night of the hunter (1955)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• Persona (1966 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergsman)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Death becomes her (1992)
• The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920 German film)
• Night and Fog (1932 documentary French)
• Casablanca (1942)

and

• Magnolia (1999)

Please and thank you. Donmust90 (talk) 02:35, 23 June 2018 (UTC)Donmust90Donmust90 (talk) 02:35, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Extremely unlikely, I'd say. —Tamfang (talk) 07:17, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

What do you mean by "modes of screen reality"? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:26, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Only Donmust90 knows exactly what they mean (and hopefully will reply), but as someone with no particular movie expertise I readily took it to mean whether a movie is entirely live action, live action with animatronics, includes live action in front of a Green screen, mixes live action and CGI, is animation based on Motion capture*, is entirely CGI, etc. Maybe I was mistaken, however.

(* For example, this, which my mother watched without gaining an inkling that it wasn't live acting.) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.125.75.224 (talk) 12:22, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Name that video game

I'm trying to find a mid/late 1990s (early 2000s?) PC game where the premise is a semi-autonomous anti-virus computer program (represented by stick-figures in a digital landscape) where you can insert algorithms/modules -- eventually "they" find a way to "escape" the computer via the Internet. Ring any bells? —2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 03:13, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Darwinia (video game), or the sequel Multiwinia. Staecker (talk) 12:35, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Yes -- thanks! —2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 22:44, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Charlotte Crosby

I, among several other editors, find the need to revert fairly frequent vandalism at Charlotte Crosby. It's from many (usually) IP editors. It's not hugely problematic, usually just silly stuff, but I'm curious. I am an innocent Australian who knows nothing about this lady apart from what is in her article. She is described as an "English reality television personality". But what else is there about her that encourages the silly vandalism? Is she a major subject of tabloid gossip? Does Australia's greatest export, Rupert Murdoch, give her undue attention in his esteemed media outlets? What is it? HiLo48 (talk) 11:37, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

I had a look through the first couple of pages of history and it seems to be about the standard level of vandalism for a TV personality. The ones without vandalizations and reversions in their history are the ones that have been protected after recurring vandalizing. Sad but true: a significant minority of people have lives so pointless that calling someone a names on Wikipedia ranks as a major accomplishment. Matt Deres (talk) 19:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Some of their celebrity targets lead lives that are, if anything, even more pointless ... -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 00:26, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Wikipedia's notability rules don't exclude "pointless". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:43, 24 June 2018 (UTC)