"The challenges that I have of being a South African comedian as a Muslim ... does get dramatized in the story, " he says.

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But feelings are discussed instead of dramatized in a film that doesn't know what to make of them, while coherence suffers the moon's fate.

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The system of player evaluation dramatized in Moneyball allowed a small market team to compete with large market teams that had more money to spend on players.

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That simple summons and the astonished response to it are dramatized in "The Calling of Matthew, " one of a trio of paintings by Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio after his native town.

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This alternate tradition dramatized the Alexander story in highly diverting ways, but took far less trouble than Arrian did over accuracy.

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When his father dies, the boy grows up (a moment dramatized brilliantly by Hou in a single jolting cut), and turns into a quietly wild adolescent of the streets.

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