At the risk of stating the fairly obvious: movies are a visual
medium. Sure, you have actors speaking lines of dialog, music,
sound effects and a whole host of other elements that go into
the final motion picture experience. But first, you have the
image, the picture, the light and shadow. Think back to all the
movies you've loved over the years and what comes to mind? For
me, its occasionally a great line of dialog I remember fondly.
But more often, its a series of iconic images etched in my mind
from the films I've seen.  John Wayne standing in the doorway at
the end of The Searchers, T.E. Lawrence walking on top of the
train, triumphant and defiant, after he and his men attacked it
in Lawrence of Arabia, De Niro's violent slo-mo ballet in the
ring as boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, Janet Leigh meeting
Norman Bates' "mother" while taking a shower in Psycho, the
hands pointing to the sky indicating where the sounds made by
the aliens came from or the giant mothership almost obscuring
Devil's Tower in Clo