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An ensemble cast or main cast is made up of cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and ___MASK57___ time in a dramatic production . A film , also called a movie , motion picture , theatrical film or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a ___MASK57___ , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry . A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques ; by means of CGI and computer animation ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects . La Movida Madrileña was a countercultural movement that took place mainly in ___MASK62___ during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco ' s death in 1975 . It represented the resurrection of the economy in Spain and the emergence of a new Spanish identity . The Real Academia Española ( English : Royal Spanish Academy ), generally abbreviated as RAE , is the official royal institution responsible for overseeing the Spanish language . It is based in ___MASK62___ , Spain , but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty - one other hispanophone ( Spanish - speaking ) nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies . The RAE ' s emblem is a fiery crucible , and its motto is "" ("[ It ] cleans , [ it ] fixes , and [ it ] casts splendour "). The ___MASK12___ of comics has followed different paths in different cultures . Scholars have posited a pre - ___MASK12___ as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings . By the mid - 20th century , comics flourished particularly in the United States , western Europe ( especially in ___MASK97___ and Belgium ), and Japan . The ___MASK12___ of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer ' s cartoon strips of the 1830s , and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as " The Adventures of Tintin ". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips ; magazine - style comic books followed in the 1930s , in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938 . Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century . Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century , and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post - World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka . had a lowbrow reputation for much of its ___MASK12___ , but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia . Penélope Cruz Sánchez ( born 28 April ___MASK55___ ) is a Spanish actress and model . Signed by an agent at age 15 , she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in " Jamón , jamón " ( 1992 ) to critical acclaim . Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included " Open Your Eyes " ( 1997 ), " The Hi - Lo Country " ( 1999 ), " The Girl of Your Dreams " ( 2000 ) and " Woman on Top " ( 2000 ). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films " Vanilla ___MASK39___ ", " All the Pretty Horses ", " Captain Corelli ' s Mandolin " and " Blow ". Francisco Franco Bahamonde ; ( 4 December 1892  20 November 1975 ) was a Spanish general who ruled over ___MASK25___ as a dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975 . He ruled ___MASK25___ for 36 years . Broken Embraces ( Spanish : Los abrazos rotos ) is a 2009 Spanish romantic thriller film written , produced , and directed by Pedro Almodóvar . Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Almodóvar regulars , it stars Lluís Homar as a blind Madrilenian screenwriter who recalls his tragic love for Lena , played by Penélope Cruz , the deceased lead actress in his last directional feature Girls and Suitcases , who was also the mistress of a powerful , obsessive businessman ( José Luis Gómez ) . Blanca Portillo co - stars as his agent Judit , while Tamar Novas portrays her son and Caine ' s co - writer Diego . Inspired by darkness and by a photo of a couple , that Almodóvar took of El Golfo beach in Lanzarote in the late 1990s , the film serves as an homage to filmmaking , cinema and its various film genres . Stylistically , it is a complex noir - ish melodrama , that also blends comic elements with a film within a film -- a broad comedy , that hearkens back to Almodóvar ' s 1988 release , Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . Thematically , Broken Embraces addresses themes like voyeurism , repression , prostitution , death , vengeance , fixation , illness , and drugs . Broken Embraces was one of the films competing for the Palme d ' Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival . Dubbed `` purest Almodóvar '' by The New Yorker , the film was noted for the director ' s characteristic `` bright primary colors , '' erotic subject matter , and meticulous , `` visually pulsating '' cinematography . The picture was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at both the 2009 British Academy Film Awards and the 67th Golden Globe Awards . Pedro Almodóvar Caballero ( born 25 September 1949 ) is a Spanish film director , screenwriter , producer and former actor . He came to prominence as a director and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña , a cultural renaissance that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco . His first few films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period . In 1986 , he established his own film production company , ___MASK96___ , with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar , responsible for producing all of his films since " Law of Desire " ( 1987 ). ___MASK96___ ( also known as ___MASK96___ S . A .) is a film production company owned by Spanish film producers the Almodóvar brothers ( Pedro and Agustín ). Law of Desire or La ley del deseo ( in original Spanish ) is a 1987 film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar . Starring Eusebio Poncela as Pablo , Carmen Maura as Tina and Antonio Banderas as Antonio . It was the first film Almodóvar made independently with his own production company " ___MASK96___ ". The Girl of Your Dreams is a 1998 Spanish drama film produced and directed by Fernando Trueba and starring Penélope Cruz , Antonio Resines , Jorge Sanz , Rosa Maria Sardà and Santiago Segura . The story centers on fictional Spanish Andalusian actress Macarena ___MASK61___ , with whom Joseph Goebbels falls in love with . Vanilla ___MASK39___ is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller romance film directed , written , and co - produced by Cameron Crowe . It is an English - language remake of Alejandro Amenábar ' s 1997 Spanish film " Open Your Eyes ", which was written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil , with Penélope Cruz reprising her role from the ___MASK100___ . The film has been described as " an odd mixture of science fiction , romance and reality warp ". A screenplay writer , screenwriter for short , scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting , writing screenplays on which mass media such as films , television programs , comics or video games are based . Agustín Almodóvar Caballero ( born 1955 ) is a film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar . He was born in Calzada de Calatrava and obtained a degree in chemistry from the Complutense University of ___MASK62___ . He began his career in film production as a messenger in Fernando Trueba ' s film " Sé infiel y no mires con quién ". In 1986 , he and Pedro founded their own production company , ___MASK96___ S . A . Through this company he has produced all of Pedro ' s films since 1986 , and several French co - productions . He is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain . José Luis Gómez García ( born 19 April 1940 ) is a Spanish film actor and director . He has appeared in 33 films since 1968 . At the 1976 Cannes Film Festival , he won the award for Best Actor in the film " Pascual Duarte ". Gómez was elected to Seat " Z " of the Real Academia Española on 1 December 2011 , he took up his seat on 26 January 2014 .