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‘Anatomy of a Murder’ Kicked Off Our Obsession With True Crime – Collider

Editor's Note: The following contains references to sexual assault.

In a culture dominated by true crime media and entertainment, audiences consuming grisly content with lurid details is nothing groundbreaking. Given Americans' high demand for in-depth examinations of violent crimes in film, television, book, and podcast form, it's clear we've undoubtedly become desensitized to violence. True crime has received its fair share of criticism for exploiting its subjects and glorifying its perpetrators. However, when the genre handles its stories with nuance and refrains from partaking in gratuitous brutality, it can teach us about the underbelly of American society. One landmark classic Hollywood film, Anatomy of a Murder starring Jimmy Stewart, appears tame today, but the raw depiction of a criminal investigation and unflinching legal trial that used forbidden crude language paved the way for our dark and cynical viewer tendencies.

An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

Anatomy of a Murder, a noteworthy release in 1959, has not accrued the same legacy as other classics of the 1950s today. The film by Otto Preminger is often ignored in the checklist of classic films drafted by budding cinephiles, but its impact on contemporary filmmaking and media alike certifies its greatness. Based on the 1958 novel of the same name by John D. Voelker, a Michigan Supreme Court justice under the pen name Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder follows the trial of a soldier, Lt. Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), charged with murdering an innkeeper who raped his wife, Laura (Lee Remick). Manion is defended by small-town Michigan lawyer, Paul Biegler (Jimmy Stewart), a former district attorney living a leisurely life until accepting a case involving insanity pleas, morbid details, and various moral quandaries.

Anatomy of a Murder, which received seven Oscar nominations at the 32nd Academy Awards, is filled to the brim with exceptional talent above and below the line. It stars Jimmy Stewart at the peak of his abilities as a stirring dramatic presence, rising stars in Ben Gazzara and George C. Scott (playing prosecutor Claude Dancer), and reliable character actors in Arthur O'Connell and Murray Hamilton. The film also features the work of acclaimed opening credits artist Saul Bass, who left behind an instantly recognizable poster, and it is scored by none other than jazz legend Duke Ellington. This accumulation of talent created one of the finest courtroom dramas in history. With gripping cross-examinations, rousing testimonies, and an unpredictable verdict, Preminger's film epitomizes why Hollywood has routinely returned to the courtroom in the last 60 years to create its most exciting movies even if 99% of trials in real life are incredibly dull.

Classic Hollywood films are often labeled as sanitized, both formally and textually. This claim is not entirely unjustified, as moral panic surrounded cinema at a substantially higher level, in large part due to the Hays Code, a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content deemed obscene that presided over major releases from 1934 to the late 1960s. Governed by conservative values that restricted perverse language and sexuality onscreen, the classics relied on the imagination of the viewer to fill in these voids, which is not the worst thing for an artistic expression to inspire. In any film that challenges these doctrines, such as Anatomy of a Murder, the shock value of its themes and message is only heightened.

Preminger's film, written by Wendell Mayes, was marred in controversy for its use of crude language. The script featured blunt vocabulary often censored in motion pictures, including "bitch," "panties," "rape," "slut," "sperm," and "climax." The language, pertinent to the trial, emphasizes the "anatomy" element of Anatomy of a Murder, as the film deconstructs American law in real time. Manion's trial comes down to a tug and pull between fact and narrative, and how the two intertwine, creating a murky portrait of the truth.

Biegler encourages witnesses to use forward language to express their testimony during cross-examination. The courtroom audience uproariously laughs when the word "panties" is first uttered, relating to the undergarments worn by Laura Manion. Because the trial is framed around sexual assault, descriptions need to be crass to capture the horror of the alleged rape. The film studies the law through an etymological lens, showing how the historical implications of words can manipulate our interpretation of the truth.

The unprecedented display of crude language drew the ire of the mayor's office. After the film was previewed in Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley sought to have it banned in the city. The state's District Court ruled against Daley's plea to have Anatomy of a Murder removed from the city, deeming it unconstitutional, but before the ruling, the film was temporarily banned. Despite passing the ratings board, The National Catholic Legion of Decency, a group dedicated to policing objectionable content, said that the film "exceed[ed] the bounds of moral acceptability and propriety in a mass medium of entertainment."

Preminger has a storied track record regarding films with hot-button topics. His Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak-led drama, The Man with the Golden Arm, tackles drug addiction. Preminger's noir masterpiece, Laura, chillingly examines male obsession with the opposite sex. Anatomy of a Murder, or any of Preminger's films, are not provocative for the sake of shock value. They engage with complex subjects that require an unflinching attitude. If the language of the text is sanitized, the issues will feel cheapened.

Antithetical to most courtroom dramas, Anatomy of a Murder refrains from placing the prosecution and the defense on rigid sides of good and evil. Lt. Manion, with his lack of remorse and sinister demeanor, is far from a wholly sympathetic victim. Biegler proves to be ambivalent about upholding the law. Instead, he accepts Manion as a client to further his career, and to receive an adrenaline rush from this thorny case. Because no violent actions are shown on screen, there's a chance that we're being actively manipulated throughout the film's lengthy runtime. Preminger comments on society's treatment of rape victims as promiscuous, with Laura's callous label as an "army slut" blurring the lines of truth and perception.

The director understands the power of words as a rhetorical device. Words can accentuate the grave magnitude of a murder or sexual assault, but they can also cloud the judgment of a juror. During the trial, after the judge sustains an objection made by the prosecution, Manion asks his attorney, "How can a jury disregard what it's already heard?" Biegler responds calmly responds, "They can't, Lieutenant." While a jury is expected to hear a case with a clear mind, humans cannot remove past judgment and connotations, even when it comes to how we process a word as seemingly juvenile as "panties."

It should come as no surprise that Anatomy of a Murder is one of the most celebrated courtroom dramas for its artistic merit and its legal accuracy. More than any script by Aaron Sorkin or screen adaptation of a John Grisham novel, the film by Otto Preminger lives and breathes inside an American courtroom. Inside the dignified walls of a trial, the subject can be quite grisly, a concept that Anatomy of a Murder understood better than any film that followed in its wake. Today, we expect crude language and unfiltered descriptions of harrowing crimes across all forms of true crime media, but in 1959, audiences were used to films taking off the rough edges.

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Grey’s Anatomy Season 20 Has Dropped A Crucial Plotline That Needs To Return In Season 21 – Screen Rant

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With Grey's Anatomy season 20 nearing its conclusion, it has become apparent that the show dropped an all-important season 19 plot thread at least for now. The cliffhanger ending of Grey's Anatomy season 19 saw Dr. Simone Griffin (Alexis Floyd) ditched her wedding to be with fellow intern Dr. Lucas Adams (Niko Terho). Across the country, Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) finally received a much-deserved Catherine Fox Award, just as Ellen Pompeo's Dr. Meredith Grey announced to a room full of wealthy donors that everything they think they know about Alzheimer's disease is wrong.

Thanks to its slim 10-episode order, Grey's Anatomy season 20 focuses on the bigger picture...

While the twentieth installment of Shonda Rhimes' long-running medical drama resolves several cliffhangers and continues a handful of season 19 stories, including the thread about Meredith's groundbreaking (and subversive) Alzheimer's research, it isn't able to dig into every character's life as fully. Thanks to its slim 10-episode order, Grey's Anatomy season 20 focuses on the bigger picture and character dynamics more than backstory, though there are a few exceptions. Even so, the series has yet to revisit a crucial storyline involving Simone and her grandmother, Joyce Ward (Marla Gibbs).

Although Joyce has only appeared in three episodes of Grey's Anatomy, she's positioned to have a huge impact on both her granddaughter and the series as a whole. When viewers are first introduced to Joyce, she's seeing Simone off to work. Handing her a lunch bag, Joyce insists that she packed her granddaughter's favorite meal. Upon opening the bag, Simone discovers a TV remote and other household items, though she pushes past her feelings and thanks her grandmother. In her second appearance, Joyce visits the hospital to see Simone's mother, who died years ago during childbirth.

When Simone tries to intervene, Joyce becomes agitated, which prompts Meredith to step in...

During season 19, viewers learn that Simone was born at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, making her employment there a real full-circle moment. When Dr. Richard Webber (James Pickens, Jr.) notices that she seems distracted on her first day, Simone shares that her mother died at Grey Sloan something Simone's sister has always held against her. Being back is difficult, but it becomes even more challenging when a disoriented Joyce visits the hospital and asks for Simone's late mother. When Simone tries to intervene, Joyce becomes agitated, which prompts Meredith to step in to calm Simone's grandmother down.

While there's no true replacement for Sandra Oh's iconic Dr. Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy season 20 might have found a solid stand-in attending.

Part of the reason Joyce becomes so agitated is that she believes Simone is her own daughter, Denise. When Simone tries to correct her grandmother and explain that Denise is gone, Joyce's frustration and confusion only deepen. Notably, Grey's Anatomy opened with Meredith, then an intern herself, navigating her own mother's struggles with Alzheimer's. Recognizing the signs, Meredith steps in and assures Joyce that they will find Denise. It isn't true, but it deescalates the situation. Later, Meredith sits with Simone and listens to her talk about her grandmother's symptoms, which have progressed rather rapidly.

Several characters, including Adele Webber and Ellis Grey, have navigated Alzheimer's in earlier seasons of Grey's Anatomy .

Meredith shares her own Alzheimer's story and gives Simone some crucial advice: She needs to play along with whatever Joyce's reality is at the moment. Knowing it's a challenging prospect, Meredith assures Simone that she'll find it in herself to do so. Simone's relationship with her grandmother is not only crucial to her character, but to the series at large, allowing for a kind of full-circle moment for Meredith, who's able to pass on her knowledge. Unfortunately, the truncated season 20 has impacted the show's ability to delve into over-arcing stories like this one.

Where Simone is concerned, most of her season 20 screentime has revolved around her on-again, off-again connection with Lucas. While Grey's Anatomy's new Meredith and Derek-level relationship is intriguing, Simone's relationship with Lucas cannot be her only story. The show has recently paired Simone with the sharp-witted and often-impatient Dr. Benson "Blue" Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.). Developing Simone's relationship with another surgical intern has been a much-needed break from the angst of her love life, but Joyce's absence from Grey's Anatomy season 20 is rather glaring, especially in the wake of Simone's failed wedding.

Grey's Anatomy season 20, episode 7, suggests that a complex case involving a pregnant woman will dredge up Simone's most painful feelings and memories.

Previously, Simone told Meredith that her grandmother was a mother figure a crucial person who raised her. One of Simone's biggest worries revolved around her grandmother returning to Grey Sloan time and again to search for Denise. While that doesn't need to be a constant concern, it's strange that Joyce hasn't come up at all. Grey's Anatomy season 20, episode 7, suggests that a complex case involving a pregnant woman will dredge up Simone's most painful feelings and memories. While it's possible Joyce will figure into the episode, it's clear that Grey's Anatomy season 21 needs to place a renewed focus on Simone and Joyce's relationship.

Although Ellen Pompeo has taken a step back from Grey's Anatomy, season 20 sheds even more light on the series' mishandling of Meredith Grey's story.

In addition to caring for her mother, Dr. Ellis Grey (Kate Burton), Meredith has previously been involved in several Alzheimer's-related threads. Notably, she assisted her late husband, Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), with a clinical trial only to completely skew the results by giving Webber's wife, Adele (Loretta Devine), special treatment. More recently, Meredith's oldest child, Zola (Aniela Gumbs), has navigated anxiety around Meredith developing the genetic disease. That anxiety is part of what pushes Meredith to leave Seattle and pursue Alzheimer's research with the Catherine Fox Foundation.

It's possible Meredith's research will intersect with Simone's grandmother, giving Meredith a chance to redeem her clinical trial mishap.

In Grey's Anatomy season 20, Meredith enlists the help of her sister-in-law and acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr. Amelia Shepherd's (Caterina Scorsone) to further her groundbreaking research. As seen in the season 19 finale, Meredith's theories about Alzheimer's will completely upend leading medical research, positioning the thread as an incredibly important one for future seasons. It's possible Meredith's research will intersect with Simone's grandmother, giving Meredith a chance to redeem her clinical trial mishap. Moreover, by helping Simone navigate her grandmother's Alzheimer's disease both personally and medically Meredith's Grey's Anatomy story would have a satisfying full-circle moment.

New episodes of Grey's Anatomy season 20 premiere on Thursdays on CBS, with next-day streaming available on Hulu.

Grey's Anatomy is considered one of the great television shows of our time, winning several awards and four Emmys. The high-intensity medical drama follows Meredith Grey and the team of doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial, who are faced with life-or-death decisions on a daily basis. They seek comfort from one another, and, at times, more than just friendship. Together they discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white.

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Grey’s Anatomy: How Simone’s ‘Rock Bottom’ Moment Will Change Her Going Forward, According to Alexis Floyd – CinemaBlend

Spoiler alert! This story discusses the May 9 episode of Greys Anatomy, She Used to Be Mine. Use your Hulu subscription to catch up and then read on!

Simone Griffith went through a heart-wrenching situation on Greys Anatomys latest episode, She Used to Be Mine, when a pregnant woman almost died during childbirth, just like her mom had in that same hospital when Simone was born. The mom, Lauren, was going to be OK in the end, but Simones fate was less clear, as she headed straight to the bar and started downing tequila shots. Alexis Floyd says her character hit rock bottom, and she opened up about how this experience will change the surgical intern going forward.

Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) called on Simone to help out when Lauren continued to have complications following an emergency C-section. The longtime doctor also noticed when Simone stepped away from the operating table, terrified because she saw her mother lying there rather than Lauren. Alexis Floyd told People that Simones personal and professional life intertwined to become more than she could handle, and she realized shes got to address this trauma that she carries from her mothers death. Floyd said:

I think the first step is just awareness, and that is something that she hasn't necessarily had to this extent yet. And sometimes it takes rock bottom for you to reach a place where you're ready to finally make the change. They say when you hit rock bottom, the only place to go from there is up. So I think she maybe has hit a low she wasn't expecting to, but I hope that it is a breakdown that leads to a breakthrough.

Bailey was picking up food from the bar when she saw Simone pounding tequila, and she took the barely functioning intern home. In a wonderfully moving scene, the two women discussed how important it is to have Black women in the medical field to help make sure that no one falls through the cracks or has their pain ignored.

Alexis Floyd thinks this personal trauma that she experienced at work and the conversation with Bailey afterward will absolutely affect the way she practices medicine in the future. The actress said:

I think it will empower her as a doctor. I think it'll make her a more empathetic doctor. I think it'll make her a braver doctor who makes bold choices for her patients. I think it'll make her an activist in her place of work because she'll no longer be trying to hide the sort of emotional complexity of what it is to be not just a Black woman physician caring for Black female patients in an industry, in a healthcare system that exorbitantly neglects that class.

I loved seeing Bailey and Simone come together like that, especially to address such an important issue. I cant wait to see the first-year resident taking this rock bottom moment and using it to advocate for patients and their wild medical cases, and I also am excited to see how this mentor/mentee relationship between her and Bailey continues to develop.

While we wait for next weeks episode, set to air at 9 p.m. ET Thursday, May 16, you can relive the best Greys Anatomy episodes or start from one of these jumping-off points to binge through your favorite era.

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The anatomy of imperfection: Inside Stefano Colferai’s playful stop motion animations of everyday life – It’s Nice That

For Stefano, there is a preliminary process to his works that requires him to take heed of his surroundings; an artist tethered to his notebook, finding inspiration everywhere during a walk, while driving the car, in the shower, or while running, he tells us. But whats so interesting is that all the majority of his work doesnt reflect the scenic qualities of a bike ride, run or drive, theyre overwhelmingly documented in the studio, surrounded by his tools. Perhaps because he wants to honour the surroundings where the idea is fully actualised; where he spends days creating the characters and animating their expressions.

This process starts quite directly, straight after he has taken down the ideas. I dont like to leave time for me to lose excitement, he shares, I try to grab it and give it shape as soon as I have the chance. After he sculpts the props, he begins moving them frame by frame, taking pictures with his camera on a tripod and connecting them to the software permitting him to see how it moves and how the animation is going. And although he finds the animation portion of the process to be the most challenging, due to its time consuming nature and the close attention it requires, he also decides to lean into the magic of it. Its magic and the most fun, because after a few frames you begin to give life to your creations, you get to see everything youve created with your hands, move, he adds.

All in all, Stefanos mission is to imbue a lightheartedness and joy to the everyday. Each animation is like a short story, a glaring attempt at communicating all that he sees. But most importantly he just wants to make people smile. Im really happy with what Ive created when people tell me: youve made my day. This, for me, gives meaning to everything I do.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: Meredith’s Family Emergency Brings Up the Past – PEOPLE

This post contains spoilers from the Thursday, April 11 episode of Grey's Anatomy.

A night of celebration turned to tragedy on Grey's Anatomy.

Several injured medical students were rushed to the hospital after a deck collapsed during a White Coat party. Everybody grab a chart, this is going to be a long night, Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) told the interns.

Benson "Blue" Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) and Simone Griffin (Alexis Floyd) accidentally lost track of a student named Eddie. When they still couldnt find him, a nurse told them that they saw him near the stairwell. The pair then found Eddie on the ledge of the rooftop.

When they tried to talk him down, Eddie responded that he wondered what would happen if he fell or not.

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Simone and Blue raced to help Eddie. After she asked if he was having thoughts of suicide, he responded, I guess. Sometimes. She reminded him that they were there if he wanted to talk. He then sat down on the ledge of the roof and said, It seems darker up here, the city.

He eventually admitted was overwhelmed by med school, telling the doctors, I think Im broken. I dont deserve this anymore. He later added, I dont know how to live with all the pressure and all the pain.

Blue then confided in the patient that he had experienced similar feelings, saying, Youre not alone and on most days, I dont feel like a doctorlet us get you some help. Blues words were enough to get him to step down from the ledge and come with them.

After the trying experience, Simone went to an on-call room to get some rest. Before she could fall asleep, Lucas Adams (Niko Terho) whom she was still avoiding after their romantic entanglement fell apart found her and she said, I had a really long night.

Ill go, he replied, but she then invited him to lay next to her in bed and he joined her.

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Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman) told Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) that he had rushed her son Bailey to the hospital in Boston with early appendicitis.

Meredith was upset then that Nick had taken Bailey to the hospital without her consent, saying, Tell Bailey I will be there as soon as I can before hanging up.

Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) then found Meredith and offered to help to call Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen).

Im his mother, you call me... call me immediately, Meredith insisted when Nick called back.

On the plane to Boston, Meredith admitted that she worried history would repeat itself with her son as her husband Derek Shepard (Patrick Dempsey) had died because surgeons didnt provide him with a timely CT scan following a major accident.

When Meredith arrived at the hospital, she coldly dismissed Nick, despite him rushing to get Bailey the care he needed. Of course, when Bailey woke up, he asked for Nick immediately.

Later, Meredith went to find Nick and told him that she was panicked about not being there for her kids. Im all they have," she said.

However, he reminded her that she has a village including him that loves and supports her children.

Ive been doing this a long time alone; it may take me a minute to adjust, she said. He responded, Ive got a minute.

Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) told her boyfriend Atticus "Link" Lincoln (Chris Carmack) she was late. He asked for what and she responded, My period.

She then got called to the emergency room and he asked her if they should stay to discuss her being late. Its a 9-1-1, Jo said. Link replied, So is this.

When Jo worried about how they would manage if she was pregnant, Link reminded her, Were in this together, no matter what.

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Jo refused to look at the pregnancy test and Link was excited to inform her that it was negative. However, she was none too thrilled by his reaction especially when she realized the test was a dud.

Im not pregnant, she later told him. However, she admitted that the pregnancy scare had made her realize that she wanted to have a baby with him to add to their brood of her daughter Luna and his and Amelia Shepherds (Caterina Scorsone) son, Scout.

I can get there. Its just gonna take me some time, he responded.

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Grey’s Anatomy: Cristina Yang’s Return Prospect Gets Honest Response From Sandra Oh – Screen Rant

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Actor Sandra Oh has opened up about the possibility of her returning as Cristina Yang in Grey's Anatomy during a future episode. Oh debuted as Cristina in the show's first episode, continually being a major character throughout her time on the series. She eventually left the series at the end of season 10, after she accepts a job as head of a new hospital in Zrich, Switzerland. This gave Cristina a proper ending as she said goodbye to her fellow doctors.

Speaking with ET, Oh addressed how likely it would be for her to come back as Cristina in any upcoming episodes of the show, such as Grey's Anatomy season 21. The star said that, while she's grateful viewers want to see more of her on the series after all this time, she's satisfied with how her story ended and doesn't have plans to continue it. Check out what Oh had to say below:

I love that I love that people are still [fans]. I love that you asked me that, because Cristina Yang is, of course, near and dear to my heart. [But] I will say, not anytime soon, my love. I hope people feel like I did my job, which is that I brought to life a character and she had a growth over 10 seasons, and that it was true. She was ready to move on, and so have I.

Cristina's storyline in the series by becoming head of a hospital in Switzerland, reflects how driven and career-oriented she is while giving her a proper sendoff. While Oh herself hasn't returned as the doctor since departing, she was last seen portrayed by a body double at Derek's funeral in season 11. Season 16 also features text messages she sends to Meredith, leading to her meeting Cormac Hayes, who becomes a major character in the series for a few seasons.

Despite how much the character has continued to have a presence in the series, Oh's answer about not coming back signals her story arc will not continue. Cristina's storyline ended in a satisfactory place, as her new job means she can now pursue the medical career she wants. Her happy ending is coupled with the actor taking on a variety of exciting new roles, like appearing in the positively-received The Sympathizer. Because she's spent the last decade taking on roles beyond the medical franchise, her return seems unlikely to happen soon.

It's still possible Cristina could make a guest appearance in a later episode, with Oh briefly reprising her role despite the character's story being over. However, the chances of her coming back appear slim, even if she were to show up one last time at some point so viewers can learn what her life has been like since leaving the hospital. Although it seems her time on the show is permanently over, her contribution to Grey's Anatomy allowed for a stellar character to help define the drama's first decade.

Grey's Anatomy airs Thursdays on ABC.

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Grey's Anatomy is considered one of the great television shows of our time, winning several awards and four Emmys. The high-intensity medical drama follows Meredith Grey and the team of doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial, who are faced with life-or-death decisions on a daily basis. They seek comfort from one another, and, at times, more than just friendship. Together they discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ recap: Is Jo pregnant? – Entertainment Weekly News

Whats worse than a bunch of injured medical students overflowing the ER? A bunch of sloppy, drunk, injured, medical students acting annoying in the ER. Thats what you get when the second-floor deck collapses at a white coat party, and all the intoxicated people geek out diagnosing each other on Grey's Anatomy tonight.

As Yasuda (Midori Francis) figures out how to keep med students bodily fluids off of her in the pit, Adams (Niko Terho) searches for a bloodied lab coat, which will hopefully calm the spirits of his patient Sophie. Shes currently prepping for surgery since a rather large wooden beam is protruding from her back. Lo and behold, the medics cut her precious white coat off her body in the ambulance, and thats all Sophie can think about.

Adams locates the bloodied, shredded mess of a coat, and Sophie quickly transitions into being in a hospital is so cool mode until her stress levels rise again when she realizes she cant feel her right leg. Being the smart, educated medical student she is, Sophie knows this is very, very bad news. She begs Adams to do everything in his power to fix her.

Owen (Kevin McKidd) and Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) agree that spinal surgery is necessary, but they decide to just remove the wooden stake from her back, close her up, and see what happens. Its going to be a mess in there, and Amelia needs to know what shes working with before she promises Sophie will be able to walk, let alone stand.

But when Amelia opens her up and Owen un-stakes her, the situation miraculously becomes uncomplicated. Adams intervenes from the viewing galley intercom, imploring his aunt to perform surgery. Sophie later wakes up to a healed spine and a fresh, sparkling white lab coat, courtesy of Adams.

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Im sure Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) would have been pulled in to help with the chaos had her son Bailey not been rushed to the hospital. For those of you just joining us, Meredith spends part of her time in Seattle trying to get funding for her Alzheimers research and the other part of the time with her kiddos and Nick (Scott Speedman) in Boston. You can imagine her anger when she receives a text from her daughter explaining that Nick took Bailey to the East Coast version of Grey Sloan Memorial.

Bailey has appendicitis, and Nick is handling it. Meredith is desperate to catch a flight to Boston so she can wring Nicks neck for not calling her sooner. Enter Richard (James Pickens Jr.) with his wifes private jet.

Meredith is so snippy with Nick on the phone as she rushes across the country to be with her boy. She becomes panicked that the doctor is going to screw up. Finally, everything becomes clear. Simple steps were missed with Derek. Meredith is afraid her son is going to fall into those same circumstances.

Thankfully, Bailey is fine, Meredith cools off, and she and Nick have a talk about how much he loves her kids and wants to be in their lives, even though Meredith is strong-willed and uber-independent. Meredith asks for a minute to adjust. Nick says he has all the minutes in the world. Could this guy be more perfect? Besides the fact that he didnt call Meredith immediately, I think not.

Sometimes, Meredith is so mean to Nick that it makes me want to give him a hug. Perhaps I should look into becoming a professional hugger like that lady who crawled up into the bed with Winston (Anthony Hill) and Millins (Adelaide Kane) patient to lower his blood pressure before surgery. There are weirder ways to make money, Im sure. Its worth researching.

Of course, Winston thinks the professional hugger is annoying, especially when she suggests they postpone surgery for a bit. He asks the human blanket to take a hike and demands Millin prep their patient for surgery. Millin smarts off to Winston, wondering out loud when the coolest doctor became so rude to both patients and residents. This did not go over well with Dr. Ndugu.

When their patient begins to spiral out of control on his way to the OR, Winstons tune changes, and he hops up onto the gurney to snuggle. Millin is impressed and tells her mentor after surgery. Winston admits that his personal life has infiltrated his workspace, and he promises not to let it happen again. Read: Maggie served him divorce papers. Ugh.

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Meanwhile, back in the ER, Griffith (Alexis Floyd) and Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) have lost one of the drunk med students and have to scour the hospital to find him before they are both fired. Someone mentioned that they saw him near the stairway to the roof. Griffith and Kwan find Eddie pacing on the ledge, holding his bright new coat. Griffith receives his lab results on her tablet and notices that he is not drunk. Eddie is depressed.

The pair calmly try and talk Eddie off the ledge and both are encouraged when he chooses to sit down. Griffith listens as Eddie works through his thoughts and feelings about becoming a doctor. Eddie doesnt think hes cut out for it. He doesnt know how to live with the pressure and pain.

Its shocking to hear Kwan, who has been silent up until this point, agree with Eddie. Kwan admits that he still doesnt feel like a doctor, but hes still here. He assures Eddie that he is not alone and asks for his hand so he can help him down from the ledge. He wants to get Eddie help.

Eddie turns, offers Kwan his hand, and allows the two interns to help him down. Later, Griffith offers to listen if Kwan needs to talk, but he dismisses her. She ends up in an on-call room snuggling with Adams. I guess these two are talking again. And who needs to hire professional huggers when you have ex-boyfriends to cuddle?

I should also inform you that Jo (Camilla Luddington) thought she was pregnant with Links (Chris Carmack) baby. While waiting for not one but two pregnancy tests, Jo and Link ran through every scenario of what it would look like to be parents to three children in diapers. Once the official test came back negative, they agreed to one day have a baby, but not now. Im confident that their baby will have amazing skin, teeth, and hair. Im just saying.

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Grey’s Anatomy’s Most Enduring Character Is a Real-Life Scrub Nurse – CBR – Comic Book Resources

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BokHee, the longest-lasting supporting character of the cast of Grey's Anatomy, is played by an actual scrub nurse who certainly takes her role seriously. Actor Kathy C. An, also known as BokHee An, portrayed BokHee on both Grey's Anatomy and its six-season spinoff Private Practice. She has garnered a massive following among Grey's Anatomy fans, and for good reason she is undeniably one of the most dedicated actors on the show.

Designated as a "protect-at-all-costs" character by fans, Grey's Anatomy's BokHee has appeared in every season to date. She has very few speaking lines throughout the series, usually being spoken to by other characters rather than driving the narrative herself. She didn't actually talk until Season 10 when she recommended a bypass surgery for Alex's father in "Get Up, Stand Up." She spoke again in Season 15's "I Want a New Drug," praising Ellen Pompeo's Meredith Grey as "Wonder Woman." Aside from these two instances, BokHee largely communicates through facial expressions and reactions, often telling the main characters what they need to hear without saying a word.

Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on April 14, 2024: Grey's Anatomy has officially been renewed for its twenty-first season. Now bereft of its main character, Dr. Meredith Grey, the series is poised to take a new direction as its supporting cast fills the void left in Ellen Pompeo's wake. However, the actress has been confirmed to return in a recurring role in upcoming seasons. Nevertheless, while the series is always transforming itself, it is good for viewers to know that some things never change. In over twenty years of television, the supporting character Nurse BokHee has remained a fixture of Grey's Anatomy. Moreover, the actress's history in the medical profession adds some much-needed realism to the long-running medical drama.

Kathy C. An worked asa scrub nursein Los Angeles for 56 years before retiring in 2015. Before her retirement, actor Giacomo Gianniotto who played Andrew DeLuca from Season 11 through Season 17 watched a surgery in which An assisted to prepare for his part. Though it is yet unconfirmed, it's quite possible Gianniotto is not the only member of the Grey's Anatomy crew that has shadowed An in the decade she worked on Grey's Anatomy and was assisting in surgeries in Los Angeles. After all, many cast and crew members regularly watch real-life surgeries in the Los Angeles area to prepare for specific episodes and scenes that include those surgeries.

BokHee An adds to the authenticity of Grey's Anatomy just by being onscreen. Whether viewers consciously realize it, they can catch small details and tell whether they're fake. This is why Tom Cruise hangs out on actual airplanes when doing his stunts and CGI car chases aren't as appealing in action movies. An actor can train to play a nurse for as long as they want, but it's near-impossible to replicate the simple, natural, swift hand movements that only an experienced nurse has. BokHee is the only Grey's Anatomy cast member outside the show to have a medical career. Behind the camera, however, there are a few more medical professionals who help add to the show's authenticity.

Grey's Anatomy Ratings And Scores

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score

International Movie Database

84%

73%

7.6/10

Grey's Anatomy may not be viewers' first idea regarding a strictly realistic procedural series, but it is far more realistic than audiences give it credit for. While the Shonda Rhimes-created show makes the occasional suspension of reality for storytelling, Grey's Anatomy isconsistently accurate,according to most medical professionals. Executive producers Zoanne Clack and Fred Einesman, both doctors, play a huge role in the fact-checking process. Many other real-life doctors and medical professionals are also brought on to advise and fact-check the work, often adding medical text to the scripts wherever the writer's room puts "medical medical."

Given her surgical background, having Kathy C. An star on Grey's Anatomy as a recurring character is a testament to the show's incredible attention to detail. Not only does it add to the medical drama's nuance, but it also makes BokHee an even more lovable character. Though it's unlikely BokHee will ever get her own Grey's Anatomy episode, knowing this information about Kathy C. An makes her appearances all the more entertaining. Even with her generally limited storyline in the series, BokHee's presence greatly elevates Grey's Anatomy, injecting a sense of realism into the series that other procedurals often lack.

Grey's Anatomy may not be strictly realistic in every regard, but its attempts to remain somewhat consistent with actual medical practices help it stand out from other medical dramas. The series understandably has to heighten some of its medical aspects to keep viewers engaged, but it at least makes an effort not to take things too far. In part, this has helped Grey's Anatomy remain popular for two decades.

While other medical procedural series like Chicago Med and New Amsterdam have found their audiences, no series of their genre holds a candle to the popularity of Grey's Anatomy. The series has transcended multiple decades with its high-stakes drama and memorable storylines, consistently drawing a passionate fanbase to each and every season. The series has even been able to weather the usually crippling loss of a beloved lead, suggesting that it is nowhere near its end.

For all of the extra work that must be done behind the scenes, the attention to detail in Grey's Anatomy's medical scenes greatly improves the overall series. Real-life professionals like Kathy C. An help keep the seriesgrounded in actual medical science, even if the personal relationships and storylines sometimes exit the realm of believability. So long as the series works to maintain a certain level of realism, it can expect to continue to enjoy a high level of popularity among audiences, even as it continues its twentieth season.

Grey's Anatomy is available to stream on Netflix and Hulu.

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Civil War | Anatomy of a Scene – The New York Times

My name is Alex Garland and Im the writer director of Civil War. So this particular clip is roughly around the halfway point of the movie and its these four journalists and theyre trying to get, in a very circuitous route, from New York to DC, and encountering various obstacles on the way. And this is one of those obstacles. What they find themselves stuck in is a battle between two snipers. And they are close to one of the snipers and the other sniper is somewhere unseen, but presumably in a large house that sits over a field and a hill. Its a surrealist exchange and its surrounded by some very surrealist imagery, which is theyre, in broad daylight in broad sunshine, theres no indication that were anywhere near winter in the filming. In fact, you can kind of tell its summer. But theyre surrounded by Christmas decorations. And in some ways, the Christmas decorations speak of a country, which is in disrepair, however silly it sounds. If you havent put away your Christmas decorations, clearly something isnt going right. Whats going on? Someone in that house, theyre stuck. Were stuck. And theres a bit of imagery. It felt like it hit the right note. But the interesting thing about that imagery was that it was not production designed. We didnt create it. We actually literally found it. We were driving along and we saw all of these Christmas decorations, basically exactly as they are in the film. They were about 100 yards away, just piled up by the side of the road. And it turned out, it was a guy whod put on a winter wonderland festival. People had not dug his winter wonderland festival, and hed gone bankrupt. And he had decided just to leave everything just strewn around on a farmers field, who was then absolutely furious. So in a way, theres a loose parallel, which is the same implication that exists within the film exists within real life. You dont understand a word I say. Yo. Whats over there in that house? Someone shooting. Its to do with the fact that when things get extreme, the reasons why things got extreme no longer become relevant and the knife edge of the problem is all that really remains relevant. So it doesnt actually matter, as it were, in this context, what side theyre fighting for or what the other persons fighting for. Its just reduced to a survival.

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