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vantage point
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vantage point \Vantage point\ A point giving advantage; vantage ground.
Wiktionary
n. A place or position affording a good view.
WordNet
n. a place from which something can be viewed; "from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley" [syn: viewpoint]
Wikipedia
Vantage point may refer to:
- Vantage Point (film), a 2008 thriller film
- Vantage Point (album), a 2008 rock album by dEUS
- The Vantage Point, a magazine
- The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969, the memoirs of Lyndon B. Johnson
- VantagePoint Venture Partners, a private equity firm
- VantagePoint Operations, the former name of HP OpenView Operations
- A position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective:
- Overlook, a high place where people can gather to view scenery
- Camera angle in photography, filmmaking, and other visual arts
- Perspective (graphical)
Vantage Point is a 2008 American political action thriller film directed by Pete Travis; it was adapted from a screenplay written by Barry L. Levy. The story focuses on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, as seen from the various vantage points of different characters. Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt, and Sigourney Weaver star in principal roles. The film is often compared, unfavorably, to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, which also employed storytelling through multiple perspectives. Rashomon used the multiple perspectives to question the possibility of truth, in a process called the Rashomon effect; in contrast, Vantage Point recounts a series of events which are re-enacted from several different perspectives and viewpoints in order to reveal a truthful account of what happened. Vantage Point also explores kidnapping, assassination and terrorism.
The motion picture was co-produced by Relativity Media, Original Film, and Art In Motion. It was commercially distributed by Columbia Pictures theatrically, and by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in home media format. The film project began principal photography in Mexico City on June 18, 2006. Executive producers for the film included Callum Greene, Tania Landau, and Lynwood Spinks. On February 26, 2008, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released by the Varèse Sarabande label. The film score was composed by musician Atli Örvarsson.
Following its premiere on February 22, 2008, Vantage Point grossed $72,266,306 in domestic ticket receipts. The film was screened at 3,163 theaters during its widest release nationwide in the United States. It earned an additional $78,895,185 in business through international release to top out at a combined $151,161,491 in gross revenue. The film was technically considered a strong financial success due to its $40 million budget costs. Preceding its theatrical run though, the film was met with generally mixed to negative critical reviews. The widescreen DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc editions of the film featuring the director's audio commentary and interviews with the cast and crew, were both released in the United States on July 8, 2008.
Vantage Point is the fifth album from the Belgian band Deus, released on April 18, 2008. This is the first Deus album which features the same line-up as the previous album. This album was also the first to be recorded at their own built studio in Borgerhout, near Antwerp.
Upon its release in Belgium Vantage Point was already certified Gold, then reached Platinum within its first month release.
Usage examples of "vantage point".
From this odd vantage point, Tolland took in the final images of his world&mdash.
Many hours later, alighting in the shade of the barrier mountains, Vormulac had climbed a crag to a vantage point from which to gaze east and watch them come in.
Drizzt would move from vantage point to vantage point all around her while she meticulously followed the trail, the drow serving as her wider eyes while her own were fixed upon the stone before her feet.
They moved to the same vantage point they had taken to witness Obould's break-in to Mithral Hall, a high, flat stone on a westward jut that afforded them a view of most of the dale, excepting only the area right near the great doors of the hall.
Two men in a parked car would attract attention, so one man usually stayed in the car while the other man found a vantage point in a nearby building.
I had witnessed him presenting it to the Queen from my usual vantage point.
Pony's expression was the first indication that something was wrong, and as soon as he gained a vantage point on the monsters, the ranger figured it out.
In the distance, barely visible from that vantage point, the sea cast white-capped waves against a jagged granite island.
Then he was out of there, and through the Mobius Continuum, and back to his vantage point on the rising ground south of the doomed house .
Alain hoped that someone would take his place in the ranks so he could gain a vantage point to observe the field below and the progress of his father, but those with shields were already at the fore and none stepped up to relieve him.
From their vantage point on top of what remained of the ancient dam, the cataphract pointed down at the Nehar Malka.
From that high vantage point, Drizzt followed the brightening line of morning as it spread east to west.