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Journal articles on the topic "Good and evil in motion pictures"
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Briuchowecka, Łarysa. "Nie zmieniając poglądów. Przedstawianie okrucieństwa i zła w filmach Andrzeja Wajdy." Studia Filmoznawcze 39 (July 17, 2018): 79–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0860-116x.39.6.
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NOT CHANGING LOOKS. PRESENTATION OF CRUELTY AND EVIL IN THE FILMS OF ANDRZEJ WAJDAAmong Andrzej Wajda’s legacy, the image of the totalitarian regime and its repercussions for people, countries, and humanity holds a significant place. Films of Andrzej Wajda, who was a liaison officer in the anti-Hitler Polish underground, are a kind of chronicle of the survivors of twentieth century. The article is dedicated to study the various forms of evil and its effects on real people. The study is applicable for our time because the world again deals with the recidivism of evil which the Soviet government spread in its own country and beyond its own borders. In the USRR, the perception of Andrzej Wajda’s films was dependent on the political play in action: when the relations between two countries were friendly, he received awards, however after the Solidarity was established, no one ever mentioned Wajda. The epic work Danton, about the French revolution, made in France during times difficult for Poland because of the martial law imposed on Poland, reveals the effects of revolution that paradoxically destroyed its most dedicated revolutionists, including Danton. Wajda’s refusal to American producers to direct a motion picture based on a screen play of Aleksander Slozenicyn had se-rious reasons, primarily commitment to his homeland. He made up for the missed opportunity to show Stalin’s evil empire when he shot the film Katyń. This word echoes deep tragedy in the heart of every Pole and the director succeeded in portraying the cruelty of mechanism of punishment in totalitarian USRR. The second most important aspect was the discovery of the lies of this regime, which tried to place the responsibility for the execution of Polish officers on the Nazis. After a premiere of Katyń in Ukraine, Andrzej Wajda was awarded the medal of Jaroslaw Madry. The article also includes the theme of influence of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novels on Andrzej Wajda’s work — the director not only used Dostoyevsky’s work for his filmmaking and staging, but as well he was inspired by Dostoyevsky’s deep analysis of dangerous social phenomena and the courage in discovering the evil. In Wajda’s films, which belongs to the so-called “cinema of moral unrest”, the tragic fate of a talented journalist Jerzy Michalowski, the hero of film Bez znieczulenia who personalizes the characteristics of a professional and a good man, simply horrifies. In his last film Powidoki, the director masterfully shows circles of hell survived by avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski, the lecturer of Fine Arts Academy. All the films mentioned above are deemed necessary warning for future generations, they cannot put up with the aggression — on a political and private levels. Wajda’s lessons are universal, timeless, and everla-sting, like an eternal battle of good against evil.
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Boor, Myron. "Relationships among Ratings of Motion Pictures by Viewers and Six Professional Movie Critics." Psychological Reports 70, no. 3_suppl (June 1992): 1011–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1992.70.3c.1011.
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Moderate to high correlations (.43 to .73) were found among the ratings of 568 motion pictures by viewers as indicated in Consumer Reports and by six professional movie critics, (a) Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, (b) Leonard Maltin, (c) Steven H. Scheuer, (d) Roger Ebert, (e) TV Guide, and (f) the Editors of Consumer Guide and Jay A. Brown. All six critics showed good agreement in their evaluations of 41.4% of the films. At least five critics showed good agreement for 66.0% of the movies, and at least four critics showed good agreement for 91.9% of the films. However, the critics showed little or no consensus for the remaining 8.1% of the movies. Viewers agreed most often with those critics who (like themselves) tended to evaluate movies highly.
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Suhendra, Suhendra, Siti Aisyah, and Fathan Mubina Dewadi. "APPLICATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANIMATION OF THE KANCIL CHILDREN'S STORYBOOK." Jurnal Riset Informatika 4, no. 1 (December 12, 2021): 45–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.34288/jri.v4i1.297.
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There are relatively many Indonesian fairy tales that are spread in the community, have characters with good and evil temperaments. Usually take folk tales about teaching goodness, behaving smartly, and being able to distinguish between good and bad. Also teaches children not to be arrogant, insulting other people. The learning process is usually in the delivery of material using only pictures, dolls, or videos that are commonly seen by children. Conventional media used for learning reduce children's enthusiasm. On this occasion, to answer the problem of media that is less attractive to children by using Augmented Reality (AR), because it can help visualize abstract concepts so that it can be used for understanding the image object and the structure of an object model. results of making applications using Augmented Reality, assessed from the aspects of cognitive, affective, psychomotor, technological, and the benefits of getting good interpretation results.
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Druzhinin, Andrey. "Motion Pictures as a Source of Empirical Language Data (A Case Study of Counterfactuals)." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 3 (August 2021): 166–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2021.3.14.
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The article focuses on the problem of research methodology in linguistics and argues that motion pictures, or feature films, provide a good source of empirical data for a realistic investigation of language as a communicative behavior. Evidence from epistemology and philosophy of science shows that scriptism and rationalism as two dominating methodologies in traditional linguistics do not give a whole picture of language functionality because through them we cannot observe a human's communicative behavior in dynamics. The aim of the article is to offer an alternative understanding of the subject-matter, method and data for linguistic research which would be grounded on human experience observable in films. In particular, the term 'languaging' is adopted to describe the dynamic process of experience construction in referential and attentional framings. The investigation of languaging is thus based on the principle of holism, circularity and 'double perspectival' view of one's experience. The author of the article gives a number of reasons why written texts alone do not provide reliable data in this respect and why motion pictures are a more viable alternative. The paper introduces the methodology of holistic research and open-ended experiential analysis and demonstrates in a case study how counterfactuals as grammatically and experientially enacted patterns can be observed and investigated in the film Atonement.
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Wicks, Frank. "Picture This." Mechanical Engineering 126, no. 07 (July 1, 2004): 32–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2004-jul-3.
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This article highlights that the adage, a picture is worth a thousand words, is a flawed understatement. Our memories, knowledge, and opinions rely heavily on pictures. Words can only provide an explanation to information contained in a good picture. Time always moves forward, but a picture allows us to look back to some prior moment in time. Photography, which means writing with light, would require replacing the artist’s paper with a chemically coated screen, exposing the screen to the image, and then stabilizing the resulting picture. The first practical photographic process was announced in France in 1839 by Louis Daguerre, who had achieved fame as a designer of theater stages and lighting effects. George Eastman built a magnificent Colonial Revival Mansion on East Avenue in Rochester in 1905. It is a National Historic Landmark and is chartered by the State of New York as the International Museum of Photography and Film. It displays a rare collection of photographs, cameras, projectors, books, and motion pictures.
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Rizvi, Sajjad. "Considering Divine Providence in Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636): The Problem of Evil, Theodicy, and the Divine Eros." Oriens 49, no. 3-4 (November 18, 2021): 318–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18778372-12340007.
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Abstract Despite the extensive work on the Safavid thinker Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636) nowadays in metropolitan academia, certain areas of philosophical and theological concern remain understudied, if studied at all – and even then, there is little attempt to consider his work in the light of philosophical analysis. We know of a venerable philosophical tradition of analysing the question of providence as a means for examining questions of creation (ex nihilo or otherwise), the problem of evil, determinism and free will, and the larger question of theodicy (and whether this world that we inhabit is indeed the ‘best of all possible worlds’). I propose to examine these questions through an analysis of a section of the theology in al-Asfār al-arbaʿa (The Four Journeys) of Mullā Ṣadrā (mawqif VIII of safar III) and juxtapose it with passages from his other works, all the while contextualising it within the longer Neoplatonic tradition of providence and evil. The section of the Asfār plays a pivotal role in outlining a wider theory of divine providence: following the analysis of the Avicennian proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Being and her attributes, and before the culmination on the emanative scheme of creation (or the incipience of the cosmos – ḥudūṯ al-ʿālam), Mullā Ṣadrā discusses the question of divine providence where one can clearly discern the influence of previous thinkers on him, namely Avicenna (d. 428/1037, al-Šifāʾ and Risālat al-ʿišq) al-Ġazālī (d. 505/ 1111, Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn), and Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240, al-Futūḥāt al-makkīya). The section can be divided into four discussions: defining providence as well as the nature of good and evil, accounting for the ‘presence’ of evil in the cosmos, the ‘best of all possible worlds’, and erotic motion of the cosmos as well as the erotic attraction of humans for one another and back to their Origin. What emerges, however, is an account of providence that is subservient to Mullā Ṣadrā’s wider ontological commitment to the primary reality of being, its modulation and essential motion – the tripartite doctrines of aṣālat al-wuǧūd, taškīk al-wuǧūd and al-ḥaraka al-ǧawharīya – and fits within his overall approach to the procession of the cosmos from the One as a divine theophany and its reversion back to the One through theosis. Thus, an analysis of providence and evil demonstrates that underlying significance of Mullā Ṣadrā’s metaphysical commitments to a modulated monism.
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Hatzithomas, Leonidas, Panagiotis Gkorezis, Athina Y. Zotou, and George Tsourvakas. "The impact of atmospherics on WOM about short life-cycle products: the case of motion pictures." Journal of Product & Brand Management 27, no. 5 (August 20, 2018): 471–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpbm-01-2017-1401.
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Purpose This paper aims to empirically examine how atmospherics affect word of mouth (WOM) about the brand. The authors focus primarily on uncovering the causal mechanism in which such effect is serially mediated by both perceived positive emotions evoked by atmospherics and attitude toward the brand. Design/methodology/approach To test the research hypotheses, 314 Greek moviegoers were drafted to participate in a survey. Data were analysed using confirmatory factor analysis (AMOS) and the SPSS macro (PROCESS tool). The model was applied to motion pictures, as they provide a particularly good example of short life-cycle products. Findings Findings indicate that atmospherics are related to WOM about the brand through perceived emotions evoked by atmospherics and, in turn, attitude toward the brand. Research limitations/implications The present study extends the relevant literature by providing both direct and indirect links between atmospherics and WOM about a brand. Practical implications The model of the present study could be applied to other short life-cycle products that share key characteristics with motion pictures. Moreover, the present study increases movie producers and exhibitors’ understanding of the effects of theatre atmospherics on WOM about the movie and leads to practical suggestions and implications. Originality/value WOM is one of the key variables that can affect the profitability of short life-cycle products. To date, there was no evidence that atmospherics can influence WOM about a short life-cycle product.
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Efendi, Mukhamad Ardiansyah. "The Use of Pictures as Media to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension." Journal of English Teaching, Literature, and Applied Linguistics 2, no. 2 (March 28, 2021): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.30587/jetlal.v2i2.2467.
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Reading is an important skill for developing second language competence. The success of a learning a second language is by taking the power of reading. In the classroom, we will face many techniques applied to the students under the expectation that they are able to or easy to understand the lesson. For a teacher, it is necessary to find new teaching media to overcome the problems and not to forget to motivate the students. In this paper, the writer wants to know the effect of picture as a media to improve students’ reading comprehension. The purpose of this research is to find out whether the use of pictures can improve students’ reading comprehension or not. To make the students easily understand about the reading material, teacher needs to have a teaching media. Then, the writer chooses visual media that is picture to increase students’ reading mastery. Pictures are considered as the best media in teaching reading because using picture as a teaching media are able to give the students a clear illustration regarding the correlated topics in texts, tell the students what is going on, and what are the persons in the text are talking about. Nowadays, the pictures and the technologies are becoming more and more advanced. In this decade, we can already materialize a more advanced picture that added by motion and sounds by using simple applications provided in home personal computer. Moreover, the students now are quite used and interested to apply any high tech media.
Based on the result of discussion, it can be concluded that pictures are theoretically can be a good media to help the students enhancing their reading comprehension. Therefore in this view, it is justifiable to hypothetically conclude that using pictures for strengthening students’ visual sense can help them to understand a text.
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Maulia, Suci Intan, and I. Dewa Ayu Sri Utari. "BERENTAK DALAM RITUAL BESALE SUKU BATIN SEMBILAN KABUPATEN BATANGHARI, PROVINSI JAMBI, (KAJIAN ANALISIS TEKS DAN KONTEKS)." Jurnal Antropologi: Isu-Isu Sosial Budaya 20, no. 2 (January 2, 2019): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/jantro.v20.n2.p119-128.2018.
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This research aimed to analyze the existence of a ritual besale typical movement, movement in the besale ritual process is berentak. Berentak motion is a movement running straight forward, backward, around and jumping, the movement continues to be done by Malin Pengasu (shaman) during the process of ritual besale. Besale is from of a magical traditional ceremony, which lives in remote indigenous communities of Suku Batin Sembilan, precisely in Jambi Province forest area. Besale (berasale) means the origin of man, ritual besale involves Malin Pengasu (shaman) and Sidi (good spirits who treat the sick through shaman), to cleanse and cast out the evil spirits that are considered as the source of the disease. Malin Pengasu (shaman) is a person who set all forms of preparation of beterkas up to the ritual besale. The research using the method of qualitative approach text and the context of according Y. Sumandiyo Hadi, which analyze and review the form, techniques, and style the choreography, and analyze the context of based social culture community. The results of research show about how the process of choreography and the emergence of distinctive motion in ritual besale, which in principle socio-cultural society that has been behind the presence of form, technique and style of motion.
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Galizia, Mariateresa, and Cettina Santagati. "Low cost image-based modeling techniques for archaeological heritage digitalization: more than just a good tool for 3d visualization?" Virtual Archaeology Review 4, no. 9 (November 5, 2013): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/var.2013.4262.
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<p>This study shows the first results of a research aimed at catching the potentiality of a series of low cost, free and open source tools (such as ARC3D, 123D Catch, Hypr3D). These tools are founded on the SfM (Structure from Motion) techniques and they are able to realize automatically image-based models starting from simple sequences of pictures data sets. Initially born as simple touristic 3D visualization (e.g. Photosynth) of archaeological and/or architectural sites or cultural assets (e.g. statues, fountains and so on), nowadays allow to reconstruct impressive photorealistic 3D models in short time and at very low costs. Therefore we have chosen different case studies with various levels of complexity (from the statues to the architectures) in order to start a first testing on the modeling potentiality of these tools.</p>
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Good and evil in motion pictures"
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Bather, Neil. ""There is evil there that does not sleep-" : the construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002 /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070125.105814/.
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Cataldo, Claudia Kingston. "Beyond cute and evil how dwarfs reconfigure boundaries of sexuality, identity, and ability in Germanic literature and film /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1925787811&sid=38&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Andrin, Muriel. "La fascination de la corruption: étude de l'héroïne maléfique dans le mélodrame filmique américain (1940-1953)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211697.
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Cinema and evil: Moral complexities and the "dangerous" film. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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1951-, Norden Martin F., ed. The changing face of evil in film and television. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
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aut, Altares Guillermo, and Domínguez Vicente coord, eds. Imágenes del mal: Ensayos de cine, filosofía y literatura sobre la maldad. Madrid: Valdemar, 2003.
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Brock, Eike. Das Böse erzählen: Perspektiven aus Philosophie, Film und Literatur. Berlin: Lit, 2017.
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L'occhio del diavolo: Agoni, smarrimenti, riscatti nel cinema di Ingmar Bergman. Firenze: Nardini editore, 2020.
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Marzola, Luci. "Epilogue." In Engineering Hollywood, 195–98. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190885588.003.0008.
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I am an engineer and I was educated as an engineer. I got out of it some time ago when I got in the picture business. … Probably a good many of you have tried at various times having these industrial engineers come into your plant, and the first thing they have tried to do was to install a lot of system and red tape, and they were not competent to do it, because they did not understand the motion picture business. They have tried to apply factory methods to the making of pictures. That is wrong, because after all, the making of a picture is the product of the imagination....
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Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara. "Precision Dancing." In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. London: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781135000356-rem1925-1.
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Precision dancing epitomizes industrial production lines in the modernist era. The genre previewed the precision and formalism that is more associated with graphics and decorative art of the 1920s. Both a mass choral movement and a popular entertainment specialty, it symbolized good and bad aspects of American culture, and referenced militarism and mechanization to audiences in theatres, picture palaces and motion pictures on both sides of the Atlantic. The moving of large numbers of people in unison can be traced historically to both military manoeuvres and ballet, but the stage specialty is popularly associated with the Tiller Girls, troupes of six to eight short female dancers trained at John Tiller’s studio in Manchester, England in the 1890s. They appeared in extravaganzas, burlesques and pantomimes, as lines of jewels (in Aladdin’s cave) or flowers. A team of Tiller girls appeared in New York as The Original English Pony Ballet in Dolly Dollars (1905), and inspired the inclusion of short dancer precision lines in Broadway and vaudeville musicals and revues. Spurred by the popularity of twin and tandem acts in vaudeville, precision line dancing emerged as a popular, American genre in the 1920s, as vaudeville gave way to Prologues, the short shows that alternated with feature films in the ‘picture palaces’. In the latter format, precision lines became associated with the tallest dancers, whose long legs emphasized unison kicks. They often appeared in newsreels and were featured as aural components of the radio broadcasts emanating from the theatres.
Conference papers on the topic "Good and evil in motion pictures"
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Ahmadi, Seyed Mohammad, Elham Shirzad, Banafsheh Sajadi, Mehdi Cheraghi, and Khashayar Haghighi. "An Experimental Study on the Kinematics of a Skilled Service in Playing Tennis." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-40131.
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This paper studies the effective parameters of a skilled service in playing tennis and determines their relationship with skill deals. Effective service in tennis plays an important role in gaining more desirable result and the most important factor of success in getting scores depends on the player’s skills in serving an effective service. The characteristics of a good service are the high speed of the ball and the precision of landing the ball. The several parameters affecting on these two characteristic in the service, are studied in this paper. Therefore, the Kinematic parameters of 8 Iranian professional tennis athletes of first division tennis league and also 8 non-professional Iranian athletes who exercise about 3 sessions a week were extracted. After land marking these athletes, by use of two high-frequency cameras, pictures were recorded when the tennis players were serving the services. The investigation on the results of these tests is performed by three dimensional motion analyses. The pictures are analyzed with the WinAnalyze software. Therefore, in this paper, the most important effective parameters in serving a successful service are detected.
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Vulpio, Alessandro, Alessio Suman, Nicola Casari, Michele Pinelli, Craig Appleby, and Simon Kyte. "Washing Effectiveness Assessment of Different Cleaners on a Small-Scale Multistage Compressor." In ASME Turbo Expo 2021: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-59455.
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Abstract Suspended micrometric particles are always present in the air swallowed by gas turbines. These solid particles can overpass the filters of heavy-duty gas turbines and deposit onto the internal surfaces of the compressor, leading to the overtime reduction of the machine performances, and, as a result, to the fuel consumption augmentation. A widely employed method to slow down the engine degradation is to wash the engine frequently. Over the years, the washing techniques have been continuously improved in order to reach the best compromise between low fluid consumption and high washing capabilities. In this work, an experimental campaign has been carried out to estimate the washing effectiveness on a multistage axial-flow compressor fouled with micrometric soot particles. The cleaning fluids tested in the present work were demineralized water and two cleaners provided by ZOK International Group ltd: a commercial cleaner available on the market (ZOK 27), and a new, under development, environmentally-sensitive formula. The fluids have been tested employing three droplet size distributions (with mean diameters of 20 μm, 50 μm, and 100 μm). The washing effectiveness has been assessed through image post-processing techniques by analyzing the pictures of the stator vanes and rotor blades taken in fouled and washed conditions. From the present investigation, two results arise. The finest droplets show a greater capability to remove soot deposits showing how, when the washing operation takes place during quasi-idle operating condition, the turbulent-driven motion spread smaller particles on a wider blade region. The second results is the demonstration how a environmentally-sensitive chemical formula allows the obtainment of good results in terms removal capability for the same amount of product. This finding could help the plant manager to operate the gas turbine with less constraints in terms of cost and rules.