Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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And that is the whole point of the play. Race relations in this country have still not advanced past the point where most whites can conceive of blacks as anything other than types, whether they be "good types" or "bad" ones. Blacks are placed in a "Stepin Fetchit" box or...
Ophuls maintains a balance between scheme and characters by acknowledging and mocking the scheme. The meneur d? jen (Anton Walbrook), who opens the film by addressing the audience, keeps returning to change seenes between the ten episodes which compose the film. His appearances as functionaries-headwaiters, coachmen-are at once...
But depth and emotional impact of particular characters are not Ophuls' sole aims. Toward the end, as characters and episodes come faster and the unifies of time and space begin to soften, a certain flattening of emotions increases. In the last episode memory breaks down, events lose their poignancy, and...
Their complaints, tender memories and snide remarks about the deceased evoke the contradictory aspects of Antoine's character. In the second act he materializes onstage, rehearsing a group of actors in his last play. To be performed for himself alone, it is about how his relatives and friends will...
As a teacher, a coach. or just a friend, Getch is what you might call a "character." Surely, no one who has known him will ever forget him. As he prepared his 6-1 Yardlings for their last three games this week, he paused to say, "It's been a...