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...America, seems to fly in the face of the prevailing patriotic afterglow of the ?last good war.? The melodramatic main storyline - a race to gain intelligence from the Japanese that could, in some unspecified way, turn the war around - carries about as much weight as one of Hitchcock???s MacGuffins. No one talks about the war?s ideals, or its causes, or even its combatants; every character in the show is seeking a way of escaping from...
...absentminded paleontologist in Bringing Up Baby? And what about scheming Walter Burns in His Girl Friday, one of the funniest misanthropes ever recorded by the camera? For that matter, what about Gunga Din, The Philadelphia Story and Only Angels Have Wings? Or the unforgettable work for Hitchcock???Suspicion, Notorious and, possibly best of all, North by Northwest...
Despite Spielberg's preoccupation with UFOs in Close Encounters, he prefers to call the film an "adventure thriller" rather than science fiction, and he may have a point. The movie's conception is pure Hitchcock???on an intergalactic scale. The hero, Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), is a Middle American variant on the kind of man-in-the-middle played by Gary Grant and James Stewart in films like North by Northwest and Vertigo. A power-company worker who lives with his wife (Teri Garr) and three kids in Muncie, Ind., Roy is engulfed one night by phenomena he cannot understand: searing...
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