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...focus on the fight, he says, and not enough on development. "I wanted to show the conflict between ordinary Afghans and the foreign soldiers who don't know how to listen." Even if the message is heavy, his touch is light, a tactic to make the criticism easier to swallow. In one scene the soldiers fantasize about having multiple wives, while the refugee-clan patriarch, who has three, drowns his sorrows in opium smoke. Each wife has her own abandoned tank - call it a postapocalyptic, polygamous, Afghan trailer park - but the patriarch spends most of his nights banished outdoors. Every...
...many of your characters so miserable? Creatively, I'm coming at these things from the standpoint that there are already so many stories about the good guys who are morally correct. I like trying to get my head around a character that's hard to swallow - someone who forces you to search your soul to understand what you're vibing on, and why you care about them. And with the TV show, we wanted to go against the standard sitcom, where it's the situation that drives the story. So with our show, each new episode picks up right where...
...content, but director P.J. Hogan probably didn't want to trouble the American moviegoing public with such details. That Becky and Luke (who happens to be rich - he's basically a walking lottery ticket) will fall in love is also a given, but that's a touch harder to swallow. It's not that Dancy isn't cute - he is, like a smaller, more delicately featured Hugh Grant - but simply because Becky seems more interested in mannequins than in men. There's nothing womanly about any of her getups; they're more like costumes put on by a little girl...
...Outstanding British Film category at all? How come all British films are equal, but some British films are more equal than others? Yes, Britain's film industry is much smaller and poorer than America's, and, true, there's the risk that, in some years, U.S. award winners will swallow the Brits whole. But, these days, who's to say which films should be relegated to the British film category and which films go beyond British and get to compete as simply great movies...
...This arrangement may be a painful pill to swallow, but history has shown again and again that, in convoluted situations, compromise is sometimes bittersweet. Even Nelson Mandela had to make painful concessions. If the opposition effectively capitalizes its parliamentary majority and its dominance in various urban and rural councils while remaining vigilant and principled in its delivery of duty, it will certainly survive this arrangement and usher a new democratic disposition for Zimbabwe. After all, this is a transitional government whose mandate is to ensure socioeconomic stability and facilitate the country’s return to democracy through free...