Word: climaxing
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...approach the film. They seem impatient to tell the story to the audience, not allowing the characters to speak for themselves. Whereas in Ordinary People Conrad's guilt over is brothers death is gradually drawn out over the course of the film and not being explained until its climax, Arnold's accidental shooting of his older brother occurs within the first five minutes of the Stone Boys. Before we can even get into Arnold's head, the police sirens and funeral bells can already be heard...
...Clark Clifford is paying back a little bit of what he and the nation owe Harry Truman. From Harvard to St. Louis, Clifford is lecturing almost daily about Truman and his times. Tuesday is Truman's 100th birthday, and the celebrations climax with a town party in Independence, Mo., a joint session of Congress, a luncheon with Ronald Reagan as host, and a huge reception in Washing ton for the dwindling band of men and women who were with Truman and for the growing army of those who wish they had been...
...Bounty, the climax supposedly occurs with the actual mutiny, yet when the mutiny does occur towards the end of the film, it seems to come with a sense of fizzling. Bligh is too pathetic to have deserved the disruption of his ship, and Christian too wimpy to lead such an adventure. The Bounty turns out to be a very frustrating movie; it drags out the plot so much that when a crucial action does occur, we are so numbed by the close-ups of the isolated characters or the grand views of the ocean that the drama loses all sense...
...with script by British Playwright Hugh Whitemore, begins on Aug. 3, 1948, the day that Chambers electrified a HUAC hearing by naming Hiss as a Communist. Chambers by then had been out of the Communist Party for ten years, and was working as a senior editor for TIME. The climax is set in a courtroom almost 18 months later, when Hiss-who denied all charges and has continued to do so to this day-was convicted at a second trial for perjury. (His first trial ended in a hung jury.) The intervening events make compelling drama: the discovery...
...basic problem with Mike's Murder is its lack of focus. Although Winger gradually does garner the spotlight in a tension-filled scene towards the movie's climax, it is never entirely clear just who the protagonist of this film is. Moreover, it it's blood and flesh you're looking for in addition to tears. Mike's Murder is simply not the place to find it. Aside from several semi-suggestive scenes in which Winger lounges in a bubble bath (covered with bubbles, incidentally) and Mike fantasizes about making love to her over the phone, the film...