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...happy scene might be during the last act of [Wagner's] Meistersinger, laughing at Beckmesser, who is a comic character. Or, another one from Samson and Delilah, the Bacchanale scene which ends in Samson's knocking down the pillars, is a drunken orgy. You're supposed to be doing whatever you want, so you wander around and slap people on the shoulders in no apparent order onstage. I was talking to people and revelling and having a good time...
...there that Moliére (Philippe Caubère) learned his craft and began writing the first of his farces, which were to make him France's greatest comic playwright. His troupe returned to Paris and gained the patronage of the young Louis XIV, who was then a mere sparkler compared with the great Sun King he was to become. Like all satirists, Moliére wrote from anger and disappointment, however, and his sharp attacks on the reigning conventions infuriated the clergy and its conservative supporters. Even Louis had to bow to the pressure, and Tartuffe, perhaps...
...telling the story of three elderly men who rob a bank, Director-Writer Brest (Hot Tomorrows) apparently meant to make a poignant statement about the loneliness and financial indignities that can grip old people. The subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic life. Except for the funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going in Style has only dull, homely sequences that alternately patronize and sentimentalize the aged. The mordant humor of Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? and the fiery compassion of Paul Mazursky's Harry...
Star Wars (1977). A space opera by George Lucas, redolent of yesteryear's comic books and movie serials, that is also Jung-at-heart in its cheerful evocations of basic, mythic stuff...
...novel and decided the Gardiner had been created for him. In any case, he portrays perfectly the simple voice and simple gestures of this simple man whose world of TV and roses expands around him to include politics and sex without expanding him. He is miraculously changed from the comic inanity of the Pink Panther tales or even his tense how-deep-is-your glove performance in Dr. Strangelove. While Being There demands a Brooklyn-Bridge-sized suspension of disbelief, Sellers never loses Gardiner's innocent, vulnerable essence...