Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local. Furthermore, Ichabod Crane is no longer a mild-mannered, homely schoolteacher but a snobby constable from New York City, played by Johnny Depp. Many new characters have been added, including several new supernatural denizens of the superstitious town. The result is what promises to be a dark, complex, and, as always with Burton, thoroughly weird and wonderful film, a cross between Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, with just a hint of Friday the 13th thrown in for good measure...
...even with the innovation of the foot pedal, playing the timpani remains a delicate and complex job. Each timpani is different, and in addition, each spot on the taut drumhead has a slightly different tuning, tension and response. And the tuning is still an uncertain science, performed with the orchestra in full swing around the timpanists. They have to find the perfect pitch despite the tooting and sawing of their neighbors and without losing track of the conductor. If you see them stooping over the drumhead during the concert as though they were whispering into a gargantuan ear, that...
...theater community with an opportunity to discuss diversity in Harvard productions. This piece presents the Harvard theater community as a closed group that shuns racial diversity in casting. While the lack of diversity in student theater is clearly a problem, the situation itself, and its causes, are more complex. Several productions this semester received a mixture of actors in their audition pools and ended up with diverse casts; indeed, minority actors are now playing leading roles in several shows...
...Ashitaka and Gillian Anderson as Moro the Wolf Goddess. Crudup is entirely believable, sounding in turn appropriately brave, vulnerable, and kind. Gillian Anderson's voice is altered here, designed to sound more godlike (the effect succeeds). Her growling tones are menacing and eerie, and her Moro is as intelligently complex as many of the human characters. Others, however, are slightly weird--particularly Minnie Driver's voice-over as Lady Eboshi. Driver's Eboshi is commanding, complex, and fascinating. She delivers her lines with such complete conviction it is hard to believe that the celluloid Eboshi has no voice...
...charm and bravado, and the audience is fooled into thinking this will be the routine buddy-cop movie with jolly, fat guy exchanging caustic one-liners with his thinner, but emotionally more substantive, partner. However, as the wheels spin out, the film takes the audience along for a more complex, hellish ride that visits death, madness, and despair on every street corner. Ving Rhames as Marcus brightens the movie with a comic volubility that the heavy film so badly needs. He is a smooth talking paramedic who has a soft spot for gin and prostitutes and a talent for preaching...