Word: denouement
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...voices--all creations of Williams's own hypnotic baritone. In contrast to The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris's recent tour-de-force portrayal of Emily Dickinson, Williams has steered away from constructing a coherent dramatic whole, embracing a well-developed set of invisible characters, a climax and a denouement. Instead, he uses only a loose chronological organization, modeling his entertainment after Thomas's own prose, with its fluid structure and its lack of a clear beginning, middle...
...best comedy ever made. It is certainly Renoir's best film. Renoir's work generally involves a search for a community to identify with in French society, whether aristocracy, bourgeoisie, peasantry, or working class. This quest often leads to the sentimental conclusion that such an identification is possible--a denouement that marks such otherwise great films as Grand Illusion. But in Rules of the Game, Renoir rejects false resolutions. Though the film seems to identify itself sporadically with the aspirations of different characters--the eccentric aristocrat, his Viennese wife the romantic aviator, and Octave (played by Renoir himself)--the movie...
Eventually the promised murder does occur, the victim being one from the ranks of this celebrated cast. Those who remain among the living all become suspects, and Simon's denouement is a confusing collage of accusations, counter-accusations, and "now top this" solutions to the crime. But Simon's delineation of plot and motive (two rather important elements of a good murder mystery) is simply to weak and insubstantial to hold it all together. What results is an incomprehensible blur...
...Afternoon. Al Pacino is brilliant as the bank robber-cum-rock star. The efforts of the New York Police Department and the FBI to foil him pale in comparison to the recent Israeli raid on Uganda, but the denouement of this thriller is gripping nonetheless...
That's Harry Hanson, a professor at the B-School (center, wearing glasses), chortling over the denouement (right, wearing G-string) of an elaborate practical joke perpetrated by two of his students. The future corporate leaders of America explained later, "We wanted to do something incredibly foolish...