Word: dumbness
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...married couples and never feels the least pressure to remarry. Says she: "I've come close a couple of times, but there simply aren't that many marriages I envy. A lot of women are just hanging in there for the security, but that's a dumb reason to get married. As for children, I'm too much of a perfectionist to put up with them. I'd be a rotten mother...
...Hayden's crew. A grotesquely muscled bit-player voiced the director's point-of-view (in an incoherent Russian accent): the crook is an attractive figure when the values of traditional heroes are in question, but his actual motives are mundane, and he's apt to be a bit dumb. In addition to story, Kubrick caught the hypocritical impersonality of 50's surfaces--in an airport where Hayden is finally caught, or a bar where a cop gets a share of the take...
...openly unimpressed with his direction after the first few days, began plotting to get him fired. His cinematographer seemed to obstruct more than help. "I'd tell the guy how I wanted to shoot the scene," says Coppola, "and he'd say, 'Oh, that's dumb.'" Evans decided after three weeks that Coppola was near a nervous breakdown and never knew whether the director would show up the following day. But Coppola got rid of the key detractors, came to an understanding with the cinematographer-for whom he still has high professional regard-and kept...
...picture is some kind of journey. And for Wofford, whose attitude has been much influenced by reading the memoirs of an Oglala chief (Black Elk Speaks), landscape ought not to be separated from the way American Indians perceived nature: as an assembly not of dead earth and dumb plants, but of sentient presences. Some of this comes through in paintings like Star-Weaver, with their panoramic veils and zigzags of light, their flecks of paint that suggest flowers, mica deposits or dust: a soft immanence, vulnerable and pantheistic. Unfortunately, Wofford overworks his paintings. The light stiffens into crusts of inert...
There's always someone trying to make us out as dumb people, as simple...