Word: fools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just not sophisticated enough to realize that (1) he's not savvy enough to be vice-president, (2) that the importance of ethnic factors has declined, and (3) that he's been rejected by the Nixon people and should bow out now instead of continuing to make a fool of himself," he added...
They know that movie-makers with their stuntmen, stage sets, and big budgets can make you think and feel what they want you to think and feel (not this kid; he's no fool...
Like Don Quixote, Nazarin is the traditional Spanish visionary-fool, who perceives what others cannot and becomes a mirror in which evil men see only themselves. But Buňuel, who has lived and worked in Mexico for more than 20 years, is no Cervantes, his portrait of the tyrannized, superstition-racked land is as primitive as the peasants themselves. The film's best moments are miniatures: the grotesque love story of a dwarf and a whore; the sudden hysterics of women keening over a dying child; a love-haunted, plague-struck woman who is offered dirisxian...
Theatregoers of today can reasonably be expected to show familiarity with the stock characters of the old Italian commedia dell'arte, from which Shakespeare took the five low-comedy figures that Berowne ticks off as "The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy." Respectively, Holofernes corresponds to the dottore, Armado to the capitano, Nathaniel to the pantalone and parasite, Moth (a wit) and Costard (a dimwit) to the comic servants (zanni). But it seems that Shakespeare also had in mind here poking fun at such now-forgotten men as Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Hervey, and John Florio...
...hardest knocks. After they were married, Truffaut continued his criticism, this time at the family dinner table. In exasperation, Papa Morgenstern challenged his son-in-law to make films as good as the ones he criticized-and provided enough money for the brash young man to make a fool of himself...