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...departments. Peter J. Dong ’02, a joint concentrator in Quincy House, wrote the show as his senior thesis and is the production’s music director. As a first-year, Dong knew he wanted to concentrate in both physics and music, but learned to his horror that this would require a thesis combining the two subjects. The only idea he could come up with, besides writing a paper on the physics of sound, was a musical about physics students. Though he soon learned that physics doesn’t actually require a thesis, thus leaving...
...presentation] makes it a better experience for the audience—something more palatable,” Tillet said. “Because it is a pretty project, it sort of finds the beauty in the horror...
Panic Room, David Fincher’s new thriller starring Jodie Foster, has something for everyone, yet the individual viewer ends up with nothing. Fincher and screenwriter David Koepp have created a thriller that is much more concerned with packing in every single convention of the horror film than actually creating any original chills...
Although Jodie Foster’s Academy Award for her performance in Silence of the Lambs testifies to her competency as an actress in a thriller, she struggles with this belabored script, posturing, grimacing and trembling through each scene in an attempt to convince the audience of the horror of her situation. Yet, in order to recreate herself as a believably unlikely heroine, Foster applies an air of uncertainty to the character of Meg, attempting to portray a normal woman who is pushed to courageous limits by exceptional circumstances. Unfortunately, the resulting combination of hyperactive anxiety and vacillation results...
Certainly, Titus fit the bill: an opera of horror and gore which features human sacrifice, gang rape, loping of limbs and feasts of filial sweetbreads. With the play, young Shakespeare scored a hit, proving that Elizabethan audiences were at least as bloodthirsty as the groundlings that hound present-day cineplexes...