Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...more fun too. There is no question that Polanski's images-with Brittany doubling for "Wessex"-are frequently striking. He does less well by Tess, the poor doomed girl who, forced to rise above her station by family ambition, is ruined by a rascally wastrel and then misunderstood by the prig to whom she gives her heart. Everyone the director sets to moving through Wessex clumps along very slowly, weighed down by the invisible chains of Hardy's famous Fate. His leading lady, Nastassia Kinski, a truly beautiful young woman (see last year's Stay...
Many students are unaware that Room 13 often acts as a referral service, but this is only one way, according to the coordinators, that the service is misunderstood. "We spend a lot of time worrying about the Room 13 image," Burger says, adding that although the milk-and-cookies parties create one stereotype, many others feel "that we're only for serious problems and crises...
...ELEPHANT MAN is a monster movie. It combines drawing-room genteelness and austerity with the elements of the classic 1930's horror films: the shadowy black-and-white photography; the slow fade-outs and dissolves; the eerie music; the mad scientist; the sensitive, hideous monster, misunderstood and abused by society, tortured by the humanity within him. Director David Lynch artfully manipulates these components--evading scariness and melodrama, while adding historical perspective and social commentary--to tell the true story of a tormented soul searching for dignity and compassion. Lynch's film is what Frankenstein should have been, what The Hunchback...
Hopper was 84 when he died in 1967, and to the end of his life he remained a somewhat misunderstood figure. The problem was not lack of fame or acceptance; he had plenty of both, at least in the U.S., and even the abstract painters (whose work he tended to see as a threat) respected his exceptional formal gifts. Rather, the misunderstanding lay in the nature of Hopper's Americanness...
Another Portuguese custom, one often misunderstood by Americans, is family solidarity. Children are often expected to drop out of high school to help support the family; every ablebodied member is supposed to help bring in the money. This problem can be especially acute for Portuguese immigrants: they need education to get good jobs, but they need money in the meantime...