Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bewitched Bayou was dull, though, and unless Bill Strong can re-write his book and lyrics into some better kind of shape, it's going to be a long-running clinker of a musical. Pudding shows were never supposed to get too wound up in the intricacies of plot, but Bayou's is stretched so thin it snaps between a few of the scenes...
...excellent The Flight of the Phoenix (1966), an ill-assorted group of renegades, soldiers, businessmen and misfits were marooned in the middle of a desert, their sole hope of survival being to somehow piece together their crashed plane. Steelyard Blues more or less rips off the same plot, but dispenses with suspense in favor of fey comedy and ragtag radicalism...
...Hesseman), who is running for state attorney general, sees it differently. To him, Jesse is not only a public nuisance but a threat to the campaign. Jesse's real interest lies in consorting with a group of benign crazies (Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and John Savage) in a plot to get a behemoth airship off the ground. Destination: some political Cloud Cuckoo-land where there are no hassles, no jails, no discrimination...
...plot that Writer-Director Hodges has concocted is an affectionate and very often hilarious pastiche, at once a deft parody of a genre and loving tribute to it. In Hodges' first film, Get Carter (1971), he carried his absorption in the thriller close to outright imitation. For all its brutal energy, the movie was too heavily reminiscent of John Boorman's Point Blank. Hodges has not only got his distance in Pulp; he has also found a style and voice of his own. He is constantly, ebulliently inventive, whether in the scrupulously outrageous dialogue ("I expected the place...
Heaven and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority know that Godey's plot is not far removed from the reality of the contemporary urban nightmare. But Godey tries to whip up extra credibility by introducing each new twist in the drama with a flourish of fact-filled three-by-five cards. Want to know how many miles of track there are in the New York subway system? Where Alfred Ely Beach's 1867 private subway tunnel is? What it means to "jump a block"? Maybe not, but Godey is going to tell you. He cannot even write a scene about...