Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot of a panoramic historical novel is fixed. Having selected an event, the sequence of actions involved can only be slightly bent in the interest of artistic validity, and under the circumstances Solzhenitsyn's task is to develop viable characters and invest the chaotic activities in which he deals with some meaning...
...going back to the original. They scrapped the musical recitatives written after Bizet's death by Ernest Guiraud and restored much of the original spoken French dialogue-never before heard at the Met. Even listeners with only high school French got a better sense of the plot. Bernstein looked at the score as though he had never conducted it before -which he had not-and came up with a broad, slow but crackingly taut performance that underlined Carmen's sense of doom. "Perhaps," says McCracken, "the sense of tragedy was even more influenced by the death...
...excellent, and Huston's direction has created a remarkably realistic film about people caught in a web of self-deception and defeat. Unfortunately the audience never becomes totally immersed in this world. Despite the thoughtful porrayal of virtually every major and minor character, weaknesses in the development of the plot dampen the overall impact of the picture...
...film is the writer's and director's understanding of each character's emotional crises. Larry Gardner, who wrote both the screenplay and the original book, does better exploring the subtleties of some of the individuals he has created than he does interweaving his many characters into a plot. Using Gardner's ingredients, with his own perceptive eye for descriptive detail, John Huston accentuates the actors' moods and emotions superbly. In one memorable scene, the fighters' reactions to a continually opening car trunk sharply underscore their excitement before driving to a match...
...effort to see production. The film's promoters claim that Pinsent began writing as a sort of therapy and was encouraged to continue by the favorable reaction of friends. Perhaps he can learn from this particular mistake, and in the future pay some attention to things like character and plot development...