Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...take this establishment as Mark's point-of-view, it partially justifies the theft in terms of the character. The attraction of his eye to airplanes could indicate a basic recurring dream, or even knowledge based on earlier experience (i. e. he knows how to fly-an implausible plot point in the film). But the airplane footage also qualifies as pure directorial observation, so the shot function is schizoid and cannot be clearly applied to the story...
...minutes telling bad jokes, singing about 50 songs, running into the audience, burning incense, petting, dancing and jumping. It all looks improvisational-but the spontaneity of Hair is actually a by-product of the ingenious (and disciplined) staging devised by Tom O'Hargan. There is a script, but the plot (Claude, a boy from Flushing who likes to think of himself as being from Manchester, England, gets drafted and is killed in Vietnam) is hardly noticeable. There is social criticism (peace), but there is no ideology. There is rock music, but it has no acid to it. What...
...Julius King, who is a latter-day lago, if not the Devil himself. Arriving in London and finding his friends happy is too much for Julius. Playing on vanity, sowing distrust he labors suavely to link Rupert with Hilda's younger sister and Simon with himself. As the plot unravels, the book shifts from comedy to melodrama, to tragedy-a course few writers could control or sustain. Miss Murdoch nearly manages it, because her presence is so forcefully stamped on every event and every line of dialogue. She is moralist, realist and magician, an unsentimental Titania gazing coolly...
...gullies get deepest in those long stretches between musical routines when the production falls back on Fred Grandy's script. Loosely modeled on a "Danish" myth of monsters and monster-slayers, Grandy's book offers no more and no less than the formulaic plot on which Padding productions usually hang their gags, lyrics, and kick-line. Crisis strikes the oversexed and overhung court of King Holroes the Horney of Denmark (Jack Olive) when the man-eating Grendel family, monsters from the nearby Black Lake, emerge to lay claim to Hotroes' frontheavy daughter, Princess Boobhilde (Line Caplan). With the kingdom paralyzed...
Audiences are cating up M. A. S. H. only because it puts a little complexity into character and plot development. The film is neither relevant nor savage-nor particularly anti-war: it's just so last you don't notice its superficiality till you leave the theater. While a grisly joke is being played on Elliot Gould, Sutherland is over there asserting his salty personality, and when that begins to pall your attention is diverted by a new twist on that old running gag in the background. M. A. S. H. simply gives its audience more than one thing...