Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gang's hostility in their parody of World War II movies. The emphasis in the story shifts from Doggy's role in the gang to Doggy's relationship with his mother, and finally to the mother herself. I hesitate to disclose any part of the carefully worked out plot with its sudden, horrible revelations, or to point out the occasional overly poetic verbosity which threatens the casual done of the story, in which nearly every detail carries weight...
Expresso Bongo is one of those movies that makes a Significant (though not particularly original) Point at the expense of characterization, dialogue, and plot. Through a series of disturbing scenes, it shows how popular "artistes"--and more important the people connected with them--contemptuously denigrate the public's taste. If "mass values" are the problem, though, Expresso Bongo does little to improve them...
Unfortunately, one feels even more disgusted at the absurdity of the plot, the shallowness of the characterizations. Lawrence Harvey's agent is the tough, glib guy with a tiny bit of feeling for his mistress. Success corrupts him, he forgets his woman, mistreats Bongo, recites lines that would be rejected by a third-rate television script writer. His mistress raises her voice only twice, and remains loyal...
...Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. As Critic Walter Kerr points out: "Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative." And other defenders invariably argue that, after all, Shakespeare and Moliere were adapters too. The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled it with their own world; most modern adapters totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only one contribution of their own: stage technique...
...wild rabbits of Britain dig labyrinthine warrens and are hard to study intensively when at large. So Lockley surrounded two one-acre plots of grassy land in Wales with fences, put male and female rabbits in the enclosures and let nature take its course. In one plot, called the Intensive Pen, he put six bucks and six does. Grazing was plentiful and most predators were excluded, but multiplication was not rapid. During the first season the rabbit population barely doubled...