Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEATINGS, sexual perversion and political betrayal shake the cloistered campus of a tony British prep school!! Sounds like a sensationalist headline from London's Daily Sun or better yet a passage out of David Copper-field. Wrong on both counts. This intriguing plot comes from Julian Mitchell's 1981 West End hit Another Country...
...laughs in this movie, and there are many, stem from its broad, broad comedic style combined with some of the most irreverent camera work since the Coen brothers' farcical Raising Arizona. DeVito has enough smarts to realize that the unlikely plot machinations of Momma call for unconventional visual tricks and he also has enough imagination to pull them off. The camera swoops and pans at dramatic moments and will pull right up to an actor's face for a gag line. When Donner collapses on the floor after a particularly exhausting encounter with Momma, the camera spirals slowly upwards...
...plot: the naked body of the President's chief of staff is found in a bathtub at the Hay-Adams Hotel. Which soaped-up Washington wife was with him when he hit the porcelain, and whom will President Kane (Dean's maiden name) appoint to replace him? Who cares? Fictional names and events are mixed up with the names of real people and actual events, and what comes out is slicker than lip gloss...
...James Lapine started sketching ideas soon after the premiere of their first collaboration, Sunday in the Park. Through three workshop productions, a regional tryout at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego and five weeks of Broadway previews, they kept making fundamental changes almost daily, even in the basic plot. Quips Woods Co-Producer Rocco Landesman: "Opening night is a formality to these guys. I wouldn't be surprised if they put in new stuff the week it closes." Indeed, Sondheim has persuaded his Follies collaborators to gather in London in January to revise the show yet again...
...takes Tennessee William's brilliant story of a fallen woman and lets it breathe. And since the director and performers don't waste their time developing clever twists or constructing fancy sets, they are able to concentrate on the dramatic subtleties. Most people are familiar with Streetcar's plot turns, and Rosencranz focuses on bringing out the intimate details of the bitter relationship between blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski...